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Cooper, the grocery assistant with AI, gives concierge service

Business Tshilidzi Marwala - 11 Jul 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated that there is not a part of our lives that will not be affected by the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution.

Digging deep

Special Reports Staff Reporter - 25 Feb 2020

Automation is unstoppable, but if we're strategic about its implementation, it presents major opportunities

Don’t forget the human

Article Mpho Mi Ramosili - 18 Oct 2019

Change elicits fear at first, but if it adds value we must learn to embrace it

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C-Suites and Business 4.0 helps businesses prepare for 4IR

Article Shaazia Ebrahim - 18 Oct 2019

The digital revolution may actually create jobs, which is good news for a struggling South Africa

Eish, robot: Automation is eating jobs

Article Thalia Holmes - 12 May 2017

‘Premature deindustrialisation’ is relegating more and more of our workforce to the service industry

Platinum mines push for automation, despite costs

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Oct 2014

Three years of labour upheaval and a political push for safety and better wages have set in motion a drive to mechanise platinum mines.

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The young and the rentless: Inside Camps Bay’s “hijacked” mansion

Lester Kiewit - 23 Sep 2020

An activist art collective is refusing to leave a luxury holiday home, claiming their protest is to highlight landlessness and growing inequality in Cape Town

National

Sticks and stones: Qwelane and the violence of words

Sarah Smit - 22 Sep 2020

Constitutional Court justice says homophobic article did not ignite fire of hate against the LGBTI community but added fuel to it

Coronavirus

Long Read | SA must fix its ‘dop system’

carlos - 22 Sep 2020

The Covid-19 lockdown has exposed the effects of South Africa’s weak alcohol regulations. Government and health campaigners want tougher policies, but the liquor giants are pushing back

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SingularityU Online Summit to contribute to SME growth in 2020

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

The global speakers lined up for this year's event will address the challenges and opportunities specifically facing small businesses

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Policy priorities lie with urgent economic reforms

special reports - 23 Sep 2020

Professor Raymond Parsons believes that business and consumer sentiment in South Africa would both benefit from even lower borrowing costs

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Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria to reopen on Heritage Day

special reports - 22 Sep 2020

The new, drive-through sculpture exhibition brings to four the number of exhibitions of iconic African and South African art

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Request for Quotation for Benguela Current Convention Secretariat

special reports - 19 Sep 2020

A chartered aircraft for an aerial survey and counting software for cape fur seals and seabirds in Angola, Namibia and South Africa is required

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Fifteen additional speakers for SingularityU SA Online Summit 2020

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

SingularityU hosts global line-up with an extra 15 speakers to address thought-provoking topics to help solve the world's grand challenges

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Recycling water and waste management

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

One solution to South Africa's water shortage is to install infrastructure that will save rainwater from run-off into the stormwater system

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Covid-19 and CVD: The heart in the time of crisis

special reports - 18 Sep 2020

The pandemic has been a time of great humility for health workers and tactics have had to be changed if they weren’t working

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POPIA: it’s not as scary as you think

special reports - 16 Sep 2020

Companies that get proactive about compliance are creating huge strategic advantages for themselves — they are able to reduce operational costs