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Netcare wants to use AI to catch medical emergencies 8–10 hours early
South Africa's largest hospital group has asked the regulator to approve a tool that reads vital signs and flags danger up to ten hours early.
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Spur set aside R129.5 million over a ribs deal it says never existed
A six-year fight with a food manufacturer just dented Spur's profits — but the restaurant group is appealing, and reckons it will get the money back.
Zimbabwe's dollar stock exchange wants to be a quarter bigger in a year
The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange is chasing a $5 billion valuation and building a new board to fund small mining explorers.
Global food prices just hit a three-year high — and your trolley will feel it later
The UN's food-price benchmark climbed again in July as heat, energy costs and grain-export fears lifted wheat, cooking oil and sugar.
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OpenAI reportedly wants to sell you a $300 metal doughnut
The ChatGPT maker's first gadget is said to be a screenless, doughnut-shaped speaker designed with Jony Ive — and priced like a premium one.
A Saudi ports giant is circling Cape Town's troubled harbour
Transnet has opened a 25-year deal to rebuild and run a Cape Town terminal — and one of Saudi Arabia's biggest state-backed operators showed up to take a look.
The Roundup — Friday, 7 August 2026
The business day in five minutes — Friday, 7 August 2026.
Gold's rally is lifting the JSE — and quietly pinching the miners driving it
Bullion's third straight gain pushed South African mining shares and the rand higher, but a firmer rand on the same gold move nibbles at the earnings of the dollar-priced miners doing the lifting.
Icasa staff walk out as the telecoms regulator says it can't afford more
Nehawu members downed tools over a 4.5% increase the union rejected — but Icasa says a budget deficit leaves no room to move, and promises services will run as normal.
Eskom wants to go green — mostly with other people's money
Its year-old renewables arm is about to tender a 2GW solar and 1GW battery project, and plans to keep the cost off Eskom's strained balance sheet by leaning on private partners.
Pick n Pay's recovery is real — but its own supermarkets aren't the engine
Online sales jumped 37.5% and clothing clawed back, yet the core Pick n Pay supermarkets stayed flat — and a contested retrenchment fight still stands between the group and break-even.
The JSE is fighting to land a piece of Africa's biggest-ever listing
Johannesburg is openly courting Nigeria's Dangote refinery for a secondary listing — but "strong intent" is not a signed deal, and even a win might only be a shadow of one.