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• The chatshow: TV podcasts have evolved (or regressed) beyond their category

  This week's column hijacker, Adam Wakefield, is a radio journalism major turned reporter turned consultant turned marketer turned comms strategist, who co-founded and co-hosted the Elite Rugby Banter podcast before, as he puts it, life got in the way.

• Creating a neutral digital store: A solution to App Store and Play Store monopolies

  In late November 2022, Elon Musk met with Apple CEO Tim Cook at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California, following a public dispute where Musk claimed Apple had threatened to remove Twitter (now X) from the App Store.

• Jacks’ fast half century wills England into Super 8

  England survived a major scare to qualify for the Super 8 of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup yesterday, as a swashbuckling Italian chase fell agonisingly short in Kolkata.

• Understanding the identity crisis caused by shadow AI adoption

  Somewhere in your organisation right now, someone is signing up for an artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Maybe it's a marketing manager experimenting with content generation. Perhaps it's a developer integrating an AI coding assistant. It could be a finance team exploring automated reporting. They're not being reckless. They're being resourceful. They've found something that makes their work faster, easier, and better. They've connected it to your systems, granted it access to your data, and moved on with their day.

• FA Cup: Macclesfield and Mansfield keep the ‘Cup magic’ alive

  The romance of the FA Cup has always added something special to the month of love, with the chance of an upset – not roses and candlelit dinners – getting the hearts of fans fluttering, and red cards the ones that truly matter.

• Coach Jose gets real about Madrid return

  Benfica coach Jose Mourinho insisted he is capable of saying “no” to Real Madrid president Florentino Perez as he played down rumours of a return to the Spanish giants yesterday.

• Bucs find their own light as they set the pace

  There was a time when Orlando Pirates were spoken of as a side capable of pushing the champions but ultimately falling short when the race tightened.

• Amakhosi players under pressure to deliver the title

  Kaizer Chiefs have run out of safety nets. Bundled out of continental football in the CAF Confederation Cup and eliminated from the Nedbank Cup two weeks ago, the Amakhosi are now staring at a stark reality – the Betway Premiership is their only remaining route to silverware.

• The Springboks will hope for a sterner examination from the

  The Springboks will hope for a sterner examination from the Barbarians this year, if they secure that opening warm-up match in Gqeberha against the famous invitational side.

• Proteas face new challenge in Delhi after securing Super 8 spot

  The distance between Ahmedabad, situated in north-central Gujarat along the banks of the Sabarmati River, all the way north to New Delhi, positioned between the Himalayas and the Aravalli Range, is just under 1 000km.

Featured documents

• Farmgate implicates Cape Town property developer as ‘central figure’

  A CAPE TOWN-based property developer has been named as an alleged central figure in helping President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special adviser, Bejani Chauke, store more than $20 million in cash three weeks after the Phala Phala farm scandal was exposed....

• Dr Iqbal Survé and Sekunjalo Investments have become the victims of McCarthyism

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• Q & A: Chris Harmse’s 2022 highs and lows and what he foresees in 2023

  The biggest challenge will be to keep the lights on. Eskom may collapse totally. This may push the economy in energy, as crime and looting like the KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng saga of last year may re-appear....

• South Africa nurtures welfare culture, not work ethic

  THE history of economic policy in South Africa over the past two centuries shifted from white colonial robber baron laissez faire imperialism to neo-liberal economic orthodoxy with minimal state intervention – both of which marginalised and brutally dehumanised the majority black population....

• Significance of Chinese New Year Celebrations in SA

  The 2024 Chinese New Year celebrations in South Africa is a moment of legitimate festivity and merited reflection. It is deserving of commemoration as the world rebuilds itself stronger after the Covid-19 health and economic pandemic. In olden times, the Chinese New Year was celebrated to honour...

• The opportunities of carbon dioxide – and their cost to life per se

  A 300 000-YEAR-OLD story is told that throughout the many episodes of the ice age and its warm interludes, humans eked it out on a fossil fuel chance discovery, and somehow clawed their way out of the cave straight into the Stone Age. From that time hitherto, the criticality of greenhouse gases...

• Godongwana’s MTBPS offers hope for South Africans

  THE 2022 Medium-Term Budget Policy (MTBP) Statement delivered by Minister Enoch Godongwana on October 26 offers hope for South Africans....

• Contractionary monetary policy is not the solution to SA’s economic crisis

  South Africa finds itself in perilous economic times. For a country that proclaims a litany of developmental and pro-poor rhetoric, the way we are handling the cost of living crisis does nothing to protect poor and working-class families....

• Artificial intelligence friendships claim to cure loneliness. Some are ending in suicide

  An array of popular apps are offering AI companions to millions of predominantly female users who are spinning up AI girlfriends, AI husbands, AI therapists — even AI parents - despite long-standing warnings from researchers about the potential emotional toll of interacting with humanlike chatbots....

• Understanding the role of Trust and Company Service Providers in SA's FIC compliance

  The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog for money laundering and terrorist financing, requires that country supervisors identify compliance issues and demonstrate that their efforts have led to changed behaviour and improved compliance through remedial actions. In the FATF...