African tech startups raised US$649,303,000 between January 1 and March 31 this year, down 57.2 per cent on the total from the corresponding period in 2022, as the sector begins to feel the bite from the global economic...
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South African earned wage access platform Paymenow has raised a ZAR250 million (US$14 million) debt facility through Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) to help fund its growth. The Stellenbosch-based Paymenow was formed in...
Nigerian startup VarsityScape makes it easier for cohort-based course instructors to access all the tools they need to host a successful course using AI and live-learning technology. Founded in 2019 by Daniel Idiare and Kenney...
While an investigation into the barriers of entry into the property sector for small black property practitioners is near completion, the new CEO of the Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority, Thato Ramaili, says...
This week, the treasury and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced that Eskom would be exempted from reporting irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in its financial statements — but it must report this in its...
The World Literacy Foundation says illiteracy is costing the country’s economy R119.03 billion as about 3 million people struggle to read, write and do basic maths. More than two-thirds of the world’s illiterate people...
Former president Thabo Mbeki is set to meet the ANC’s top officials today to discuss his letter criticising the party’s stance on President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala...
Manufacturing output decreased by 5.2% in February year-on-year, according to Statistics South Africa, slightly worse than analysts’ predictions of a 4.3% to 5% contraction. The largest contributors to the...
Twitter Inc. has ceased to be an independent company after merging with a newly formed shell firm called X Corp., driving speculation about what Elon Musk intends for the social media platform. Twitter Twitter “no longer...
Emmanuel Omokhegbe, who has an online platform, A Student’s Dream, to help pupil and students, decided to create the networking site because the high dropout rate at universities is often caused by poor career guidance...