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| Sep 18, 2026 | Solar and EVs in South Africa: what the numbers actually say | South Africans paid R26.92/l for 95 unleaded inland when prices rose on 2 September. Average Brent crude climbed to US$87.88 from $82.37 in the review period, on US-Iran tensions and renewed fears over the Strait of Hormuz.
That was the che... |
| Sep 18, 2026 | How Africa’s biggest cities are grappling with mounting waste and shrinking space | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHELLE GUMEDE
JOHANNEBURG (AP) — Two men sit on top of a hill at the end of a narrow road in Johannesburg ’s industrial suburb of Kya Sands. But the hill is no natural feature — it is a mounta... |
| Sep 17, 2026 | South Africa sees offshore wind powering AI data centres | Government has pitched offshore wind as a way to power Cape Town’s growing AI data centre industry, but the laws and regulations required do not yet exist and the costs are enormous.
The department of electricity & energy on Thursday pu... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Minister Blade Nzimande hosts strategic STI engagement with Enoch Godongwana, 31 Aug | The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Professor Blade Nzimande, will host the Minister of Finance, Mr Enoch Godongwana, and a National Treasury delegation at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretori... |
| Aug 16, 2026 | South Africa Is Overlooking Solar Technology That Can Keep Generating Electricity After Sunset | South Africa's coal-fired power stations are retiring. The country must replace a huge amount of electricity over the next two decades. Currently, coal still supplies 74% of the country's power. But the government's national energy plan has... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | GridCars to replace decade-old chargers in national network upgrade | One of GridCars’ now-outdated charging stations in Jansenville in the Eastern Cape
GridCars is replacing ageing chargers across its national network with new 120kW units, in a refresh that will bring some of South Africa’s earliest public c... |
| Jul 10, 2026 | Battlefield tech could save lives on South Africa’s roads | The author, the CSIR’s Dithoto Modungwa
Somewhere in South Africa today, a family will get a phone call no one wants to receive. Around 12 000 people die on our roads every year – on the N3, on rural district roads, in taxis, on the way to ... |
| Jun 10, 2026 | PromptBio Launched All-New Agentic AI Platform For Life Sciences, Turning Scientific Intent Into Executable Experiments | , a California-based leader in AI for life sciences, announced the launch of the All-New PromptBio Platform, an Agentic AI designed to help scientists accelerate discovery from hypotheses to insights
The platform combines a conversational A... |
| Jun 9, 2026 | PromptBio Launched All-New Agentic AI Platform For Life Sciences, Turning Scientific Intent Into Executable Experiments | The PromptBio Platform combines conversational AI with multi-agent orchestration to accelerate discovery from hypotheses to insights
PLEASANTON, Calif., June 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- PromptBio, a California-based leader in AI for life scienc... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | TechCentral appoints Dr Fanie van Rooyen as deputy editor | Fanie van Rooyen
TechCentral has appointed Dr Fanie van Rooyen as its deputy editor, strengthening the leading technology publication’s newsroom as it deepens its coverage of South Africa’s technology, telecommunications and digital economy... |
| May 27, 2026 | Mobile operators locked out as Icasa opens 900MHz of spectrum | Communications regulator Icasa has gazetted the final regulations on the use of “innovation spectrum”, formally settling one of the most contested questions in South African spectrum policy.
In terms of the newly published final regulations... |
| May 12, 2026 | Malatsi moves to rescue South Africa’s botched AI policy | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has appointed an independent panel of AI researchers, lawyers and governance specialists to rebuild South Africa’s draft national AI policy, a document... |
| Apr 10, 2026 | South Africa’s draft AI policy is a bureaucrat’s dream | Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT
Communications minister Solly Malatsi has gazetted South Africa’s draft national AI policy for public comment, opening a 60-day window for submissions on an 86-page document that proposes a... |
| Feb 20, 2026 | South Africa’s dynamic spectrum breakthrough | The author, Paul Colmer
The digital divide in South Africa just got its most credible solution yet. After years of planning, trials and technical validation, dynamic spectrum sharing has moved from regulatory aspiration to proven reality – ... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | South Africa needs a national ‘quantum defence strategy’ | IBM’s Q quantum computer
South Africa is not paying enough attention to the threat future quantum computers could pose to cybersecurity and national key points such as water infrastructure and power stations.
