Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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Icasa has vetted and approved all six companies that bid to take part in next month’s radio frequency spectrum auction for mobile broadband services.
Tencent denied talk that it’s facing a major regulatory crackdown in China, issuing an unusually aggressive public response. Shares in Naspers still tanked.
Many South African companies already use software from US CRM specialist Salesforce.com. Now the company has officially established a “legal entity” in the country.
The national health department is changing Covid-19 vaccination rules to try to increase uptake, as inoculations have slowed and the country has ample vaccine stocks.
Facebook parent Meta Platforms has repeatedly demonstrated an ability to rebound after earnings disappointments. Not this time.
Big changes are coming to South Africa’s payments industry that will shake up the financial services sector, according to BankservAfrica CEO Jan Pilbauer.
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Boosted in part by escalating US tensions, one Chinese upstart, PingCAP, is stepping in, winning over tech giants, start-ups and financial institutions to its enterprise software.
SpaceX’s latest launch, due to be launched on Tuesday morning South African time and billed by Elon Musk as the company’s most difficult ever, has the potential to be extraordinary for a whole host of reasons.
Facebook failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of several privacy snafus that have put the company under siege.
Facebook was hours away from the formal announcement of its ambitious foray into financial services, but French finance minister Bruno Le Maire was already broadcasting his discontent.
SA is waiting anxiously to hear what Eskom’s latest round of tariff hikes will be. But besides the tariff increases to pay for its current construction programme – the building of the Medupi, Kusile and Ingula power stations – the big question is how it is going to fund new generation capacity after that. The country’s
Free-to-air broadcaster e.tv has filed papers in the high court in Johannesburg against communications minister Dina Pule, accusing of her acting unlawfully in appointing Sentech to manage the control system that will be used in the set-top boxes that are needed for consumers to receive digital terrestrial television signals
