Nov 24, 2016
With news just in that retail sales in South Africa rose 1,4 percent year-on-year in September of 2016 after being flat in August and above market expectations of a 1% increase, the sector is seeing the highest increase in months. This news bolsters the cautiously...
Nov 24, 2016
Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) reported on November 23 that headline inflation increased from 6,1% year-on-year (y-o-y) in September to 6.4% y-o-y in October. The latest y-o-y figure (calculating the change over a 12-month period) was above market expectations of...
Nov 24, 2016
SAP’s ambitious goal of equipping 5-million African youth with basic coding skills by 2025 took a bold step forward following the release of the results of this year’s Africa Code Week. Just less than 427 000 youth from 30 African countries completed...
Nov 24, 2016
MTN has issued the following update to a continuing internal investigation aimed at establishing the facts behind an incident in which a woman who made a distress call to the 112 was allegedly cut off by a call centre agent. In line with its license obligation MTN is...
Nov 24, 2016
African air travel spend is expected to rise 24% with the introduction of the pan-African passport in 2018, which will enable African travellers to visit other countries on the continent without a visa. A new survey by global travel technology provider Sabre aimed to...
Nov 24, 2016
Misperceptions about renewable energy being expensive, inaccessible, complicated and unreliable still persist, despite South Africa’s success in building out its large-scale renewable energy infrastructure. To a large extent, the country’s progress in...