This is according to Noelle van... |
| Dec 23, 2025 | South Africa: Dsti Supports Siu Investigation Into Maladministration Allegations | The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) has pledged its support to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) as the corruption busting unit investigates allegations of serious maladministration and improper or unlawful conduc... |
| Nov 7, 2025 | CSIR readies live cybercrime reporting system for banks, telcos | Cybersecurity was a focus for the CSIR in the past financial year, with one project seeing the development of a tool that is ready to go live for web-based reporting to the South African Police Service.
In it its annual report for 2024/2025... |
| Oct 17, 2025 | This is Eskom’s new board | Eskom chairman Mteto Nyati
Five members of Eskom’s outgoing board will continue to serve on the newly approved board by cabinet, with current chair Mteto Nyati staying on for another year as his term only ends in 2026.
Minister in the presi... |
| Sep 30, 2025 | Rooftop solar surges 400% while utility-scale projects stall | Energy generation from South Africa’s renewable energy programme has grown by 280% since 2015. However, generation from the programme remains unchanged at about 8.3 TWh in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
That’s a... |
| Sep 5, 2025 | Guest article: The innovation paradox holding back South Africa’s bioeconomy | Charles Reed is cofounder of South African biotech startup Mycosure, which is growing protein-packed mycelium using biomass fermentation.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of AgF... |
| Jul 15, 2025 | South Africa: Nzimande Undertakes Extensive Science, Technology and Innovation Visit to Tunisia and Algeria | The Minister of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Professor Blade Nzimande, will lead a high-level South African delegation on a comprehensive visit focused on science, technology and innovation (STI) in Tunisia and Algeria.
According to... |
| Jun 23, 2025 | Why the spectrum gold rush may soon be over | The current approach to spectrum licensing by telecommunications regulators, where each licensee gets exclusive access to specific bands of spectrum in exchange for large pots of money, may soon be a thing of the past.
Speaking at the Wirel... |
| May 23, 2025 | South Africa's Innovation Landscape: Navigating Challenges and Seizing Opportunities | In the heart of South Africa, a storm brews. The recent withdrawal of U.S. funding from key research and development programs has sent ripples through the nation’s scientific community. In response, the government has formed a Working Group... |
| May 20, 2025 | South Africa: Working Group to Assess Impact of U.S. Fund Withdrawal | Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Professor Blade Nzimande has announced the 12 members of the Working Group on Science, Technology, and Innovation Funding (STI-WG).
The aim of the working group is to advise the Minister on the i... |
| May 9, 2025 | Gates vs. Musk: A Philanthropic Showdown | In a world where wealth and influence collide, two titans stand at opposite ends of a moral battlefield. Bill Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, has vowed to give away $200 billion by 2045. His mission? To eradicate diseases, reduce poverty, ... |
| May 8, 2025 | Bill Gates to give away $200-billion in next 20 years | Bill Gates in a recent photo
Bill Gates pledged on Thursday to give away US$200-billion via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through hu... |
| Mar 17, 2025 | Eskom added no new plant in 2024 yet lights mostly stayed on | Despite the abeyance in load shedding for much of 2024, Eskom did not add any new generation capacity to the national grid last year, according to the CSIR.
