51 South Africa’s direct marketing industry faces a significant new compliance regime after trade, industry & competition minister Parks Tau gazetted amendments to the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) that require all direct…
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SA court backs Motsepe firm in R3.2bn dispute
62 High Court finds ARC not party to NDA, narrowing claims ahead of Tanzanian proceedings over alleged confidentiality breach. The Johannesburg High Court has ruled in favour of African Rainbow Capital (ARC),…
Fibre: the backbone of South Africa’s digital health ecosystem
54 For millions of South Africans, access to healthcare does not begin in a clinic or hospital. It begins online. The internet has quietly become one of the most powerful tools for…
Stafford Masie: South Africa risks regulating away its AI future
62 Stafford Masie. Tadek Szutowicz/TechCentral Prominent technology investor Stafford Masie has launched a stinging public critique of South Africa’s draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy, warning that the document risks “regulating away” the…
Adobe bets on AI agents to fend off cheaper rivals
77 Kylie Cooper/Reuters Adobe is releasing a new AI assistant designed to help users carry out tasks across its suite of software for editing photos, videos and other digital content. The Firefly…
TCL unveils 2026 product line-up for South Africa
85 Bringing revolutionary SQD-Mini LED TV technology to local consumers for the first time. TCL, the global number one Mini LED and ultra-large screen TV brand (75″+) according to Omdia 2025, and…
Spar’s plan to fix itself
99 The challenges run a little deeper than choice of CEO … The Spar Group is in the process of making its most important appointment in easily the last five years, maybe…
BYD shuns price war in South Africa
82 The BYD Dolphin Surf Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is deliberately avoiding a price war in South Africa as competition ramps up in the continent’s second biggest car market, its local…
R85-million for SA start-up reinventing the stethoscope with AI
84 Cape Town-based medtech start-up AI Diagnostics has raised R85-million in a pre-series-A funding round to scale the deployment of an AI-powered digital stethoscope, which is designed to detect tuberculosis through lung-sound…
More men than women say they are poor, Stats SA finds
91 The income indicator shows that poverty affects 40% of women versus 41.9% of men. South Africans may be feeling slightly better about their financial situations than they did a decade ago,…