84 Dear Jean emerges with quiet confidence, a new chapter in Sea Point’s architectural story There is a striking new arrival in Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard. Dear Jean introduces 82 thoughtfully designed…
Category: Business
Salaries increased but fewer high-income earners
80 Payment index for salaries shows more than 216 000 additional salary payments were recorded in the first eight months of 2025. The revamped version of BankservAfrica’s Take-Home Pay index shows that…
huge new subsea fibre system planned for Africa
130 Seacom, the company that constructed the first submarine cable along Africa’s east coast, connecting South Africa with Europe and Asia, has announced plans to build a massive new system along a…
Eskom working to end load reduction within 18 months
93 Government and state-owned power utility Eskom are embarking on what they describe as an aggressive roll-out of infrastructure to end the “load reduction” of electricity within the next 12-18 months. “We…
Interest rate uncertainty persists
110The future path of US interest rates is unclear, while in South Africa patience will be required, as the transition to structurally lower inflation will take time. Traditionally, central banks have been…
5 innovation strategies for SME growth
85 There’s more to business innovation than breakthrough apps, technology or pivots that disrupt industries. For SMEs, innovation can be found in smaller, practical improvements that bring real value to both customers…
One Campaign, Google unleash AI for health data
87 The One Campaign, a global non-profit that lobbies to end extreme poverty and preventable diseases, has launched an agentic AI data-query platform with Google, allowing academics, researchers, policymakers and others to…
Durban comes dead last in 2024 World Bank port rankings
113With Coega, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth also in the bottom 10 of 403 ports. The Port of Durban ranks dead last in the World Bank Container Port Index for 2024, released…
Intel shares jump on report of Apple investment talks
85 Intel has approached Apple about securing an investment in the struggling chip maker, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The iPhone maker and Intel have also…
Snapdragon X2 Elite targets Intel’s enterprise stronghold
73 Qualcomm has announced a suite of new chips for PCs and phones, including a PC chip with a new security feature for businesses that analysts say is likely the first of…