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Online comments: The gambling boom, market moves, and corporate growth

Readers weigh in on the gambling boom in South Africa, municipal accountability, stock market moves, and corporate job growth

Corporate profits are booming. Wages aren’t

Corporate profits boom, but in South Africa jobs decline

SANISHA PACKIRISAMY: AI and the algorithmic glass ceiling

AI promises productivity gains, but women risk being left behind

How the government is hollowing out South Africa’s drug industry

South Africa’s drugmakers say government procurement is killing local manufacturing, threatening 2,500 jobs and worsening medicine supply risks, despite commitments to…

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PODCAST: ‘Nothing Works but the People’ – the financial advisers

Pheladi Sethusa’s new podcast does a dive into South African work and workers, this week focusing on financial advisers.

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PODCAST: ‘Nothing Works but the People’ – the brewmaster

Pheladi Sethusa’s new podcast does a dive into South African work and workers, this week focusing on craft beer makers

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PODCAST: ‘Nothing Works but the People’ – the hairstylists

Pheladi Sethusa’s new podcast does a dive into South African work and workers, this week focusing on hairstylists.

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PODCAST: How to outsmart AI

Anthropic’s latest research says the most AI-exposed jobs are programmers, analysts and customer service reps. For the first time in modern history, the safest place is not at a…

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PODCAST: ‘Nothing Works but the People’ – the teachers

Pheladi Sethusa’s new podcast does a dive into South African work and workers, focusing on teachers this week.

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PODCAST: ‘Nothing Works but the People’ – architects

Pheladi Sethusa’s new podcast does a dive into South African work and workers

Mozal goes dark as power prices crush beneficiation ambitions

High power prices have forced South32 to shut Mozal, dealing a blow to Mozambique’s economy and raising hard questions about beneficiation in Southern Africa.