Category: <span>Voices</span>

Money is one of the loudest mirrors we have. But what it reflects is rarely about the numbers. You don’t actually have a relationship with money. You have a relationship with your perception of it. The fear, pressure, excitement or lack you feel around money is not coming from money itself. It’s coming from the thoughts and emotional patterns...

When Musiq Promos and Escape Deep released hits on Spotify with the quiet note “crafted in collaboration with AI,” I didn’t just hear new music—I heard history repeating itself. In 1981, Stevie Wonder hid the Synclavier in the credits, afraid fans would call it soulless. In 1998, Cher’s “Believe” was nearly scrapped because Auto-Tune sounded “too robotic.” And for...

Local government is meant to be the heartbeat of democracy. But as cities crumble, services collapse, and trust erodes, South Africans are asking: can our municipalities still be saved? In this episode of Democracy Unplugged, host Phumi Mashigo leads an honest discussion with a panel of political leaders tackling the state of local governance ahead...

The ‘Prince of Darkness’ is gone. Former Vice President Dick Cheney died at the age of 84 on Monday, his family said, surrounded by his wife and daughters. Like fellow war criminal Slobodan Milošević, Cheney should have died alone in a prison cell at The Hague. But, like the rest of the gang behind the invasion of Iraq (George...

Dear CMO, Marketers and Execs, It’s easy to be cynical about advertising today. The model’s creaking. Talent’s exhausted. Clients are in-house. Tech’s rewriting the rules. But I’m still here. WE are still here. Not because the model is perfect. But creativity is still one of the most powerful levers for business and societal transformation –...

It was a typical afternoon. I was heading out to drop off a vehicle for a long-overdue major service. But just as I was about to leave the house, I realized something critical: my phone was dead. No problem, I thought. I plugged it into the home charging station and left for the vehicle service...

The South African Friends of Israel (SAFI) is troubled by the revelations circulating on social media, first raised by Visegrád 24, that allege South Africa has become a base of operations for the Muslim Brotherhood–Iran axis of power. “Through this network, the Axis has used international institutions and legal channels to wage ideological warfare against...

As AI, IoT, and cloud technologies converge, we’re entering an era where the human-device boundary blurs. Your phone is now your bank, your coach, your doctor, your therapist. But what happens when it’s not with you? Will we carry even more devices in the future? Or will we become enhanced humans, with embedded chips and neural...

South African technology companies Specno and Tentra are pleased to announce the launch of a new AI-powered home rental platform in South Africa. By leveraging the full capabilities of AI-enabled systems, Tentra aims to streamline rental applications in our country, to benefit both agents and prospective tenants, by simplifying administrative processes while also improving the...

Once upon a time, social media felt like a digital campfire. We logged on to connect and share. Then the numbers showed up. Followers. Likes. Views. And with them came a shift. It stopped being about connection and started being about proof. About status. About a leaderboard none of us actually signed up for. We’ve all...