Ahead of the May elections in South Africa, the country’s Minister of Public Service & Administration, Ayanda Dlodlo, gives her take on simplifying government processes and ensuring public services are available for all on digital platforms. What do you have on the cards for this year? It’...
While his financial expertise comes from owning and managing several businesses, his writing spans topics that include finance and self-help, focusing on creating and generating personal wealth and happiness through deeper self-honesty. Ken recently shared a sneak peek of his philosophy behind ac...
A month before South Africa’s elections, one of the country’s leading political figures exposed a number of his former comrades for corruption with evidence to the Zondo Commission on State Capture. It was box office material, yet just another eventful period in the turbulent life of Robert McBr...
Google, Facebook and Twitter have fallen short of their pledges to combat fake news, three months before key European elections, the European Commission said on Thursday. The tech companies and trade bodies representing the advertising industry signed up to a voluntary code of conduct in October ...
Apple makes the most secure phones in the world. At least, that’s the common assumption. But increasingly Android models are as difficult, if not trickier, to break into as the iPhone, according to search warrants and forensic industry sources. One warrant unearthed by Forbes detailed a case...
In his mid-twenties, David Hudson should have gone to the Olympics, but world politics got in the way. It took 20 years before the 46-year-old got his chance in Barcelona; it wasn’t quite what he expected. It was a day he will never forget. July 25, 1991. The day sailor David Hudson heard that ...
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, I became the first African and black woman to compete in the daring sport of Skeleton. Skeleton, in which athletes hurl themselves on a sled, head first, down a frozen ice track at 80 miles per hour, is considered by some to be the most ter...
On Serena Williams’ calendar—which is to calendars what Jackson Pollock paintings are to art—Saturdays are designated family time. The Saturday I’m with her in Rome (she was in New York earlier in the week and will be in Paris the following one) carries extra significance. Exactly four years...
It was bound to happen sooner than later: Amazon has surpassed Walmart as the biggest retailer on the planet. The e-commerce juggernaut jumped 25 spots to #28 on Forbes‘ Global 2000 list of the world’s biggest public companies, as measured by a composite score of revenues, profits, assets and...
hen Rachel Haurwitz started her biology Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, the award-winning biochemist Jennifer Doudna suggested Haurwitz investigate part of a bacterial immune system. She studied how microbes store genetic mementos of attacking viruses and recognize them to fight off...
