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Image: A clearly AI-generated image that presumably illustrates a YahClick satellite dish provided by BrainSAT. One hopes they don’t really just perch electronic equipment outside on the roof. What’s going on with the triple-decker laptop in the window is also a mystery.
Tech

Mashatile's BEE-compliant Starlink alternative for SA: Old, slow satellite internet at triple the price

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Daily Friend
6 min read
BrainSAT launch draws criticism as outdated satellite service while South Africa continues blocking faster, cheaper Starlink access.
The Riverfields Distribution Centre operated by Shoprite Holdings Ltd. in Johannesburg.
SA Investing

Pick n Pay bets on AI chatbot to catch up with Shoprite's Sixty60

By
Bloomberg
3 min read
South Africa’s online grocery retailers shift from fast delivery to AI-powered conversational shopping, intensifying Pick n Pay’s comeback.
US President Donald Trump during a Presidential memorandum signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, June 29, 2026. Trump signed a memorandum directing the Environmental Protection Agency administrator to issue guidance clarifying what actions individuals may take to fix their own vehicles’ emissions systems and encourage certification pathways for after-market parts. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg
Rational Perspective

America is demolishing its own world order — and nobody knows what replaces it

By
The Economist
21 min read
America’s wrecking-ball Revolution: The architects of the post-war order are tearing it down. Edward Carr asks what will rise from the rubble
Six months on, the fire is still burning — KZN farmer Pete Kean counts the FMD cost | BizNews Edge
BizNews Edge

Six months on, the fire is still burning — KZN farmer Pete Kean counts the FMD cost | BizNews Edge

By
Alec Hogg
1 min read
Pete Kean returns: the High Court ruled, Steenhuisen is gone, but FMD's damage to SA's beef supply runs clean through to 2032. The fire still burns.
Johann Rupert
Good Hope

While Pretoria drafts Expropriation Bills, Rupert just hands out title deeds

By
Alec Hogg
4 min read
Rupert-backed Khaya Lam surpasses 24,000 title deeds, contrasting private property rights wealth creation with expanding state expropriation powers.
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