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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Massmart has assured customers that planned strike action will not interfere with their Black Friday shopping plans.
Eskom plans to suspend rolling power cuts on Thursday evening as some of its generating units return to service.
The South African Reserve Bank raised its main lending rate by 25 basis points to 3.75% on Thursday, citing increased inflation risks.
MTN Group has exited its investment in Yemen. Its departure from the troubled country is line with its strategy to leave the Middle East and focus on its investments in Africa.
The energy department has cautioned that a retreat from coal must take account of the impact on the economy and the people who depend on it for a living.
Following a “lengthy competitive process”, MTN Group will sell a big chunk of its South African tower portfolio to IHS Towers in a R6.4-billion deal.
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Elon Musk said on Sunday that Tesla will unveil its Model Y crossover in less than two weeks, as questions about store closures and employee layoffs threaten the company’s growth narrative.
France intends to tax the revenue of about 30 Internet giants such as Amazon.com to help ensure “fiscal justice”, according to finance minister Bruno Le Maire.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon unmanned craft successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday, a key milestone for CEO Elon Musk, his team and the American space agency.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins suggested governments shouldn’t worry that Huawei will dominate the race to build 5G wireless networks.
Cell C has slammed telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa), over its invitation to apply for valuable radio frequency spectrum, accusing the authority of opening itself up to legal challenge and of producing a document “so vague so as to not be capable of proper interpretation”
Give thanks, for once, to the law of unintended consequences. Too often, it seems, the secondary effects of policy decisions turn out to be at least perverse, if not downright detrimental. But in the case of last week’s congressional vote to extend America’s emergency payroll tax-cuts, the knock-on effects look
