Oct 30, 2019
Naked Insurance has been crowned the overall winner in the eighth edition of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards, one of the country’s most prestigious app development competitions. The Naked Insurance app uses cutting-edge artificial intelligence and...
Oct 30, 2019
The South African Reserve Bank has announced the 2019 Global Fintech Hackcelerator@Southern Africa competition winners – Ukheshe and Mindbridge. The Global Fintech Hackcelerator, powered by KPMG Matchi, is a fintech acceleration programme that creates a platform...
Oct 30, 2019
Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has reported that South Africa’s unemployment rate increased from 29,0% in 2019Q2 to 29,1% in the third quarter – the highest jobless reading since 2003. South Africa now has the joint fourth-highest unemployment rate out...
Oct 30, 2019
Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released two new posters celebrating some truly terrifying exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Free to download, the entertaining posters recall vintage horror movie advertisements but have a decidedly astronomical...
Oct 29, 2019
A new study has concluded that the earliest ancestors of anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) emerged in a southern African homeland and thrived there for 70 000 years. The breakthrough findings are published in the journal Nature, with the authors...
Oct 29, 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth from next-generation 5G services will be reliant on the availability of a specific strand of radio frequencies, known as ‘millimetre wave’ frequencies, which are set to be identified for use by mobile operators at...
