Nominate leaders, innovators, rising stars for Wired4Women Awards 2026
Make sure SA’s most deserving women in tech get a nomination. Deadline is 8 February.
Six games I want to play in 2026
Some upcoming titles that reflect the gaming industry’s ongoing mix of innovation, nostalgia and risk.
Help celebrate female tech champions: Nominate!
Nominations for the Wired4Women Awards 2026 must be in by 8 February.
The passionate banker
Khomotso Molabe reveals how he turned around Standard Bank’s core SAP system.
When AI gets weird, the weird turn pro
AI is changing the world. But that doesn’t mean it knows where it’s going.
2026 promises to be a long strange trip
The excitement around AI's ability to completely change the world is bound to hit some speedbumps.
Removing red tape in the public sector
Tando Luyaba is determined to drag South Africa’s public service into the digital age.
The overlooked tech stories of 2025
Here are some remarkable innovation breakthroughs that didn’t make the headlines.
Named after Nelson
What happens when a name becomes a symbol? Yolandi Burger’s research explores how Nelson Mandela’s legacy is written into the landscape.
Comms department treads water
There are plenty of programmes in the pipeline, but the pipe appears to be blocked.
Questions for your colo
It can be tricky to decide which colocation provider to use in South Africa.
Bringing AI to Africa
Cassava Technologies is betting that African enterprises will want to make use of its local AI-enabled datacentres.
Death of the phone call
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South African startups to watch in 2026
Six promising local startups destined for greatness in 2026.
With good governance, think global, act local
Good Governance Africa’s CIO Tshepang Molefe sees AI as a way to improve accountability, rather than a threat that could collapse the systems.
Sensible systems integration
A startup is prioritising the public sector and taking on the big guns in the private sector.
A new hope
What happened to SA Connect, the 12-year-old “strategy” that aimed to connect every single school, hospital and government building to the internet by 2020?
One ring to rule them all
The latest health tech trend in South Africa isn’t about steps or calories; it’s about how well you sleep, and who gets to see that data.
The Great AI divide
AIs often don’t recognise African faces, voices or languages, so they can’t be trusted to understand us or communicate with us.