South African healthcare insurer Discovery has announced its intention to expand into China with the acquisition of a 24.99% stake in Ping An Health Insurance.
Africa is set for a new revolution – in broadband. Twelve new undersea cables planned for the next two years will quintuple the continent’s bandwidth, reduce the number of unconnected coastal countries from 19 to one, and drop tariffs by 72%.
Prominent South African novelist Andre Brink has won the African regional leg of the Commonwealth Writers Best Book Award for The Other Side of Silence, published last year. Brink, who has authored a number of award-winning novels over the past three decades, joins an impressive list of past South African winners.
