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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The Competition Commission will release its hotly anticipated final report early next week.
Eskom has handed load shedding operations back to the City of Ekurhuleni after the metro said it would abide by the rules.
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Megan Pydigadu clearly relishes a challenge. She is leaving EOH to become chief operating officer at Spar.
Nedbank’s Rafeea Saib on the top priorities for IT leaders, and why she’s a fan of what Elon Musk has achieved.
Meta Platforms executives are focused heavily on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival, Threads.
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Former US President Donald Trump, who has been banned from Twitter and other major social media platforms, said he’s working on his own platform to reach his followers that could be announced soon.
Microsoft is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord for more than US$10-billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX will be landing its Starship rockets on Mars well before 2030, the billionaire entrepreneur said in a tweet on Tuesday.
LG Electronics may shut down its mobile communication business rather than sell it, DongA Ilbo reports, citing an unidentified person in the electronics industry.
MTN has dominated headlines for all the wrong reasons since news of the Nigerian fine hit the headlines last Monday. The company’s share price fell by more than 22% in the week that followed. There has been a lot of criticism directed at management for this mess as it appears to have
MTN has enlisted the help of the South African government and is meeting with Nigerian officials “at the highest level” as it moves to fight off a damaging US$5,2bn fine by the Nigerian
