94 Minister says current gap in the global energy market is South Africa’s chance to go back to the drawing board. Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau has thrown his…
Category: Business
PMBEJD writes to SAHRC as rising food prices undermine constitutional right
73 The cost of the basic household food basket increased from approximately R4 051 in January 2021 to around R5 401 by January 2026. The Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group (PMBEJD)…
Easter long weekend spending hops to new highs: Here’s when and what SA splashed out on
79 According to the bank’s data, Gauteng led the country in overall turnover, followed by the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal as the highest-performing provinces. Consumer spending during the 2026 Easter long weekend…
What South African parents look for in an online school
82 In January, South Africa celebrated a record 88% matric pass rate. Within days, analysts dismantled the headline. Of the 1.25 million learners who started grade 1 in 2014, roughly 566 000…
The open banking divide in South Africa
80 Standard Bank Group’s Simon Just Standard Bank has come out in defence of a market-led approach to open banking in South Africa that the Reserve Bank recently criticised, while the fintech…
Standard Bank says data breach did not impact banking systems, just personal information
79 ‘There is a risk that someone could use it to try to impersonate you or contact you fraudulently.’ Standard Bank says its banking systems were not compromised during a data breach…
Anthropic’s Mythos is the cyberthreat every CISO feared
75 Late last month, the industry learnt that Anthropic is developing Claude Capybara – also referred to internally as Mythos – a powerful new AI model with substantially improved capabilities in vulnerability…
Shoprite bakes AI into Sixty60 with Pixie launch
76 ShopriteX, the innovation arm of the Shoprite Group, has launched Pixie, an AI-powered shopping assistant inside the Sixty60 app — starting with Xtra Savings Plus members. Pixie is a personalised recommendation…
Tour companies ripped off in Robben Island fiasco
75 Two were defrauded of close to R200 000 – which was supposed to pay for foreign tourists to visit the landmark but ended up a private bank account. When three incentive…
Modernising legacy systems – without the downtime
73 Across industries, critical operations still run on longstanding platforms. Core banking engines, policy administration systems, trade platforms and public sector registries continue to process transactions reliably, underpin compliance and hold decades…