Can South Africa still afford its defence force?
‘The defence budget should be very close to 1.5% of GDP, or the international global benchmark of 2% of GDP. Currently, we are at less than 0.7%,’ says independent defence analyst, Kobus Marais.
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AI policy framework | AI-generated citations | Amazon Web Services | Moneyweb@Midday | Podcasts | Radio
AI policy blunder highlights risks in SA’s tech strategy
‘The big tech businesses that we’re doing business with such as Microsoft, Huawei, Google, AWS, we’re accepting contracts on their terms, and we need a policy to cover that,’ says Nathan Ross-Adams, AI law researcher and founder of ITLawCo.
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The new car market battleground is experience, not badge
‘At the moment, we are seeing that the brand alone doesn’t help to retain a customer … they look at the brand experience, the ownership experience as part of the value that they are seeking,’ says Liezel Jonkheid of the Consumer Psychology Lab.
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currency | DIRCO | Dr Iraj Abedian | Moneyweb@Midday | Podcasts | Radio
Middle East crisis pressures SA trade, oil and rand
‘Shipping lines have begun to impose what is called war surcharge, which is roughly about R40 per carton of fresh fruit. That in percentage terms is something like 20% of their farm gate revenue,’ says Dr Iraj Abedian, founder and CEO of Pan-African Investment and Research Services.
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Seabed energy finds could unlock 50 000 South African jobs
‘International oil companies are seeking very much to work with local suppliers and to build out the workforce using local personnel’ – Dr Ross Compton, EnerGeo Alliance.
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Jeremy Maggs’s most listened-to podcasts of 2025
From Moneyweb@Midday’s focus on national stories shaping the news cycle to strategic conversations on Mandates & Megaphones, these shows prove that public appetite for straight answers and action is growing.
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Jeremy’s final 2025 weekly wrap …
South Africa’s Best Internet Show winner at the 2025 Telkom Radio Awards will be back on the 5th of January.
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2004 legislation | festive season warning | gambling regulations | Moneyweb@Midday | Podcasts | Radio
Festive season illegal gambling warning
‘If you gambled with a site that is in Germany, what is going to happen is you will have to surrender those winnings to us. Then we do an investigation. Then we determine whether it is unlawful,’ says Lungile Dukwana, acting CEO of the National Gambling Board.
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Inside the deal: Mandy Wiener on the negotiations that shape SA’s democracy
Goldilocks or gut punch? What 2026 holds for the global economy. Festive-season warning – illegal online gambling surges as scammers target South Africans. And hits, hijackings, hashtags and hope: What really moved SA in 2025.
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Apple and Samsung Pay lead SA’s digital Black Friday shopping shift
A 10-year collusion? SA moves to prosecute world’s biggest shipping lines. Telecoms face cyber, climate and capital threats in a ‘permacrisis’ world. And more than two-thirds of SA SMEs plan price hikes amid rising costs.