South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
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Fifty years after television’s arrival in South Africa, the SABC faces hard questions about relevance, funding and its mandate.
iOCO is stepping up its share repurchase programme, acquiring a further 2.34 million ordinary shares in December.
Confusion in the electrical sector has led to claims that all Schuko plugs and sockets are banned. This is not true.
Novus Holdings is vowing to fight a Takeover Regulation Panel ruling that it must increase its offer to Mustek shareholders.
South Africa has a curious habit of legislating fantasies and then acting surprised when the real economy ignores them.
This Monday marks 50 years since television was officially launched in South Africa – on 5 January 1976.
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Meta Platforms is shutting down Workplace, the enterprise version of Facebook that it once hoped might rival Slack.
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever is leaving the start-up at the centre of the AI boom.
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky will leave the company on 3 June, and will be replaced by Matt Garman.
The US has pressed China and Russia to ensure that only humans would make decisions on deploying nuclear weapons.
Positive environmental news is rare. All the more reason to cheer an effort that might see wealthy nations help South Africa curb its coal addiction.
The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of China’s “FUD” (Internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt). By Lionel Laurent.
