97 The US imposed a 30% tariff on South Africa, but on Friday a US high court ruled the law Trump used does not give him authority to impose tariffs. President Donald…
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Forex trading as a career – reality, hype or policy blind spot?
166 Forex trading sits in a strange space. It is highly visible online and widespread in practice, and yet largely absent from formal career conversations. Scroll social media and it looks like…
To be or not to be green – that is the question, Eskom
284Clarity on Eskom end-state crucial to energy sector reforms, says Krutham. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s announcement during his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on 12 February creates the ideal platform to define a credible…
MultiChoice scraps annual DStv price hike
112 MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot. Image: (c) Aurelien Pierron For the first time in many years, DStv subscribers will not face a price increase in April – a significant strategic shift…
Here’s how much a bottle of alcohol could cost after next week’s budget speech
94 Tax on spirits has doubled since 2016. Alcohol company Diageo warns the tax on spirits could exceed R100 per 750ml bottle if Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana implements a more than 6%…
Service is everyone’s problem now
113 If you’re leading technology in a South African organisation right now, you’ve probably felt the same tension: service expectations keep rising, while teams stay lean. It shows up in the small…
Free Market Foundation slams treasury’s proposed gambling tax
120 The Free Market Foundation (FMF) is demanding that a national 20% tax for online gambling proposed by the national treasury be withdrawn and reconsidered within South Africa’s existing decentralised regulatory regime….
Farmers sweat over uncertainty of Tongaat Hulett’s future
117 Farmers fear missed milling windows could wipe out months of work. Nkosinathi Msweli, who grows sugarcane in Kearney, Stanger in the KwaDukuza area of KwaZulu-Natal, said uncertainty about the embattled Tongaat…
What Gen Z really thinks about the tech world it inherited
132 My smartphone is face down on my desk as I write this, not because something is wrong with it but because I am trying to finish one thought without it interrupting…
Showmax ‘can’t continue’ in its current form
128 MultiChoice Group CEO David Mignot has confirmed major changes are coming to the loss-making Showmax platform, reaffirming that the current model is not sustainable. In a wide-ranging interview with TechCentral on…