SA needs to do more about harassment

South African corporations need to improve their harassment policies and procedures to ensure businesses adequately protect their employees. This is among the findings from a Columinate study of 1 000 research participants, representative of urban South Africa, to...

Counter-terrorism compliance in the spotlight

In the past 20 years, threats and incidents of terrorism have grabbed global headlines and urged nations to step up laws against not only the act but also the financing of terrorist activities. In South Africa more recently, the spotlight fell on the threat of...

Doctor Who experience at Comic Con Africa

BBC Studios in Africa will be hosting a special Doctor Who experience for the series’ regional launch at Africa’s first ever Comic Con next month, in partnership with Showmax. From 14 to 16 September 2018, Whovians and new fans from across the continent can come to...

Inclusion of coal in electricity plan slammed

The Life After Coal Campaign and Greenpeace Africa argue that the inclusion of an additional 1 000MW of new coal-fired power puts the Department of Energy in conflict with the rights enshrined in the Constitution. It believes that the inclusion of new coal in the...

Velocity offers Azure at cost

Hybrid cloud enablement partner the Velocity Group has launched an initiative to reduce the cost of Azure cloud services and increase the success rate of hybrid cloud projects. The initiative sees Velocity Group provide Azure Reserved Instances (RIs) at cost,...

Jaguar adds eyes to judge human behaviour

Jaguar Land Rover has fitted virtual eyes to intelligent pods to understand how humans will trust self-driving vehicles, as research studies suggest that as many as 63% of pedestrians worry about how safe it will be to cross the road in the future. The friendly-faced...