Foodtech programme tackles African food security

In collaboration with Anza Capital, the SA Innovation Summit has launched The Foodtech Programme that offers promising South African foodtech innovators and fast-growing businesses an investment partnership, mentorship, and investment readiness support.  Selected...

Here are some saving and budgeting hacks

In 2019, even before the onset of Covid-19, the South African Savings Institute (SASI) reported that household debt was staggeringly high at almost 72%. This meant that for every rand earned, nearly three-quarters went towards debt, leaving households with very little...
First Webb image shows astounding detail of galaxies never seen before

First Webb image shows astounding detail of galaxies never seen before

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Thousands of galaxies – including the faintest...
Unusual galaxy spotted 520m light years away

Unusual galaxy spotted 520m light years away

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observation has captured the galaxy CGCG 396-2, an unusual multi-armed galaxy merger which lies around 520-million light-years from Earth in the constellation Orion. This observation is a gem from the Galaxy Zoo project, a citizen...

Online payment fraud losses to exceed $343bn over 5 years

A new study from Juniper Research has found cumulative merchant losses to online payment fraud globally between 2023 and 2027 will exceed $343-billion. As a comparison, this equates to over 350% of Apple’s reported net income in the 2021 fiscal year; showing the...

New deadline for STB registration

The deadline for applications and registrations for government-subsidised set-top boxes (STBs) for qualifying indigent households has been extended to 30 September 2022. The call for applications for government-subsidised set-top boxes was first made in October 2015...