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Cross-border growth is back in fashion. Across Africa and beyond, banks are once again pursuing regional platforms, new client corridors…

In a fast-evolving digital payments landscape, cash still continues to play a critical role in the South African economy. In…

For the last five years, the story about AI and software jobs has been the same: coding assistants would first…

The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence belongs in South African classrooms. It is already there, formally through approved…

For decades, the consulting industry sold two things: access to benchmarked intelligence, and access to bright, relentlessly hardworking talent. Clients…

Every year, Youth Day asks South Africa to remember the courage of young people who stood against a system designed…

Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then over a dozen…

Geopolitical conflict is no longer confined to land, sea, or air, but unfolds silently across digital infrastructure too. Today, it…

As the World Cup kicks off this week in North America, I am reminded of our hosting of the event…

Digital technologies create great opportunities, but the transformation they offer isn’t equally within reach of everyone. Access is determined by…

Bilateral aid to Africa fell by nearly a quarter in 2025, the largest annual decline in the history of official…

Each of the 9 068 hijackings of trucks between January 2021 and December 2025 involved a living, breathing driver as…

In my hometown, Bethal – a tiny Mpumalanga town of about 128,000 residents surrounded by coal mines and power stations…

The conversation surrounding AI in South Africa and across the continent has reached a critical inflection point. For the past…

Bloomberg has named South African-founded fintech Omnisient one of its African Startups to Watch in 2026, recognising the company’s work…

The withdrawal of the Draft National AI Policy Framework shortly after its release, while unfortunate, can be viewed as among…

With 8.1-million unemployed, growth is the only path to job creation, and that requires competitive logistics, enabling exporters to succeed…

Misleading information online is often treated as a technical glitch, something that better algorithms or stricter moderation can fix. But…

South Africa is on the cusp of a digital revolution that promises to end the era of ‘the system is…

The South African Reserve Bank’s Prudential Authority (PA) has confirmed its intention to derecognise Moody’s Investors Service South Africa as…

Throughout history, most of the world’s genomic research has relied on DNA data from people of European ancestry. A genome…

The informal economy includes street vendors, spaza shops, hawkers, tuck shops, second-hand goods traders, small grocery and clothing traders, hairdressers,…

Hate communities often flourish online for years, raising the question of how they persist. My research team has found that…

Judging by a slew of recent corporate announcements, your next “co-worker” might be an artificial intelligence agent – doing the…

Any aspiration that South Africa has to rebuild its industrial base is disappearing before our eyes. The Department of Trade,…