332 A revised draft of South Africa’s national policy on AI will only be released for public comment in January 2027, nine months after the original was withdrawn for containing fictitious and…
Category: Business
Home affairs goes ghost-hunting on state payrolls
338 Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber The department of home affairs has built a real-time biometric verification platform for national treasury designed to flush ghost employees out of government payrolls – a…
Motorists could help fund RAF through licence payments
270 The Department of Transport is researching a vehicle owner contributory scheme to fund the RAF, according to Minister Barbara Creecy. Motorists in future might have to pay a separate amount to…
AI, cybersecurity power standout year for Datatec
349 Datatec Group CEO Jens Montanana Datatec Group has delivered a sharp acceleration in earnings for the year ended 28 February 2026, with the JSE-listed international technology distribution and services group benefiting…
South Africa’s unlikely telecoms giant
355 Pepkor Holdings’ cellular business has pivoted decisively from selling phones to financing them, the JSE-listed retailer’s interim results showed on Tuesday, with its smartphone rental book swelling to R2.6-billion in the…
Court ruling opens the door to private procurement of FMD vaccines
209 FMD Response SA warned that the judgment does not create a free-for-all or give farmers an automatic right to import vaccines themselves. The Pretoria High Court has ruled that farmers may…
Luce lit: Ferrari unveils its first electric car
292 Ferrari presented its first fully electric car on Monday, marking a high-stakes shift by the luxury sports car maker as competitors including Porsche and Lamborghini scale back their EV ambitions, citing…
7 reasons car warranty claims get rejected and how to avoid it
340 When a claim is rejected, it is rarely because a customer has done something wrong on purpose. Car insurance is designed to provide financial protection in the event of accidents, theft…
Retro Rabbit / SmarTek21 refines the art and science of product delivery
343 Rouan van der Walt, head of delivery at Retro Rabbit / SmarTek21 Too many development projects fail to deliver the expected value, largely because they are executed in a fragmented way…
Pick n Pay freezes salaries and slashes headcount in ‘future-fit’ restructuring drive
243 Pick n Pay says it remains committed to safeguarding jobs. Pick n Pay, one of South Africa’s largest retailers, says it has taken action on management salaries as its restructuring process…