SA company joins Silicon Valley start-ups
Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund and start-up accelerator, 500 Start-ups, has announced its 14th batch of start-ups, which includes the South African home cleaning service SweepSouth. This is the first time a local company has been selected by 500 Start-ups,...SA risks undoing telecoms gains
South Africa’s business parks run the risk of helping to undo the significant competition gains in the telecommunications sector over the past decade by failing to encourage diversity in the FTTB (fibre-to-the-building) market. This is according to Rad Jankovic,...
Gloomy picture for SA jobs
Although unemployment improved during the second quarter of 2015, overall figures paint a gloomy picture. Statistics SA’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the second quarter of 2015 show that South Africa’s working-age population was 36-million people, 15,7-million employed, 5,2-million unemployed and 15,1-million “not economically active”.