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A woman scoops water from a hole she has dug in a dried-up riverbed in Lusitu, Zambia. (AP pic) JOHANNESBURG: Joyce Lakela runs a nursery in Tembisa, a Johannesburg township, but these days she spends most of her time trying to find water. “It’s been going on for five days,” she said, lamenting shortages affecting […]
South African startup MindCiti has launched its AI-Integrated Interview Job Coach, a new feature designed to enhance users’ confidence and readiness for job interviews. Launched earlier this year, MindCiti offers a range of comprehensive solutions for individuals seeking to improve their mental health, soft skills, and job readiness. Through its mobile app, students and employees […]
The South Africa-founded B2B software-as-a-service fleet management company GoMetro, now headquartered in London, has been selected as a recipient of a GBP147,000 (US$191,000) grant from the UK Freight Innovation Fund. Founded in 2014 by Justin Coetzee, GoMetro is a B2B SaaS fleet management company that is providing a best-in-class, OEM-agnostic electrification management platform for bus […]
The African Business Angel Network (ABAN) and Scaling Digital Agriculture Innovations through Start-ups (SAIS) have partnered to launch the Climate Smart Agriculture Angel Investor Capacity Development (CAICD) programme, which aims to enhance the angel investment ecosystem in climate-smart agriculture. ABAN is the largest pan-African organisation of angel investors, while SAIS, a project implemented by the […]