Realising The Potential Of Digital Payments: A Window Of Opportunity For Trade In Sub-Saharan Africa
By Aida Diarra, Senior Vice President & Head of Sub-Saharan Africa at Visa To truly understand the role and potential of digital payments in enabling trade in Sub-Saharan Africa, an interrogation of the current payments landscape on the continent is needed; more specifically; two areas that can accelerate value for trade in the region: interoperability […]
Ecommerce And Fintech Boom Will Benefit South African Consumers
As the demand for online purchases skyrockets, so there is a greater need for more diverse and effective payment solutions to benefit both buyers and merchants The acceleration of ecommerce as the global Covid-19 pandemic revolutionises buying trends is giving rise to exciting new developments in the financial technology industry. According to research by the […]
Building Environmentally Sound Businesses In The ‘Decade Of Delivery’
The trouble is, we think we have time. I’m sure American scholar and author Jack Kornfield won’t mind me paraphrasing him slightly. Because here’s the thing: in spite of talking about climate change and global warming for as long as I’ve been working in technology, we’re at a tipping point. In less than seven years, global warming […]
Covid-19 Could Have Been Contained – Epidemics That Didn’t Happen
First-Of-Its-Kind Interactive Report From Resolve To Save Lives Highlights Global Epidemic Response Successes New report highlights how African leadership helped beat infectious disease outbreaks before they became epidemics Last year, a single outbreak of deadly infectious disease travelled around the world, changing life as we know it. But every year, there are many near misses—outbreaks […]
Nigeria’s Risk Communications Highlighted In New Report Showing How Countries Successfully Beat Infectious Disease Outbreaks
New report highlights how African leadership helped beat infectious disease outbreaks before they became epidemics Last year, a single outbreak of deadly infectious disease travelled around the world, changing life as we know it. But every year, there are many near misses—outbreaks that are successfully controlled before they become epidemics.Today, Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative […]
PDC Appointed As Official Distributor Of Honeywell AIDC And POS Solutions In South Africa
The Printer Distribution Company (PDC) has been appointed as an authorised distributor of Honeywell, global leader in Safety and Productivity Services, within the Sub-Saharan Africa region. “We are very excited to have added Honeywell to our portfolio as this appointment enables our extensive partner network to add more value to their respective customers through the […]
Gro Intelligence: Accounting For Climate Change
Sara Menker comes by her nightmares honestly. She was born in Ethiopia in 1982, shortly before a two-year famine resulted in the death of up to a million of her compatriots. Menker was too young to have firsthand memories, and her family was solidly middle class—her mother was a seamstress for Ethiopian Airlines, and her […]
A Post-Covid-19 Recovery Will Not Be Possible If Water, Sanitation & Hygiene Are Not High On The Agenda
By Helen Hamilton This World Health Day, G20 finance ministers will meet in Rome, Italy, to discuss how they will build back from the pandemic. The global economy is and concerted effort, coordination and imagination is needed to enable not only a worldwide recovery but also to ensure that the world’s poorest people are not left […]
Spotlight on Africa’s Digital Artists
In 2017, a South African visual artist decided to become “anonymous,” taking the alias Xopher Wallace and wearing goggles, a morphsuit and sweatshirt in his photographs to keep his real identity a secret. For him, being anonymous means that people can focus mainly on his art and he can preserve “his authentic character.” By using […]
Meet the First Black African to Umpire a Test Match
Zimbabwe’s Langton Rusere, 35, is one of the on-field umpires for the five-day game between Zimbabwe and Pakistan that began on Thursday at Harare Sports Club. Rusere’s first international match as an umpire was a Twenty20 between hosts Zimbabwe and India in Harare on 19 July 2015. Three months later, he made his one-day international […]
