17+ hour, 2+ min ago   (404+ words) South Africa needs roughly 30 000 newly qualified artisans a year to keep its economy running. We're training about 20 000 I'm not writing this to scare you. I'm writing it because there's a door standing wide open a few metres to the left…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (447+ words) The AI race is usually discussed in terms of computing power, semiconductors, data centres and electricity. Less attention is paid to another resource that makes the systems valuable: human knowledge Somewhere in America, machines were cutting the spines off books…...

2+ week, 11+ hour ago   (1024+ words) I am a parent before I am anything else. When I visit a school, I notice the things every parent notices: whether the children look settled, whether the teachers seem supported, whether the place feels calm. Lately I have started…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (185+ words) The mechanics of international statecraft often assume that global technology can be neatly partitioned into strategic blocs through diplomatic correspondence. Two divergent forces are operating simultaneously. On one side, political capitals attempt to draw rigid boundaries through official notifications. On…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (370+ words) Every Women’s Month, South Africa rightly celebrates the women leading companies, building businesses and shaping public policy. Yet the closer one looks at the upper levels of corporate and entrepreneurial life, the clearer the contradiction becomes: women’s talent is increasingly…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (508+ words) When the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) confirmed its equity partnership with Vision Sugar Group in the restructured Tongaat Hulett, what should have been lauded as a good deal for the IDC was instead met with unwarranted criticism. Some on social media…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1020+ words) The real question is no longer whether students use AI but how universities should respond to a technology that is rapidly becoming part of everyday academic work. While some students misuse AI by submitting machine-generated work as their own, bypassing…...

4+ week, 16+ hour ago   (870+ words) “Surely, we need data centres, as this is the engine of the future economy? So, we want this future.” – Alan Winde, the premier of the Western Cape. The region has a long history of water scarcity, with droughts recorded as…...