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Africa Tech Festival showcases how tech and strategy are transforming Africa’s diverse industries, from telecoms and financial services to healthcare and retail

Poorer South Africans will not be able to upgrade to smartphone devices without state assistance

Investment is being driven by a youthful population and high demand for connectivity

New mid-band spectrum additions need to complement low- and high-band spectrum and they must be universally available.

A powerful machine packed into a 1.44kg, compact exterior with several nifty features essential for today’s business laptop

Serame Taukobong says, if done right, the auction of new broadband spectrum will help level the playing field

Disinformation — turbocharged by social media algorithms — buries lies and propaganda in ‘facts’.

But the South African Revenue Service doesn’t yet have the skills and multiple users to adopt it

The new mobile licence conditions, which insist networks provide educational content for free, will start to bridge the digital divide

As China and the West battle it out for control of Africa’s physical and virtual digital infrastructure, the continent needs to assert its own voice

Several African governments have published plans to establish smart cities, including Cairo, Johannesburg, Kigali and Nairobi. They require the most advanced technologies available

Conspiracy theorists abuse emotive topics to suck the air out of legitimate debate and further their own sinister agendas

Paddy Harper finds his ANC councillor has led him, but much like Donald Trump, it was down a garden path

The South African law does not make it mandatory for citizens to be vaccinated, and the same will apply for Covid-19 immunisation. But experts say people still have the…

More people have died in South Africa from Covid-19 than have been murdered. This hasn’t stopped a misinformation pandemic from trying to misrepresent that reality