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There’s a current common narrative in the business world: digital is everything, and physical presence is living on borrowed time.…

Financial markets are on the verge of their most significant infrastructure transformation since the shift from paper-based trading to electronic…

In the final quarter of 2025, South Africa received R41.3 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI). That investment went everywhere…

The prolonged disruption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has exposed how vulnerable Africa’s economies are to geopolitical shocks.…

7 August 2026 | Chart by The Outlier. Text by GroundUp Staff.Charts | South AfricaShareAdd GroundUp on Google We analysed the pay inequality at 35 state-owned…

As news breaks of South Africa’s newly secured $1,5-billion World Bank infrastructure loan – of which a portion will go…

Here is an uncomfortable truth. While 77% of South African hoteliers say they are actively exploring new technology to streamline…

South Africa’s AI conversation is moving quickly from possibility to deployment. TechFinancials has recently covered banks, insurers, public institutions and…

Every August, the country turns its attention to women. Panels are convened. Tributes are published. Stages fill with stories of…

During my time working at South African Breweries (SAB), I watched young graduates arrive on the factory floor holding hard-earned…

Somewhere in a South African head office this quarter, an AI proof-of-concept that impressed the executive committee six months ago…

The BLSA Reform Tracker released its quarterly update last week, and I find the picture it paints genuinely worrying. There are areas…

Artificial intelligence is on a relentless march across the computing landscape. While about one in seven data centres today is…

As artificial intelligence shifts from a futuristic prediction to an operational reality across Africa, business leaders find themselves at a…

South Africa’s listed property sector is not short on digital capability. Foundational technologies are already embedded across the value chain,…

Across the world’s most technologically advanced economies, a significant proportion of desk workers describe themselves as AI skeptics, while the…

South Africa is in the middle of a digital wallet boom. In fact, SA now has an estimated 70% digital…

For decades, the South African residential estate model has relied on a centralised utility for power. However, a structural shift…

Somewhere in South Africa today, a family will get a phone call no one wants to receive. More than 12,000…

It would be impossible to fix a city’s traffic congestion by widening a single busy highway. Yet today’s conversation around…

AI is transforming business operations across critical functions and infrastructure. In doing so, it is amplifying existing cyber risks and…

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…

Losing a loved one is difficult enough, but when that loss results in an inheritance from another country, it can…

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