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/ 19 May 2024

What Amazon’s entry means for South Africa

The e-commerce giant will shake up the online retail sector – but it might take some time

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By Aarti Bhana

Partner Content

/ 29 April 2024

Risk is part of the formula for entrepreneurial success – so is the right financial advice

Many South Africans become entrepreneurs simply because they have to, and it’s a nerve-wracking journey for most

By Momentum Metropolitan

Business

/ 22 April 2024

Will Shein’s shine eclipse SA industry?

Local clothing manufacturers have been dealt a number of blows in recent years, including the rise of international fast fashion retailers

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By Sarah Smit

Partner Content

/ 18 March 2024

Develop your copy-editing and proofreading skills

Communication is ultra-important – learn how to make yours more effective

By WLS

Opinion

/ 11 March 2024

Why environmental impact assessments need to be more than a legal hurdle

Assessments can’t be tick box exercises … if not done correctly, development will trump environmental conservation

By Matthew Wingfield and Tina Gama-Kotze

Opinion

/ 26 February 2024

Interrogating the claims of Amazon developer James Tannenberger

Setting out the concrete facts in the Amazon-linked development in Cape Town in which Transnet sold land for a song

By Jared Sacks

Opinion

/ 3 February 2024

Pitfalls of the ‘mallification’ of our cities

It seem that massive corporations and property developers control Cape Town and other centres, with big land parcels going their way for low prices

By Jared Sacks

Article

/ 13 December 2023

Internet ‘warriors’ provide Starlink access in South Africa

Icasa rules have prevented Elon Musk’s company from officially launching in the country, but thousands are still using the service illegally

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By Lyse Comins

Business

/ 21 October 2023

Interview: Takealot Group CEO on the Amazon invasion

The chief executive of South Africa’s leading e-commerce company has called for an even playing field

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By Sarah Smit

Analysis

/ 24 June 2023

Netflix and not-so chill: How streamers shape South Africa’s film industry

Subscription streaming services have become giants. Some will be lifted onto their shoulders and some will be crushed under their weight

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By Sarah Smit

Friday

/ 14 June 2023

One MOVIE, one Take: The origin of sneaker culture in ‘Air’

The movie tells the story of basketball’s most infamous sneaker, the Air Jordan

By Kimberley Schoeman

Business

/ 27 February 2023

Amazon to eat Woolworths, Shoprite and Takealot lunch?

The pandemic may have disrupted the analogue business models of South African retailers to the online world. Amazon, unlike Walmart, is possibly an even bigger disruptor lying in wait

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By Anathi Madubela

Business

/ 12 January 2023

Foreign direct investment won’t create enough jobs to resolve SA’s unemployment crisis

Foreign direct investment will not create enough jobs to resolve the unemployment crisis

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By Anathi Madubela

Top Six

/ 5 January 2023

Amazon to cut more than 18 000 jobs, says chief executive Andy Jassy

The group had 1.54 million employees worldwide at the end of September, excluding seasonal workers

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The Green Guardian

/ 10 November 2022

Court victory for Amazon’s SA headquarters

udgment halting the River Club development
in Cape Town was ‘induced by fraud’, full bench
of the Western Cape high court finds

By Sheree Bega

Opinion

/ 29 October 2022

The River Club: Flawed processes and a dirty fight over development and heritage

This contentious development exposes our current approach to development, which is development at all costs, backed by politics, power and money

By Jens Horber

Business

/ 17 October 2022

Q&A: Takealot boss welcomes the arrival of Amazon

Mamongae Mahlare, group chief executive of Takealot, says the company is not intimidating sellers, which have increased from 120 in 2016 to more than 8 000

By Anathi Madubela

Sci-tech

/ 13 October 2022

Google Cloud coming to South Africa, an African first

New cloud storage option will help accelerate the continents digital transformation and create jobs

By Nafisa Akabor

Business

/ 12 August 2022

Amazon may threaten SA retailers

Amazon plans to move into South Africa in 2023 and the world’s biggest online marketplace might give local companies a run for their money

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By Anathi Madubela

The Green Guardian

/ 15 July 2022

Hands off sacred Khoi land in Cape Town, Amazon!

Open letter to Amazon boss asks that the company stop the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust from continuing construction work on a site sacred to indigenous people and of high environmental significance, despite court ruling

By Tauriq Jenkins, Leslie London and Nadine Dirks

Africa

/ 18 June 2022

Kenya upgrades it’s ‘Silicon Savannah’ drawcard

The country has lauded the upcoming launch of a new International Finance Centre in Nairobi as it looks to position itself as a tech startup hub

By Conrad Onyango

Sci-tech

/ 31 May 2022

REVIEW: Ring Alarm only makes sense as an additional security measure

Most South Africans are not equipped to deal with armed robbers without the help of an armed response company.

By Nafisa Akabor

The Green Guardian

/ 12 April 2022

Western Cape government appeals Amazon HQ judgment halting construction

Head of local government, environmental affairs and development planning Anton Bredell says judgment contains ‘number of errors’

By Sheree Bega

Opinion

/ 14 February 2022

Right of reply: A rejoinder to the Zenprop chief executive about Amazon’s HQ

Zenprop chief executive James Tannenberger, who stands to benefit financially from the River Club development, failed to address the substantive points of our original article

By Michael Kwet and Tshiamo Malatji

Opinion

/ 13 February 2022

Coastal exclusive estates have social, economic and environmental impacts

They can have positive and negative effects, such as restricting small-scale fishers access to the ocean or restoring endemic fauna

By Rosabelle Boswell

Opinion

/ 3 February 2022

Right of reply: Kwet is wrong about Amazon’s new Cape Town HQ

A court application to halt the River Club development has been opposed by the Liesbeek Leisure Properties Trust, the City of Cape Town and First Nations leaders

By James Tannenberger

The Green Guardian

/ 28 January 2022

Landmark battle over River Club imperils Amazon HQ plans

If the high court in Cape Town rules for an interim interdict in the River Club project to halt building on heritage land, Amazon is likely to pull out

By Sheree Bega

Opinion

/ 26 January 2022

Amazon’s colonial HQ in Cape Town must be stopped

Wealthy foreign corporations colonise local markets and impose technologies of violence and control on local populations

By Michael Kwet and Tshiamo Malatji

The Green Guardian

/ 5 November 2021

World leaders promise an end to the ‘chainsaw massacres’ causing deforestation at COP26

As long as agribusinesses and global financial institutions continued to fuel and make money from global deforestation these carbon sinks will continue to be razed

By Sheree Bega

Opinion

/ 16 October 2021

Facebook needs a facelift

Steven Hill thinks “digital operating permits” could be the key to reining in tech giants and protecting their users.

By Steven Hill

Business

/ 29 August 2021

Banks battle for relevance in the platform era

While Standard Bank and FNB ward off fintech disruptors, their digital-only competitors battle on the fringes

By Sarah Smit

The Green Guardian

/ 26 August 2021

Sisulu and her adviser implicated in R4bn Cape Town development with Amazon as tenant

Lindiwe Sisulu and her adviser are accused of meddling in a R4-billion development in a sensitive Cape Town area meant to house Amazon’s Africa office

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