Oct 5, 2021
CEOs of the world’s largest businesses are increasingly optimistic about the outlook for their own business and, despite the Delta variant slowing down the ‘return to normal’, their confidence in both the global and local economy has returned to...
Oct 4, 2021
A new draft of the Companies Amendment Bill has been published. Although the Bill clarifies many important company law issues; several ambiguities related to the current Act remain. Madelein Burger, partner at Webber Wentzel, provides a snapshot of some of the key...
Oct 1, 2021
Sea ice in the Arctic appeared to have hit its annual minimum extent on 16 September, after waning in the 2021 Northern Hemisphere spring and summer. The summertime extent is the 12th-lowest in the satellite record, according to scientists at the...
Sep 30, 2021
Digital ethics sits at the peak of the Gartner Hype Cycle for Privacy, 2021, as people become increasingly aware of the value of their personal information and frustrated by lack of transparency and continuing misuse. Gartner defines digital ethics as the systems of...
Sep 29, 2021
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, more than half of the world’s population is now using the mobile internet, with just over 4-billion people now connected – 225-million more compared to 2019, and up from a third of people globally just six years ago. Even...
Sep 28, 2021
The Delta variant of Covid-19 is key to understanding the current trends around the reopening of the global economy, and what we can expect in the next phase of the pandemic. This is the word from Mark Ainsworth, head of data insights and analytics at Schroders, who...
