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South Africa wasn't built for women, and we are paying a "safety tax" every month. Thousands explain why
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AI is raising the demands placed on optical networks but intelligent upgrades still depend on a stable network foundation.
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The one-day summit comes as agentic AI places fresh demands on the country’s networks and compute resources.
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Nombeko Mary Sonyana won a Suzuki Jimny and the family has already named it ‘Jimny Boy.’
Because ‘money’ and ‘ambition’ aren’t dirty words.
Economist Dawie Roodt says South Africans are managing their tax affairs very aggressively.
The Her and Now 2026 national survey is open. SA women, your experience is the data needed to change the status quo. It only takes a few minutes.
The DNTF’s second round backs 22 publishers across seven provinces with R15.8 million in grants.
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South Africa wasn’t built for women, and we are paying a “safety tax” every month. Thousands explain why
South Africa’s poverty map still looks like the apartheid homeland borders….
Hisense SA kicked off a new community soccer pitch in Soweto, with a Bafana Bafana message from local youth.
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The DNTF says round two improved. Publishers want visibility, access, and trust that travels beyond LinkedIn.
“Because apparently, a woman of colour in a wheelchair can’t build an AI, right?”
The greatest gift women can give themselves: believe in yourself and your worth.
Who we are, How we work, and what we’re building in public
Big Thinks, Deep dives and weird obsessions. This is what happens when we have unsupervised access to the internet….
I thought I was anonymous. AI thought otherwise and guessed my location by the sky. Let that sink in.
South Korea’s AI robots are leading the way for smarter, more productive human-led work. What lessons can South Africa take from Naver Corp, Korea’s ‘Google’?
A biotech company is using CRISPR and AI to de-extinct the woolly mammoth, dodo, and Tasmanian tiger. Here’s how they plan to do it.
