Jun 7, 2017
People who read generally earn around 50% more their non-reading counterparts, across the entire spectrum of society. This is one of the insights from the Establishment Survey conducted by the Publisher Research Council, which also indicates that just one-third of...
Jun 7, 2017
Rand Merchant Investment Holdings, through its innovation hub for fintech entrepreneurs AlphaCode, and Nedbank Private Equity (NPE) through its private equity investment vehicle BoE Private Equity Investments, have each acquired minority shareholdings in Entersekt in...
Jun 7, 2017
As South Africa enters a technical recession, Christie Viljoen, senior economist for KPMG in South Africa, unpacks the figures behind it. Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) reported yesterday (6 June) that the South African economy contracted by 0,7% quarter-on-quarter...
Jun 7, 2017
Wireless Business Solutions and its next generation LTE-Advanced network has been rebranded as Rain. Chairman and shareholder Paul Harris comments: “We are determined to provide competition in the market to provide consumers with increased connectivity at...
Jun 7, 2017
Industrie 4.0/IIoT is a revolution, not an evolution, and any organisation failing to embrace it will quickly become obsolete. This is the dire warning sounded by speakers st the opening of the Connected Industries conference held this week. The Fourth Industrial...
Jun 7, 2017
At the height of #FeesMustFall, disgruntled students challenged leaders of the University of Johannesburg on what it is that universities are doing to decolonise knowledge. When they started discussing it, it became obvious that there was no consensus on what students...