Sep 19, 2016
South Africa’s Economic Misery Index is currently not as bad as seen during the 1991-94 political transition, the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, the 2001 bursting of the dot-com bubble, or the 2007-08 global financial crisis. This is according to Christie...
Sep 16, 2016
Africa’s growth outlook has changed over the last few years, but is still positive as the region remains the world’s second-fastest growth region. Six years ago when the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) first looked in detail at Africa’s diverse...
Sep 15, 2016
After digital born companies paved the way to growth with platform business models, small enterprises and traditional businesses are entering the digital platform market in a second wave. But the vast majority of new digital platform start-ups will fail and the gulf...
Sep 14, 2016
Not too hot, not too cold – instead, water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean should be just around normal for the rest of 2016, according to forecasts from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, or GMAO. With these neutral conditions, scientists...
Sep 13, 2016
South African employers report cautiously optimistic hiring intentions for the next three months, with the employment outlook standing at +9% overall. Of the 755 employers surveyed in the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey (MEOS) for the fourth quarter of 2016, 15%...
Sep 12, 2016
The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new colour images returned by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp. Curiosity took the images with its Mast...
