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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Telkom’s Openserve has grown the number of homes passed with its own fibre broadband infrastructure to 1.1 million.
Earnings are still under pressure, but the top line has grown nicely in Telkom’s most recent quarter ended 30 June 2023.
South Africa is planning to scale up its grid capacity as it works to address the crippling power shortages.
Cell C has hired another former Vodacom executive into a senior management role, this time Melanie Forbes as CMO.
MTN will supply backup power to traffic lights close to its base stations in Soweto to help alleviate congestion.
Unplanned outages at Eskom’s generating fleet fell to less than 16GW in the past two months, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.
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Chinese gaming and social media group Tencent Holdings, partially owned by Naspers spin-off Prosus, on Wednesday reported a market-beating 26% jump in quarterly sales, helped in part by its online gaming business.
Shares in Taiwan’s TSMC fell nearly 4% on Wednesday after Intel announced a $20-billion plan to expand its advanced chip manufacturing capacity, even as Taiwan’s economy minister sought to downplay the impact.
Microsoft president Brad Smith has cast doubt on whether fintech companies should issue currencies, saying governments are still best-placed to play that role.
Pony Ma, founder of Naspers affiliate Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest social media and videogames company, met with antitrust watchdog officials this month to discuss compliance at his group, sources said.
Recently, a New York Times article on Russian submarine activity near undersea communications cables dredged up Cold War politics and generated widespread recognition of the submerged systems we all depend upon. Not many people realise that undersea
It has been an eventful year in South Africa, characterised by power cuts, parliamentary confrontations about wasteful expenditure and student fee protests. There has, however, been an elephant in the room that has impacted all these issues but enjoyed surprisingly scarce attention
