Natasha Odendaal

Telkom has pledged R100-million to establish a new platform to equip South Africans with AI and digital skills, foster local innovation and accelerate inclusive participation in the digital economy. The new Telkom AI Institute will focus on practical, job-ready AI and digital skills training, with an emphasis on reaching young people, small businesses, and communities currently underserved by South Africa's digital economy.

Altron Digital Business (ADB) has published a first-of-its-kind benchmark study determining how employees experience technology across financial services industry institutions in South Africa. The Employee Technology Experience Index found a correlation between the technology experiences of employees and workforce outcomes such as employee productivity, job satisfaction, retention, employee net promoter score and, ultimately, customer experience and organisational performance.

As Namibia positions for another period of mining growth amid expanding operations across the country, success will increasingly be measured not only by production output but by how efficiently natural resources are managed.

The Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS), in partnership with the Vaal-Orange Catchment Management Agency (VOCMA), has undertaken a public

JSE-listed MTN Group has secured IHS shareholder approval to acquire the remaining shares it did not own in the tower company.

The Portfolio Committee on Water and Sanitation raised concerns that, despite Presidential commitment since 2020, there are continued delays in processing water use licences

Telecommunications group MTN South Africa plans to invest R332-million into network infrastructure across Limpopo in the 2026 financial year.

A major burst on the B4 Pipeline is affecting water supply to the Palmiet booster pumping station, Rand Water reported on Thursday.

The continent's AI future will be strongest when it is built on Africa’s own data and priorities and taught in its own languages, participants heard during Huawei's seventh yearly ICT Editors Xchange held in Johannesburg last month. Further, intelligence built on Africa’s terms is not only possible but already underway.

Crane manufacturer Condra Crane has announced the winners of a competition to find the company’s oldest working crane. The competition was launched last year, eight months ahead of the company’s diamond jubilee celebrations last month, to showcase product durability and lower lifetime cost, which Condra highlighted was the result of robust manufacture and crane design more carefully aligned to each application when compared with Far Eastern imports.