Big guns set to fire at COSAFA Cup 2018
by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG - THE annual Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) Cup will run at full throttle this weekend as the region’s big guns join the ...
Read More »Africa leads peer-to-peer financial revolution
by AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG – AFRICAN consumers account for over R500 million (US$40 million) in transactions per month on Paxful, the global peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketpl ...
Read More »Five decades of automation transformation celebrated
by AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG – SCHNEIDER Electric is celebrating 50 years of the invention of the first Programmable Logic Controller(PLC), a milestone in automation transformatio ...
Read More »Expanding IDC urges SA firms to invest beyond borders
by GIFT NDOLWANE in EMALAHLENI , Mpumalanga EMALAHLENI - THE Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), South Africa’s development finance institution, is intensifying plans to in ...
Read More »Accenture ploughs millions in digital age skills
by MTHULISI SIBANDA JOHANNESBURG – ACCENTURE, the global professional services company, is committing more than US$200 million (R2,485 billion) over the next three years to equip ...
Read More »Outcry over jailing of Egyptian journalist
from AHMED MOOLA in Cairo, Egypt CAIRO – MEDIA rights groups are outraged at the ten-year prison sentence a military court has imposed on an Egyptian journalist. Freelancer Ismail ...
Read More »Africa’s first blockchain protocol re-imagines digital assets’ future
by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG – A CONSORTIUM co-founded by South African blockchain and cryptocurrency expert, Riccardo Spagni, has announced a new open source blockchain protoc ...
Read More »MediaTek unveils new chipset for mid-range smartphones
by MTHULISI SIBANDA JOHANNESBURG – MEDIA-TEK has launched a new range of power-efficient chips for the mid-market. The Helio P22 offers the benefits of Artificial Intelligence-acc ...
Read More »EXCLUSIVE: US defends “sovereignty” of African states in use of coal and gas
from SCOTT COURIER in Washington, United States WASHINGTON - THE lack of electricity in Africa has become a factor in Washington’s “war on terror” Good news millions who live off ...
Read More »South Africa GDP to suffer impact of fragile sectors
By AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG – ECONOMISTS have forecast the struggling manufacturing and mining sectors to impede the growth of South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the ...
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