The fundamental problem confronting South Africa today is a political culture that is defective and out of kilter with the needs of the majority of the people. Innovative thinking about transforming the economy is stunted by political
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Communications minister Faith Muthambi was chastised during a portfolio committee meeting on Thursday about the delays in government’s roll-out of digital migration. “Your management of this process is found wanting,” said
At first glance, South Africa appears on a road to nowhere, mired in leadership turmoil and economic stagnation that are rolling back many of the hard-won gains of 22 years of multiracial rule. President Jacob Zuma, who’s lurched from one scandal
It’s been a tough month for mobile phone manufacturers: Samsung has recalled its Galaxy Note7 due to exploding batteries, the European Commission has handed Apple a €13 billion fine for its tax practices in Ireland and Google has withdrawn
Nigeria has the largest population in Africa and one of the biggest in the world. It boasts dynamic, entrepreneurial, ambitious and well educated people. The country was, until recently, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, prompting
Oh, Tim! Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim, Tim! What have we said about product strategy and trying not to alienate customers? I thought you’d learned your lesson after the iPhone 5c fiasco
It’s hard to know who’s leading South Africa. Last week, the presidency repudiated the mines minister when he caused a storm of protest from business leaders by saying the cabinet authorised a judicial
Quantum mechanics, Carl Sagan once observed, is so strange that “common sense is almost useless in approaching it”. Scientists still don’t understand exactly why matter behaves as it does at the quantum level. Yet they’re getting better at exploiting its peculiar dynamics
South Africa has caught the world’s attention with an epic battle between two powerful factions within the governing ANC, which has spilt into government. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has aptly described this as a government that wages
As South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan tries to fend off a police investigation, his department is engaged in open conflict with key state-owned companies over their management and spending plans. Threatened court action by the national