South Africa’s push to open the ICT sector to global players like Starlink has hit a regulatory roadblock, with ICASA signalling that legislative changes may be needed before EEIPs can replace traditional ownership requirements.
South Africa faced more than 213,000 DDoS attacks in the first half of 2025, the highest in Africa. Morocco, Kenya and Tunisia also saw rising volumes and increasingly complex strikes.
South Africa’s steel industry is buckling under energy costs and global competition. Can the cooling Vanderbijlpark furnaces spark a new industrial chapter instead of collapse?