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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,…

There is a troubling contradiction at the heart of the global transition to a cleaner, greener, tech-driven future: Modern technologies…

South Africa just celebrated Freedom Day, but it’s worth asking what financial freedom looks like in the digital age. There…

Many South Africans have viewed offshore investment as an informal insurance policy to protect their wealth, so they would move…

The publication of South Africa’s Draft National AI Policy (Draft Policy) marks a turning point for organisations that develop, deploy…

By MJ (Thinus) Booysen, Stellenbosch University and Joshua Sello, Stellenbosch University The minibus taxi is ubiquitous in southern Africa. These…

Picture a rainy Wednesday morning in Sandton, sometime in the near future. A claims handler opens their laptop, and right…

 Trying to scale AI on outdated digital foundations is like playing Jenga on a wobbly table: early wins stack up…

The global energy crisis caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is only the beginning of the economic…

Artificial Intelligence is no longer confined to the back office. From chatbots handling complex queries to robo-advisers producing portfolio summaries,…

In many African homes, history does not live in books, but it lives in people. In stories told at family…