The banks cannot reach South Africa’s R197-billion informal retail market. Three other contenders think they can.
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The big consulting firms inflated every hype cycle and left before the crash. AI ends the chicanery.
Customer quiet-quitting is the bill for shortcuts taken years ago. By the time it shows up in the numbers, they have already gone.
It’s the biggest liability on the South African tech balance sheet – and it keeps compounding.
The best mobile network in South Africa has unhappy customers; the worst-measured has the happiest. Why?
Promising what you haven’t built is the fastest way to win a deal. It’s also the first move in a slow corporate suicide.
Starlink has 10 000 satellites and a six-year head-start, yet rival Amazon Leo may beat it to market in South Africa.
South African firms are racing into agentic AI – and straight into a Popia compliance minefield.
Capitec’s premium valuation rests on three compounding bets. All three are working – but each is now under pressure.
Catching even a fraction of the upside will be a deliberate act of statecraft, not a stroke of luck.