Net1 wins interim order on EPE accounts

The Pretoria High Court has handed down an interim order for SASSA to pay the social grants of those EasyPay Everywhere (EPE) clients who had previously provided biometric consent and elected to receive their social grants into their EPE accounts, pending the handing...

AI gets to work on healthcare analysis

Intel and GE Healthcare are teaming up to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across multiple medical imaging formats to help prioritize and streamline patient care. By leveraging the Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit running on Intel processor-based...

Start-ups an engine for job creation

The 21 young entrepreneurs selected as finalists in SAB’s youth entrepreneurship development programme, SAB KickStart Boost, have created a total of 178 jobs in their respective communities as a result of the support provided by the programme this year....

Flat panel display growth set to ease

After hitting 7,3% growth in 2018, global demand for flat panel displays (FPDs) in terms of area is forecast to expand 6,4% to 228-million square meters in 2019. This is the first slowdown in year-on-year growth in four years, according to IHS Markit. Although the FPD...
Inflation runs ahead of SA salary increases

Inflation runs ahead of SA salary increases

South Africans’ salaries grew by a sluggish 3% year-on-year – more than 2 percentage points behind the annual inflation rate for October 2018 of 5,1%. This is one of the findings from CareerJunction’s 2018 Salary Review, which explores average salary...

5G on track to hit 1,5bn subscriptions

5G is expected to reach more than 40% global population coverage and 1,5-billion subscriptions for enhanced mobile broadband by the end of 2024. This will make 5G the fastest generation of cellular technology to be rolled out on a global scale, according to the latest...