Pinnacle tackles market rumours
Pinnacle Holdings this week laid rest to rumours in order to address the concerns that have kept its share price on the back foot.
Africa’s middle class booms
Africa has experienced substantial growth in its middle class over the past 14 years, according to a study by Standard Bank. There are 15-million middle-class households in 11 of sub-Saharan Africa’s top economies this year, up from 4,6-million in 2000 and 2,4-million in 1990 – an increase of 230% over 14 years.
SAP puts $500m into Africa growth
Africa has joined a short list of countries that will enjoy accelerated investment from SAP, to the extent of $500-million through 2020.
Sea ice thins as Earth warms
New research led by NASA and the University of Washington, Seattle, confirms that springtime snow on sea ice in the Arctic has thinned significantly in the last 50 years, by about a third in the Western Hemisphere and by half near Alaska. The new study, published this...
The opportunity for African cities
CEOs around the world are increasingly recognising the untapped potential of sub-Saharan Africa. This is driven by Africa’s unparalleled demographic edge or demographic dividend. By 2040, Africa is expected to have the biggest labour force in the world and...
It’s a better life in Gauteng
Well over half of the citizens of Gauteng think that South Africa is heading in the wrong direction, although Gauteng residents still enjoy a good quality of life overall. This is one of the findings from the Quality of Life Survey (QoL) 2013, conducted by the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO). A representative sample of more than 27 000 of Gauteng’s residents were polled for the biennial survey, carried out for the third time in 2013.