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Mary Waters High School in Makhanda has insufficient tablets for its matrics. “Overall, the project was a complete failure for the school,” a teacher said. “Building a computer lab would have been better and would have given our learners more skills. The computer lab would be for everyone, and it would be strictly monitored.” The school has zero ICT infrastructure. Archive photo: Lucas Nowicki / GroundUp

Primary & Secondary Education

Lost or locked in cupboards: Inside the R686m Eastern Cape matric tablet programme

Gcina Ntsaluba, Zipho Ndwayana and Rod Amner 13 Aug 2026

SA new vehicle market posts strongest June in almost 20 years

Commercial & Industrial

SA new vehicle market posts strongest June in almost 20 years

7 Jul 2026

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Energy

Electrifying South Africa: Lessons from global power markets

Shailin Moodley 3 Dec 2025

Source: Supplied. Shawn Theunissen, founder of Entrepreneurship To The Point (eTTP) and Property Point.

Finance

Why Budget 3.0 isn't the boon for small businesses South Africa needs

22 May 2025

Exploring the complexities of consultants and subconsulting in public procurement

Law Practice

Exploring the complexities of consultants and subconsulting in public procurement

Issued by Cox Yeats 11 Apr 2025

Ramaphosa signs Procurement Bill into law: A new era for SA supply chain

Supply Chain

Ramaphosa signs Procurement Bill into law: A new era for SA supply chain

25 Jul 2024

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Climate Change

Trade rules and climate change: Africa stands to lose from proposed WTO policy tools

Olabisi D. Akinkugbe 18 Dec 2023

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Legislation & Regulation

How SA's mining law holds unique advantages for Chinese investors

Hulme Scholes 29 Aug 2023

Restoring trust: Supreme Court raises accountability standards in tenders

Competition Law

Restoring trust: Supreme Court raises accountability standards in tenders

Richard Hoal & Mohamed Mota, Issued by Cox Yeats 27 Jun 2023

Source: Supplied.

Medtech

Saudi Arabia to be the launchpad for new global standard of care

6 Jan 2023

South African Furniture Initiative chairperson Penwell Lunga. Source: Supplied

Design & Manufacturing

Call for collaboration to build a competitive SA furniture industry

20 Oct 2022

How to make roads with recycled waste and pave the way to a circular economy

ESG & Sustainability

How to make roads with recycled waste and pave the way to a circular economy

Salman Shooshtarian, Savindi Caldera, Tayyab Maqsood and Tim Ryley 14 Jan 2022

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Criminal Law

Hawks arrest Cape Town trio for R299m tax fraud

15 Dec 2021

Summit to stimulate investment into Africa

Markets & Investment

Summit to stimulate investment into Africa

Issued by Mann Made 28 May 2021

Calls to restrict alcohol sales disregard state of the SA economy - Salba

FMCG

Calls to restrict alcohol sales disregard state of the SA economy - Salba

21 May 2021

R27bn to be spent on 5G fibre technologies in South Africa

Telecoms & Networks

R27bn to be spent on 5G fibre technologies in South Africa

19 May 2021

Political Party Funding Act effective from April

Legislation & Regulation

Political Party Funding Act effective from April

22 Jan 2021

Digital

#SUSASummit: Paolo Santana - "Problem-solving for the 99%"

23 Oct 2020

This is how rural areas can be developed through agriculture

Agriculture

This is how rural areas can be developed through agriculture

24 Jul 2020

Enterprise development programme calls for applications

Community

Enterprise development programme calls for applications

1 Jun 2020

Hamza Idris (left), an editor with the Daily Trust newspaper, sits with colleague Hussaini Garba Mohammed in their office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in February 2019. The office was raided in January by the military, who seized 24 computers. Credit: CPJ/Jonathan Rozen.

Media Freedom

Nigerian military targeted journalists' phones, computers with "forensic search" for sources

Jonathan Rozen 30 Oct 2019

SA's furniture industry to unveil its master plan by 2020

Design & Manufacturing

SA's furniture industry to unveil its master plan by 2020

6 Aug 2019

A new attitude: Unstereotyping advertising

Loeries Creative Week

A new attitude: Unstereotyping advertising

Issued by Loeries 20 Jun 2019

Government bureaucracy hampering investment in Western Cape, says property forum

Markets & Investment

Government bureaucracy hampering investment in Western Cape, says property forum

27 Feb 2019

#Budget2018: Public Procurement Bill to give women and youth in business a leg up

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

#Budget2018: Public Procurement Bill to give women and youth in business a leg up

Khulekani Magubane 22 Feb 2018

R57bn for free tertiary education

Higher Education

R57bn for free tertiary education

Thabo Mokone 21 Feb 2018

Gigaba set to appoint new Treasury chiefs

Taxation & Regulation

Gigaba set to appoint new Treasury chiefs

6 Sep 2017

Fumani Mthembi, one of the founders of Pele Energy Group. Photo by Tsidi Bishop

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Young South Africans investing in lucrative renewable energy sector

Tsidi Bishop 23 Jun 2017

New memorandums of agreement to drive SA's manufacturing export

Design & Manufacturing

New memorandums of agreement to drive SA's manufacturing export

9 Jun 2017

Railway

South Africa's Transnet engineers to go to China for locomotives testing

27 Jan 2017

Low poultry duty on EU 'will decimate jobs in SA'

Agribusiness

Low poultry duty on EU 'will decimate jobs in SA'

Mark Allix 12 Jan 2017

ICT

BMI-TechKnowledge delves into government ICT spending

15 Nov 2016

Black industrialists: numbers target on track, official says

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Black industrialists: numbers target on track, official says

29 Sep 2016

Prasa contracts to be evaluated by teams of experts

Railway

Prasa contracts to be evaluated by teams of experts

Linda Ensor 8 Sep 2016

Decrease in South African entrepreneurial activity

Marketing & Media

Decrease in South African entrepreneurial activity

10 Jun 2016

Commercialisation of innovation can boost SMEs

Markets & Investment

Commercialisation of innovation can boost SMEs

29 Oct 2015

SME survey sheds light on job creation

Administration

SME survey sheds light on job creation

31 Mar 2015

Late payments: the SME bugbear

HR

Late payments: the SME bugbear

17 Mar 2015

Government must do more to support small business

Markets & Investment

Government must do more to support small business

27 Feb 2015

Addressing the national energy crisis

Infrastructure, Innovation & Technology

Addressing the national energy crisis

Sindy Peters 20 Nov 2014

GPI, Tellumat enter into joint manufacturing venture

Manufacturing

GPI, Tellumat enter into joint manufacturing venture

28 Aug 2014

Automotive and textile sectors to get more support

Government

Automotive and textile sectors to get more support

23 Jul 2014

Microsoft to negotiate with China after Windows 8 ban

Software

Microsoft to negotiate with China after Windows 8 ban

21 May 2014

Microsoft targeted in bribery probe

Digital

Microsoft targeted in bribery probe

21 Mar 2013

Developers and coders help the government at #GovHackSA

ICT

Developers and coders help the government at #GovHackSA

19 Nov 2012

SA must double number of incubators to support small firms - Davies

Government

SA must double number of incubators to support small firms - Davies

4 Sep 2012

Administration

Manyi on centralised media buying issue

17 Apr 2012

Administration

Textile sector weathers global financial storm

Paul Vecchiatto 30 Nov 2011

Supply Chain

Could good procurement save millions?

5 Oct 2009

Management

Survey casts light on small business sector

24 Nov 2006