KRONE X WHATIFTHEWORLD Is Proud To Present 40 Under 40, A Showcase Of 40 Artists Under The Age Of 40
As a joint project with BMW Young Collectors Co., an initiative of FNB Art Joburg KRONE X WHATIFTHEWORLD gallery presents 40 under 40 from 25 September 2021 to 28 February 2022. This intriguing and provocative presentation of 60 diverse works from 40 young artists – all of whom are under the age of 40 – will […]
Ghana’s Natalie Fort Nominated For United Nations MIPAD Recognition
Revered Ghanaian broadcaster Natalie Fort has been nominated for this year’s Most Influential People of African Descent, this will be championed by the Most Influential 100 Recognition Week. This follows the opening of the United Nations 76th general Assembly on October 1 to 4. Ms. Fort will join ninety-nine other outstanding personalities and high achievers […]
Payments Industry Has A Role To Play In The Attainment Of UNSDGs
By Aldo Laubscher Country Manager for South Africa at Visa The Covid-19 pandemic has over the past 16 months had a very devastating impact. It has thrown our economies into freefall and disrupted how we work, how we interact, how we shop and how businesses sell. This impact comes on the back of a renewed […]
Imperial And Sasol To Formalise Partnership To Co-develop Southern Africa’s Hydrogen Mobility Ecosystem
Imperial Logistics (Imperial) and Sasol South Africa (Sasol) have entered into an agreement to collaborate in exploring options and solutions for improving freight sustainability and efficiency in Southern Africa. The two companies will also be evaluating potential cross-border collaboration. South Africa’s transition to a low carbon future requires bold innovation and investment in transformative technologies. […]
Infinidat Gains Traction In South Africa With Innovative Solutions And Elastic Pricing To Meet Ongoing Storage Challenges
Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise-class storage solutions, is gaining momentum in the South African market with a number of innovative developments launched in the last six months. These include its storage-as-a-service (STaaS) strategy via AIOps technology and flexible consumption models at petabyte scale, as well as the recent introduction of a new InfiniBox Solid-State […]
Africa Saccos Week 2022
SNG Events is organizing the Africa Saccos Week on 25th – 27th April 2022 in Nairobi,Kenya. Africa Saccos Week is a yearly conference & exhibition dedicated to the development of Savings and Credit Co-Operatives in Africa. The conference will be open to everyone who can impact or be impacted by Saccos. This includes central banks, […]
Nationalising Rabat’s State Entities
Morocco plans to set up state-owned utilities in charge of water, electricity and sewage management to replace local subsidiaries of French companies Veolia and Suez, an interior ministry official told reporters. Contracts with Suez subsidiary Lydec, a Casablanca-listed company, and with Veolia-owned Redal and Amendis will not be renewed after they expire in 2026 and […]
When One Trial Ends Another Opens for South Africa’s Former President
Former South African president Jacob Zuma did not attend a hearing in his corruption trial Tuesday, prompting prosecutors to question his absence and ask the judge to examine his medical records. He was due to appear at the Pietermaritzburg High Court for the resumption of his corruption trial, where he had asked to have the […]
China Follows DRC’s Lead on Mining Regulations
Following the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) suspension of Chinese companies over illegal activities, Beijing said it will impose sanctions on the businesses if they are found guilty. They must also leave South Kivu province, according to Wu Peng, the director-general of the department of African Affairs at China’s foreign ministry. Felix Tshisekedi, the […]
Nigeria has been Grappling with a Growing Drug Problem
In its World Drug Report, published in June, the UN recorded a rise in the country’s rate of abuse from 5.6% in 2016 to 14.4% in 2018, with cannabis the most commonly used drug. Ease of access to drugs, poverty, job insecurity and unemployment have fuelled the increase. Now there are concerns that lockdown restrictions […]
