Phishing Alert Cybersecurity: Companies in Africa need to do more to fight off attacks, says Kaspersky Telling your boss that your company computer has been phished – victim of a campaign to obtain sensitive information through fraudulent emails ... – needs to be seen as a corporate win, not a danger to your job.
SHOT IN THE ARM South Africa: Ramaphosa makes a move to end Covid ‘vaccine nationalism’ South Africa is to embark on one of the most ambitious vaccination campaigns in its history, confirmed President Cyril Ramaphosa. He is also ... the current chair of the African Union (AU) and is being more vocal about what he calls creeping “vaccine nationalism” on the international scene.
no jab, no joy Covid-19 vaccines in Africa: Mo Ibrahim and others lament sorry state of access Sudanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist Mo Ibrahim voiced “shock and sadness” at the spectacle of the Global South being excluded ... from the mass Covid-19 vaccination drive taking place in richer countries.
the beauty in the struggle South Africa: Jonas Gwangwa – The political musician Music is not a zero-sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s ... struggle for a national culture, it must be trombonist, composer and cultural activist Jonas Mosa Gwangwa, who was born on 19 October 1937 in Orlando East, Johannesburg, and died on 23 January 2021 in Johannesburg aged 83.
last minute reprieve South Africa: Ramaphosa rival Magashule plays the long game The African National Congress has postponed at the 11th hour a long-awaited discussion on the fate of its highest-ranking full-time official, ... secretary general Ace Magashule. Magashule has refused to step down as recommended last month by the party’s integrity commission, consisting of elders appointed to police leaders’ morals, after he was charged with corruption.
Reading the smallprint South Africa’s Santam defends position on COVID-19 claims The Africa Report’s latest article on Santam’s stance on paying COVID-19 business interruption claims has prompted a detailed response from ... the company, South Africa’s largest general insurer.
antibody hit South Africa: Fauci raises concern over Covid 19 variant Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, says that some coronavirus treatments may be less ... effective against Covid-19.
lucky sip Alibaba may offer South African red wines, Standard Bank says Standard Bank is hoping to push Alibaba to make South African red wines available on its platform at scale in a bid to match unsold South African ... production with Chinese demand.
Next Stop, Space South Africa: Elon Musk’s journey to become the richest man – for a moment – in the world Elon Musk, the one-of-a-kind South African boss of Tesla and SpaceX, briefly saw his fortune exceed that of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Here is ... the life story of the genius who seeks to explore space.
Take It or Leave It South Africa’s Santam seeks to limit Covid business pay-outs to three months South Africa’s largest general insurer Santam, which has finally acknowledged that it is liable for business interruption claims filed by policyholders ... as a result of COVID-19, says it will offer hospitality and leisure customers a “full and final” settlement to cover three months of losses.