Lockdown regulations drive piracy increase

The Publishers Associations of South Africa, an affiliate of the Copyright Coalition of South Africa, has served cease and desist letters on the administrators of the WhatsApp group called “Die Boek Klub” as part of an ongoing effort to curb an explosion...

Pandemic to devastate retail sales

Global retail sales are expected to drop by $2,1-trillion in 2020, according to a new report from Forrester. China is the worst affected country in the Asia Pacific region, with $192-billion of retail sales (excluding restaurants, automobile, and gasoline) lost from...

Trends that will impact the future of work

Organisations can differentiate themselves from competitors during the Covid-19 pandemic by leveraging nine ongoing trends, according to Gartner. These trends are broken into three categories: accelerating trends, new impacts that were not previously part of the...

Data drives Vodacom’s SA growth

The Vodacom group has reported group revenue up 4,8% (3,5 %) year ended 31 March 2020, supported by group service revenue growth of 5% (3,5%). The group also added 5,9-million customers, to serve a combined 116-million customers. Total financial services customers up...

Non-Covid healthcare must be maintained

Countries should maintain essential health care to non-Covid-19 patients while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a message from Secretary-General Patricia Scotland ahead of the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting taking place virtually on 14 May. Some...

Massive new oil cuts on the cards

The second quarter of 2020 will see the largest volume of liquids production cuts, including shut-in production, in the history of the oil industry. IHS Markit now expects much as 17 MMb/d total liquids output (which includes nearly 14 MMb/d of crude oil production)...