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    South African tech's compounding debt problem - Jannie van Zyl

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    By Jannie van Zyl16 July 2026

    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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    Cape Town's Cue raises R82-million to take AI service agents global

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