Mutare, Zimbabwe – Samantha Chimbuya had built a life in South Africa after leaving Zimbabwe in 2019 in search of better opportunities. She found work, could afford food and believed her two children had access to better education. She also had access to healthcare. Then, she no longer felt safe. As June 30 approached, a…
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…
Meta and eyewear conglomerate EssilorLuxottica have officially announced plans to expand the retail availability of their smart glasses portfolio into 10 new international markets, including South Africa, Israel, Poland, and New Zealand. According to official company disclosures, the South African rollout will encompass the Oakley Meta, Ray-Ban Meta, and Ray-Ban Meta Optics product lines, establishing…
Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber Home affairs minister Leon Schreiber on Thursday unveiled what he said was South Africa’s first working digital ID, using his own credential on his smartphone in a live demonstration in Johannesburg. “What you are about to see is not only a real working digital identity credential that has been formally…
Despite access to finance consistently ranking among the most significant barriers to business growth, FinMark Trust estimates that only 20% to 30% of SMMEs in Sub-Saharan Africa manage to access formal credit. For many business owners whose companies are trading, winning customers and meeting their financial obligations, a funding rejection can be difficult to understand. However,…
Midrand, South Africa — Somalia’s Senate Secretary-General, Abdinasir Ibrahim Guled, has attended the seventh annual conference of the Association of Secretaries-General of African Parliaments, which opened in Midrand, South Africa, at the Pan-African Parliament. The two-day meeting is focused on modernising parliamentary institutions and strengthening their ability to respond to changing administrative and leadership demands….
Richard Firth has paid a ransom and seen what it bought. Now the MIP Holdings CEO wants South Africa to outlaw such payments. “I think banning ransomware payments will be a powerful deterrent,” Firth told TechCentral on Tuesday. MIP, which supplies software to insurers, paid cybercrime group The Gentlemen a sum Firth described as “substantial”…
Share of households experiencing water shortages has doubled over the past decade. Key findings Water supply ranks third among the most important problems that South Africans want their government to address. Only unemployment and crime/security are deemed more important. o A decade ago, water supply was ninth on the list of citizen concerns. o Rural…
For some South Africans, the beginning of the flower season is met not with the joys of spring but rather with a sniffy nose, itchy eyes and a cacophony of sneezing. In South Africa, allergic rhinitis (hayfever) affects an estimated 20% to 30% of the population – children and adults. Asthma affects around 20% of…
Twenty-eight people have been killed in two mass shootings hours apart in South Africa, the latest gun violence to hit the country. Eighteen people were killed when eight gunmen stormed a bar close to Johannesburg on Saturday evening, with 14 more injured. In a separate shooting in the early hours of Sunday morning, 10 people…
