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Africa’s music industry confronts licensing and copyright gaps

Music

Africa’s music industry confronts licensing and copyright gaps

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Samro increases distribution allocation to over half a billion rand for financial year 2025

Music

Samro increases distribution allocation to over half a billion rand for financial year 2025

Issued by SAMRO 2 Apr 2026

Tax increase prediction 2026: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Taxation & Regulation

Tax increase prediction 2026: Cloudy with a chance of meatballs

Issued by SAICA 26 Feb 2026

Image source: Jakub Jirsák –

IP Law

South Africa's copyright revolution: New protections for digital creators

Millisanté de Wee-Petersen and Kallen Hoather-Murphy 26 Feb 2026

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IP Law

How Miss Marple and Rachmaninoff highlight cross-jurisdictional copyright issues

Lodewyk Cilliers 17 Feb 2026

Source: Durban Tourism.

Retail & Hospitality Property

Hilton exits Durban icon, paving the way for new hotel era

11 Feb 2026

Famous faces who left us in 2025, and the legacies they leave

Law of Succession

Famous faces who left us in 2025, and the legacies they leave

Issued by Capital Legacy 18 Dec 2025

Image credit: Reuters/Jonny Hogg/File Photo

Mining

Glencore first miner to export cobalt under new DRC quotas

Ange Kasongo, Pratima Desai and Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 11 Dec 2025

IP Law

Public domain vs commercial use: Why Disney is drawing battle lines over Mickey Mouse jewellery

Nishaat Slamdien 17 Nov 2025

Image source: Dmitriy Shpilko –

IP Law

Fighting for the royalty treatment: IP disputes in SA's music scene

Fathima Ismail and Sara-Jane Pluke 11 Nov 2025

Source: © Al Jareera The people’s poet, Mzwakhe Mbuli has called for the dissolution of the South African Music Rights Organisation board

Radio & Audio

Samro stops the music amidst corruption allegations

1 Sep 2025

Terry Levin looks at campaigns presented at the recent Creative Circle Full Circle event in Cape Town. Pictured: The Sounds Right campaign

Cannes Lions

#CreativeCircle2025: Influencing real cultural, societal and economic change

Terry Levin 4 Aug 2025

Image credit: Reuters

Mining

Rising platinum prices to benefit SA's fiscal plans - Old Mutual

Colleen Goko 23 Jul 2025

Sampra partners with Fame Week for Muziki Africa

Music

Sampra partners with Fame Week for Muziki Africa

8 Jul 2025

Music

What every musician needs to know about copyright

Nick Matzukis 28 May 2025

Entertainment’s AI revolution is here—adapt or be left behind

4th Industrial Revolution

Entertainment’s AI revolution is here—adapt or be left behind

Mzi Kaka 14 May 2025

Spotify royalty payouts to Nigerian and South African artists boom in 2024

Music

Spotify royalty payouts to Nigerian and South African artists boom in 2024

7 Apr 2025

Source: © World Finance The Minerals Council of SA, responding to the Budget Speech delivered on 12 March, says the full potential of mining needs to be unlocked to prevent additional tax rises in coming years

Mining

#Budget2025: Unlocking mining's full potential could reshape South Africa's economy

13 Mar 2025

Call for applications: Samro Music Business Masterclass 2025 with Academy of Sound Engineering

Music

Call for applications: Samro Music Business Masterclass 2025 with Academy of Sound Engineering

Issued by SAMRO 11 Mar 2025

Samro reports record revenue growth and lowest cost-to-income ratio in a decade

Music

Samro reports record revenue growth and lowest cost-to-income ratio in a decade

Issued by SAMRO 19 Feb 2025

Samro embraces digital transformation with the new online appointment booking system

Music

Samro embraces digital transformation with the new online appointment booking system

Issued by SAMRO 14 Feb 2025

Rescued miners are seen as they are processed by police after being rescued at the mine shaft where rescue operations are ongoing as attempts are made to rescue illegal miners who have been underground for months, in Stilfontein. Source: Reuters/Ihsaan Haffejee

Mining

Sixty bodies retrieved from Stilfontein

Alexander Winning and Bhargav Acharya 15 Jan 2025

Save the industry: Use content responsibly!

Media

Save the industry: Use content responsibly!

Issued by MultiChoice 17 Dec 2024

Source: © NBC News The Toys R Us made with generative video was depressing but that will change and fast

AI in Advertising

AI in Advertising: Entering the wonderful world of generative video... or not

Jarred Cinman 26 Nov 2024

Could De Beers be the next Twitter?

Markets & Investment

Could De Beers be the next Twitter?

