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Estonian echoes — SA’s digital public infrastructure looks like it was made in Estonia
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Estonian echoes — SA’s digital public infrastructure looks like it was made in Estonia

While Estonia is the current model of a modern e-governance capital, it’s hard to listen to local tech leaders talk a big game about digital sovereignty when you know that the technology is imported.
By Lindsey Schutters
STUDENT FUNDING

MPs slam NSFAS over R616m middleman payouts for accommodation system

By Siyabonga Goni
MPs slam NSFAS over R616m middleman payouts for accommodation system
ANALYSIS

Economic fire — Interest rate adjustment makes for interesting braai chat

By Lindsey Schutters
Economic fire — Interest rate adjustment makes for interesting braai chat
CARTOON

Failure to launch

By Rico
Failure to launch
NEW BEGINNINGS

Haashim Pead tug-of-war puts club rugby’s biggest challenge into perspective

By Jon Cardinelli
Haashim Pead tug-of-war puts club rugby’s biggest challenge into perspective
Europe’s political centre is almost out of time
OPINIONISTA

Europe’s political centre is almost out of time

By Natale Labia
SA is under cyber siege — and the situation will only get worse
DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY

SA is under cyber siege — and the situation will only get worse

By Lindsey Schutters
Why the highest-returning default portfolio may not tell the whole story
SPONSORED CONTENT

Why the highest-returning default portfolio may not tell the whole story

By Old Mutual Corporate
Moving for work — the hidden health impacts of SA’s urban migration
The Conversation

Moving for work — the hidden health impacts of SA’s urban migration

By Carren Ginsburg, Chantel Pheiffer, Mark A Collinson and Michael White
A Swartland Grand Prix? Now isn’t that grand...
After The Bell

A Swartland Grand Prix? Now isn’t that grand...

By Stephen Grootes
Minister of Small Business Development Ndabeni pushes for localised manufacturing in automotive sector
LOCAL VEHICLE PRODUCTION

Minister of Small Business Development Ndabeni pushes for localised manufacturing in automotive sector

By Andisa Bonani
Hallucination-free (hopefully) — new draft AI policy will be ready by March, says Malatsi
Wisdom of Solomon

Hallucination-free (hopefully) — new draft AI policy will be ready by March, says Malatsi

By Lindsey Schutters
SPONSORED CONTENT

Consumer in the crossfire

By Ninety One
Consumer in the crossfire
POLITICALLY AWEH

South Africans wagered R1-trillion last year — but who’s regulating the betting industry?

By Politically Aweh
South Africans wagered R1-trillion last year — but who’s regulating the betting industry?
After the Bell

Everyone’s doing the side-hustle shuffle — just don’t hide your job-juggling

By Stephen Grootes
Everyone’s doing the side-hustle shuffle — just don’t hide your job-juggling
RETIRE IN STYLE

Making sure that where there is a will, there is clarity, not chaos

By Kenny Meiring
SPONSORED CONTENT

Why Africa’s smart cities will also need smarter finance

By Binance
COMING IN HOT

Very strong El Niño is a ‘stress test’ for SA’s food systems

By Iman Allie
(UN)DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

Ramaphosa found his voice abroad, but he lost it at home

By Lindsey Schutters
Data centre deal — Cape Town forced back to the drawing board
Power Guzzlers

Data centre deal — Cape Town forced back to the drawing board

There was, naturally, an appeal against the Municipal Planning Tribunal’s approval of the Equinix data centres – and the City of Cape Town is responding by redrawing the lines of the playing field.
By Lindsey Schutters
OPINIONISTA

Looming El Niño threatens to shatter SA’s summer harvest triumph

By Wandile Sihlobo
new arbiter of truth op-ed

What happens when we start asking AI instead of each other?

By Kyle Findlay
WHERE TO INVEST

Datatec is riding the global AI infrastructure wave from the JSE

By The Finance Ghost
BUSINESS REFLECTION

Crossed Wires: AI flips the script on the economics of hacking and cybersecurity

By Steven Boykey Sidley
The rules of pension fund investment have changed
LONG CAPITAL

The rules of pension fund investment have changed

By Lindsey Schutters
Waymo to bring autonomous ride-hailing to Singapore in 2028
World

Waymo to bring autonomous ride-hailing to Singapore in 2028

By Reuters
Busting the bluffers one bogus qualification at a time
AFTER THE BELL

Busting the bluffers one bogus qualification at a time

By Stephen Grootes
Nelson Mandela Bay wants residents to repay electricity rebates if it wins court bid
UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE

Nelson Mandela Bay wants residents to repay electricity rebates if it wins court bid

By Andisa Bonani
Ailing LIV’s existence changed golf and made players richer than ever before
HOLE IN NONE

Ailing LIV’s existence changed golf and made players richer than ever before

By Craig Ray

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