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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Atul and Rajesh Gupta, who are wanted in South Africa on charges of money laundering and fraud, applied for asylum in two African countries, a report said.
Eskom is considering buying electricity from a Karpowership plant to be located offshore from Mozambique.
MTN South Africa will spend at least R1.5-billion this year as it moves to secure its network against severe load shedding and vandalism.
Cabinet has approved a bill on electricity regulation designed to clear the path for private generation projects and power trading.
The former Eskom CEO has agreed to appear before parliament and present a written submission over corruption at the utility.
A family trust linked to Naspers chairman Koos Bekker has offloaded the euro equivalent of R3.4-billion in Prosus, according to a regulatory filing.
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Google plans to pay $1-billion to publishers globally for their content over the next three years, its CEO said on Thursday, a move that could help it win over a powerful group amid heightened regulatory scrutiny.
Huawei is ready to be thoroughly examined to show that its technology does not pose any risk to the countries that will include its equipment in the creation of 5G networks, a company executive said.
China is preparing to launch an antitrust probe into Google, looking into allegations it has leveraged the dominance of its Android mobile operating system to stifle competition, sources said.
Micron Technology has not yet obtained new licences needed to sell its memory chips to China’s Huawei, which will cut its sales over the next two quarters, company executives said.
As famously contrarian investors, the one stock Allan Gray might be thought least likely to hold is Naspers. Besides being the flavour of the market, the counter is trading on multiples that most value
DStv parent MultiChoice did not force the SABC to agree not to carry its free-to-air channels on broadcasting platforms that use encryption and a clause to this effect in a channel supply agreement
