South Africa’s GBS industry has created about 200 000 cumulative since inception in 2006. (Image source: iStock) Despite being a youth employment green shoot, South Africa’s global business services (GBS) sector is unlikely to reach 500 000cumulative jobs by 2030, as envisaged in the 2021 master plan. This is according to Reshni Singh, CEO of…
Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip – Ahmad Mohsen, 24, sits in a shop selling prepaid internet access cards in Deir el-Balah. Three years ago, before Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza started, he imagined a different future. He had graduated with a degree in nursing and was preparing to complete the procedures required to obtain his professional licence….
The Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (Usaasa), which government has said it intends to abolish, has begun public consultation on what universal access to communications services should mean, more than 14 years after the last universal access targets lapsed. A discussion document published in the Government Gazette on Thursday asks whether the…
Jerome Powell, the 16th Chair for the U.S. Federal Reserve, during a moderated conversation at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, on Monday, March 30, 2026. Mel Musto | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Department of Justice will not reopen its criminal investigation into former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the central bank’s overbudget…
Huawei Technologies has officially unveiled its flagship Mate 90 smartphone series, relying on custom silicon architecture and proprietary software to navigate ongoing United States restrictions on advanced semiconductor imports. The launch highlights the company’s efforts to maintain hardware performance improvements while operating within domestic chip manufacturing constraints. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday:…
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Minister Dr Leon Schreiber at the Home Affairs Quantum Leap: A Vision for the Future of Government event. (Photograph by the Department of Home Affairs) Home Affairs plans to use machine learning to make yes or no decisions on visa applications through its Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) system, with humans only stepping in when an…
Darmanin said that 735 of France’s 3,700 schools were now affected “one way or another” by the violent protests. Announcing the arrests late on Friday, Nuñez told France’s TF1 television network: “We are sliding into riot and urban violence, and we are using all intermediate means to put an end to it.” Meanwhile, Education Minister…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Meta’s Ray-Ban and Oakley smart glasses are getting an official South African launch. EssilorLuxottica, which makes the glasses with Meta, said in a joint announcement on 24 September that it would expand retail “in the coming months” into 10 new markets, including South Africa, Israel, Poland and New Zealand. A footnote…
An AI model downloaded over 3 billion times and used by U.S. firms like Airbnb and Uber is embedded with China-friendly narratives and programmed for censorship, new research shows. Qwen, a freely available model made by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba, doesn’t acknowledge the violent suppression of protests in Hong Kong in 2019 or Tiananmen Square in…
