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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Naspers subsidiary Prosus has agreed to buy Just Eat Takeaway.com for €4.1-billion in an all-cash deal.
Solly Malatsi met with the GSMA, the World Bank and other industry players on Monday to discuss device affordability.
Altron Group expects to report a more than 40% improvement in headline earnings per share from continuing operations.
A team from Switzerland has kicked off an ambitious road trip across South Africa in a solar-powered Tesla Model X.
Vehicles on South Africa’s roads are now more likely to be hijacked than stolen, according to new data from Tracker.
Elon Musk’s Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff challenges to its dominance of high-speed satellite internet.
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A senior software engineer at Google has written a critique asserting that the internet search leader is losing its edge in AI.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is betting that those markets will provide more opportunities for growth, with their youthful populations and relatively few iPhones.
Qualcomm’s shares sank 7% on Thursday after the chip designer signalled it would take longer for its crucial smartphone market to rebound.
Vodafone and CK Hutchison are close to agreeing to a £15-billion combination of their UK businesses.
Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk has been working for years to solve a problem rivals might envy – getting investors to value the South African firm nearer to its $133-billion stake in Tencent. A plan for a Dutch listing is his boldest step yet.
The cost of off-grid solar installations has decreased significantly over the last 10 years, with the prices of some components falling nearly 70%, prompting more South Africans to consider ditching Eskom entirely.
