Amazon runs a business development programme in South Africa that only admits companies which are 100% black-owned, and it has told Solidarity that South African law required this of it. I read the law Amazon named, all 89 pages of it, and the requirement is not there. The only black-ownership figure that rule book puts…

Government celebrated the launch of an AI teaching robot factory in Durban on 13 August 2026. The factory does not exist yet. The robots are built in India. The entry price for a single unit is R250,000, with components that in my assessment cost under R25,000. And the technology was passed over in the country…

South Africa is spending less than half of what the ANC’s own National Development Plan says the country needs on building factories, plants and machinery, and manufacturing was the only sector in the economy to go backwards in the first 3 months of 2026. At the same time, a government investigation has found that the…

Naspers, the JSE-listed company behind News24 publisher Media24, holds most of its market value inside a single asset, a stake in Chinese technology group Tencent. In January 2025, the United States Department of Defense added Tencent to its list of Chinese Military Companies under Section 1260H of federal law, and confirmed that designation again in…

Herotel has been appointed the first authorised distributor of Amazon’s Leo satellite internet service in South Africa, with a launch planned for 2027 under a new brand called Evry. The deal hands Herotel responsibility for ICASA licensing, a route Starlink has not taken in over a year of trying to enter the market under its…