# The Open Letter

> The Edge in South Africa’s Growth Economy

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## Posts
- [🇿🇦 R6bn Raised, R9bn Exits (Wow, Let's Braai)](https://theopenletter.io/p/sa-startup-raises-exits): 🔥🥩 Your Heritage Day special. Plus: R4.2m up for grabs 🏆, the bank’s AI rules, 5x-ing your profits & new startup opportunities for you.
- [South Africa's Onshore Wind Already Outperforms Most of Europe](https://theopenletter.io/p/sa-onshore-wind): SA wind averages load factors of 0.36, above the fleets Germany and Spain run, and bid window five procured wind at R0.49 per kWh, the cheapest power contracted here
- [X Will Show Users When a Government Forced It to Limit Their Posts](https://theopenletter.io/p/x-government-content-filtering): X's Under the Hood tool will now show users when their posts were downranked or withheld under local laws, and which government made the request
- [Standard Bank and Stellenbosch University Launch a Responsible AI Framework](https://theopenletter.io/p/standard-bank-responsible-ai): Standard Bank and Stellenbosch University's School for Data Science have produced the Standard Bank Responsible AI Approach, setting parameters for AI use in business
- [Investec Early-Stage Entrepreneur Awards Reopen With a $250,000 Pot](https://theopenletter.io/p/investec-esey-awards): The Investec Early-Stage Entrepreneur of the Year Awards return with a $250,000 investment pot across 10 categories, open to founders under four years old and pre-Series A
- [How to Expand Into New Markets Without Starting From Scratch](https://theopenletter.io/p/expand-into-new-markets): Most founders treat a new market as a fresh build: new research, new product, new everything. One SA founder went from monitoring mobile-money fraud in Kenya to doing the same in Brazil almost overnight, and turned the pattern into a moat.
- [⚖️ The R0 Lawyer 7.2 Million SA Peeps Need](https://theopenletter.io/p/legalfundi-whatsapp-legal-ai): Plus: Hosting the world’s robots 🇿🇦, Game might become Walmart, custom iPhone size tool & the day that code became law.
- [How to engage your most valuable asset: your network](https://theopenletter.io/p/turn-your-network-into-an-asset): Your relationships are the most valuable asset you own, and the one you're letting depreciate in silence. FDC's method for putting a dormant network back to work in five steps.
- [An SA Walmart Store Outperformed the Game It Replaced by 28.7%](https://theopenletter.io/p/walmart-south-africa): SA Corporate Real Estate reports that the Walmart at East Point achieved a trading density 28.7% higher than the Game store it replaced over four months to 30 June
- [DNI Invests Up to R500 Million Into Mission Mobile](https://theopenletter.io/p/mission-mobile-dni): Mission Mobile will receive up to R500 million from DN Invest to expand smartphone financing through mobile operator retail outlets, drawn from equity and debt facilities
- [Cape Town Will Host the World Robot Olympiad Finals](https://theopenletter.io/p/world-robot-olympiad-cape-town): Cape Town will host the World Robot Olympiad International Final in December 2028, the first time the competition comes to Africa, after local entries grew to 1,800 teams
- [💸 Get What You're Owed (Without the Awkward Call)](https://theopenletter.io/p/voicia-ai-voice-agents): Plus: SA's new HealthTech market 💪, how Gemini started hacking, which AI companies to invest in & new SA tech events for you.
- [AI-Built SARS eFiling Scams Are Circulating in South Africa](https://theopenletter.io/p/sars-efiling-scams): Kaspersky says scammers are using AI to build fake SARS eFiling pages that harvest usernames, passwords and phone numbers ahead of the 23 October filing deadline
- [Gemini Is The Latest AI to Hack: It Breached 3 Companies During Security Testing](https://theopenletter.io/p/gemini-hacked-companies): Google's Gemini accessed the protected systems of three companies during security testing by Irregular, the latest in a run of AI models breaching real targets
- [HealthTech Founders Note: New Physiotherapy Regulations Would Let Physios Diagnose Without a Doctor's Referral](https://theopenletter.io/p/physiotherapy-regulations): Draft regulations gazetted by health minister Aaron Motsoaledi change how physiotherapists can operate in SA, creating new opportunities for creating tech and products for this market
- [FSCA Will Wait for Global Guidance Before Writing SA's Finance AI Rules](https://theopenletter.io/p/fsca-ai-rules): FSCA commissioner Unathi Kamlana says the regulator will wait for the Financial Stability Board's AI report next month, and favours principles over rules
- [How to Hire Your First Salesperson in South Africa](https://theopenletter.io/p/hire-your-first-salesperson): Your first sales hire is the one most founders get wrong, and it costs around 18 months to find out. One of SA's longest-serving venture capitalists explains who to hire instead, and why the impressive CV is usually the trap.
- [💎 Your Next Free Coffee's Already On Your Phone](https://theopenletter.io/p/snapback-wallet-loyalty-sa): Plus: SA’s offshore power pitch ♻️, trading stocks on X, leading a power SA tech team & new SA tech job for you.
- [Apple Might Be Building iPhone Game Controllers Under the Beats Brand](https://theopenletter.io/p/apple-beats-game-controllers): Apple has spent a year building two iPhone game controllers that will likely carry Beats branding, with Beats executives leading the project
- [Constitutional Court Strikes Down the Public Procurement Act](https://theopenletter.io/p/public-procurement-act-invalid): The Constitutional Court has struck down the Public Procurement Act 2024 for inadequate public participation, leaving the PPPFA and existing procurement law in force