No employer wants to pay someone to watch television or play games during work hours. As a result, employers across the globe are turning to employee monitoring technology...
Keketso Kgomosotho, with Johan Botes 3 days ago
The Covid-19 pandemic has again highlighted the challenges facing public procurement in South Africa...
Geo Quinot 3 days ago
The narratives of leapfrogging to new technologies are pervasive when it comes to development in Africa. One example is skipping cord phones and landlines to advance directly from limited phone coverage to wide mobile phone usage. Another that's frequently discussed is Africa's potential for a quick transition to renewable energy...
In his 2021 SONA, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the establishment of a National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency would be accelerated...
Mike Muller 3 days ago
The first big TV event of the 2021 awards season finally started this past Sunday with the 78th annual Golden Globes. However, TV shows and films are not only sources of entertainment but also an attractive lure for cybercriminals...
Everywhere, patients have died from Covid-19 when patient numbers exceeded the capacity of the health system. The number of doctors, nurses and oxygen points just wasn't enough...
Gilles van Cutsem 2 Mar 2021
Plastic pollution and climate change are two prominent environmental issues of our time...
Xia Zhu 1 Mar 2021
In the mid-1980s, most of the countries in sub-Saharan Africa made structural changes to their economies in return for funding from the World Bank...
Okechukwu Marcellus Ikeanyibe 26 Feb 2021
Agriculture is an important part of development and poverty mitigation in low income countries. It depends on infrastructure such as good roads, safe drinking water...
Abiodun Olusola Omotayo, Abeeb Babatunde Omotoso, Saidat Adebola Daud 25 Feb 2021
Our cities, designed for one set of climatic ranges, are increasingly "out of place" as average temperatures rise. The days above 40°C and nights above 30°C are...
Cameron Tonkinwise and Abby Mellick Lopes 24 Feb 2021
A recent report by an independent panel on the ethics and credibility of South Africa's news media makes for worrying reading...
Herman Wasserman 24 Feb 2021
Governments in most developing countries use medium-term expenditure frameworks as fiscal policy instruments to match the imperatives of policy, planning and budgeting over the medium-term horizon...
Matthew Kofi Ocran 23 Feb 2021
Around the globe, concern is mounting about the unfolding climate and ecological catastrophe...
Judith Verweijen & Alexander Dunlap 23 Feb 2021
Colleen Rose, consulting director at Acceleration, discusses how the move away from third-party cookies is gathering momentum...
Colleen Rose 22 Feb 2021
News of a new outbreak of Ebola in Guinea is indeed distressing...
Mosoka Fallah 19 Feb 2021
In countries with weak governance institutions, natural resource wealth tends to be a curse instead of a blessing...
Ross Harvey 18 Feb 2021
Four of the commissioners are now women. They will work with the AU Commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat from Chad (re-elected)...
Ashwanee Budoo-Scholtz 18 Feb 2021
One of the big contributors to climate change is right beneath your feet, and transforming it could be a powerful solution for keeping greenhouse gases...
Lucca Henrion, Duo Zhang, Victor C. Li, Volker Sick 17 Feb 2021
The recent appearance of new variants of SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus causing Covid-19 infections), that may be associated with increased transmission of the virus and disease severity...
Ed Rybicki, Anna-Lise Williamson, Don Cowan & Stephanie G Burton 17 Feb 2021
The Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) commenced on 1 July 2020 with a grace period of 12 months meaning that official enforcement will commence on 1 July 2021...
Issued by 1-grid.com 16 Feb 2021
In recent years there have been several major innovations in genetics. One prominent example is Crispr-Cas9...,
Bonginkosi Shozi & Marietjie Botes 16 Feb 2021
As communication about science and health increasingly moves online, new ways are emerging for people to participate in public dialogue about advances in science...
Marina Joubert 15 Feb 2021
Customers are sick and tired of hanging onto their smart TV remotes to hit the 'skip ad' button and miffed at having digital adverts stuffed down their throats dozens of times during each Facebook or YouTube session...
By now, it's clear that 2020 was a year of managing the unexpected and looking for the silver lining. This is especially true when it comes to customer communication. After years of digital-led evolution, even the biggest laggards were forced to revolutionise their customer communications...
Brent Haumann 11 Feb 2021
National medicines regulatory authorities are gatekeepers that protect the public from unnecessary harm from health products. They do so in the best tradition of the injunction to "do no harm"...
