The biggest export South Africa never authorised may be its culture.
Our audit of major AI training datasets identified dozens of South African artists appearing across publicly documented training corpora used to develop the next generation of AI music systems.
As artists, rights holders, and policymakers begin to examine the scale of this practice, it may prove to be one of the most significant data laundering controversies the global music industry has ever faced.
The underlying process in play is the destruction of the sinews that give us a shared humanity, a shared national identity and principles that keep us sane despite our most serious difficulties... https://t.co/bnAFOtOpZy
Entrepreneurship is really hard guys. Much harder than a 9 to 5. It should not be marketed as an alternative to employment but rather as a path for those who are passionate about it.
Uxolweni ba ndiyabhora and I don’t get the humour (uxolweni nyani), but the Springboks jokes last night were weird man. I’m not even asking you to believe in the boys if awufuni, I’m just asking you to think of what Bafana Bafana represents klecountry.
South Africa remains among the most unequal countries on the planet 💔💔
some depressing stats:
- the richest 10% own 86% of all wealth
- the top 1% own 55% of total wealth
- the bottom 50% have negative wealth (liabilities exceed assets)
📝 2026 World Inequality Report
Today, we're introducing Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, two configurations of our next major language model.
I'd normally highlight the numbers: It's SOTA on nearly all benchmarks. I want to talk about something else, because with Fable 5 out in the world, I think a third era quietly started today.
I lead Claude Code & Cowork on the desktop, so I think a lot about how people use AI to get work done. I believe we're about to see a major shift, moving from giving AI tasks to giving it responsibilities.
We keep on skipping building deep tech r&d capability+capacity and somehow hope just using the tools will get us to heaven. The private sector must invest, academia must evolve and the public sector must build an enabling space with guard rails.
"Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity." — Frantz Fanon
My life has unfolded in interesting stages since I was a child. I take decisions.
A new journey unfolds. That is the gift of life and inheritance of our freedom.
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The Xhosa forced a 100-yr stalemate against the British Empire. To fight integration, they mastered English as a strategic weapon of resistance, producing SA's earliest political intellectuals who defeated colonial logic on its own terms. We weren't easy to colonise-disband that!
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From 1 May 2026, South African exports will enjoy full zero-tariff access to China under the China-Africa Economic Partnership Agreement (CAEPA).
This opens the door to a R3.5 trillion consumer market, creating new opportunities for local businesses and boosting economic growth.
#GovZAUpdates #CAEPA #TradeOpportunities
Elon Musk and SpaceX are pushing to change South Africa’s racial equality rules to clear the way for Starlink’s entry into the country https://t.co/RpI9WzLsrm