Mar 3, 2022
The continued steep rise in food price inflation, from 3,4% in 2019 to 5,7% at the beginning of this year, remains a major concern for South Africa, as it is exacerbating poverty and food insecurity among the country’s poorest households. The sharp rise in food...
Mar 2, 2022
Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 – Private 5G networks offer enterprises new opportunities to transform themselves, digitalise and find new ways to serve their customers. This is the message from Tami Erwin, CEO of Verizon Business, who says private...
Mar 1, 2022
Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 – Despite the many benefits that technology has brought us, people still don’t really trust it. That’s according to José María Álvarez-Pallete, chairman and CEO of Telefónica, and a board member of the...
Feb 28, 2022
Kathy Gibson is at Mobile World Congress 2022 – Africa’s digital economy, driven by mobile commerce, could be worth as much as $180-billion by 2025. This is one of the conclusions from a new white paper, “Towards a Flourishing Digital Economy for all...
Feb 25, 2022
A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once – like Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine in the Star Wars universe – has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University of Birmingham. The planet, called...
Feb 24, 2022
Kickstarting the economy took centre stage in yesterday’s Budget, and Minister of Finance Enoch Godonwana stressed the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in this effort. However, there is some scepticism around a new scheme that has been set up to help...
