334 Eskom CEO Dan Marokane Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has again pledged that the state-owned power utility will hold future electricity tariff hikes to single-digit increases, a major shift in tone from…
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Economists’ expectations for inflation and the repo rate this week
275 Will inflation stay above 3%, and will the repo rate be cut again after a 25 basis point cut in July, or will the Reserve Bank rather pause the cutting cycle?…
Get AI rules wrong, choke innovation, warns Competition Commission
345 Competition Commission deputy commissioner Hardin Ratshisusu Artificial intelligence poses a challenge for competition regulators, which must balance a desire for innovation and economic growth with the possibility that monopolistic, AI-driven markets…
Apple’s Liquid Glass era has begun
303 Apple’s big software refresh for 2025 is now live: iOS 26, macOS Tahoe (also called macOS 26), iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26 and visionOS all arrived on Monday, offering a…
17% of SA tenants behind on rent, with many more heading toward debt
263 ‘Higher-risk applicants are falling deeper into debt, and lower-risk applicants are actually in a better financial position than they were last year.’ Most South Africans are in danger, as most of…
The rise and fall of operating systems – a 45-year digital timelapse
273 What would it look like to compress more than four decades of technological upheaval into a few minutes of animated bars jostling for dominance? At first glance, these are just numbers…
Microsoft, OpenAI strike provisional deal to reshape AI partnership
340 Microsoft and OpenAI said on Thursday they have signed a non-binding deal for new relationship terms that would allow OpenAI to proceed to restructure itself into a for-profit company, marking a…
PrimeXBT: Empowered trading begins with trust
331 In South Africa’s fast-growing retail trading market, trust has become the ultimate differentiator. Traders have more platforms to choose from than ever before, but choice alone doesn’t guarantee confidence. The empowered…
consumers drawing as much and as often as they can
338 Pension fund members are using their withdrawals under the two-pot retirement system to survive because they are under financial stress. Just over a year since the two-pot retirement system was implemented…
Manufacturing and mining production added to GDP, but no reason for optimism
336 When the GDP figures for the second quarter were announced on Tuesday, it seemed that mining and manufacturing added to the increase. Manufacturing and mining production were a mixed bag heading…