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Can't Afford Adobe Anymore? Build It Yourself. Someone Already Started

In South Africa, Creative Cloud sits around R699 per month for one person. That is R8 400 a year. If you run a small studio on the team plan, local resellers list it at roughly R22 900 excluding VAT per user per year, which lands near R26 300 with VAT on.

Strategy12 Oct 202611 min read

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Strategy19 Sept 20268 min read

Jev Explained: The AI Model That Does Not Write, and Why African SMBs Should Care

Every AI tool you have used so far writes things. ChatGPT writes, Claude writes, & Gemini writes. You type a question, it types an answer, and the answer arrives word by word like someone slowly thinking out loud on a keyboard.

Built for Africa21 Jul 20264 min read

South Africa's Big Banks Just Quietly Signed Up to Pay Robots

Three of South Africa's largest banks made a move most of their customers will never notice, and it has nothing to do with branches, apps or interest rates.

Built for Africa08 Jul 20262 min read

South Africa Appoints Lady Mariéme Jamme as Special Envoy for Technology and AI

South Africa just put a woman with two decades of tech policy experience in charge of representing its AI ambitions to the world.

Strategy13 Jun 20265 min read

They Switched It Off. The US Government Just Cut the World Off from the Most Powerful AI Ever Built

On June 12, 2026, at 11:21 PM SAST, the United States government issued an export control directive to Anthropic. The instruction was simple: switch off Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Immediately. For everyone.

Strategy11 Jun 20265 min read

The Most Powerful AI Ever Released Is Also the Most Expensive. Here Is Why That Should Worry African Businesses

On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the public. This is not a routine model update. Fable 5 is the first publicly accessible version of Anthropic's Mythos-class AI, the same family of models that drew government attention earlier this year for its ability to autonomously perform...

Assistants02 Jun 202612 min read

Claude for Small Business: The 31 Skills That Give Small Business Owners a Full Back-Office Team

Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business on May 13, 2026, a free plugin with 31 AI-powered skills covering finance, sales, customer ops, and reporting. Here

Built for Africa20 May 20264 min read

South Africa Is Climbing The AI Ladder. But The World Is Moving Faster

The complicated news: the gap between the Global North and the Global South is widening, and the same structural problems that have held the continent back before, power, connectivity, skills, are showing up again in the AI race.

Assistants18 May 20264 min read

Claude for Small Business Is Here: African SMEs Can't Afford to Ignore It

Anthropic just made AI practical for the businesses that need it most.

Strategy07 May 20265 min read

Stop Paying Rent on Software That Was Never Built for You

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