Will customers be able to pay? (Image: Altron FinTech) For most of South Africa’s merchants, the question that matters at the end of each month is deceptively simple: will customers be able to pay? Behind every swipe, debit order and instalment lies a household balance sheet under pressure – and for the businesses that depend…
An AI boom has driven stock markets to record highs and big tech firms are piling hundreds of billions of dollars into new tech, while consumers, workers and businesses are grappling with existential questions unleashed by the likes of ChatGPT and Claude. Some analysts say artificial intelligence will boost productivity and make businesses more profitable….
Wits University CIO Dr Stanley Mpofu. University of Witwatersrand (Wits) chief information officer (CIO) Dr Stanley Mpofu has been appointed to the board of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). SAICA is a professional accounting body and the principal organisation responsible for training, accrediting and regulating chartered accountants in South Africa. Dr Mpofu’s…
As South Africans prepare for the colder winter months, Hisense South Africa has partnered with Makro to make upgrading home laundry appliances simpler and more convenient through its new “One-Stop Winter Warmth” promotion. Running throughout June 2026, the Makro-exclusive campaign offers customers who purchase any participating Hisense front-loader washing machine a range of value-added benefits…
Dr Mashilo Boloka, founder and CEO of OS Lab. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) South African digital safety organisation Online Safety Lab (OS Lab) has partnered with US-based ChildSafe.dev to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered child safeguarding platform across schools and homes. According to a statement, the partnership will see the deployment of RoseShield, a system-level…
Workday South Africa MD Kiv Moodley opening the Workday Horizon Johannesburg event Workday has concluded its flagship Workday Horizon Johannesburg event, which was held on 2 June 2026 at the Marriott Hotel, Melrose Arch. The event brought together chief HR officers, CFOs, CIOs and senior business leaders from across South Africa to explore how organisations…
Elon Musk closes in on $1 trillion as SpaceX raises $75 billion. (Image created by GenAI with images by James Duncan Davidson | CC BY-NC 3.0 and SpaceX) Institutional investors piled into SpaceX, with demand for its stock at $135 a share – valuing the company at a world record listing price of $1.77 trillion…
Elon Musk looks on as U.S President Donald Trump meets President Cyril Ramaphosa in the the White House in May 2025. Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Few business leaders have been as deeply embedded in popular culture as Elon Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur who has become a central figure in internet culture and amassed a fortune that has…
Salesforce’s Linda Saunders explains the impact of AI on CRM, ICT channel and work force in general. AI continues to impact business operations, most notably in customer relationship management (CRM) and customer experience (CX). According to Linda Saunders, country manager and senior director of solution engineering for Africa at Salesforce, the technology also influences the ICT supply…
Tayla Dandridge, co-founder of stub Tayla Dandridge says there are nights she would rather not fall asleep, for fear of missing out. “You almost feel like you don’t want to go to sleep because something’s going to drop,” she says of the pace at which the world’s largest AI labs are shipping new models. “You’re…
