Absa’s Purchasing Managers’ Index just slipped 1.5 points, but the landing spot is the real headline: 40.5, the weakest since April 2020 for the second straight month. Inventories and jobs fell hard, hinting at a manufacturing sector running on fumes.
South Africa’s economy is showing signs of having bottomed out with gradual improvement driven by reforms, better power stability, and fiscal consolidation.
As the 2026 academic year looms, South Africa’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector finds itself at a critical crossroads. While campuses prepare to welcome thousands of students, a profound leadership vacuum and a chronic shortage of specialist educators threaten to undermine the very institutions tasked with solving the nation’s skills crisis.
Aidarous al-Zubaidi, head of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, fled to Somaliland by boat before flying to Abu Dhabi, according to the coalition.
Minister of Communication and Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi says that South Africa’s TV Licence regime has all but collapsed, and details on a new scheme will be presented to the department next month.
[Ghanaian Times] An octogenarian and retired business executive, Mr Godwin Kwashie Anagbo, has appealed to the government to totally, or at least partially, wash its hands off mission schools to save money for national development.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — President William Ruto on Wednesday convened Education Ministry stakeholders at State House, Nairobi, in a high-level meeting aimed at addressing key challenges in Kenya’s education sector, including school funding, reforms, and policy implementation.
After an economic year that few could have predicted, we asked two economists to look into their crystal ball to see the economic trends we can expect this year.
China has hacked the emails used by congressional staff on powerful committees in the US House of Representatives, as part of a massive cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon. An anonymous reader shares a report: Chinese intelligence accessed email systems used by some staffers [non-paywalled source] on the House China committee in addition to aides on the foreign affairs committee,...
A 50-inch TV that would have set you back $1,100 at Best Buy during Black Friday 2001 now costs less than $200, and the price per area-pixel — a metric accounting for both screen size and resolution — has dropped by more than 90% over the past 25 years. The story behind this decline is largely one of liquid crystal display technology maturing from a niche product to a mass-manufactured...
Transport minister Barbara Creecy has revealed what is holding South Africa back from switching to digital driving licences and what the government’s interim plan is for licence cards.
ConvoGPT today announced the development of ConvoGPT OS, a next-generation AI employee replacement system designed to eliminate human dependency across sales, follow-ups, pipeline management, and deal execution.The announcement was made by Jeremy David, Founder and CEO of ConvoGPT, who described ConvoGPT OS as a fundamental shift away from traditional CRMs, automation tools, and AI assistants. […]