Partnership tackles youth unemployment

South Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. According to the 2018 Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa, in the first quarter of 2018, in South Africa there were 3,3-million youths between the ages of 15 to 24...
Ticket site hit by massive data breach

Ticket site hit by massive data breach

One of the biggest event booking sites in the world, UK-based Ticketmaster, has been hacked, exposing customer data that includes their payment card details. Any UK-based customers who used the site book tickets from February 2018 and 23 June 2018 may have lost data...

5G may not solve indoor coverage problems

The fourth-generation (4G) LTE mobile service has had trouble penetrating some indoor office environments – and, unfortunately, fifth-generation (5G) comes along with its own complications to this coverage challenge. The challenges to good indoor cellular...

The need for African electrification

Africa is in dire need of a solution that will jumpstart electrification on the continent. This is according to Abraham Ortega, senior executive consultant at Hexing, who says: “The digital technology already being utilised in Africa in the form of smart...

Country risk could derail African investment

Global and African financial heads have identified country risk as the biggest challenge to their ability to lend more to African countries. Speaking in Abidjan during a one-day forum on investment risks in Africa hosted by the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI),...

Local artists join Comic Con line-up

A local team of comic book artists will feature in the Comic Con Africa 2018 Artist Alley. The team of local artists that are making it big on a local and international stage includes the likes of Jason Masters, Sean Izaakse, Warren Louw, Bill Masuku and Moray Rhoda,...