South Africa’s private sector edges back to growth as price pressures cool
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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Pick n Pay bets on Gemini-powered ‘Penny’ to close the gap on Checkers
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.
Christo Wiese's Titan backs alternative lender Preference Capital with R350m
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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Tax season opens: six million South Africans will be auto-assessed
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.
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Idris Elba and Google want to hand Africa's storytellers the AI keys
A new programme worth more than $1 million will give 100,000 creators across five African countries access to Google's AI tools.
South Africa's new homebuyer is young, single, and going it alone
First-time buyers are driving the housing recovery, and a record share of young South Africans are buying without a partner.
The R24 billion coding site that AI quietly gutted
Prosus has written off most of the value of Stack Overflow, the developer favourite it bought in 2021, as AI chatbots empty it out.
Why Pick n Pay's boss just handed back R21 million in shares
Sean Summers has forfeited a slice of his turnaround bonus after Pick n Pay pushed its break-even target out to 2029.
1.7 million South African cars still carry a hidden danger, and the fix is free
The motor industry is launching a year-long drive to find cars with faulty Takata airbags, which are free to repair but hard to track down.
Should Washington own a slice of ChatGPT? OpenAI reportedly thinks so
OpenAI is said to have floated giving the US government a 5% stake, and wants rivals to do the same, though nothing is confirmed.
WhatsApp is about to let you skip the phone-number swap
The app is rolling out usernames so you can connect without sharing your number, and you can reserve yours this week before the full launch later this year.
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Murray & Roberts rescues its mining arm in a R1.27bn deal
The engineering group has sold its core mining-services businesses to a Differential Capital-led consortium, clearing its biggest business-rescue hurdle and saving about 2,600 jobs.