176 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi could be summoned to parliament to account for the AI-generated hallucinations that forced the embarrassing withdrawal of South Africa’s draft national…
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‘It was my idea’: Musk claims paternity of OpenAI
161 Elon Musk reacts at a federal courthouse during a recess of the trial. Manuel Orbegozo/Reuters Elon Musk took the stand on Tuesday at a high-stakes trial over the future of OpenAI,…
Absa boosts fuel rewards – will eBucks, uCount follow?
245 Given the number of holidays, the bank says the increased cost pressures come during a ‘period of heightened travel’. Absa has temporarily increased the earn cap for fuel spend on its…
Godongwana extends fuel levy relief to June, grants further diesel cuts
210 The general fuel levy will return to its full rate from 1 July. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has extended the temporary fuel levy relief to 2 June 2026. The extension comes…
WhatsApp becomes the doctor’s office in Turn.io’s voice AI play
209 Cape Town-based messaging platform Turn.io is betting that voice AI can do for the world’s 739 million non-literate adults what text-based digital services have failed to: deliver healthcare to a phone…
Here’s what South Africans spend most of their money on
188 Most people spend money on alcoholic drinks during long weekends. The SpendTrend26 report by Discovery Bank and Visa has revealed that South Africans continue to spend more of their money on…
The quiet grief of outgrowing your dreams
152 There is a subtle, or rather unspoken sorrow in outgrowing the dreams you once held dear. Dreams, especially those formed in youth or during moments of passion, carry with them hopes, identities and visions of the…
The AI policy that AI broke
214 South Africa’s draft national AI policy is not the first hallucination-fuelled blunder of its kind – and it won’t be the last. But it does offer the department of communications &…
State broadband merger limps into a second decade
198 Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT The merger between state-owned signal distributor Sentech and Broadband Infraco (BBI) – the ailing fibre wholesaler meant to serve as South Africa’s “carrier of carriers”…
Here’s how much miners at Sibanye-Stillwater get paid
221 The highest-paid miner gets over R40k per month. South Africa-based mining company Sibanye-Stillwater has increased its entry-level salary for mineworkers, according to the group’s 2025 integrated report. The report revealed that…