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May 3, 2026
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How to Connect Claude to Your Business Data Using MCP
Most South African founders use Claude as a smarter Google (type questions, get answers). The bigger unlock is something few are doing yet: connecting Claude directly to your business data so you can ask it real questions about your pipeline, your clients, your tasks and have it actually answer. Here’s the workflow one SA AI specialist teaches founders to set this up in an afternoon.
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Apr 23, 2026
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How Shoprite's Market Cap Doubled Since Checkers Sixty60
In November 2019, Shoprite was dealing with an SAP disaster and a depressed share price. That same month, it launched Checkers Sixty60. Six years later, Sixty60 does R18.9 billion in annual sales, has fulfilled 100 million+ orders, and Shoprite's market cap has roughly doubled, from around R68 billion to over R150 billion.
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Mar 27, 2026
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LIV Golf South Africa Generated R800M+ in Four Days – Here's What That Means for SA
More than 100,000 fans. Over R800 million in estimated economic impact. The biggest professional golf tournament in South African history. And before the final putt dropped, organisers confirmed they'd be back in 2027.
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Mar 25, 2026
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Littlefish Got All Three of SA's Biggest Banks on Its Platform: Now It Just Raised $9.5M
Johannesburg-based littlefish has raised a $9.5 million Series A funding, led by Partech to scale its merchant operating system across Africa. Standard Bank, FNB, and Absa (all three of South Africa's Tier 1 banks) are already clients. Monthly recurring revenue has grown 30x since the seed round.
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Mar 17, 2026
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Woolworths Just Bought the Company That Makes Your Ready Meals: Here's What It Took
Woolworths announced today that it will acquire 100% of In2food, its biggest supplier, from the founders, Old Mutual Private Equity and other shareholders. In2food does R5 billion a year in revenue, runs eight manufacturing facilities, and produces 3.2 million packs a week. The deal price wasn't disclosed. Here's what the deal means and what it took to build a company that Woolworths couldn't afford to lose.
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Mar 16, 2026
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Resolute Education Is Selling a Robotics Teaching Business in a Box: Here's What You'd Actually Be Buying
Looking for a business opportunity? You can now skip the years of building a STEM programme from scratch and open an after-school club or dedicated centre on a proven foundation. The SA coding and robotics provider behind 450+ schools and 200,000+ learners is now franchising. Resolute's "Business in a Box" gives you a CAPS-aligned curriculum, robotics kits, an LMS with 100+ hours of video content, and SACE-endorsed training. But what does the opportunity actually look like for an operator?
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Mar 12, 2026
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Still Good Opens The Goods: A Short-Dated Marketplace to Clear Distressed Stock & Help Retailers Move Problem Goods
The Cape Town-based scale-up Still Good has launched an online clearinghouse for distressed and short-dated stock directly from manufacturers. By shifting from retail mystery bags to a transparent marketplace model, the company aims to intercept a portion of the 10 million tonnes of food wasted annually in South Africa before it ever reaches a supermarket shelf.
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Mar 9, 2026
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SA’s FinMaster Board Game Launches at Exclusive Books: From a Pizza Box Prototype to The Top Shelf
FinMaster, the South African board game that placed second at an international competition in Norway and had someone pay in crypto just to get a copy, launches at Exclusive Books stores nationwide on 3 April. It started as a pizza box prototype made in three days. Here's the story of how it got to the shelf.
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Mar 4, 2026
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Hlayisani Capital Raises R500 Million for Fund II: And the Backers Really Matter
One of South Africa's oldest venture capital firms has secured R500 million in first-close commitments for its second venture fund, backed by the Public Investment Corporation and the SA SME Fund. For a firm that traces its roots to some of the earliest angel investing on the continent, the real story isn't the fund size. It's who's writing the cheques and what that signals about institutional confidence in SA VC.
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Feb 24, 2026
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Sanlam's First VC Bet: Is HAVAIC Fund 3 a Tipping Point for SA Tech?
HAVAIC Fund 3 has crossed $30 (R481) million with backing from Sanlam Multi-Manager and Allan Gray's E Squared. The fund's close matters less than what it signals: institutional South African capital is entering local tech VC for the first time. Here's what the portfolio reveals and what questions remain.
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Feb 23, 2026
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What Is Takealot Building on WhatsApp?
SA’s biggest online retailer seems to be building something new on WhatsApp. There’s no press release or announcements yet, just an opt-in screen shared on LinkedIn by a local founder who knows their way around WhatsApp. Here's what we know, what we don't and why it matters.
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Feb 12, 2026
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Uber Eats Introduces AI Cart Assistant For Your Groceries
Uber Eats has introduced an AI Cart Assistant that builds grocery baskets from lists, photos or recipes. Here’s why it could change shopping behaviour
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Feb 9, 2026
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Fibertime and EasyEquities Just Rewrote the Rules of SME Employee Retirement
A startup and a scale-up have launched a new employee retirement model that flips the script by giving staff visibility and control over their savings
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Feb 3, 2026
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Sixty60 Growth Outpaces Shoprite As On-Demand Sales Rise 34.6%
Shoprite’s interim results show Sixty60 growing 34.6%, highlighting how scale, store density and logistics are reshaping South African retail
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Jan 28, 2026
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Shop Anything You See: Amazon Lens Launches in South Africa
See something you like? Snap a pic or screenshot it, upload to your Amazon Shopping app and buy from anywhere in SA