The CSIR published its annual report on power generation in South Africa on Monday.... |
| Dec 5, 2024 | India Takes the Lead in Global Clean Energy Innovation at the 6th RD20 Conference | The 6th RD20 Conference has set the stage for a transformative dialogue on clean energy. Hosted in New Delhi, this event marks a significant milestone. For the first time, India welcomes global leaders to discuss pathways toward carbon neut... |
| Dec 4, 2024 | The RD20 and Mission Innovation Leaders Session Accelerate the Global Drive for Clean Energy Transitions | New Delhi, Delhi, India
The Leaders Session on the second day of ‘The 6th RD20 Conference’ brought together global policymakers, researchers, and thought leaders to discuss collaborative pathways for clean energy transitions. Hosted by The ... |
| Nov 22, 2024 | TERI and AIST to Jointly Hold 6th RD20 Conference in New Delhi, India | - International Conference on Clean Energy Technologies -
TOKYO, Nov. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the largest Indian public institute, the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), will hold an international conference, "The 6th RD20,... |
| Oct 29, 2024 | Why South Africa needs to develop an AI framework | The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on 8 October to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their “foundational discoveries” that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.
The Nobel committee said: “Although computers c... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | The Increasing Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Grocery Prices: A Closer Look at the Rising Cost of Climate Change | The correlation between isolated climate shocks and supply chain disruptions leading to higher food costs is becoming more pronounced in today's world. Economists and scientists are delving deeper into the role that individual extreme weath... |
| Jun 25, 2024 | Extreme wildfires have doubled worldwide, study reveals | Wildfires are increasing worldwide. Images by Egor Vikhrev/Bruno Guerrero/Unsplash
Both the frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires has more than doubled worldwide over the past two decades.
Wildfires in South Africa
Wildfires occur re... |
| Jun 21, 2024 | What’s holding back mass solar adoption in South Africa | South Africa is making efforts to increase the use of solar photovoltaic energy. But it’s happening at a slow pace.
Solar photovoltaic contributes less than 5% to the country’s energy mix, despite the sunny climate, which is very favourable... |
| Jun 11, 2024 | 2024 Annual Meetings - African Scientific Community Validates Project for African Renaissance Institute for Science and Technology | As part of its 2024 Annual Meetings, the African Development Bank held a high-level session with a broad range of representatives from the African scientific community, to discuss the African Renaissance Institute for Science and Technology... |
| May 31, 2024 | Seats in Parliament: Here are the ANC, EFF members who could miss out | Members of Parliament taking their oaths. Image: GCIS
Former ANC Gauteng secretary Jacob Khawe, current Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Mcebisi Skwatsha, former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and spok... |
| May 30, 2024 | CSIR predicts MK Party will beat EFF to number three spot | Jacob Zuma and Julius Malema, pictured drinking tea at Nkandla in 2021. The CSIR has predicted that Zuma’s MK Party will beat Malema’s EFF to third spot, behind second-placed DA, nationally. Image: EFF
The Council for Scientific and Industr... |
| May 30, 2024 | CSIR election modelling shows ANC punished by voters | The ANC looks set to fall well short of obtaining a parliamentary majority for the first time since it came to power at the end of apartheid three decades ago, a model developed by the CSIR shows. The rand weakened.
The governing party is o... |
| May 21, 2024 | TCS Legends | Joan Joffe on building Joffe Associates – and helping launch Vodacom | Joan Joffe. Photo: Tadek Szutowicz/TechCentral
Joan Joffe, the founder of Joffe Associates who would later play a pivotal role in the launch of South Africa’s mobile industry, began her IT career writing machine code on an ICL (then ICT) ma... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Science and Innovation launches South African Circular Minerals and Metals Initiative, 11 Apr | To support circular and sustainable resource use in the local mining sector, the Department of Science and Innovation is establishing the South African Circular Minerals and Metals Initiative (SACMMI).
SACMMI, which will be hosted by the Ma... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | CSIR moves to deal with digital election interference | Disinformation poses a serious threat to the upcoming South African election as it could manipulate public opinion and even influence the 29 May outcome, according to Zubeida Dawood, CSIR research group leader in cybersecurity.
