Global Entrepreneurship week at Tshimologong

As the world gets ready to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) from 13 to 17 November 2017, the Tshimologong Precinct at Wits University, has joined the movement and will form part of the 170 countries celebrating innovation, entrepreneurship, and...

Business urged to influence AI directions

Digital business is disrupting organisations with its requirements for artificial intelligence (AI). Results from Gartner’s 2017 global survey of more than 3 000 CIOs shows that a wide range of companies have begun AI initiatives. Twenty-five percent of...

SA app connects people to workspaces

A group of three South African entrepreneurs has launched Airbase, an app-based platform that connects people to places to work, collaborate and network, giving them the flexibility to work away from work and to go where their business takes them, allowing them access...

Hangman a boon for Soweto businessman

Hangman is down to the final seven as the Western Cape’s Rupert Taljaard made a shock exit from the show at the weekend. However, there was good news for one Sowetan spaza distribution business which received nearly R1,4 million in the form of a vehicle,...

Call to advance pneumonia vaccination

After calling on their governments to invest in immunisation for the girl child, and engaged them to eradicate polio once and for all, civil society across Africa are now making sure pneumonia vaccines are high on the agenda. In commemorating World Pneumonia Day,...

Boost for renewable energy

Countries have an opportunity to significantly increase renewable energy ambition within Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), and to accelerate its deployment in line with climate objectives under the Paris Agreement, per a new report by the International...