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Broadband Africa Forum 2024

F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…

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South Africa’s Deskless Workers: A Workforce Under Strain

The vast majority of South African deskless workers love their jobs, despite challenges like low wages and unreliable transport. This striking insight emerges from…

AWS Skills Centre: Empowering South Africa’s Digital Future

When the AWS Skills Centre opened in Cape Town last year, its mission was bold yet simple: to make cloud computing accessible to everyone,…

How AI is Rewriting Urban Planning in Developing Regions

AI urban development technologies unveiled at the 29th UN Climate Change Conference promise to transform how we understand and plan cities in developing regions….

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Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the all-new Surface Pro and the all-new Surface Laptop to empower users in South Africa to unlock…

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor introduced its latest foldable device, the Honor Magic V3, at IFA in Berlin. It is expected to be available in the South African…

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Guinness World Record holder Bryan Berg, alongside Honor, will attempt to build the tallest house of cards in eight hours without using any glue….

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German luxury cars require a rethink for China

For German car companies, China’s luxury car market has devolved from secure future profits to disastrous income losses. With its powerful economy and a…

Trump wins – Tesla goes beyond $1 Trillion

Donald Trump has had a resurgent year. Tesla? Not so much. The Cybertruck sales aren’t tracking initial reservation demand and full autonomous self-driving functionality…

Vivo update – a big safety gain

Polo Vivo has been South Africa’s most popular passenger car for many years. Like its progenitor, the Citi Golf, it’s a case of very…

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Mmusi Maimane resigns: SA politicians have their say on Twitter

Update: Mmusi Maimane has since resigned from the DA entirely. Read the full story here. Mmusi Maimane on Wednesday announced his resignation as leader…

Patricia de Lille announces GOOD, South Africa brings the puns

Prepare for puns, people. Former Cape Town mayor and DA member Patricia de Lille this weekend announced the name of her new political party,…

A train at Cape Town Station is on fire (once again)

A train at Cape Town Station is reportedly on fire, according to a number of eyewitness reports. Twitter users on Friday afternoon uploaded pictures…

How do you follow Cape Town’s new mayor on social media? You can’t

It’s official: Cape Town’s next mayor will be former mayor Dan Plato, the DA confirmed on Tuesday. He will take over the reins from…

Cape Town’s Day Zero ‘now very likely’, Level 6B water restrictions incoming

“We have reached the point of no return,” writes the City of Cape Town in what could be its bleakest statement about the city’s…

City of Cape Town using ‘wagon-wheel’ to survey Cape Flats aquifer

If you happen to see a helicopter flying overhead with a UFO-like “wagon-wheel attached to the underside of it”, don’t worry, that’s just the…

Cape Town’s new buses will be all-electric come 2025

Cape Town, along with 11 other major world cities, has vowed to shirk purchasing fossil fuel-powered buses in favour of electric models for its…

‘Cape of Storms to Come’ uncovers the origins of Cape Town’s water crisis

You must be so sick of hearing about Cape Town’s water crisis right now. But it’s a huge problem — and a potential catastrophe…

Cape Town’s temporary desalination plants will be online by ‘February 2018’

After yesterday’s rains across the metropole, Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille briefed media, and Twitter, on updates regarding its water resilience scheme. The…

Cape Town, here’s what Level 5 water restrictions means for you

“Level 5” water restrictions are now officially in effect, the City of Cape Town confirmed Sunday. The latest measure is in a bid to…

Mayor: Cape Town to source 20% of energy from renewables by 2020

Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille today took to Twitter in an hour-long update regarding key issues affecting the City of Cape Town, including…

Cape Town dams 23% full, CoCT ponders ‘reverse osmosis, desalination’ plants

The good news continues this week, Cape Town. Dam levels have increased for the second week in a row, signalling the start of winter……

Cape Town boasts ‘highest quality of life’ in Africa, Twitter disagrees

Great news, Cape Town. According to a report (pdf) by Deutsche Bank, the city ranks 17th out of 47 major cities in terms of…

The local web: The year that was 2007

It’s been a cool year for the Web in South Africa. Year of the blog? We saw the arrival of two blog aggregators Afrigator…

De Lille answers bloggers, clarifies position

Good on Patricia De Lille and the ID. This is democracy in action. De Lille most likely noticed comments on the blogosphere and reports…

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