South African businesses are ditching R40,000+ software subscriptions – Here’s what they’re doing instead
Codehesion uses AI strategically in its software development process to help South African businesses innovate faster and more efficiently.
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Budget 2026 | CEF | Diesel price | Energy | Petrol price
Huge blow for petrol prices in South Africa next week
Month-end data from the CEF shows that fuel price recoveries have sunk even further, lining motorists up for a bigger-than-expected hike next week.
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Business Talk – The podcast where leading South African executives share their insights
Business Talk is South Africa’s top business podcast and has featured the country’s leading experts and executives.
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The Intensity of beginning
But the constancy of my love had been forgotten. I defined myself as an absolute intensity of beginning. So I took up my negritude, and with tears in my eyes I put its machinery together again. What had been broken to pieces was rebuilt, reconstructed by the intuitive lianas of my hands,” writes Frantz Fanon…
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archival music | Black sonic history | Cape Town music | electronic music South Africa | Experimental Music | Friday
Umbrella of sound and resistance
Septober Energy is hard to categorise. Formed in 2023 in the wake of loss, the Johannesburg–Cape Town–spanning collective has quickly established itself as a fluid, multigenerational space where DJs, archivists, scholars and experimental musicians converge. Less a fixed crew than a living ecosystem, Septober Energy operates as what co-founder Naledi Chai describes as “an umbrella…
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Centre for the Less Good Idea | collective meaning-making | Contemporary Art | experimental performance | film and music | Friday
Lost in Joburg, found in sound
You pull into the sanctuary of a petrol station to recalibrate the GPS. Its turns don’t match up to the reality of the dark streets; its haughty instructions charting a course further away from where you need to go. Your friend’s voice in the passenger seat climbs an octave, reverberating off the window to draw…
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Cryptic Crossword JDE 519
Welcome to the only South Africanised weekly cryptic crossword. * World class – and from our perspective, not that of the UK or USA.* Multilingual – every crossword has one Afrikaans and one isiXhosa word.* Fresh & unique – compiled weekly especially for the Mail & Guardian.* Lots of fun – access our archive of over 500…
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China’s 20 year journey in sound
The music we grow up listening to does something irreversible to us, something that settles into the marrow long before we have language for it, shaping the way we respond to silence, the way we anticipate a beat drop, the way we lean in when a vocalist stretches a note just a little longer than…
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It’s now far simpler and cheaper to move funds internationally
Future Forex has transformed the international payments landscape in SA – lowering costs, removing friction, and delivering a client-first alternative to the banks.
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Mining’s future in Africa is in networks that include SMEs
The Mining Indaba in Cape Town was the most upbeat in years. Out of it came a bold new vision for unlocking Africa’s mining value chain.