375 The department of home affairs has set a 31 March 2027 deadline to complete the hosting infrastructure for South Africa’s national digital identity system, with the full platform due to come…
Category: Business
Africa’s AI dream needs bricks and gigawatts
301 Gary Galolo, head of technology, media, and telecommunications and digital infrastructure finance at Nedbank CIB Africa’s economic narrative is often framed by reform, policy evolution and investment commitments. Yet tangible progress…
Business of Beauty: Takealot tickets sold out fast
247In uncertain economies, beauty thrives as consumers daily seek comfort, status, and transformative escapism. The business of beauty has always been more than skin deep. It is emotional, psychological, and crucially economic….
More organic compounds detected on Mars
299 Nasa’s Curiosity Mars rover. Nasa/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Performing a type of experiment never before tried beyond Earth, Nasa’s Curiosity rover has identified more organic compounds on Mars as scientists strive to learn whether…
Why the future of retail is digital
315 For years, retail strategy debates have asked whether online commerce will replace physical stores. Minesh Manga, executive for enterprise and retail at NEC XON, who has spent two decades working at…
Liquid dodges debt crunch – at a hefty price
309 Cassava Technologies and Liquid Intelligent Technologies CEO Hardy Pemhiwa Liquid Intelligent Technologies has completed a US$660-million (R10.8-billion) refinancing that neutralises the near-term default risk that was hanging over the pan-African fibre…
WhatsApp to go premium with new Plus subscription
306 Meta Platforms is testing a paid consumer subscription tier for WhatsApp, marking a significant shift for a service that has built its global dominance on being free to use. The new…
John Ternus and the battle for Apple’s soul
259 John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple’s CEO in September 2026 To understand how Apple’s new CEO, John Ternus, will run the company, pay attention to what he refuses to…
Bitget Launches New Pre-IPO Product With SpaceX as First Listing
330Within Bitget’s Universal Exchange model, IPO Prime moves towards integrating diverse financial opportunities. Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched IPO Prime, introducing a new market structure that enables users…
When every rand counts, here’s what your bank account should do for you
287For many South Africans, money doesn’t stretch as far as it used to. The cost of groceries, fuel, electricity, data and transport keeps rising. But with salaries rising a lot slower, people…