Can mines become more efficient – and safe – through tech? Robots, drones and virtual reality tools are now being used for sophisticated drilling operations.
For one of the biggest robotics competitions on earth, a team of Generation Z-ers from South Africa made their way to Mexico accompanied by a robot...
South African inventor and investor Stafford Masie on the economy that will unfold as a result of bitcoin offering greater capability than cash.
“Nothing can be said to be certain, except Death and Taxes” – Benjamin Franklin, 1789 As we head into the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), there is...
Accenture is on the hunt to find Africa’s top tech start-up superstars – the digital pioneers solving critical challenges with technology across the continent. It’s a...
With Africa having a big share of the global malaria burden, technologists are developing new, cost-effective ways to detect the disease – minus the needle.
Perhaps most famously, Route 128 and Silicon Valley in the United States developed around the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford universities, while key European knowledge...
Eleven years of CNBC Africa…on a personal level, what has the journey been like for you? They have been 11 very good years. Looking back to...
Godwin Gabriel has always had the gift of the gab. At 17, he closed the biggest deal in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, supplying food and beverages...
Picture this: remote rural Africa, where communities assiduously farm vast stretches of arable land not knowing anything about digital technology or drones that can transform their...