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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Vodacom is still awaiting final approval for its acquisition of a 30% co-controlling stake in fibre operator Maziv.
Vodacom’s financial services business is becoming a much bigger contributor to group revenue.
Telkom expects to more than double its headline earnings per share in the six months to end-September 2025.
Pressure in the prepaid segment has offset gains in contract and non-mobile services at Vodacom South Africa.
Vodacom Group has reported a robust set of interim results for the six months to September 2025.
The CSIR has developed an online platform for banks and telecoms operators to report cybercrimes directly to the police.
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Memecoin trading volumes are now at levels last seen just before the burst of the last crypto bubble.
Epic Games has accused Apple of violating a US court injunction governing its lucrative App Store.
TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance is facing its biggest threat in the US since the Trump administration.
Swedish music streaming company Spotify is rolling out full-length music videos in a limited beta launch.
Apple and Microsoft are both looking to dominate the next big things in tech – from artificial intelligence and cloud computing to gaming, tablets, custom processors and mixed-reality headsets.
For now, Naspers and Prosus CEO Bob van Dijk has managed to figure out a short-term fix for his problem. Eventually he’ll need to think longer term. By Alex Webb.
