Bigger phish to fry Seventeen minutes. That’s how long a typical cyberattack in South Africa lasts. And one in 214 emails sent in the country last year was a phishing attack. If that wasn’t… Read more
Step on the gas It appears there is no end to the offshore East Africa gas boom. Tanzania recently announced its latest deep-sea discoveries, which show the country has 18% more natural gas than… Read more
Dime a dozen One hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollars will get you 40 US cents – if it’s exchanged via the country’s central bank. On eBay, however, the going rate for one of the… Read more
Hard to swallow What swarming pest, renowned for destroying huge areas of crops, might just turn out to be an answer to Africa’s food security problem? Irony of ironies, it’s the desert locust…. Read more
Relief at hand Half a million – that’s the number of backlogged health claims from mineworkers with lung diseases that South Africa plans to unblock with a ZAR1.5 billion fund. The goal is… Read more
