E-commerce takes off during lockdown

As the country enters into its fourth week of lockdown, South African consumers have embraced the concept of online shopping – not only for themselves, but also to assist the many families who are in desperate need of financial relief during the Covid-19 crisis. This...

AWS Africa Region opens new cloud opportunities in SA

South Africa businesses have welcomed the opening of the new Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in Cape Town. The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region expands the hyperscale cloud provider’s global footprint to 73 Availability Zones in 23 geographic regions. “The...

DHL launches air freight service from China

DHL Global Forwarding has launched a dedicated 100-tonne weekly air freight service for organisations and governments shipping goods from China to Africa and Middle East. Capitalising on Dubai’s strategic geographical location as the gateway to countries in the...

How Africa’s fragile economies can recover

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Senior Policy Seminar has shone a spotlight on fragility of growth in African economies. The dialogue seeks to stimulate an informed policy and related policy-making aimed at reducing identified fragile contexts and...

CoCre8 takes Fujitsu into SA, English-speaking Africa

CoCre8 Technology Solutions, a majority black-owned company, has become the exclusive distributor of Fujitsu products and product related services in the South African and English Speaking African market. The South African investment consortium, which previously held...

Testing innovation from SA entrepreneurs

Two South African entrepreneurs have developed a testing kit that promises to significantly speed up the process of identifying positive Covid-19 cases. Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Fellows Daniel Ndima and Dineo Lioma have developed a testing kit that provides results...