Retail in South Africa is changing. As customers become more digitally empowered, the traditional, staff-led in-store experience is being replaced with self-service, smartphone-driven journeys. Tobie van Schalkwyk, Business Unit Lead at Duxbury Networking. Image supplied Shoppers want speed, independence, and seamless access to the same product information and services they have online. But while most…
Defending champions Senegal booked their passage into the semi-finals of the African Nations Championships (Chan) with a narrow 1-0 win over co-hosts Uganda at the Mandela Stadium in Kampala on Saturday. Oumar Ba struck the decisive goal just after the hour to send the Lions of Teranga into a semi-final against Morocco. Sudan also made…
From Gaza to Sudan, wars are being waged on the very systems set up to protect civilian populations, with health workers, hospitals, health centres and ambulances being targeted in horrifying numbers, according to the UN agency for reproductive health and rights, UNFPA. Attacks against health facilities doubled between 2023 and 2024, and more than 900…
Melbourne, Australia — The sole survivor of a deadly lunch laced with toxic mushrooms said on Monday he felt only half alive following the death of his wife and he continued to grieve the loss of his two closest friends. Ian Wilkinson read the first victim impact statement in at a sentencing hearing for Erin…
Apple is reportedly in early talks with Google to use its Gemini model for a revamped version of Siri, according to Bloomberg. The potential partnership is a sign of the challenges Apple has faced in developing its own AI, particularly after the significant delay of its new Siri features. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM…
U.S. Threatens to Deport Salvadoran Man to Uganda After He Rejected Plea Deal Less than 24 hours after his release, U.S. authorities told Kilmar Ábrego García that he could be deported to Uganda, according to his lawyers. The Salvadoran national had turned down a plea deal. The deal would have required him to plead…
Tokyo, – Japan and African nations have entered into a historic wave of cooperation after signing 300 agreements during the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), held this week in Tokyo. The deals–triple the number reached at the previous summit in Tunisia in 2022–highlight Japan’s expanding commitment to Africa’s economic and social development….
Ex-US Open champ suffers meltdown in a third-set flashpoint after an errant photographer’s action caused a point replay. France’s Benjamin Bonzi sent 13th seed Daniil Medvedev crashing out of the US Open in a stormy late-night thriller that boiled over into chaos following an extraordinary third-set meltdown by the Russian. Bonzi advanced to the second…
Tyron Silk, Senior Solutions Architect, CASA Software. Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is gaining traction in South African businesses as organisations strive to automate and optimise IT operations, improve efficiency and reduce costs. CASA Software – with its three decades long experience in the SA ICT sector – is a driving force for AIOps…
Washington DC — Chad is one of the most extreme examples of energy poverty, with just 10% of the population connected to electricity, a rural electrification rate below 2%, and a global per capita electricity consumption rate that’s just 18% of the global average. This hinders its economic development. So does its rapid population growth….
