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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Investec has asked its employees in South Africa to get vaccinated or subject themselves to weekly tests as the bank’s staff returns to office.
Telkom grew its mobile base by just 10% year on year in the third quarter of its financial year to 16.4 million, a marked slowdown from the previous quarter, sending its shares tumbling.
Just a day after terminating a week-long bout of load shedding, Eskom said on Monday that rotational power cuts will return from 9pm on Monday evening.
The entire computer component supply chain remains severely constrained and will likely stay that way throughout the rest of the year, Mustek has warned.
State-owned nuclear energy firm Necsa on Monday launched a tender to replace its ageing nuclear research reactor, Safari 1.
Africa Data Centres has announced that its long-serving CEO, Stephane Duproz, has been replaced in the role by Tesh Durvasula.
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The looming US antitrust investigation of Google is galvanising as many as a dozen companies to gather their longstanding complaints about the Alphabet unit and consider bringing them to the justice department.
Facebook may be ordered to remove offensive content posted by users in the European Union and then also hunt for similar posts anywhere in the world, an adviser to the bloc’s top court said.
Around the world, governments are hitting on a modish new idea: turn the Internet off. Sometimes they mean it literally.
A temporary ban on Huawei researchers editing and reviewing scientific papers has been lifted by one of the world’s biggest engineering bodies.
Telkom’s R449m fine handed down this week for anticompetitive practices could be only the start of its problems. Senior competition lawyers are expecting a string of damages claims from its competitors. The Competition Tribunal found Telkom guilty of anticompetitive practices, which opens
MTN SA is considering selling as much as half of its base station infrastructure in SA to improve the efficiency of its capital structure, says MD Karel Pienaar. “We have been looking at this for a long time,” according to Pienaar, who says the company is weighing the economic pros and cons of selling the towers
