A draft policy now out for comment would force fuel manufacturers and wholesalers to hold 14 days of refined stock, put 90 days of crude in state hands at Saldanha, and spell out when the minister can declare a fuel emergency and start rationing.
Refiant, built by a South African-led team, has released Protea — a family of AI models that can process up to 10 million tokens in a single prompt, dwarfing the memory of most mainstream chatbots.
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Manufacturing production fell 4.3% in the year to May — its steepest drop in over a year — piling pressure on second-quarter growth just as the Reserve Bank weighs another rate hike.
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has been named a founding commissioner of the UN's AI for Good Global Commission, joining Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Amazon's Andy Jassy on the 44-member body that meets for the first time in Geneva this week.
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Forecasters have confirmed a severe El Niño will coincide with the 2026-27 planting season, but a record 17.25-million-tonne maize crop and unusually moist soils give South Africa a rare buffer against the coming drought.
Parliament is taking public submissions until 21 August on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, which would force big operators to share unused spectrum and open their networks to smaller rivals.
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Stats SA's two-decade review of municipal finances shows council debt rising faster than revenue, with 17 municipalities owing more than they own ahead of November's local elections.
The local unit traded around R16.23 to the dollar on Friday and the Top-40 rose 1.1%, as a tepid American jobs report pushed back bets on a near-term Fed rate hike.
The S&P Global PMI rose to 50.5 in June, nudging past the line between growth and contraction as inflation eased — but business optimism sank to a near-five-year low.
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The retailer’s asap! app gains an AI assistant that builds a basket from a voice note, a photo or a scribbled shopping list — with a full rollout from 6 July.
The 84-year-old billionaire's Titan Premier Investments has taken a R350 million position in alternative credit provider Preference Capital, its latest 2026 deployment.
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SARS has begun issuing auto-assessments to around six million taxpayers between 1 and 12 July, telling most of them they need do nothing at all.