269 Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare Maziv CEO Dietlof Mare has outlined an aggressive plan to integrate the assets acquired through the landmark Vodacom transaction and ramp up fibre construction across South Africa,…
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South Africa’s IoT growth will stall without infrastructure discipline
253 What began as isolated pilots – smart meters here, asset trackers there – is evolving into scaled infrastructure deployments embedded in municipal systems, logistics networks, agriculture operations and enterprise monitoring frameworks….
Seacom earnings surge as subsea cable disruptions ease
243 Image for illustration purposes only Digital infrastructure and managed services provider Seacom has delivered a sharp improvement in earnings after the subsea cable disruptions that weighed on results in the prior…
Remgro’s fibre empire roars back
318 Remgro’s fibre infrastructure arm, CIVH, has swung to profitability after the implementation of the landmark Vodacom transaction and strong operational performances from both Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa. In interim results…
Tips to help households cope with rising costs linked to the Middle East conflict
330 When Brent crude oil spikes, petrol prices follow within weeks. That means higher transport, food and retail costs. The Middle East conflict is happening far from South Africa, but households are…
The Post Office is out of options
234 Post Office business rescue practitioner Anoosh Rooplal. Photo: Tinashe Mazodze The business rescue practitioners in charge of saving the South African Post Office have on two occasions approached government for permission…
Does Nedbank really need a board of 19 directors?
188 It paid more than R28m to non-execs last year, and that figure is set to rise … From the end of May, following its annual general meeting (AGM), Nedbank Group will…
Liberty hit by data breach
192 Liberty Group has been hit by a data breach. It warned in a statement on Tuesday that it had detected unauthorised third-party access to some of its systems. The company said…
Optasia wants to do for banks what it did for telcos
225 Salvador Anglada Optasia CEO Salvador Anglada says the very same algorithms that made credit-vetting decisions via mobile wallets can be used in formal banking. Newly listed, technology-driven fintech Optasia sees the…
AWS again disrupted by drone attacks in Middle East
202 Amazon said on Monday its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” amid the current conflict in the Middle East, marking the second time in a month that its…