Reshaping the future of African cities

Reshaping the future of African cities

Researchers predict that in 2030, Lagos, Cairo and Kinshasa will each have to cater for over 20 million people, while Luanda, Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg will have crossed the 10 million mark. By 2035, close to 30 million people could live in Lagos alone, turning...
Efficiency could boost social grants

Efficiency could boost social grants

People on grants could be receiving R233 more per month if management of the fund was more efficiently run, says KPMG. Deborah Tickle, tax advisor at KPMG in South Africa, says: “In this year’s Budget speech, former Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan...

Companies struggle to align innovation with business

Companies are making blind bets on innovation with billions of dollars potentially on the line, according to a new PwC survey of over 1 200 global executives and business leaders.The PwC Innovation Benchmark says most companies struggle to align their business and...

Top security technologies revealed

Gartner has highlighted the top technologies for information security and their implications for security organisations in 2017 at its latest Security and Risk Management Summit. “In 2017, the threat level to enterprise IT continues to be at very high levels,...

Ztorg Trojan unmasked on Google Play

Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered Ztorg apps on the Google Play Store that appear to show cybercriminals trying different ways to get their malware past security – in this case by installing their malicious code in stages and wrapping a Trojan SMS around an...

Technology alone does not guarantee success

Digital technology is reshaping the banking and insurance sectors at an unprecedented rate as basic transactions in traditional banking continue to migrate from physical to digital channels and banks downsize their branch networks. In the insurance space, customers...