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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MTN South Africa-owned Supersonic has appointed telecommunications industry veteran Megan Nicholas as MD, replacing Calvin Collett.
In a surprise development, Altron has announced that its CEO, Mteto Nyati, will step down at the end of June.
The situation in Johannesburg is bizarre and increasingly untenable.
Austria-based education technology start-up GoStudent has raised €300-million in a new round of funding led by Prosus.
Icasa has appealed to Telkom to abandon its legal action aimed at stopping the upcoming spectrum auction, appealing to its “patriotic conscience”.
Stakeholders have until Friday to submit written comments to energy regulator Nersa on Eskom tariffs that may increase by more than 40%.
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SAP raised its operating profit outlook for the year, bolstered by strong growth in its cloud business, as the German software maker pushes ahead with a major restructuring.
John McAfee, the eccentric antivirus pioneer known for his brushes with the law, said he has spoken to bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto and plans to reveal the person’s identity.
Samsung Electronics intends to invest the equivalent of about R1.7-trillion over the next decade or so to take on Intel and Qualcomm in the business of making advanced chip processors.
Microsoft analysts expect strong third quarter results from the company on Wednesday as its cloud computing division continues to see rapid growth.
The Flame malware that infected computers across the Middle East and North Africa is a “cyber weapon”, probably developed by a nation state for the purpose of espionage. This is the view of Vitaly Kamluk, chief malware expert at Russia’s Kaspersky Lab, the antivirus company that played an instrumental
Discovery Health has launched an iPad application called HealthID that it claims will ease the burden of paperwork and administration on SA doctors, making it easier for the medical aid administrator to process claims in real time while maintaining patient confidentiality. Discovery Health SA CEO Jonathan