Savious-Parker Kwinika 21 Nov 2024

Community members watch as Senzo Mchunu, South African police minister, inspects outside the mineshaft where it is estimated that hundreds of illegal miners are believed to be hiding underground, after police cut off food and water as part of police operations against illegal miners, in Stilfontein. Source: Reuters/Ihsaan Haffejee

Mining

Ramaphosa calls for Zama Zama human rights to be respected

Bhargav Acharya 19 Nov 2024

Sibanye-Stillwater faced numerous setbacks at its Rustenburg operations

Mining

Sibanye-Stillwater braces for challenging interim results

Lindsey Schutters 3 Sep 2024

Image source: Jakub Jirsak –

IP Law

Guide to IP protection: 8 tips for in-house counsel

Mellisa Morris 23 Aug 2024

Gwede Mantashe is dovetailing with the President's plans, which is a great improvement from the last administration.

Markets & Investment

New levy on gas and petroleum pipelines announced

Lindsey Schutters 29 Jul 2024

Sampra launches #LoveTheBeatPayforPlay campaign

Music

Sampra launches #LoveTheBeatPayforPlay campaign

11 Jul 2024

Streaming

South Africa leads the charge in African music boom

14 May 2024

Lack of financial literacy: a hurdle for music creators

Music

Lack of financial literacy: a hurdle for music creators

Zielly Twala 14 May 2024

Media

10 tips for ethical image sourcing and safeguarding against copyright woes

Christina Kennedy 8 Apr 2024

Source: © Anna Pou An investigation into Away From Here Trading, owned by former SABC sports presenter Owen Ndlovu, has been launched by the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture

Media

Away From Here Trading investigated after allegedly failing to deliver on contract

2 Apr 2024

Source: © Isabella Mendes The Music Business Masterclass (MBM) has been launched by the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro), in partnership with the Academy of Sound Engineering (ASE)

Education

Samro and Academy of Sound Engineering launch Music Business Masterclass

2 Apr 2024

Samro distributes over R33m of digital royalties

Music

Samro distributes over R33m of digital royalties

28 Mar 2024

Image: Supplied

IP Law

Swift justice: The copyright tale that produced 'Taylor’s Version'

Heili Potgieter and Dina Biagio 12 Mar 2024

Kumba revenue and profits are up, but job cuts still happening

Mining

Kumba revenue and profits are up, but job cuts still happening

Lindsey Schutters 20 Feb 2024

Dalro Visual Arts Merit Award calls for applications

Art

Dalro Visual Arts Merit Award calls for applications

21 Feb 2024

Samro records 15.3% revenue growth in 2023 despite economic challenges

Music

Samro records 15.3% revenue growth in 2023 despite economic challenges

13 Feb 2024

Ambassador of the People's Republic of China in the DRC, Zhao Bin visited some of the infrastructure projects in December 2023. Source:

Mining

DRC revisits China mining deal for $7bn infrastructure investment

Sonia Rolley 29 Jan 2024

Egbert Faibille Jr delivered a public lecture on Ghana's energy sector at the University of Ghana 75-year anniversary in January. Source: x.com

Energy

Ghana ponders sliding scale oil royalties to stimulate investment

Maxwell Akalaara Adombila 16 Nov 2023

President Cyril Ramaphosa gestures during the opening of the US-sub-Saharan Africa trade forum to discuss the future of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), at the NASREC conference centre in Johannesburg. Source: Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Mining

Ramaphosa deploys the army to fight Zama Zamas

Tannur Anders and Nelson Banya 9 Nov 2023

Image: Terry Levin. Zoe Scaman looks at where the internet is going through the lens of User Generated Content at the recent Nedbank IMC.

IMC Conference

#NedbankIMC2023: From creator economy to cosy web to a new spirit of reciprocity and generosity

Terry Levin 18 Sep 2023

The late amapiano artist Costa Titch has more than 16 million streams on Spotify for his hit song Big Flexa. Source: Instagram.

Streaming

Spotify Report: Amapiano genre had 1.9bn streams in 2022

28 Aug 2023

The TikTok dance party is over. Source: Lindsey Schutters

Services

The TikTok dance party is over, the platform is ready to get paid

Lindsey Schutters 23 Aug 2023

SA operations were the few positives in a tough H1 2023 for Sibanye-Stillwater. Source: x.com

Energy & Mining

Sibanye-Stillwater trading statement shows decline amid market challenges

Lindsey Schutters 18 Aug 2023

Source: Moderna.

Covid-19

Moderna reports 92% interim profit drop

Katja Hamilton 17 Aug 2023

The top 5 consequences of content piracy in the entertainment industry

Media

The top 5 consequences of content piracy in the entertainment industry

Issued by MultiChoice 3 Aug 2023

Branding

Man City the world's most valuable football club brand; Real Madrid the world's strongest football club brand

7 Jun 2023