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Google's central message was that Android is moving from being an operating system to what it calls an “intelligent system.”

From Sea Monster’s global King’s Trust International entrepreneurship game to FinMaster’s pizza-box-to-retail board game journey, South African developers are showing that financial literacy may stick better when it feels less like homework and more like play. The next frontier in financial literacy may not be another classroom worksheet, corporate social investment roadshow or fancy laminated budgeting pamphlet that gathers dust in a school office. That is not as frivolous as it sounds. In a country where too many young people leave school knowing more about trigonometry than compound interest, and where entrepreneurship is often sold as an escape hatch without enough practical support, gam

The Hormuz diplomatic deadlock is no longer just a shipping crisis but it’s accelerating a permanent rewiring of global energy logisti

An unemployment rate of more than 30% is the ‘new normal’ for South Africa, an insidious indicator that has defined this decade and Cyril Ramaphosa’s presidency. And it could yet scale and surpass the record of 35.3% reached in Q4 2021. South Africa’s woeful unemployment situation is on a descent from terrible to Hell on Earth, a state of affairs that will exacerbate poverty and inequality and fan the flames of social unrest in a vicious cycle that will perpetuate this seemingly intractable challenge. In the first quarter (Q1) of this year, the unemployment rate rose by 1.3 percentage points from the previous three-month period to 32.7% — a level that should be shocking but remains unsurpris

Africa’s premier energy event, African Energy Week (AEW), is pl

The Arab Coordination Group (ACG) (www.TheACG.org) held its 95th periodic technical meeting of Heads of Operations virtually on 11–12 May 2026 to discuss development projects and joint initiatives. The meeting focused on strengthening cooperation, reviewing ongoing initiatives, and identifying priorities for development fina

The consumer protection agency says Lagos State’s planned enforcement against estimated electricity billing and rollout of smart meters could improve transparency and consumer confidence in the power sector.

Whenever there is a dispute involving a big corporate you can tell how serious it is by the level of the person involved. And when the CEO has to step into the ring you know that things have escalated, that whatever is going on has come to pose some kind of risk to the business. Financial Mail reports Beyers Chocolates is in liquidation following a dispute with Woolworths. Kees Beyers, owner of Beyers, tells that Woolworths pulled its business deliberately to shut him down. Woolworths issues statement denying this. Woolworths issues a longer statement claiming it could not resolve its dispute with Beyers over exclusivity, and again denies unfair business practices. For Woolworths, a company

Biovac and Proparco announced a $180 million investment to expand an African multi-vaccine production facility. Africa currently produces less than 1% of the vaccines it consumes, according to Africa CDC.

Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission (LASERC) issued 14 licenses and operating permits to private electricity operators across five market segments. Lagos aims to raise generation capacity from less than 60 megawa