Forbes Africa

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NO ONE COULD HAVE PREDICTED THAT THE last 18 months would have been defined by a virus that caused the world to quite literally shut down. As the infection rate rose by the hour, talk turned to vaccines and scientists raced to create an agent that wo

Financial inclusion plays a formidable role in poverty alleviation and the economic mainstreaming of entrepreneurs in the townships. Matt Brownell, VP Commercial at Yoco, a popular point-of-sale payments provider for small businesses processing more

It’s a novel idea in drug development: instead of a system built to benefit shareholders, a new “open-source” platform could borrow best practices from software like Linux and Firefox and potentially energize the race to end COVID-19. Merck’s initiat

But beyond relieving some of the hardest-hit households with PPE or food parcels, “we’re partnering on an ongoing basis with the Clicks Helping Hand Trust,” adds Horner, “through which we have donated over 9,000 reusable sanitary pads for low-income

“It is always harder to win on our own,” admits Mia Louw of Guerbet South Africa. “Being a small team we are very agile and work with a  collaborative mindset, which is one of the building blocks of our DNA. We are a family-owned company, and teamwo

Ursula Myles, GM of Takeda: “An important lesson learnt internally was to stay connected, to pivot to become more digital savvy, have  information available, and keep all lines of communication open. Embracing digital platforms and various ways of co

“IT FEELS LIKE SCI-FI WHEN WE TALK ABOUT it. If you think about the internet that we look at, the metaverse is going to be an internet that we are inside of,” says Derya Matras, Facebook’s Vice President for Africa, the Middle East and Turkey. “Over

In an internet-enabled virtual world, there needs to be a way to own digital items. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are already proving this is possible. Locally, the debut collection from artist Norman Catherine fetched $53,000 at Africarare, the first S

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NEVER HAVE WE NEEDED MORE OF A reason to celebrate. As yet another pandemic year draws to a close, and fêtes get underway and family gatherings become more possible after a prolonged period of lockdowns and quarantine, if you are keen to suitably see

THE INDIAN POET Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize in any category. History books also cite that he named Gandhi as ‘Mahatma’, the lawyer-activist who spent 21 years in South Africa. The deeper Africa connection is in

THIS YEAR HAS brought with it a renewed sense of urgency for climate change. A host of reports released this year have indicated that the prognosis for the planet is rather grim. Last year, temperatures were around 1.02°C warmer. These extreme temper