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Why Resilience Matters Most in African Agriculture Now

For a long time, agricultural risk in Africa was understood through a relatively familiar set of pressures, whether around rainfall and weather patterns, commodity prices, input costs, access to finance, or the practical realities of moving products through supply chains that often struggled even under normal conditions.

How many litres of water does one AI prompt use?

Every time you ask a chatbot a question, somewhere in the world a server warms up. What feels like a simple digital interaction is, in fact, a physical process.

My R1.8 million lesson: How updating my financial cover saved my life

Financial security isn’t a luxury, it’s a human right

For most South Africans, dignity is not an abstract concept. It lives in the everyday realities of financial stability.