Nov 23, 2020
Covid-19 has reorganised the risk landscape for chief audit executives (CAEs), with IT governance now listed as the top risk for 2021, according to Gartner. Analysts said the pandemic is giving rise to new sets of risks while exacerbating long-standing...
Nov 20, 2020
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, space- and ground-based observations have shown that Earth’s atmosphere has seen signifycant reductions in some air pollutants. However, scientists wanted to know how much of that decline can be attributed to changes in human...
Nov 19, 2020
Artificially dimming the sun by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere could help reduce the likelihood of “Day Zero” level droughts in Cape Town by as much as 90% in the future. This is the word from University of Cape Town (UCT)...
Nov 18, 2020
South Africa’s energy sector remains one of the most coal-dependent and largest per capita polluters in the G20 despite being at greater risk of climate-related impacts. This is according to the latest report from Climate Transparency International that cautions...
Nov 17, 2020
A massive 70% of South African adults will be shopping Black Friday and other festive sales days this year. A Finder.com survey of 1 524 South African adults reveals that 70%, which equates to around 27-million people, are planning to shop the festive sales this year...
Nov 16, 2020
Chief financial officers (CFOs) face a daunting list of digital priorities for 2021, from the implementation of advanced data analytics and robotic process automation (RPA) technologies to accelerating digital skills among their teams. A Gartner survey conducted in...
