SA becomes a more attractive cybercrime target
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Manufacturing Survey highlights lower business confidence
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Microsoft continues reign as most imitated brand for phishing
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The return of the USB in cyberthreats
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Never use dye-stained notes from ATMs
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SA riots: Does force majeure apply?
Businesses experiencing disruption from the recent events in South Africa may be able to invoke force majeure clauses in contracts, or the law of supervening impossibility, depending on the circumstances, write Webber Wentzel's Michael Straeuli and Dominic Harris. The...
Will SANDF protect vandalised telecoms infrastructure?
The civil unrest has resulted in numerous telecommunications and broadcasting infrastructure being destroyed. By Peter Grealy and Nozipho Mngomezulu from Webber Wentzel South Africa's telecommunications and broadcasting Regulator, the Independent Communications...
100 years of TB vaccines and it’s still killing people
On the 100th anniversary of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, experts from the Stop TB Partnership, researchers and civil society representatives have called on world leaders to deliver new, effective, safe, equitable and affordable tuberculosis (TB)...
Global sickle cell disease registry to improve African outcomes
Approximately 400 986 babies are born with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) globally per year, with almost 75% of these births in Africa. Despite this high incidence resulting in high mortality rates, there are currently no effective SCD-focused public health programmes in...
How to guard against supply chain disruption
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