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Music veteran Charles Goldstuck has warned Africa risks becoming a consumer, not a shaper, of generative AI music.
Prosus has sold a 4.5% stake in Delivery Hero to Uber, advancing on commitments to the European Commission.
NUM and Solidarity have accepted Eskom’s 7% three-year pay offer, but Numsa has declared a deadlock and is demanding more.
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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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OpenAI accused Elon Musk of harassment in a legal fight that’s unfolding as it weighs a shift to a for-profit model.
The EU has voted to impose tariffs as high as 45% on electric vehicles from China in a move set to increase trade tensions.
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has raised $6.6-billion from investors, including Microsoft and Nvidia.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Elon Musk’s views on Britain are out of sync with other major investors.
Crypto hasn’t yet caused a real-world economic meltdown, but regulators are right not to let this crisis go to waste.
Advances in providing Internet access to people in Africa are worth celebrating.


































