Five Scenarios of Innovation Drive the African Mobile Industry for the Next Golden Decade
Speaking at the MBB Summit during AfricaCom 2025, Samuel Chen, Vice President of Huawei's Wireless Network Business Marketing, unveiled five scenario-based innovations aimed at driving high-quality growth in Africa’s mobile industry. In his keynote speech, “Inspiring...
African countries urged to push quality economic growth by seizing the opportunities of AI development
At AfricaCom, DCDT and the ATU held the 4th Ministerial Forum, under the theme “Artificial Intelligence Powering Africa’s Leap into Digital and Intelligent Era”, convening ministers to back regional compute hubs, African-trained models and issue the joint communique....
Majority of Bill Gates’ $200bn pledge heading to Africa
Following his pledge to give away his $200-billion fortune over the next 20 years, Bill Gates has said that the majority of this spend will go to Africa – with a focus on partnering with governments that prioritise the health and well-being of their people. “I...
UCT at forefront of landmark discovery on early human genetics
In a scientific first, a team led by researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and the University of Copenhagen has used ancient proteins to uncover biological sex and hidden genetic variation in Paranthropus robustus - a close, extinct cousin of modern...
PMI contracts for seventh consecutive month
The seasonally adjusted ABSA Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) declined by 1.6 points to 43.1 in May, marking a seventh consecutive month in contractionary territory and suggesting ongoing weakness in the manufacturing sector, despite some tentative signs of recovery...
Growing consumer confidence boosts new vehicle sales
New vehicle sales in May experienced a buoyant 22% surge to more than 45 000 units, according to the latest sales data from naamsa | The Automotive Business Council. “It was most satisfying to see customer confidence, boosted by a further interest cut and positive...
Airline profitability to strengthen despite headwinds
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has announced updates to its 2025 airline industry financial outlook, showing improved profitability over 2024 and resilience in the face of global economic and political shifts. Key highlights from the expected 2025...
Lenovo delivers on its ‘pocket to cloud’ promise
AI is no longer coming – it is here. This is the word from Yugen Naidoo, GM: Lenovo Southern Africa, who says IT must be about innovation with a purpose. “In southern Africa, Lenovo has made real progress, bring smarter technology to customers, supporting the channel,...
How City of Joburg innovated to keep the lights on
Kathy Gibson reports from Saphila Transcend in Sun City – When it started on its digital transformation journey, the City of Johannesburg had to not only update obsolete technology, but convince business users to adopt better processes. Having partnered with SAP since...
Supercomputer aims to accelerate Nobel-worthy science
Doudna is a new supercomputer being built at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. “It will advance scientific discovery from chemistry to physics to biology and all powered by — unleashing this power — of artificial intelligence,” says US...
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Growthpoint proposes B-BBEE transaction to further social impact
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SA fintech among top WEF Technology Pioneers
Omnisient, a South African data analytics fintech that is helping people with no credit history get access to affordable credit, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum's "Technology Pioneers". Omnisient has developed a...
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An opportunity to improve efficiencies and service delivery
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