CHRIS THURMAN: The goodish, bad and downright ugly of party logos

Towns and cities are festooned with ill-conceived political logos for the general election

JOHAN STEYN: SA’s AI plan presents both opportunities and hurdles

Concerns about draft national artificial intelligence plan’s vagueness and lack of detail

LETTER: ANC looting laid bare

If governing party had SA’s interests at heart it would ensure a fair and sustainable tax return on undeveloped assets

NEWS FROM THE FUTURE: Power struggle: crypto versus chatbots

Crypto miners and data centres optimised for AI both need huge amounts of electricity to feed their rigs

JONATHAN COOK: Elect accountable people who represent the nation we wish to be

Don’t vote for someone who has been shown to be dishonest, however much you agree with their manifesto

TIISETSO MOTSOENENG: Reserve Bank embraces nuance with double-barrelled approach to inflation

New measures signal a shift towards a more dynamic and responsive economic policy framework

MICHAEL MORRIS: SA’s problem could be that we want too little

Though life in the new SA is better in many ways, a lot of good things didn’t last, or even happen at all

ALEXANDER PARKER: The futility of the upstream petroleum resources bill

The bill will fail to deliver anything to any of its intended stakeholders

MICHAEL AVERY: Thirty years of the ANC eating the golden goose

The mining industry has seen its golden age of easy gains fade into a more complex, strategic era

ADEKEYE ADEBAJO: Selwyn Cudjoe, the heir to CLR James

Architect of diversity and democracy, and an intellectual of the African renaissance

STUART THEOBALD: What happens next in the Anglo-BHP bid could be high drama

The proposed transaction is the most material to have hit the SA corporate sector for some time

GAVIN RICH: Look no further than excess of rugby for teams going understrength

Leinster’s tours highlight the hypocrisy of northern scribes who pilloried the Bulls