At a CSIR me... |
| Mar 11, 2024 | South Africa: Technology to Protect South Africa's Oceans - Experts Find That a Data-Driven Monitoring System Is Paying Off | Nine years ago South Africa put in place an innovative information management system designed to monitor and protect its seas. The country is surrounded by the Atlantic and Indian oceans on its southern, eastern and western borders.
The oce... |
| Nov 26, 2023 | SECURE your future: 55 bursaries you can apply for in South Africa | Check this list of 55 bursaries you can apply for in South Africa. Picture: Estate Living/File/Fotor.
Applications for financial aid through government-run NSFAS are NOW open, and you can click HERE to see how to apply and what the bursarie... |
| Nov 24, 2023 | FAQ: Where can I APPLY for bursaries in South Africa? | Secure your future right now when you apply for bursaries in South Africa. Picture: File.
It’s that time of year for school-leavers, when disadvantaged students can apply for bursaries in South Africa. The National Student Financial Aid Sch... |
| Nov 1, 2023 | Sex for a JOB? Scams on the rise! | Government communications warns of tender fraud scam. Image: Shutterstock
Sex is the last thing on your mind when looking for job opportunities, yet sex-for-job scams could be on the rise in South Africa.
Legitimate job opportunities are li... |
| Oct 25, 2023 | CSIR moves to commercialise its innovation | CSIR CEO Thulani Dlamini
The CSIR, the state-owned science and industrial research agency, has launched a new enterprise called CSIR C3 – pronounced CSIR C-Cubed – to commercialise its employees’ technology innovations.
CSIR C3 will drive a... |
| Sep 1, 2023 | Meet the founders: MycoSure seeks to put South Africa on the alt protein map with biomass fermentation platform | Cofounded by Greg Brown (COO), James McLaren (CTO) and Charles Reed (CEO) in October 2021, South African startup MycoSure is growing protein-packed mycelium using biomass fermentation.
The startup—which jump-started its R&D process thro... |
| Jun 7, 2023 | South Africa could end load shedding in five years | South Africa is in the middle of a severe electricity crisis, with enforced power cuts that have worsened every year. Electricity is sometimes unavailable for 10 hours a day – or more. The shortfall is the consequence of frequent breakdowns... |
| Jun 2, 2023 | It’s time to terminate Eskom’s distribution monopoly | Rolling blackouts are costing South Africa dearly. The electricity crisis is a barrier to growth, destroys investor confidence and handicaps almost every economic activity. It has raised input costs for producers and retailers and has trigg... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | Load shedding: South Africa faces a grim winter | Over the past 15 years, South Africa has been experiencing a gradually worsening number of electricity cuts. This state of affairs has prompted frustration among citizens, negative international economic sentiment and financial hardship for... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Scale of Eskom crisis laid bare in five charts | South Africa’s energy supply crisis worsened significantly in 2022 – especially in the second half of the year – and things could get worse still.
This is according to research by the Energy Research Centre at the CSIR, which has found that... |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Applications now open for the Circular Economy Accelerator incubator | The Fetola Circular Economy Accelerator (CEA), an initiative that aims to provide South African entrepreneurs looking to scale their businesses in the circular economy with access to mentoring and skills development, has announced that sixt... |
| Jan 14, 2022 | Applications now open for the Circular Economy Accelerator incubator | The Fetola Circular Economy Accelerator (CEA), an initiative that aims to provide South African entrepreneurs looking to scale their businesses in the circular economy with access to mentoring and skills development, has announced that sixt... |
| Oct 25, 2021 | SA may soon be using new fingerprint tech – that can capture data from 6-week-old babies | (Getty Images)
Biometric systems analyse data according to unique human characterises, like fingerprints or facial features.
And while fingerprint scanners are common biometric access tools, the Covid-19 pandemic has made continuous human c... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | SA asset manager secures funding towards Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Fund | South African and majority black-owned and black-managed investment fund Moshesh Partners has secured an undisclosed amount of funding towards its Renewable Energy and Clean Infrastructure Fund.
