Blog Room
10 September 2026
Business
Copper at a record, and what it actually means for South Africa
Copper has run to roughly $14,700 a ton, up close to 50% in a year on tariff fears and AI demand. South Africa is a small copper producer with a long mining history and a logistics problem. Here is what the price really changes for us.
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10 September 2026
Business
The South African property market, and why Cape Town keeps setting the pace
South African property data shows why Cape Town leads on prices, demand and holiday appeal, with comparisons across the country's major cities.
7 min · Read
08 September 2026
Tech
Copper just hit an all-time high, and AI data centres are buying the land under our feet
Copper touched $14,533 a ton on the London Metal Exchange this week, a record. The quieter story is the land: $6 billion spent on data centre sites in the first half of 2026 alone, up 79% in a year. The AI buildout is repricing metal and soil alike.
5 min · Read
07 September 2026
Personal & Professional Optimization
The art of doing nothing
Il dolce far niente, the sweetness of doing nothing. Technology made life faster and somehow busier; the Italians and the southern French hold a quieter answer to burnout, hustle culture and the optimisation of every waking hour.
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05 September 2026
Tech
Driverless cabs, an AGI claim and a $16bn ring, and what none of it means for Africa yet
Tesla's Cybercab took paying riders and a federal probe in the same week, OpenAI called GPT-6 Astra the start of AGI, Nvidia bought Hugging Face, and Oura filed at $16bn. Here is what actually happened, and the question South African business should be asking.
8 min · Read
05 September 2026
Personal & Professional Optimization
The window of tolerance: using Marsha Linehan's DBT to come back to yourself
Hyperarousal, hypoarousal and the narrow band in between where you can actually think and feel at the same time. A practical read on Dr Marsha Linehan's dialectical behaviour therapy (emotion mind, reason mind, wise mind) and the tools I use daily when things get overwhelming.
7 min · Read
04 September 2026
Business
AI adoption in South Africa is not a public sector project, it is an SME imperative
South Africa's National AI Policy Framework sets the national direction. The competitive consequences land hardest on private and small to medium enterprises, and the window to digitalise is now.
7 min · Read
31 July 2026
Tech
What changed in AI coding agents this month (July 2026)
Enterprises moved off single-vendor copilots, agent harnesses moved into the terminal, and security teams found the sandbox gap. A short read on what actually shifted.
5 min · Read
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