SA may get cheaper electricity when the sun shines
South Africa might introduce lower electricity prices on sunny days to slash the growing cost of paying solar producers to stop generating power.
Top SA cyber negotiator tells all about dealing with hackers
When hackers steal and lock a company’s data, they often request millions of rands for the key. Paying them is not necessarily illegal, and often works, but it is an extremely complicated ethical and business decision.
Eskom changes tack as huge payment backlog rattles solar investors
Eskom’s transmission subsidiary is overhauling how it pays renewable energy companies when they are instructed to stop producing electricity, after a massive backlog of curtailment payments rattled solar energy investors in recent months.
How Cape Town’s weather has become a six-figure daily gamble
A thermometer at Cape Town International Airport is deciding who wins and who loses hundreds of thousands of rands every day on the rapidly growing Polymarket prediction market.
Film industry wants incentive scheme boss axed
The Save SA Film and TV Jobs Coalition has called on the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition to remove its head of film and production after attempts to fix the sector’s broken incentive scheme reached another deadlock.
Data expiry: MTN, Vodacom launch legal challenges to new mobile data rules
The mobile operators are taking SA’s communications regulator to court over new consumer protection rules set to come into effect next year, including mandatory data rollover.
Fake labour rulings hit case against municipal workers
Three municipal employees charged with misconduct in 2021 have had their disciplinary hearing stayed because non-existent legal cases, possibly generated by AI, were cited to support legal principles used to justify a ruling against them.
BLSA warns of stalling electricity reform, as Eskom owes R2bn to private producers
Business Leadership South Africa has warned that the country’s electricity reforms have slowed and, in some cases, are being actively reversed.
How Home Affairs more than doubled its smart ID application network in 130 days
The number of places where South Africans can apply for an ID more than doubled in around four months, as the Department of Home Affairs expands its partnership with the country’s biggest banks at lightning speed.
Inside the SA rush to build AI agents to call you
A growing number of companies in South Africa are either building or deploying AI voice agents to call people.