Oct 13, 2020
As South African banks prepare to do away with cheques from the end of the year, Mercantile Bank has already stopped issuing cheques. Companies and individuals are warned not to accept Mercantile Bank cheques with immediate effect, as they will no longer be honoured....
Oct 13, 2020
In July, the South African team of four learners should have been in Singapore for the world’s top coding contest for schools. However, as Covid-19 spread across the world, the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) was postponed to September and run...
Oct 13, 2020
The 2020 Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize, a flagship philanthropic program created by the Jack Ma Foundation’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI), has selected the top 10 finalists, who will pitch at the competition’s grand finale in...
Oct 13, 2020
Despite chief marketing officers prioritising investments in marketing data and analytics, more than half of senior marketing leaders are unimpressed by their results, according to Gartner. The Gartner Marketing Data and Analytics Survey 2020 revealed that as a result...
Oct 12, 2020
Models based in part on a method NASA has used to track and count wild salmon in Nevada can now be used by governments and humanitarian organisations to more accurately estimate populations and allocate aid to remote regions of the world. In hard-to-reach areas where...
Oct 12, 2020
South Africa’s higher education sector is faced with new technological, financial and collaborative challenges in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. These challenges and new areas for growth are some of the most pressing issues for university vice-chancellors....
