The Rockefeller Foundation will pledge close to a US$100m to create digital field jobs in Africa, it was announced at the World Economic Forum on Africa on Thursday. “There is no better place to announce the official launch of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Digital Jobs Africa initiative, a $97m investment,” said the
The South African Police Service has arrested a suspect said to be a key player in a recent spate of Sim-swap fraud cases. MTN South Africa said on Wednesday that it had participated in a police sting operation that led to the arrest. A Sim swap allows
Eskom is reviewing the implications of electricity regulator Nersa’s decision to grant it a lower than requested electricity tariff hike, public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba said on Wednesday. “We are studying it in detail, because we need to understand
Craig Venter, the CEO of JSE-listed technology group Altech, which recently reported an operating loss of R1,2bn in the year to February 2013, has elected to forgo his bonus for the 2012/2013 financial year. The losses come on the back of poor performances
Pupils are not taught to think, to solve problems or to read independently because most of their teachers do not know how to teach these skills, it was reported on Monday.
The first national evaluation of how pupils in grades one, two and three are taught showed
Communications minister Dina Pule has allegedly backtracked on her bribery claims against the Sunday Times’ investigations team. However, she stopped short of apologising to the paper for claims that its journalists were acting on the instructions of unnamed “handlers” when they ran a series of articles about her
China’s digital pay-television company StarTimes walked away the winner on Tuesday in the TopTV takeover saga, although at least one of the losing consortiums is considering challenging the legality of the deal. Government will be the biggest loser with losses over R1bn. The meeting
More than 100 years after Briton J Stuart Blackton made the first animated movie by drawing sketches on white paper, IBM Research has produced the smallest movie in the world, by creating pictures with atoms. Computers have become faster and are able to store more
Companies should develop policies to deal with the use of social media in the workplace, a law firm said on Thursday. “In order to strike the appropriate balance between the conflicting rights of an employer and its employees, human resource practitioners should collaborate with
South African vehicle manufacturers will receive incentives for producing more electric cars, it was announced on Thursday. “South Africa must not be left behind in greening initiatives and technology,” trade & industry minister Rob Davies told reporters in Johannesburg. He was
