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.
To outsource, or not to outsource
Outsourcing enterprise functions can free up time to concentrate on core values. But does it always make sense?
The overlooked tech stories of 2025
Here are some remarkable innovation breakthroughs that didn’t make the headlines.
Oh, the places you’ll go
SkyCards is the Pokémon Go of flying. But you’re not just catching planes, you're turning the entire world of air travel into a digital card game powered by live flight data.
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.
The passionate banker
Khomotso Molabe reveals how he turned around Standard Bank’s core SAP system.
Questions for your colo
It can be tricky to decide which colocation provider to use in South Africa.
When AI gets weird, the weird turn pro
AI is changing the world. But that doesn’t mean it knows where it’s going.
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.
In service of others
Business analyst Nitasha Pillay hopes to be known for using technology to serve and uplift others.
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.
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.
Cloud and the business: A marriage made in heaven?
The thought of migrating workloads to the cloud still weighs heavily on the minds of local decision-makers.