Purple Group, the JSE-listed owner of EasyEquities, is acquiring Telescope AI, the Australian start-up whose technology already powers the investment platform’s AI Baskets feature, in a deal worth up to US$10.75-million (R177-million). Purple Group and EasyEquities operator First World Trader will each acquire 50% of Telescope AI from the Pettett Family Trust and three key…
As South Africans adopt purple profile images in support of the Women for Change movement ahead of a planned national shutdown, cybersecurity experts warn that gender-based violence increasingly extends into digital spaces, with technology playing a growing role in harassment, surveillance and psychological harm. Digital spaces emerging as a GBV battleground While technology enables mass…
Khanyisile Ngcobo, Nomsa Maseko,BBC Africa, Johannesburg and Danai Nesta Kupemba AFP via Getty Images Many activists want gender-based violence to be declared a national disaster South African women’s rights groups are calling for nationwide protests to demand that gender-based violence (GBV) be declared a national disaster in a country where attacks on women have become…
