The economic meltdown has seen the world's leading central bankers including the South African Reserve Bank come under pressure to bail out their respective economies in the form of interest rate cuts. They've been urged to fund governments, an idea that central bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, says is tantamount to a client instructing their banker to do the same.

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan briefed a joint meeting of Parliament's Portfolio and Standing Committees on Public Enterprises on Wednesday evening.

The employee had travelled from Polokwane with four other colleagues who are currently in isolation at the mine's health facility.

From bicycle culture to electric vehicles, the automotive industry is changing and Covid-19 may be accelerating the pace of change.

Prasa estimates revenue losses for the year of R757 million, due to the impact of the lockdown.

Mining giant Anglo American plans to exit coal mining in South Africa, in a major shift away from carbon-intense operations.

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan would not have committed to the framework of his 'Leadership Compact' if he did not know where the money would come from, the Labour Court heard.

Pfizer and BioNTech said Tuesday they have begun delivering doses of their experimental coronavirus vaccines for initial human testing in the United States.

South African banks are holding off on any further layoffs as they prepare to help the shrinking economy survive a potential jobs bloodbath.

The Covid-19 lockdown only had a marginal effect on the results of Kaap Agri for the interim period until the end of March 2020, the group announced on Thursday. But it opted not to pay a dividend, in the interests of managing cash flow.

The horse racing authority is pleading for a partial restart of the industry under Level 4 of the lockdown, warning that a prolonged suspension of activity could lead to massive financial impact and job losses.

Patel was appointed editor of the weekly investigative newspaper in October of 2016.

Newly appointed provisional liquidator of SA Express is in the process of investigating affairs of the state-owned regional airline.

Section 189 notices commencing a consultation process over proposed retrenchments at SAA were procedurally unfair, the Labour Court found on Friday.

If you have lost your income due to the lockdown, your options are limited.

The company has also suspended its shares from the JSE, but maintains that there is still a "reasonable prospect" of rescuing the business.

Members of the South African Airways Voyager loyalty programme will temporarily not be able to redeem miles earned for awards.

Microsoft hopes to improve its software through AI research while OpenAI can take full advantage of the Azure cloud.

The Naples processor is designed to compete with Intel's Xeon offerings for the data center.

Artificial intelligence consumes immense processing resources, so data centers have to be both more powerful and more energy efficient.

The internal Windows 10 builds that leaked last week ended up revealing a brand new edition of the OS Microsoft is planning for power users.

An Epyc server can contain up to 4TB of memory and 128 lanes of PCIe, making it a worthy Intel Xeon competitor.

The Chinese government is getting local ISPs and cloud service providers to practice taking websites offline quickly when they are deemed harmful.

The deal will help Marvell generate $3.4 billion in annual revenue, Marvell says.

Only a few vendors are the best for routing your internet signals and storing your files at the office. Here are PCMag readers' top picks.

Intel's domination will continue as Qualcomm is set to quit after just seven months of trying.

Originally announced in February 2015, Apple is giving up on trying to build the new facility.

Microsoft realizes you can use the sea as a giant heatsink and save a small fortune in cooling costs.

The high-end discrete graphics cards will reportedly target the PC gaming market and data centers, putting pressure on AMD and Nvidia. Intel hired a former AMD exec to lead the effort.

The access was being sold on a Russian-language marketplace. The affected airport system was available on the open internet and may have been secured with a weak password.

While it won't be ready until 2022, it will create hundreds of jobs, run on 100 percent renewable energy, and be the first data center to take advantage of a new StatePoint Liquid Cooling system that promises a 50 percent reduction in water use.

Bloomberg says People's Liberation Army operatives added tiny, nefarious microchips to server motherboards made by Super Micro and used by Apple and Amazon, among others. All three companies pushed back hard on the story.

The old NATO bunker in Germany was acquired in 2013 and then turned into a heavily-secured data processing center for illegal activities linked to organized crime and the dark web.

South Carolina grants Google permission to pump up to 549 million gallons of groundwater every year to cool servers at its Berkeley County data center.

The Heritage Foundation says current federal programs supporting things like after-school centers don't work and their funding should be redirected for education savings accounts.

The House appropriations committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill providing a slight funding increase for the U.S. Department of Education, bringing overall funding to about $71 billion.

An after-school program in North Carolina teaches teenagers to collaborate and problem-solve by tasking them with real work-world problems drawn from their community.

A research-practice partnership examines how urban after-school programs can support positive youth development.

A community-based organization's partnership with researchers creates a 'knowledge neighborhood' supporting after-school programs.

Parents rate homework help, physical activity, and healthy snacks at the top of the list when choosing after-school programs for their children, but access to hands-on activities in STEM is gaining a following.

Students whose peers in afterschool programs would intervene when students misbehaved were less likely to misbehave themselves, according to new research from Pennsylvania State University published in the American Journal of Community Psychology.

A new study suggests working together is something that after-school providers can improve on.

Three ways that the burgeoning healthy afterschool movement can be a leader in incorporating social, emotional, and academic development, as explained by Daniel Hatcher.

Authorities say the single victim of a shooting this week at a high school in North Las Vegas, Nev., was an 18-year-old student.

Through a city-school partnership in Nashville, Tenn., after-school programs are using data to tailor lessons to students' learning needs.

A pair of after-school programs in Portland offer high school students a glimpse of what it's like to work in building design and construction.

Elev8 Baltimore sees the impact relationships and out of school time programs have on one student's life.

After-school programs can help schools support students' reading and math achievement, social-emotional development, and their likelihood of graduating high school, finds a research analysis.

Faced with a push for academic programming, after-school providers are deploying new strategies to train and recruit effective educators.

Educators are invited to write about their experiences teaching online in the age of COVID-19.