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.
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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.
Catching even a fraction of the upside will be a deliberate act of statecraft, not a stroke of luck.
Tech billionaires promise AI abundance underwritten by a basic income. Run South Africa’s budget and the thesis unravels.
Telkom mistook dominance for permanence and lost to mobile; the mobile operators now face the same test.
South Africa’s next mobile growth story will come from connecting machines, not people, writes Pambos Soteriades.
Brazil is freezing illegal operators’ funds and making banks liable. South Africa should be watching closely.
Exchange control rests on a 1960s view of money. It now restricts freedom, not capital flight, writes VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani.
The Fable 5 shutdown is a warning: AI platforms have become instruments of state power, not neutral utilities.