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Zealand Properties Marks 6th Anniversary with Handover of Amiya Estate in Lagos

Zealand Properties has marked its sixth anniversary with the official handover of Amiya Estate, a residential development in Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos, reaffirming the company’s commitment to delivering…

  • Zealand Properties marks 6th anniversary with Amiya Estate handover in Lagos.
  • New residents receive keys and documents for four-bedroom semi-detached duplex.
  • Event highlights company's commitment to quality housing and future growth.

Finance & Markets

Good grain harvest shielded South African consumers from inflation reality

South Africa’s abundant grains, fruit and vegetables are keeping food prices low, while foot-and-mouth disease, rising fuel costs and an expected El Niño loom.

  • South Africa's 2025/26 grain harvest set record 21.6 million tonnes production
  • Consumer food price inflation at 0.7% in August 2026, lowest since 2010
  • Meat prices stabilized despite foot-and-mouth disease concerns

World

What the Gabrielle Goliath case has meant for SA’s art world

Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture Gayton McKenzie’s censorship of Gabrielle Goliath’s video-based project Elegy at the Venice Biennale sent shock waves through the art world, and its reverberations…

  • Gabrielle Goliath's video project Elegy censored at Venice Biennale.
  • Minister Gayton McKenzie removed exhibit due to femicide, LGBTQI+ violence themes.
  • Case leads to criticism, calls for cultural legislation revision in South Africa.

AI

How to Outcompete Your Client’s AI

Andy Carter/Ikon Images The in-house lawyers at real estate investment firm Alturas Capital Partners used to rely on outside counsel for much of its lease work. Thanks to generative AI, it can now do that work internally, saving the firm hundreds of thousands of dollars in spending and compressing lease work that once stalled for […]

AI

P&G Takes Its AI Scrap Killer Global

Procter & Gamble is expanding an artificial intelligence (AI) quality inspection system across its manufacturing operations worldwide, turning a tool that proved itself on individual lines into standard equipment for the whole company.

Culture

Live auctions are turning shopping into gambling

If you haven’t heard of “live shopping,” you might soon. Livestream shopping is already a staple of e-commerce in China, where consumers log onto apps like Douyin and Taobao to buy products from a livestreamer — think QVC. Now, a new app is trying to bring it to the United States. The Whatnot app features […]

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