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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Higher festive season sales off a low cost base are expected to catapult the group into full-year profitability.
A partnership with Corsano Health will see wearable data being used to monitor patients on a continuous basis.
Alphabet is closing in on a $4-trillion valuation, set to become only the fourth company to enter the exclusive club.
Cell C has confirmed the final pricing and outcome of its long-awaited JSE listing, marking a major milestone in the operator’s restructuring efforts.
ICT electricity consumption is holding steady at 4% of global total despite escalating data centre demand.
Britain’s Revolut said on Monday it had completed a secondary share sale valuing it at $75-billion.
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Google has unveiled a host of updates to its artificial intelligence offerings for cloud computing customers.
SpaceX’s prized Starlink satellite business is still burning through more cash than it brings in.
Ether has grabbed the cryptocurrency spotlight after posting its biggest jump in more than a month.
Global PC shipments returned to growth in the first quarter after two years of decline.
Pandemics don’t cause riots. They do, though, create the perfect conditions for turmoil in fragile societies that are already powder kegs of sky-high unemployment, and where Covid-19 has inevitably hit the poor hardest.
The mayhem of the last few days is a reminder of the danger that South Africa continues to live with, as well as an indication of the disfigurement of its law enforcement institutions.
