Southern Africa
More & More South Africans Are Considering Online Schools – New Survey
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South African Streamer on 5 Careers You Can Build in E-Sports
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The Top 10 Googled Terms by South Africans in July 2022
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Blue Prism Interview: The Benefits of Automation in Africa’s Banking Sector
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Coding Bootcamp for African Girls Comes to Namibia – Registrations Open
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Google’s Equiano Subsea Cable Lands in South Africa
Image sourced from Medium. Google’s Equiano Subsea Cable, which seeks to connect Europe to Africa via the ocean, has reportedly made its final stop on Monday, landing in Melkbosstrand, Western Cape, South Africa. The cable was originally announced to land in South Africa by June 2022. This landing represents the end of the Equiano cable’s $14-billion journey, which began in Lisbon, Portugal in 2019 and had several stops along the Western coast of Africa. Its latest stop was in Swakopmund, Namibia, last month. The Equiano cable route. The Equiano cable serves as an internet infrastructure connection between South Africa, Portugal and several other countries including Nigeria. The cable has a capacity of 144 terabytes/second, making it the highest-capacity internet cable ever landed on the A...
What Caused Capitec’s Massive 40 Hour Outage?
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$100-Billion in Investments Up for Grabs for SA’s Green Energy Startups
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Cell C Offers Free Data Bundles to Those Affected by Load Shedding
South African telecom Cell C has launched a new solution to help its prepaid customers claim some of the data they may have lost during the country’s ongoing rotational blackouts, either as a result of inability to access data due to power outages or limited network access due to unpowered towers. The offers are free to customers who make purchases from 150MB of mobile data across qualifying bundles and can be claimed on *147#. These bundles are not available for purchase and are available to prepaid customers only. Offers are for either social or streaming mobile data that can be claimed within three days from date of purchase of a Cell C data bundle. The bundles can be claimed 24/7 even when loadshedding is suspended. “Cell C understands the frustration customers experience when loadshed...
43.5% of SA’s Women in Tech Say They are Paid Less Than Men
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MTN South Africa Apologises for Wide Ranging Data Outages
MTN South Africa has experienced outages in its mobile data networks in two of the country’s provinces, leaving customers without access to the carrier’s data. Customers in parts of the Free State province and Western Cape Province in South Africa experienced these outages in the early hours of Thursday morning. According to an MTN spokesperson, the network downtime was due to “urgently planned repair work” but restorations are in progress. The carrier says that restoration should be completed around 09:20, however, users on DownDetector are still reporting a heightened level of network outages as of 10:00 on Thursday morning. The outage spike was around 8:00. Image sourced from DownDetector.co.za. “Our apologies to our customers in those areas who were affected. The work was urgently requ...
Capitec SA Experiences Outages on its Banking App
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