Jun 29, 2020
The galaxy known as NGC 5907 stretches wide across an image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Appearing as an elongated line of stars and dark dust, the galaxy is categorised as a spiral galaxy just like our own Milky Way. In a new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble...
Jun 26, 2020
In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, NASA, ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) have joined forces to use the collective scientific power of their Earth-observing satellite data to document planet-wide changes in the...
Jun 25, 2020
South Africa can expect a deep recession this year – as bad as any in the last 90 years. Finance Minister Tito Mboweni delivered his Supplementary Budget Speech 2020 to (a virtual) Parliament yesterday (June 24). Lullu Krugel chief economist for PwC...
Jun 24, 2020
BankservAfrica’s latest data reveals South Africa’s total salaries paid declined significantly in May, reflecting the downturn in take-home pay numbers. Also, as low-income earners remain under pressure from the Covid-19 lockdown, South Africa’s...
Jun 23, 2020
Robust mitigation strategies deployed by member banks and partners are showing results in terms of fewer incidences of crime. This is according to the annual crime stats for 2019 released by the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric). Digital banking...
Jun 22, 2020
There has been widespread evidence of layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs at IT vendors, and there is more economic pain on the horizon. This is the word from GlobalData, which reports that, as of the end of May, the number of active jobs in the technology and...