Mooketsi Mocumi, strategic communications and corporate affairs adviser. South Africa now has something the telecommunications sector has long called for: a costed, structured roadmap to achieve universal, meaningful connectivity. The proposed investment of roughly R142 billion to deliver 100Mbps broadband to all households by 2035 is ambitious, necessary and overdue. But the most important question…
South African mining doesn’t lack strategy or plans. In many operations, it doesn’t even lack demand. What it lacks, increasingly, is consistent execution. That was the clearest thread to emerge from a recent Workday and TechCentral roundtable event with mining leaders across the C-suite. With gold and PGMs in a strong pricing cycle, the conversation…
President Trump told CBS News Tuesday morning that he is not ready “quite yet” to remove U.S. assets as part of efforts to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, despite a Truth Social post suggesting allies need to do it themselves. In a phone call, Mr. Trump reiterated his frustration that other countries,…
China’s economic footprint in Africa has grown fast over the last two decades. Across the continent, Chinese-backed mines, oilfields, railways and industrial zones have gone from being ambitious projects to central pillars of national development plans. This has been made possible by over US$181 billion in infrastructure loans and about US$50 billion in foreign direct…
Dar es Salaam — YOU are at your wits’ end after reassuring, coaxing, encouraging, and telling your child or teen they know how to do what they aren’t doing. Your child still stalls at the starting line. Simple homework assignments are met with agony. Even small decisions seem overwhelming in your child’s mind. They keep…
MILAN — Watching from the finish line, American skier Breezy Johnson was in first place of the women’s downhill Sunday when Germany’s Emma Aicher flew down the course in Cortina D’Ampezzo, gaining time on the leader. But almost as soon as the front of Aicher’s body crossed the finish line, triggering the timekeeping system to…
For years, Vodacom Group was viewed primarily as a telecommunications operator with an interesting side business in mobile money. That framing no longer holds: the numbers in its latest quarterly trading update show that fintech is not just a growth engine, it is becoming central to the group’s identity. Over the past 12 months, Vodacom’s…
Net Nine Nine CEO Albert Oosthuysen Despite global trends showing a correlation between higher internet penetration rates and GDP growth, South Africa’s high internet penetration has failed to translate into robust economic growth. This is because uncapped fibre broadband reaches only 26% of the population, despite mobile internet penetration exceeding 80%, according to Net Nine…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. What happens if the United Kingdom blocks X? Last week that was a silly question, on which bookmakers offered silly odds. On Monday, a member of Cabinet stood in the UK Parliament and vowed to – within days – activate legislation that would leave X and its users open to…
(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Todd Combs’ surprise departure from Berkshire Hathaway got most of the attention when it was announced this week. There were also, however, several additional personnel…
