Routine work to be automated by 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies such as virtual personal assistants and chatbots are rapidly making headway into the workplace. By 2024, Gartner predicts that these technologies will replace almost 69% of the manager’s workload. “The...

The $197bn opportunity in targeting African SDGs

There is a $197-billion opportunity for private-sector investors in five high-growth markets in Africa to help achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with improving digital access making up $74,5-billion of that total. This is according to...

Blue Label expects higher earnings

Blue Label Telecoms has issued a trading statement for the six-month period ended 30 November 2019, alerting shareholders to a sharp change in earnings. The group has announced that its basic, headline and core headline earnings per share for the period are expected...

Moves to make data centres carbon-neutral

An alliance of academia and industry representatives at the World Economic Forum have announced the Swiss Data Centre Efficiency Label, with an initial goal to decarbonise data centres in Switzerland and significantly reduce their overall energy consumption. Initiated...

Cable ship sets sail to repair submarine breaks

Cable ship Leon Thevenin departed Cape Town Harbour on Wednesday evening (22 January 2020) and will sail to offshore Angola where the first steps of the physical repair on damaged undersea cables – South Atlantic 3/West Africa Submarine Cable (SAT3/WASC) and the...
Uncertainty the name of the game for SA economy

Uncertainty the name of the game for SA economy

Kathy Gibson is with PwC at Melrose Arch – The only thing that is certain about South Africa’s economic outlook is uncertainty. Indeed, around the world CEOs are exhibiting a record level of pessimism about what lies ahead for the global economy – fears that are...