For the second consecutive year, the KwaZulu-Natal government has shown its commitment to advancing the role of women in society by hosting the prestigious 2020 FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit presented by Mastercard, which will take place at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC Complex in Durban on Friday, 6 March 2020. “We are excited, as KZN, to once again host the FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit,” commented MEC for Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs, Nomsa Dube-Ncube. “Through summits such as these, we are positioning the province as a key destination in terms of leisure and sport while…
Author: Tebogo Nkabinde
Graça Machel, Naledi Pandor and Aisha Pandor will be breaking barriers at FWA Leading Women Summit Renowned African stateswoman and former first lady, Graça Machel, will join South African Minister Dr Naledi Pandor, as well as the CEO of SweepSouth, Dr Aisha Pandor, as part of this year’s influential speakers programme for Africa’s leading women’s summit. The 2020 FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit presented by Mastercard and hosted by the KwaZuluNatal government (#LWS2020KZN) will be taking place at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC Complex in Durban on Friday, 6 March 2020. “The calibre of women participating in the FORBES…
Grocery retailer Pick n Pay has launched an online scheduled grocery delivery service that enables customers to set up an automatic weekly or monthly delivery of items they buy regularly. In a statement, the retailer says removing the hassle of manually placing regular online orders for essentials, this new online shopping feature, called Grocery Genius, offers customers an easy and more convenient way to re-stock products – from the week’s groceries to monthly pantry and household items. Pick n Pay claims it was the first retailer to launch online grocery shopping in South Africa and has now become the first…
South Africa’s economy has entered its second recession in two years in the final quarter of last year, as agriculture, transport and construction contracted, data showed on Tuesday. Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said the economy shrank 1.4% in the fourth quarter, following a revised 0.8% contraction in the third quarter. Economists polled by Reuters had predicted a contraction of 0.1% in quarter-on-quarter and seasonally adjusted terms. “The economy is in recession again. That is two consecutive quarters of contraction, after being in recession in the first two quarters of 2018,” Joe de Beer, Stats SA’s deputy director-general for economic…
Finance minister Tito Mboweni will deliver the national Budget Speech at 14hoo on Wednesday (26 February). The budget speech can be viewed through several channels, including TV services like DStv, news channels, and live-streaming sources like YouTube. You can watch the Budget Speech from the following sources: eNCAParliament TVSABC What to expect from the Budget Speech Mboweni is expected to touch on a number of important issues during his budget speech including tax hikes, government salaries, and the country’s growing debt problems. Key to this will be austerity measures around government spending. Projections tabled in the Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement…
Smartphones might have been introduced to simplify lives, but a recent study has also revealed that the same smartphones might also be affecting our brains. Grey matter controls a person’s emotions, speech, sight, hearing, memory and self-control. Other studies have reported similar brain alterations due to drug usage. “Given their widespread use and increasing popularity, the present study questions the harmlessness of smartphones, at least in individuals that may be at increased risk for developing smartphone-related addictive behaviors,” reads the study by researchers from Heidelberg University in Germany. In the U.S., over 24% of kids from 8 to 12 years…
Africa’s most dynamic thought-leaders, industry game-changers and icons of social activism are set to feature at the exclusive FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Leading Women Summit presented by Mastercard (#LWS2020KZN) and hosted by the KwaZulu-Natal government – taking place at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC Complex in Durban on Friday, 6 March 2020. For the 5th edition of this globally-renowned event, panellists and speakers will engage with the impactful 2020 theme, ‘The Ceiling Crashers 2.0: Power with Purpose’. The day’s thought-provoking discussions will be followed by the highly-anticipated FORBES WOMAN AFRICA Awards Gala Dinner which celebrates the continent’s most influential female ‘ceiling…
Terrorist attacks have become tragically common around the world and somebody had to put a stop to it. In a bid to end terror attacks in the U.K, the government has announced to initiate airport style security and bespoke training to teach staff what to do in the event of a terrorist attack in public venues. Under proposed new laws being unveiled on Monday, the owners and operators of public spaces, such as sports arenas and concert settings, could lose their licences if they fail to put appropriate measures in place to protect visitors. The legislation – dubbed Martyn’s Law…
It is no secret that the Technology industry is like an unofficial boys’ club with a “no girls allowed” sign on the front door. Every time, men are seeing hogging all the headlines while women are either behind, or nowhere to be seen. That is why, this article primarily focuses on women who’ve left a footprint in the tech industry but are not given enough credit. On Feb. 20, 1962, NASA launched one of the most important space flights in U.S. history when it sent astronaut John Glenn into orbit around the Earth. That stunning achievement wouldn’t have been possible…
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