Alan Knott-Craig Jr, founder of Fibertime. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) Pay-as-you-go fibre provider Fibertime is targeting to reach one million South African homes by the middle of next year, if all goes according to plan. So said Alan Knott-Craig Jr, founder of Fibertime, speaking at the Sentech Africa Tech Week Conference, held this week, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.Knott-Craig Jr was one of the keynote speakers at the conference, where he detailed his entrepreneurial journey, business ventures along the way and what led to starting Fibertime. See also The business, with roots in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch, has expanded from…
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US President Donald Trump says American and Nigerian forces have killed the second-in-command leader of ISIS.Mr Trump said Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was “eliminated” after sources found him in hiding in Africa. He did not disclose the exact location of the operation.”Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the armed forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield,” he wrote in a post on social media.”Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he know we…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump announced late Friday that U.S. and Nigerian forces carried out an operation that killed a global ISIS leader.Trump identified the terrorist as Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, whom he described as ISIS’s second-in-command globally.”Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.”Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally, thought he could hide in Africa, but little did he…
Home Affairs minister Dr Leon Schreiber. (Photograph: Supplied) The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) has, in eight weeks, processed 118 434 smart IDs through its digital partnership with banks.It aims to offer this service at 750 bank branches by the end of the year.This is according to minister Dr Leon Schreiber, who today delivered the department’s budget vote speech in Parliament. This will extend Home Affairs’ identification service to “every corner of South Africa” and “finally end the recognition of the green ID book as a valid form of identification”. See also According to Schreiber, the green ID is the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Africa’s top public health agency confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo on Friday after 65 deaths and 246 suspected cases were recorded in the country’s remote Ituri province.Health officials are now investigating whether the outbreak involves the Ebola Zaire strain — the deadliest and most well-known version of the virus — or a different variant, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Neighboring Uganda also confirmed one Ebola-related death involving a Congolese man whose case officials said was imported from Congo.The outbreak has been concentrated in the Mongwalu and…
FILE – In this photo provided by Doctors Without Borders, men stand outside an Ebola treatment center in the remote Bulape Health Zone, Kasaï province, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sept 7, 2025, that was set up following the outbreak of the Zaire strain of the Ebola virus. (MSF via AP, File) Source link
Ebola in Central Africa, a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that has spread to several nations, and a norovirus outbreak on a European cruise ship are all occurring simultaneously.Independent CONICET researcher and National University of Cordoba associate professor Raul Gonzalez Ittig holds a preserved specimen of a Graomys chacoensis rodent inside the Population Genetics and Evolution Laboratory of the Institute of Diversity and Animal Ecology (IDEA-CONICET-UNC) at the Faculty of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences (FCEFyN) in Cordoba, Argentina, on May 13, 2026. The deaths of three cruise ship passengers during a rare hantavirus outbreak have sparked international alarm,…
Absa Group CITO Johnson Idesoh Absa Group will deploy AI-powered “super agents” to scan its systems for vulnerabilities and shorten patch cycles as it prepares its defences against a new class of frontier AI models capable of finding and exploiting software weaknesses at speed. Group chief information and technology officer Johnson Idesoh told TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast in an interview to be published next week that the bank is actively planning for a world in which tools such as Anthropic’s Mythos give cybercriminals access to capabilities previously available only to nation-state actors. “The answer I give to our board…
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