Mar 6, 2020
The overall African mobile phone market grew 3,8% year on year (YoY) in Q4 2019, according to the latest figures from International Data Corporation (IDC). However, this growth is unlikely to be repeated over the following two quarters as the impact of the global...
Mar 5, 2020
More than half of companies (51%) around the world have no plans or protocols in place to combat a global emergency, such as the novel coronavirus covid-19, a study by global consultancy firm Mercer has shown. Didintle Kwape, associate consultant at Mercer, states:...
Mar 4, 2020
Giving people the ability to pay only for what they use, as they need it, can lift millions of people across Africa out of poverty and make prosperity possible. A white paper from Mastercard titled “Pay on Demand: The Digital Path to Financial Inclusion”,...
Mar 3, 2020
The percentage of South African organisations who have experienced economic crime has significantly declined in 2020, returning to levels last seen in 2011, with the rate of reported economic crime has dropped 17 percentage points from 77% in 2018 to 60% this year....
Mar 2, 2020
The biggest explosion ever seen in the universe so far has been spotted: the record-breaking eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light years away. “In some ways, this blast is similar to how the eruption of Mount...
Feb 28, 2020
Kathy Gibson is at the PwC post-budget briefing in Sandton – Finance Minister Tito Mboweni has promised to tackle government spending, and put the ball firmly back into the private sector’s court to make their own contribution to economic recovery by...
