SAP Expanding World’s Largest Business Network
New Industry Solutions Will Drive More Sustainable Business Performance At its global SAPPHIRE NOW® conference, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) announced a bold vision to create new business communities able to improve business outcomes, better navigate changing economic and geopolitical conditions and enhance sustainability contributions. SAP unveiled the first step toward creating the world’s largest business network with SAP® Business […]
Mastercard Unveils New Carbon Calculator Tool For Banks In Kenya And The Region
New Mastercard feature enables banks to equip people with carbon footprint data and insights about environmental impact Recent research by Mastercard revealed 92% of adults in Kenya are willing to take personal action to combat environmental and sustainability issues Amidst the growing trend toward eco-conscious spending and consumption among people who want to pursue more sustainable […]
The Higher Education Sector Must Prioritise Entrepreneurship Skills
To tackle youth unemployment, graduates must be trained to create jobs South African graduates need to be job creators than seekers The rapid increase in the rate of youth unemployment in South African, has, according to Stats SA, expanded (exacerbated by the COVID-19 devastation) to 63.2 percent amongst youth aged between 15 – 24 years. […]
Global Fashion Channel Signs Exclusive Pan-African Distribution Partnership Deal With Media Brokerage Africa
Global Fashion Channel (GFC) is excited to announce the exclusive partnership deal for pan-African Affiliate Distribution, Advertising, and Content Sales with pan-African broadcast media brokerage agency, Media Brokerage Africa. Global Fashion Channel is a 24/7 TV channel that focuses on premier fashion, beauty, art, luxury lifestyle, culture, music, and special events from around the world. GFC’s bespoke fashion TV […]
Venture Capital Trends Shaping The African Investment Landscape
As the second half of 2021 approaches and Covid-19 vaccinations roll out across the globe, albeit at varying rates, Ian Lessem, Managing Partner at HAVAÍC, investors in early-stage, high-growth technology businesses, considers the trends making an impact on the African Venture Capital (VC) landscape. Homegrown solutions take on the world At HAVAÍC, our investment thesis is […]
Young Female South African Architects Reinvent Serpentine Pavilion in London
In 2020 the prestigious Serpentine Pavilion was awarded to South African studio Counterspace. Three women run the interdisciplinary Johannesburg practice. They are the youngest architects to land the Pavilion commission in its 20-year history. Past designers include architectural superstars such as Frank Gehry, Daniel Libeskind and Peter Zumthor. Projects in the Counterspace portfolio include performances, […]
Creating a New Revenue Model for Talented and Overlooked Local African Content Creators
Ivory Coast-based startup StarNews Mobile, a mobile video network allowing celebrities and influencers to monetise their fan bases in Africa, has partnered mobile operator Orange to provide its high-quality video platform to Orange’s 150 million subscribers across 15 countries in Africa. Launched in July 2017, StarNews Mobile targets the mass market with a network of […]
Amazon May have to Look Elsewhere to Build its Africa Office
For the Khoi and San — South Africa’s first inhabitants — a verdant patch of land in Cape Town embodies victory and tragedy. The two communities drove back cattle-raiding Portuguese soldiers there in 1510. But, a century and a half later, this was where Dutch settlers launched a campaign of land dispossession. Today it is […]
Distraught Father Recalls Latest Kidnapping in Northern Nigeria
Murtala Muhammadu, 48, a local businessman in Tegina, a remote town in Niger State’s Rafi district, told CNN on Tuesday that his 5-year-old son and three daughters aged 6 and 7 were among the more than 150 schoolchildren kidnapped from an Islamic evening school by the armed assailants in Niger State. Muhammadu said that news […]
90 Percent of Would-be Advocates Flunk Uganda’s Bar Course
Only 9% of students studying to become advocates passed exams for the 2019/2020 academic year in Uganda, prompting calls to scrap the bar course. 1474 students wrote the exam but only 145 passed. It is not the first that the relevance of the bar course and the competence of the Law Development Centre (LDC), the […]
