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What's Trending : Connectivity Issues Leave Vodacom Users Discontent On Social Media.

With millions of users Vodacom has once again found itself in hot water on the social media streets as users complained about poor network connectivity for the second time in eleven days. Customers voiced out concerns of poor network affecting their virtual meetings and their overall daily productivity. According to Business Tech ...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 1 day ago

Bokgoni Technical High School receives new multimedia centre from MTN after achieving 100% pass rate.

The MTN SA Foundation brings digital education closer to the youth with the recent handover of a state of the art multimedia centre to Bokgoni Technical High School in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. Bokgoni stood out as a truly deserving recipient after improving its matric performance from only 32% in 2016 to a 100% pass rate last year. ...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 14 days ago

Ramaphosa Addresses The First-Ever National Taxi Lekgotla

Kwazulu Natal saw its first ever general legotla. Kwazulu-Natal MEC for Transport, Community Safety and Liaison Bheki Ntuli said this Provincial Taxi Lekgotla could not have come at a better time as we are all seized with the issue of professionalizing the taxi industry and investigating sustainable ways of shaping the taxi industry fo...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 25 days ago

DJ Zinhle is Definitely living in 20plenty

Dj Zinhle always has unending surprises up her sleeve. The KwaZulu-Natal Born DJ and producer who has always been best known for producing club banger hits such as My Name is and Umlilo has done it again and this time she took it international. Dj Zinhle is no stranger to liments as well as cultivating generational wealth this can be a...

By Phumzile Mavimbela about 2 months ago

QLFS- SA Unemployment Increases to 30.8% In The Third Quarter of 2020.

As South Africa journeys on the road to economic recovery following an intense lock down due to Covid 19, much effort will still need to be invested in rebuilding economic stability. According to a report from Statistics South Africa The expanded definition of unemployment has increased by 1.1 percentage points to 43.1% in the third ...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 13 days ago

Profile Feature: Michelle Expert The Entrepreneur.

Today We get to know Michele Expert a young entrepreneur residing in Joburg. Her background of entrepreneurship has served as s stepping stone to cultivating the power house she is today. There are so many social ills which have entang...

By Phumzile Mavimbela 19 days ago

Exclusive Live Stream For This Year's MTN Business App Awards.

Covid 19 has certainly shaped and evolved our everyday lives changing also the nature of how events are hosted. The 2020 annual MTN Business App of the Year Awards are here and this year the event will be streamed exclusively online on ...

By Phumzile mavimbela about 1 month ago

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South Africa: In His Policy Paper, Mboweni Demands Urgent Action to Improve and Grow Economy

Tito Mboweni on Tuesday published proposals to boost economic growth by an additional 2.3 percentage points above forecast over the next decade — and create at least a million jobs. Still, the economic policy paper’s release was an intri...

Marianne Merten·about 1 year ago

Nigeria Approves Spectrum for 5G Trial

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the spectrum for the trial of 5G services in the country. The Executive Vice Chairman of the commission, Umar Danbatta, disclosed this at the opening of the maiden International T...

Joburg Post·about 1 year ago

Nigeria: Govt Outlines Strategy to Lift 100 Million Out of Poverty

The Minister of Science and Technology Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, yesterday said the Federal Government would deploy science, technology and innovation to actualize President Muhammadu Buhari's promise of freeing 100 million Nigerians from the po...

Emmanuel Elebeke·about 1 year ago

South Africa Is Close To ‘Junk Status’ From All Three Rating Agencies. What Could Follow?

The rating agency Fitch recently revised the outlook on South Africa’s long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating down from “stable” to “negative”. A credit rating outlook indicates the potential direction of the country’s rating o...

Misheck Mutize & Sean Gossel·about 1 year ago

Mozambique Case Study Shows That Poverty Is About Much More Than Income

What does it mean to be poor? On the face of it, this may not sound like a very difficult question. In developed countries, almost all official and everyday definitions refer to poverty in income terms. In this sense, low consumption pow...

Sam Jones & Inge Tvedten·over 1 year ago

South Africa Is Caught In The Global Hype Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution

South Africa is caught up in the global hype of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). This is distracting it from the unfinished business of redressing inequality and creating the preconditions for an inclusive digital economy and soci...

Alison Gillwald·over 1 year ago

Rwanda's Kagame Rejects FT Report On 'Cooked Poverty Figures'

For the second time in a week, Rwandan president Paul Kagame has responded to a recent report by the Financial Times, FT, that poverty figures were manipulated in 2015. The president’s latest response was at a press briefing in Namibia w...

Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban ·over 1 year ago

What Is An Inverted Yield Curve? Why Is It Panicking Markets, and Why Is There Talk of Recession?

Since President Trump tweeted about imposing new tariffs on China, global equity markets have gone into a tailspin. Trump’s more recent announcement that the new tariffs would be delayed has not calmed the markets, with recent days seein...

Mark Crosby·over 1 year ago

Disconnect Between Business and State Contributed to Marikana Massacre

The Marikana massacre, in which 34 striking mineworkers were shot dead by police on 16 August 2012, was a tragic and historic event in South Africa. A judicial commission of inquiry set up to investigate how it came about put much of the...

Ralph Hamann·over 1 year ago

A Cash Crunch Heaps Even More Pain On Zimbabweans

Walker Ishmael Gombingo sits on the concrete pavement outside a bank in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. Elderly and looking dejected, he is one of a growing horde of people forming a line on and off the pavement in the late morning sun.

Chris Muronzi·over 1 year ago