Naspers is an extraordinary company. In September 1994, it listed on the JSE at R19/share. Last month, it traded at…
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On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook will take the stage for the first time in the Steve Jobs Theatre at its new campus. The location represents a new chapter for the world’s most valuable technology
If you believe the optimists, self-driving cars will dominate our roads within a couple decades. This will reduce or even eliminate such human-created ills as traffic jams and fatal accidents. I’m not so
The secret to switching the global energy system entirely to renewables may lie in the universe’s most abundant substance. Hydrogen has drawn backing from big energy companies from Royal Dutch Shell to Uniper in addition to
Could bitcoin be the next gold? The idea has a lot of intuitive appeal. Gold bugs and bitcoin fetishists tend to share a deep distrust of fiat currency and the nation state, an impregnable bullishness about their favoured asset class
You all need to just chill out a little. Seriously. Bitcoin took a hit over the last few days because of China. That has cryptocurrency markets in a panic. But if we channel the deeper sentiment of the true believers, even a massive crackdown
On Monday last week, Richard Poplak, in his Trainspotter column on the Daily Maverick website, wrote a funny but scathing rant about the two Zuma sons, Edward and Duduzane (or is that Duduzani?). By Tuesday
When the cryptocurrency exio coin starts a round of fundraising on 7 September, its founders say the unit will come with a unique distinction: the first to be endorsed by a sovereign nation. The identity of the government backer won’t
Most of the research on phone addiction and deprivation is done on students. It’s not just the “kids these days”, though. At 45, I’m a recovering addict. It’s been four months since I uninstalled social networking apps, three
South Africa has a leadership problem. Our president and many members of his cabinet are so deeply compromised, that they are simply unable to be effective. This problem has been allowed to fester because nobody