THE United States (US) government has launched a year-long “IP for Growth” (Intellectual Property for Growth) programme aimed at helping African creators, particularly those in the music industry, turn creativity into economic growth through stronger intellectual property (IP) protection. Speaking during a digital press briefing hosted by the US Department of State’s Africa Regional Media…
Cell C CEO Jorges Mendes Cell C’s wholesale division grew revenue 20% to R1.76-billion in the year to 31 May 2026, adding 1.2 million mobile virtual network operator subscribers. Data traffic from those MVNO users rose 131%, against 47% growth across the group as a whole. It was comfortably the strongest performance in the group….
On World Mosquito Day, attention remains focused on the devastating impact of the disease in Africa. The continent accounts for 95 per cent of malaria-related deaths worldwide. Five years after the roll-out of the first malaria vaccine, it is beginning to deliver measurable results – although significant challenges remain. The RTS,S vaccine marked a turning…
The bodies of two Belgian men who went missing in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been discovered after being exposed by the melting of a glacier, police have said. A hiker discovered the bodies on 26 July on the Trift Glacier, south of the Swiss city of Lucerne, officials said. DNA analysis later confirmed…
African film festivals were once quite rare, but in the past decades they’ve been growing in the continent and mushrooming around the world. A recent open access book explores these events through case studies. The book’s editor, African cinema scholar Sheila Petty, has also written chapters in it about the role film festivals play in…
Khusela Sangoni-Diko, chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) Parliament’s oversight body on communications has extended the deadline for written submissions on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, giving the public another month to make their views known. In a statement, the portfolio committee says the new deadline for…
United Nations — World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and the life-saving services they provide under the most complex and often dangerous conditions. This year, UN leaders are urging the international community to protect humanitarians working in conflict zones and to seek accountability for those who have been injured or killed in their line of…
The West African nation of Liberia received the first group of “third country” deportees from the U.S. on Thursday, including migrants from Latin America, U.S. officials told CBS News. Roughly 20 deportees from different countries landed in Liberia, after being deported from the U.S. A U.S. official, however, told CBS News that after the plane…
107 Killed in Central African Republic Gold Mine Collapse An artisanal gold mine collapse in Zamboye, western Central African Republic, has killed at least 107 labourers. The death toll is rising sharply as rescue teams recover more bodies from the rubble. Several people remain missing or trapped underground, and authorities expect the toll to…
The machine writes the slides now Management consulting, as we have known it for half a century, is finished. The great slide-making, hype-selling, invoice-by-the-kilogram machine is being dismantled by the very technology its own practitioners are busy overhyping, and it could not happen to a more deserving industry. I have earned the right to be…
