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Mother-and-daughter duo: Bettina Swart and Kelly-Grace Gibberd built Me&B to give South African women stylish, size-inclusive clothing that celebrates comfort, confidence and individuality.
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How Me&B built joy into South African fashion

What begins as a search for the right dress for a difficult goodbye becomes a window into the heart and purpose behind Me&B, a South African label celebrating comfort, confidence…

  • Lesego Chepape
8 min read
South Africa’s digital economy is being undermined by local beneficiation for copper, which has become an essential mineral in the age of artificial intelligence — from data centres, electricity cables and battery storage. (Flickr)
AI IN SOUTH AFRICA

Copper will determine South Africa’s digital economy success

The economy is expected to create a jobs boom if the country can fix its electricity grid and meet the increasing demand for local copper beneficiation

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
6 min read
The health department will not buy some medicine for cancer and rare diseases as they are not ‘essential’ but there are legal ways to get drugs unavailable here
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Four factors blocking medicines being manufactured in Africa

Setting up a continent-wide medicine regulator could be crucial to getting Africa’s people the treatments and Covid vaccines they need. Here’s why more countries need to put…

  • Francis Aboagye-Nyame
6 min read