Stakeholders in the agricultural sector are seeking ways to develop post-harvest technologies to cut food losses and wastage in a region where some 10 million people...
President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned Uganda’s first gold refinery with a promise to abolish royalty taxes to boost the sector. The newly-built $20m African Gold Refinery...
Tech startup, Controvert Media has implemented the use of artificial intelligence robots to automatically write and post news articles on the internet. Artificial Intelligence robots –...
The share prices of Shoprite and Steinhoff both jumped 7% on Monday morning after they called off their proposal to merge into Retail Africa. Retail tycoon...
Smartphones are revolutionising the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, thanks to add-ons and apps that make their ubiquitous small screens into medical devices, researchers say. “If...
Gem Diamonds’ poor run of form with mines outside Lesotho continued after it said it had suspended its Ghaghoo mine in Botswana with immediate effect because...
Toyota announced yesterday, Wednesday, 15 February 2017, that it is recalling all the Mirai fuel-cell vehicles it has sold globally due to a software glitch that...
More people die of lung cancer each year than breast, colon, and prostate cancers combined. One particularly lethal form of the disease is lung adenocarcinoma or...
Comair, the operator of the budget airline kulula.com and the southern African franchisee of British Airways, rewarded its shareholders with a 40% higher interim dividend. Comair...
In a city such as London, commuters who travel for an hour to get to work pass 2.5-million jobs on the way, some of which would...
The annual ‘Mastercard Love Index’, created by analysing credit, debit and prepaid card transactions over a three-year period, reveals South African shoppers feel loved and are...
IBM has announced a US$70 million initiative to provide free digital skills training for 25 million African youth over five years, in a bid to create...
Ford Motor Company has announced that it’s investing US$1 billion during the next five years in Argo AI, an artificial intelligence company, to develop a virtual...
India’s Hindustan Motors has sold its Ambassador car to France’s Peugeot for just US$12 million, capping a spectacular downfall for a vehicle once emblematic of the...
The newly appointed chairman of Edcon said the retailer was too important to fail and would be turned around. Gareth Penny, who took up the position...
French carmaker Peugeot has announced a return to Kenya. Jean-Christophe Quemard, the PSA Peugeot group vice-president for Middle East and Africa, disclosed that the company will...
According to Josiah Montsho, general manager at Pepperclub Hotel & Spa, South Africa’s tourism industry could be referred to as the country’s proverbial pot of gold....
J. Walter Thompson Innovation Group MEA released its ‘Future 100 Trends and Change to Watch in 2017′ report, which highlights the top 100 consumer trends driving...
Proving the old adage of “‘n boer maak ‘n plan” (a farmer makes a plan) true, Ceres fruit growers have adjusted farming practices after experiencing drought...
African infrastructure equity investment manager, African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) has announced the successful acquisition of a 60% effective interest in DSM Corridor Group Tanzania (DCG),...
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