Your signal dies on a Tuesday night. There’s no message from your provider, no cause, no estimate of when it will come back. You restart the router, check the app, nothing. In the morning you call the contact centre, wait, and come away with a reference number and a callback that never arrives. Two days…
“No nation, no company, and no institution can unlock the full value of its energy, resources in isolation.” Few lines have captured Africa’s central energy challenge as precisely as this one above, delivered by Bashir Bayo Ojulari, Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd). He made the remark in…
The Royal Academy of Engineering has launched its 2027 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation with a special call out to engineers and innovators in South Africa, the home to two shortlisted candidates this year. The Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, which is part funded by the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, is the…
Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg told CNBC on Monday that the plane maker will need “a couple more years” to repair its finances before launching a new commercial jet, signaling that the company is focused more on stabilizing its existing business rather than rushing to develop a successor to its bestselling 737 MAX. Boeing must clear…
EXPLAINER: International migrants, jobs and crime in South Africa: What do the numbers show? Amid rising hostility towards international migrants, anti-migrant protests have spread across South Africa in 2026. Some have involved intimidation, the denial of access to public services and fatal violence. False information has flourished in this climate, and Africa Check has been…
Learners from across South Africa will showcase innovative research projects at the Eskom Expo regional science fairs. More than 6 000 school science projects will go on display across SA from late July as the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists 2026 holds its annual regional science fairs. The 38 regional events follow 287 district expos held earlier…
Domitexka’s mill in Kaolack has the markets, the know-how and the partnerships to compete globally. What it still needs — like nearly every manufacturer on the continent — is patient capital. The thread comes off the spool white, clean and taut. Inside the Domitexka workshop in Kaolack, the machines are running: raw Senegalese cotton goes…
Spain dominates Argentina in a one-sided World Cup final. Andy Burnham replaces Keir Starmer as Britain’s Prime Minister. And the FDA fails to find the cyclospora parasite in any Taylor Farm lettuce samples. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Here’s what to know today. How Spain…
The author, CallMiner’s Bruce McMahon What began as experimentation with generative AI in 2023 quickly became an everyday tool embedded in how we work, communicate and make decisions. By 2025, we had entered what I’ve called the AI renaissance: a period defined by creativity, rapid iteration and an explosion of people discovering what these tools…
A subtle anomaly. An unpopular call to isolate critical systems. Resistance from every direction. That decision, made years ago with a key stakeholder during a live cybersecurity incident I was managing as a consultant, looked excessive at the time. It turned out to be the difference between a contained event and a ransomware attack that…
