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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Facebook’s announcement that user numbers had dropped for the first time laid bare a long-neglected vulnerability: it’s a one-trick pony.
South Africa has the second-fastest average mobile download speed in Africa at 19.2Mbit/s – beaten on the continent by only one other country.
Consultants became the gatekeepers and controllers of billions of rand in spending at state-owned enterprises.
The British prime minister has asked the cabinet office to look into allegations that the global consultancy was involved in corruption in South Africa, a report said.
South African private sector activity rose slightly in January as the Omicron wave of Covid-19 cases receded, lifting demand and stabilising new business.
A bribes-for-contracts scandal involving Neotel and Transnet should be referred to law enforcement for further action, the state capture commission has recommended.
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China will establish a list of so-called “unreliable” entities in order to target firms it says damage the interests of domestic companies, according to an announcement carried by state media on Friday.
Twitter is showing its users more ads. That’s a clumsy approach to boosting advertising revenue in an age of sophisticated micro-targeting, and it shows the weakness of Twitter’s business model.
Apple has said it welcomes competition in face of accusations that it has an unfair advantage on its App Store.
Tech giants, including Apple, Google and WhatsApp, have urged the UK’s GCHQ to abandon a proposal that would allow it to eavesdrop on encrypted chat conversations.
The recently published Electronic Communications Amendment Bill proposes the creation of a new Spectrum Management Agency responsible for all spectrum allocation in SA. Assignment of frequencies will be divided between the new agency and the sector regulator, the Independent Communications of Authority of SA
Justin Arenstein, 42, is an award-winning journalist, digital media strategist and media rights activist who believes the media’s role may become less one of reportage and more one of analysis as digital media grows and traditional media is forced to adapt or close shop. Key to the shift that Arenstein believes is
