Author: Chris Anu

Shortly after the Covid-19 pandemic hit, Tiffany Dunsdon – at the time CEO of JSE-listed Adapt IT – found herself having to fend off an unwanted takeover bid from Huge Group. Dunsdon did not feel the deal made much sense for Adapt IT – a fast-growing enterprise software services provider whose share price, like many others at the time, had been knocked lower by the uncertainty caused by the pandemic. The Huge Group approach was opportunistic in light of Covid and Adapt IT’s depressed share price at the time, said Dunsdon. So, instead of entertaining the approach from Huge Group,…

National Treasury readies R5 million grant for green and informal economies. National Treasury is looking to fund the next set of innovative businesses in the green economy, among others, through its Jobs Fund grant programme. Now in its 12th funding round, the Jobs Fund is a R9 billion Treasury-managed initiative that seeks to support creative, scalable interventions that will contribute to sustainable job creation and stimulate inclusive economic growth in high labour-absorptive sectors.Previous funding rounds have seen R7.4 billion disbursed to Jobs Fund partners, resulting in the creation of 210 719 permanent jobs, 114 534 short-term jobs/internships, and more than…

Prof Jan Reynders Prof Jan Reynders, president of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineering (SAIEE), passed away on 16 April 2025 at the age of 84. Reynders was the former dean of engineering and head of the school of electrical, electronic & computer engineering at Wits University. “He made a huge contribution to South Africa, to the electrical engineering profession, and to the many students and colleagues who passed through his department and faculty at Wits University,” Chris Yelland, an energy analyst and MD of EE Business Intelligence, wrote in a post on Facebook on Tuesday. I have nothing…

Check Point has partnered with breach containment specialist Illumio to bolster cyber security. Cyber security firm Check Point Software Technologies has partnered with breach containment specialist Illumio in a joint effort to stop cyber threats by preventing lateral movement across networks.The collaboration aims to bolster organisational security and accelerate the adoption of zero trust strategies. By integrating Check Point’s Quantum Force Firewalls, Infinity Threat Cloud AI and AI-powered security management with Illumio Segmentation and Illumio Insights, the partnership offers a unified approach to threat containment and risk mitigation.Illumio Segmentation and Insights, core components of the Illumio platform – billed as…

The department of home affairs has applied for a separation from the State IT Agency (Sita), citing the latter’s lacklustre performance as a key risk to its IT modernisation efforts. According to the home affairs annual performance plan for the 2025/2026 financial year, published earlier this week, home affairs’ dependency on Sita has led to frequent outages and system downtime, delays in the procurement of IT services, and cost overruns that have impacted its already constrained budget. “The DHA has applied for separation from Sita. This would grant the DHA flexibility to source IT services from more reliable and cost-effective…

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Sundar Pichai Google CEO Sundar Pichai told a judge who found that Google illegally monopolises online search that a US justice department proposal to share search data with rivals would be a “de facto” divestiture of the company’s search engine. If Google were required to share both its search data and the information on how it ranks results, rivals could reverse engineer “every aspect of our technology”, Pichai testified on Wednesday. “The proposal on data sharing is so far reaching, so extraordinary,” Pichai said, that it “feels like de facto divestiture of search” and its entire intellectual property and technology…

With MTN’s headquarters in SA, the dispute can be heard in South African courts, ruled the Supreme Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has ruled that the long-running bribery dispute between local telco MTN and Istanbul-based Turkcell can be heard in South African courts.This, after in December 2022, the High Court of South Africa dismissed the $4.2 billion (R78 billion) Turkcell lawsuit against MTN, saying the Iranian courts have jurisdiction over the case, rather than the South African courts.Turkcell then appealed the ruling at the SCA, saying South African law should be applied and the South African…

The long-running litigation between MTN Group and rival Turkcell is now headed to South Africa’s highest court. This is after the supreme court of appeal on Tuesday upheld “aspects of the legal appeal” brought by Turkcell and after MTN vowed to fight this judgment in the constitutional court. The allegations against MTN go back to the licensing of MTN Irancell, in which MTN has a 49% stake. Turkell has alleged the licence was awarded irregularly, something MTN has consistently denied. The company was exonerated from wrongdoing by a committee established in 2012 to probe the allegations of impropriety in Iran.…

AI is reshaping geopolitics by amplifying the technological prowess of nations, creating new arenas for competition. As the global race to “super intelligence” intensifies, Africa must “wake up” and become a significant player in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution and claim its place as an epicentre for digital advancement.This was the word from professor Arthur Mutambara, author, director and professor of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge at the University of Johannesburg (UJ).Mutambara delivered a keynote presentation at a recent event held to discuss the impact of AI on geopolitics, organised by UJ.He explored the geopolitical implications of AI…