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In this captivating collection of essays, Professor Tinyiko Maluleke invites readers on a journey. The journey begins with his eventful boyhood in Soweto. It continues through his life-changing upbringing in Limpopo. His heartfelt reflections on mothers, grandmothers and aunts stand at the centre of his story. He also explores their roles in his childhood and in the upbringing of his peers. In doing so, he highlights how these women shaped heroes and heroines across communities.

A Web Designer salary in South Africa usually ranges from about R8,000 to R35,000 per month, depending on experience, employer, location, portfolio quality, technical skill and whether the role is focused on website design,...

A Digital Marketer salary in South Africa usually ranges from about R10,000 to R45,000 per month, depending on experience, employer, location, technical skill, campaign responsibility and whether the role is in an agency, in-house...

If you're eager to get into the stock market because you've heard it's a fast track to wealth, think again. The reality is that most individual stocks result in losses over the long term. This finding emerged in a recent article by Hendrik Bessembinder, which analysed the investment outcomes of 29,754 common stocks listed on the US public markets from 1926 to 2025.

When a private home becomes the centrepiece of a Bad Bunny production, the legal foundations may be just as important as the concrete ones. Eighty-four-year-old Puerto Rican homeowner Román Carrasco Delgado ("Carrasco"), who says he designed and built his distinctive salmon-coloured home with his brother, filed a lawsuit in Puerto Rico's Superior Court in September 2025 against several defendants, including Bad Bunny.

The returns from digital transformation will remain elusive until business leaders confront an uncomfortable truth: the problem is not the Artificial Intelligence (AI), but everything underneath it. Consider this scenario. You lead a large retail business. Six months ago, you approved a significant generative AI investment to personalise customer promotions. The business case was compelling, the pilot results were strong and the board supported the move.

This collection of short stories explores the breadth of magical realism, speculative fiction and fantasy. Twijnstra portrays women who succeed in the face of brutality. Black women lead these stories as protagonists, and they enter magical, terrifying and spellbinding worlds. These worlds span stories set in the past, present and future.

An Underwater Welder salary in South Africa usually ranges from about R30,000 to R65,000+ per month, depending on experience, commercial diving certification, welding skill, employer, location, risk level, project type and whether the work...

A Graphic Designer salary in South Africa usually ranges from about R8,000 to R35,000 per month, depending on experience, employer, location, design skills, portfolio quality and whether the role is in an agency, in-house...

South Africa should carefully assess how short-term instalment products are interpreted before Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) data shapes access to mainstream credit. The country could risk turning BNPL into a product that shuts people out of mainstream credit rather than helping them into it. This could happen if BNPL data enters credit-scoring systems that were never designed to interpret this type of product fairly.