483 Transport Minister Barbara Creecy has appointed an interim RAF board and tasked it with addressing the complaints backlog. SAA’s new board was also announced. Controversial suspended Road Accident Fund (RAF) CEO…
Category: Business
From Bottles to battle: how Pick n Pay is turning to tech in retail fight
415 Enrico Ferigolli Pick n Pay continues to invest meaningfully in technology as it battles for market share with Shoprite Group’s Sixty60 and other retailers in the fast-growing on-demand grocery delivery market….
How competition policy can rein in Big Tech’s AI power
361 The author, the Competition Commission’s Donnavan Linley As digital markets continue to expand and artificial intelligence evolves, governments and regulators need to remain agile when it comes to governance and public…
Coalitions and political appointees are hobbling municipalities
371 Government aims to reform the crumbling municipal sector through merit-based appointments and performance-linked funding. But BLSA warns this could benefit metros at less-resourced municipalities’ expense. South Africa’s crumbling municipalities – with just…
Mzansi’s people: From packer to manager
362 You stand in line. You put your shopping on the counter. It gets rung up and packed. You pay. You leave. When grocery shopping most of us are on autopilot and…
Teraco says it’s completed JB4, a 50MW data centre
412 Teraco’s JB4 is a 50MW data centre facility located in Bredell in Ekurhuleni South Africa’s largest data centre operator, Teraco, has completed its latest build project, JB4, a 50MW AI-ready facility…
Nvidia, AMD to give US 15% cut of China AI chip sales
376 AMD’s Lisa Su and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Nvidia and AMD have agreed to give the US government 15% of revenue from sales to China of advanced computer chips like Nvidia’s H20…
The train that never came – how maglev technology was derailed
463 Main image: An L0 series five-car maglev train on a test run in Japan in in 2013. It has yet to begin passenger service. (Photo: Saruno Hirobano, under CC BY-SA 3.0…
Who is footing the bill for the National Dialogue? Presidency breaks it down
391 Government is getting services for free but who will attend the National Dialogue? And will it just be a disastrous talkshop? The Presidency has responded to concerns about the exorbitant cost…
Repo rate cut no help for consumers on brink of financial disaster
290 The repo rate cut of 25 basis points brings the repo rate to 7% and the prime lending rate for commercial banks down to 10.50%. Although economists were happy with the…