Andy Gray 11 Feb 2021
Less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women and Unesco data shows that only about 30% of all female students choose science, technology, engineering and mathematics (Stem) fields at a tertiary level...
Natasha Joseph, Ogechi Ekeanyanwu & Wale Fatade 11 Feb 2021
As cases of poaching rise across Africa's protected areas, some governments have responded with a military approach to nature conservation...
Tafadzwa Mushonga 10 Feb 2021
Covid-19 vaccine supplies are available in various parts of the world. But it's clear that distribution is not symmetrical...
Keymanthri Moodley & Theresa Rossouw 10 Feb 2021
There's a new nature conservation strategy in town - and it means business...
Tom Oliver 8 Feb 2021
There's now another dimension to the race to get people vaccinated. The coronavirus is mutating, potentially making current vaccines less effective against it...
Rob Reddick 8 Feb 2021
Sustainability is a hot topic today due to increasing awareness of climate change and inequality, among other pressing issues...
Leanne Keddie 3 Feb 2021
To fast track the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a broad range of candidate Covid-19 vaccines are being investigated...
Ina Skosana 2 Feb 2021
In November 2017 Zimbabwe's military replaced Robert Mugabe as head of state with his long-time confidante Emmerson Mnangagwa. He declared Zimbabwe "open for business", linking foreign relations with economic policy...
Henning Melber & Roger Southall 1 Feb 2021
Covid-19 has been disruptive to non-profit organisations that are, in many cases, already operating on a shoestring...
Brent McKnight and Julie Gouweloos 1 Feb 2021
The workplace can make a big contribution to reducing their employees' risk of non-communicable diseases through relatively inexpensive adjustments to the work environment...
Darcelle Schouw and Bob Mash 29 Jan 2021
As a young medical doctor over 30 years ago, I had an experience no doctor wants to have. One of my patients, a young boy, died in my arms as we rushed him to the referral hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, to receive treatment...
Monique Wasunna 29 Jan 2021
Global maternal mortality is unacceptably high. Around 810 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth...
Patience Afulani 28 Jan 2021
The hype around WhatsApp's new privacy policies has drawn so much attention from the media. Many different views have been expressed and some are accurate and others not so accurate. Be that as it may, people have been misinformed...
Rirhandzu Shingwenyana 26 Jan 2021
Modern societies are at a turning point where powerful lifestyle shifts are reshaping the ways in which we move, consume, work, learn, socialise and protect ourselves...
Willie Schoeman 25 Jan 2021
Late last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (Krisp) identified a rapidly spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19...
Willem Hanekom & Tulio de Oliveira 25 Jan 2021
Collapsed buildings are worryingly common in several large African cities. One study counted 54 building collapse deaths...
Festival Godwin Boateng 25 Jan 2021
From Google searches and dating sites to detecting credit card fraud, AI keeps finding new ways to creep into our lives...
Tiberio Caetano and Bill Simpson-Young 22 Jan 2021
The issue of vaccine production has become a topic of hot debate following the approval of treatments for Covid-19. In South Africa angry exchanges have been spurred by the country's lagging access to Covid-19 vaccines...
Jeffrey Dorfman & Frank Kirstein 21 Jan 2021
Improving quality of life for people globally means investing in education...
Rory McGreal 20 Jan 2021
Just over a year after the coronavirus was first reported in China countries are still reeling from its effects. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes Covid-19 disease...
Puleng Segalo, Adeyemi Oladapo Arem, Pradeep Kumar 20 Jan 2021
Three broad themes emerging in South Africa in 2021, which will require extensive input from the legal profession, are: changes to the economy and regulation prompted by Covid-19; moves by government and the private sector to stimulate economic recovery; and a greater focus on corporate responsibility and consumer protection...
Jonathan Veeran, Nozipho Mngomezulu and Burton Phillips 19 Jan 2021
Vaccines for Covid-19 are generating a lot of talk. To shed some light on which vaccines are available for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, and how the process will work...
Ina Skosana & Ozayr Patel 19 Jan 2021
Businesses across the globe are investing heavily in mobile apps to easily drive traffic to their websites. However, it remains a challenge for business owners to choose between developing a native app or a cross-platform app...
Nick Durrant, Issued by Bluegrass Digital 19 Jan 2021
Whilst the role of the marketing department appears to have evolved significantly over the past few years, fundamentally it is still about building relationships...
Paula Sartini 18 Jan 2021