In the recent State of the Nation address President Cyril Ramaphosa hailed the South African Competition Commission’s ruling to dramatically reduce data prices as an important step to improve lives, bring people into the digital…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil prices rallied in Asia on Tuesday from a dramatic 8%-fall in their last session. International rose 2.43% to $34.11 by 9:52 PM ET (2:52 AM GMT) and…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO), in its quest to find efficacious therapies to treat COVID-19, plans to conduct a multi-arm, multi-country clinical trial. The trials have yet to begin, but ten countries have already signed…
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s burgeoning population of young people is considered one of its greatest untapped resources. Young men and women aged 15-24 constitute about a fifth of the total population. It’s a huge resource because, if…
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© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com — Gold prices roared higher again on Monday, extending a three-session rally as confidence returned to global financial markets against a backdrop of slowly improving health data from Europe. By…
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Viruses are little more than parasitic fragments of RNA or DNA. Despite this, they are astonishingly abundant in number and genetic diversity. We don’t know how many virus species there are, but there could be…
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South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown is likely to have a devastating impact on the incomes of workers and their dependants. There is broad agreement that the lockdown is a necessary public health response. But the economic…
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© Reuters. By Gina Lee Investing.com – Oil prices slid in Asia on Monday morning as OPEC+ delayed a meeting scheduled for later in the day to Thursday. International lost 6% to $32.74 by 9:55 PM ET (2:55 AM GMT) and U.S. also dropped 6,1% to $26.61,…
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With #StayAtHome and social distancing now becoming a way of life, an increasing number of people are relying on the internet for work, education and entertainment. This has placed greater demand on our network infrastructure,…
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As South Africa entered its 21-day lockdown, the political message was that South Africans were all in it together. However, it is clear that while society has been united politically to fight COVID-19, there are…
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