Author: Chris Anu

Former MultiChoice Group CEO Calvo Mawela The French are moving quickly to stamp their authority on MultiChoice Group, announcing on Monday that CEO Calvo Mawela is longer CEO of the South African broadcaster. This follows news on Monday morning that Groupe Canal+’s acquisition of the South African pay-television giant has become unconditional. Mawela will be replaced in the role by Canal+ Africa CEO David Mignot. “The MultiChoice Group board has made certain changes to its composition and leadership team to allow for suitable Canal+ representation, while maintaining its independence,” MultiChoice said in a statement on Monday. The London-listed French media…

Higher education deputy minister Dr Mimmy Gondwe and Takealot Group CEO Frederik Zietsman at the MOU signing. (Photograph by DHET) Takealot Group this week signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), to spearhead youth skills development and workforce readiness in SA. According to a statement, the MOU forms part of the Takealot Township Economy Initiative.It will focus on adoption of TVET and community colleges for practical, work-integrated learning; expansion of the Takealot bursary programme, with matched funding from DHET; nationwide textbook distribution using Takealot’s logistics network; as well as collaboration with Sector…

US President Donald Trump. Brian Snyder/Reuters The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay US$100 000 (R1.7-million) per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the US or quickly return. The change could deal a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China. Since taking office in January, Trump has kicked off a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, including moves to limit some forms of legal immigration. The step to reshape the H-1B visa programme represents his administration’s most high-profile effort…

Automated reconciliation simplifies complexity. Transaction Junction, which positions itself as a leading fintech innovator in Southern Africa, has launched a game-changing automated reconciliation platform: TJ Recon PRO. As the next generation of the company’s established TJ Recon service, PRO is bank-agnostic and specifically engineered to simplify and streamline financial processes for businesses with the most complex transaction ecosystems. It is capable of reconciling all payment methods – delivering the clarity your finance team needs.The high cost of manual reconciliationMany retailers still rely on manual reconciliation – a process that is not only an immense drain on resources but also a…

The transport department began holding workshops on new e-hailing rules last week as government gears up to improve safety for passengers and drivers using ride-hailing transport platforms like Uber. The first workshops were held with the nine provincial regulatory bodies and the National Public Transport Regulator, according to department spokesman Collen Msibi. “Dates for the stakeholder workshop roadshows throughout the country will be communicated in due course to stakeholders,” he said. Just like minibus taxis, ride-hailing drivers will be required to stick to their designated jurisdiction The long-awaited National Land Transport Amendment Act and its amended regulations came into force…

Netcampus and Progressive Blacks in ICT (PBICT) sign a landmark MOU. Netcampus, which positions itself as a leading ICT training provider with over 20 years of experience delivering certified and customised training solutions, is proud to announce the signing of a landmark memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Progressive Blacks in ICT (PBICT). The signing took place during GovTech 2025, in Durban, on 9 September, a platform where government, business and civil society converge to shape South Africa’s digital future.This partnership is a decisive step forward in PBICT’s mission to ensure greater participation, ownership and empowerment of Black professionals and enterprises…

Emanuela Saccarola. Image: LinkedIn The successful modernisation of a country’s domestic payments infrastructure onto faster, instant payment rails like South Africa’s PayShap does not always translate into similar success in the cross-border payments space – and regulation is often a bottleneck. Speaking to TechCentral in an interview on Wednesday, Emanuela Saccarola, head of global cross-border payments at Citibank, said countries such as India and Brazil, which have successfully made their domestic payments fast and seamless through modernised infrastructure, continue to struggle to achieve similar levels of proficiency in the cross-border space. This is because their regulatory environments are not as…

Dorio Bowes, Comstor Director at Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa. (Image: Supplied) For all the bold predictions made about digital transformation, cloud computing and hybrid IT models, the reality for many businesses is still deeply complex. Cloud adoption has often been enthusiastic but fragmented, resulting in overlapping services, underused platforms and vulnerable systems. The gears in this conversation have shifted from “move to the cloud” to a more layered and nuanced focus on how infrastructure supports performance, security and scale in equal measure.The CIO’s job is no longer to merely oversee technology choices. It is to design and lead an adaptable IT…

Dado Ruvic/Reuters Nvidia’s deal with Intel could put the struggling chip maker’s next-generation manufacturing technology on a stronger footing, even without a direct commitment from the AI chip leader to use that technology to make its own chips, analysts said. Nvidia on Thursday invested US$5-billion in Intel for a stake of roughly 4%, and the two firms agreed to a deal to supply chips to one another to create “multiple generations” of joint products. Those products will connect Intel’s central processors and Nvidia’s artificial intelligence and graphics chips with a speedy and proprietary Nvidia connection technology called NVLink. This could…

Henry Adams, country manager for InterSystems South Africa. The application of AI in the country’s healthcare industry means faster insights, more personalised services and solutions that reflect the realities of the industry’s system, says InterSystems South Africa, the local branch of US-based data technology provider InterSystems. However, cost, complexity and value-add in real-time are challenges that need to be overcome to realise benefits.At the company’s flagship READY 2025 Summit, hosted in Sandton this week, executives offered an overview of its AI strategy, underpinned by what the company describes as its “secret sauce” – a fast, flexible common data plane.The company’s strategy…