Covid-19 paints a bleak picture for retail

Due to the coronavirus, global retail sales in 2020 are expected to decline by an average of 9,6% globally, a loss of $2,1-trillion. This is according to Forrester research, which also predicts that it will take four years for retailers to overtake pre-pandemic...

Lockdown drives kids’ Internet activity up

South African children have become more active on the Internet as the national lockdown progresses. Comparing their activity in the first week of January and the last week of March, the overall number of websites visits grew by 200%. This became evident from the...

Five-year stealth espionage campaign uncovered

Researchers at Check Point have uncovered the five-year, ongoing cyber espionage operations of a Chinese APT group targeting several governments in the Asia Pacific Region. First reported in 2015 the group, called Naikon, was responsible for attacks against top-level...

Covid-19 and its potential toll on Africa

Eighty-three thousand to 190 000 people in Africa could die of Covid-19 and 29-million to 44-million could get infected in the first year of the pandemic if containment measures fail, a new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa finds....

Tourism industry takes massive hit

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a 22% fall in international tourist arrivals during the first quarter of 2020, the latest data from the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) shows. According to the United Nations specialized agency, the crisis could lead to an annual...

Inclusive growth in a post-Covid world

Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Digital Dialogue – The world has become a more unequal place, with growing inequality not just within societies, but also between countries. Dr Martyn Davies, MD: emerging markets and Africa; and dean of the Deloitte Alchemy School of...