🇿🇦 SA eyes global pistachio market windfall
South Africa is quietly positioning itself to capture a slice of a booming global pistachio market. As international supplies tighten and prices climb...
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🇿🇦 Gauteng schools buckle under overcrowding crisis
South Africa's economically dominant Gauteng province is grappling with an acute education infrastructure crisis that threatens learning outcomes and ...
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🇿🇦 eNCA Business | Market update | 28 April 2026
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) enters a compressed trading week starting 28 April 2026, with just three days of market activity before the week...
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🇿🇦 WATER CRISIS SPECIAL REPORT: Water crisis — close to R19bn
South Africa faces a cascading water infrastructure emergency that is quietly draining nearly R19 billion annually from municipal budgets and taxpayer...
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🇿🇦 Locked out — How AI automation is shrinking the entry-level
Africa's young workforce faces a stark reality: the entry-level jobs that traditionally launched careers are disappearing faster than universities can...
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🇿🇦 Reserve Bank signals measured stance amid oil price shock
South Africa's Reserve Bank has signaled its determination to maintain a measured monetary policy stance even as oil price volatility threatens to des...
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🇿🇦 South Africa withdraws draft AI policy over fake
South Africa's ambitious attempt to establish a comprehensive national artificial intelligence policy has stumbled at a critical moment, exposing a pa...
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🇿🇦 👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – South Africa fails its AI test
South Africa's ambitious attempt to establish continental leadership in artificial intelligence regulation has suffered a significant setback. Ministe...
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🇿🇦 U.S. relies heavily on South Africa and Gabon for critical
The United States faces a strategic vulnerability: its manufacturing and defense sectors depend heavily on critical minerals sourced from just two Afr...
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🇿🇦 CHANGING OF THE GUARD: New broom promises to clean up SAA
South Africa's state-owned airline, South African Airways (SAA), has appointed Matshela Seshibe as interim Chief Executive Officer, signaling a strate...
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🇿🇦 From Indaba to the budget: Will fiscal policy unlock
South Africa's mining sector stands at a critical juncture. Following the Mining Indaba conference—Africa's premier gathering of mining executives, po...
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🇿🇦 South Africa’s AI policy withdrawn after AI-generated
South Africa's Department of Science and Innovation has withdrawn its draft artificial intelligence policy framework after discovering that the docume...
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🇿🇦 South Africa's agriculture transformed, but inequality
Three decades after South Africa's democratic transition, the agricultural sector stands as a paradox—simultaneously celebrated for modernization gain...
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🇿🇦 South Africa Targets $607 Billion Investment Surge
South Africa is pursuing its most ambitious financial sector overhaul in three decades, targeting $607 billion in fresh investment inflows as the coun...
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🇿🇦 Cape Flats to the JSE: New book challenges narrow narrative
South Africa's Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) policy has long been a flashpoint for debate—critics call it window-dressing, supporters see struct...
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🇿🇦 South Africa: Minister Announces Withdrawal of Draft AI
South Africa's Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi announced the withdrawal of the country's Draft National Artificial Inte...
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🇿🇦 South Africa: Mopane Worm and Termite Sales Relieve Poverty
South Africa's Limpopo province, bordered by Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Mozambique, is one of the country's poorest regions. The mopane worm and termite ...
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🇿🇦 Nissan Redirects $45m Investment to Egypt, Scaling Back
Japanese automaker Nissan's decision to redirect a $45 million investment from South Africa to Egypt marks a significant recalibration of manufacturin...
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🇿🇦 Diepkloof power restored, protest action called off
South Africa's electricity crisis deepened this week when Diepkloof township in Soweto experienced a seven-day power outage, only to have service rest...
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🇿🇦 Why South African manufacturing is under pressure (and what
South Africa's manufacturing sector is experiencing a prolonged contraction that extends far beyond cyclical downturns. World Bank economists have ide...
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