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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Shoprite Group launched its first cashless store in Durbanville, Cape Town late last month, in what may be the start of a trend.
Repairs to the cable Ace, one of three subsea systems that broke off Africa’s western coastline, are under way.
Long-serving MultiChoice Group director Imtiaz Patel will step down as chairman of the board in March.
Intelsat is betting on lower orbits as older industry players try to keep pace with upstarts like Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
The ISP Association has criticised fibre network operators for making it difficult to switch internet providers.
eMedia is threatening urgent action against MultiChoice Group over its sublicensing agreement with the SABC.
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El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, will send a bill to congress next week to make bitcoin legal tender in the Central American nation.
Jeff Bezos will go to space next month when his company, Blue Origin, launches its first passenger-carrying mission.
Apple will debut major software updates for the iPhone and iPad at its developers conference on Monday to an audience that has grown increasingly critical of the company’s App Store policies.
Bitcoin slipped 4% on Friday after Tesla CEO Elon Musk was at it again — this time firing off a few tweets that appeared to lament a breakup with the cryptocurrency.
Who controls what in the digital world? Apple is currently involved in a court face-off with the FBI, and has refused to produce software that would help investigators to unlock the phone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. The clash
The gaming industry appears to be immune to the global economic downturn. According to US-based technology advisory firm Digi-Capital, global games software revenue is forecast to grow from US$90bn in 2016 to $115bn by 2020
