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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A close relationship to industry and an award-winning incubation lab have created a successful start-up ecosystem centred on Stellenbosch University.
Cell C’s share price moved sharply higher on its second day of trade on the JSE on Friday, closing 12.7% up at R31.
Eskom on Friday reported profit after tax of R24.3-billion for the six months to the end of September.
Peach Payments tracked a Black Friday-linked transaction worth R1.09-million as consumers opened their wallets and spent big.
FNB’s banking app has gone down at the worst possible time: on Black Friday, one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
NTCSA has won regulatory approval to run South Africa’s new power market, advancing key electricity sector reforms.
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Huawei Technologies released the new Pura 70 series smartphones on Thursday, replacing the popular P series.
The Telegram messaging app will likely cross a billion active monthly users within a year, its founder has said.
For German luxury car makers, being first to fail is proving valuable when it comes to electric vehicles.
Adobe is in the early stages of allowing third-party generative AI tools inside its widely used video editing software.
As Covid-19 vaccination rates allow for more of a return to normal, an obvious question is, what’s next for Zoom? The answer could be a lot more than video chat.
Herd immunity is no longer a discussion the world – or South Africa – should be having. We should start to avoid using that term in the context of Sars-CoV-2, because it’s unlikely to materialise in our lifetimes. By Shabir A Madhi.