Moshesh Partners aims to grow the fund to R2... |
| Apr 8, 2021 | SA asset manager secures funding towards Renewable Energy and Infrastructure Fund | South African and majority black-owned and black-managed investment fund Moshesh Partners has secured an undisclosed amount of funding towards its Renewable Energy and Clean Infrastructure Fund.
Moshesh Partners aims to grow the fund to R2-... |
| Jan 23, 2020 | Tech solution to boost mining industry safety | A new tech-driven solution aimed at improving safety and efficiency in the mining sector will soon be deployed at a suitable operational mine site.
This is according to the Department of Science and Innovation (DSI), which supported the Man... |
| Nov 6, 2019 | South Africa is One Step Closer to Processed Titanium Alloys | wp_booster error:
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| Jul 29, 2019 | The rough South African seas could provide enough electricity for a city, a new study finds | Photo: Duncan Alfreds
Ocean turbines in the Agulhas Current, which hugs South Africa’s east coast, could help the country produce baseload energy when it decommissions its coal-fired plants
The optimal place for the turbines would be about ... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Everything you need to know about SA’s tech startup ecosystem [updated 2019] | Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to t... |
| Feb 11, 2019 | Everything you need to know about SA’s tech startup ecosystem [updated 2019] | Update: Are you a venture capitalist or an angel investor looking to invest in a company? Are you an entrepreneur looking for capital or other opportunities? Are you an aspiring startup owner looking for assistance? Well, you have come to t... |
| Jan 30, 2019 | TIA calls for proposals for Grassroots Innovation Programme | The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is calling on South African innovators with tech solutions to local challenges to submit their proposals for tech development assistance and funding under the agency’s Grassroots Innovation Programme (... |
| Jan 30, 2019 | TIA calls for proposals for Grassroots Innovation Programme | The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is calling on South African innovators with tech solutions to local challenges to submit their proposals for tech development assistance and funding under the agency’s Grassroots Innovation Programme (... |
| Jun 2, 2017 | Cape eye cover startup one of 19 firms Business Partners VC fund has backed | Glasses don’t come cheap – ask anyone who has accidentally sat on a pair or had them munched by their pet dog. It’s something Leon van Vuuren is trying to solve.
His Paarl-based startup Eyecover offers to insure glasses for optometrists by... |
| Jun 2, 2017 | Cape eye cover startup one of 19 firms Business Partners VC fund has backed | Glasses don’t come cheap – ask anyone who has accidentally sat on a pair or had them munched by their pet dog. It’s something Leon van Vuuren is trying to solve.
His Paarl-based startup Eyecover offers to insure glasses for optometrists by ... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | Govt debuts 3D printing strategy | The DST has encouraged the adoption of 3D printing machines as viable technology within traditional manufacturing industries.
As part of the objective to create new manufacturing industries, the Department of Science and Technology (DST) ha... |
| Aug 25, 2016 | IBM Research opens in South Africa | |
| May 11, 2015 | Africa and space: the continent starts to look skyward | |
| Mar 25, 2013 | Google Launches TV White Spaces Trial In South Africa | Google’s first trial to use the unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum to provide wireless broadband access launched in 2010 in Logan, Ohio. Since then, Google has shown a lot of interest in this topic and today it is launching its se... |
| Nov 23, 2011 | Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in SA increases access to research computing capabilities through Dell solutions | * Researchers leverage expertise and technology from Dell/Cambridge University HPC Solution Centre to help solve some of the world's most challenging issues.
* Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa, Cambridge Univer... |
| South Africa’s load shedding crisis laid bare | The CSIR has painted a bleak picture of the state of Eskom and energy supply in South Africa.
The state-owned science research agency on Tuesday published its annual statistics on power generation in South Africa for 2021, which includes al... |
