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Today is Tuesday, October 3^rd, A.D. 2023. This is The Africa Review in Five, written by Yamikani Katunga and presented by Paul Schlehlein

Choosing Between an iPhone 15 and Your Family

In our world of ever-developing devices and novel announcements, this time of the year has come to be coined as ‘Tech-tember and Tech-tober.’ Annually in September the biggest and most successful company in the world, Apple Inc.–which has surpassed a market cap of $3 Trillion– attracts global attention with the fanfare that covers the release of their latest phone. 

With the hype bubbling around the brand-new iPhone 15, MyBroadband, a top African blog, reported the cost in terms of the average worker’s salary. According to their research, a South African employee must save 27 days’ pay to afford the lowest-priced iPhone 15. With South Africa being the third-highest peak of the African economy in terms of GDP, one can only imagine comparative challenges in countries like Malawi, Zambia, and Senegal which are less than a tenth of the size of South Africa’s economy.