126 Altron Group CEO Werner Kapp Technology group Altron walked away from multiple acquisitions in the past financial year, rejecting deals on grounds ranging from price to corporate structure, CEO Werner Kapp…
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Cape Town pioneers pooled wheeling of renewable electricity
167 Cape Town has wheeled renewable electricity across multiple buildings simultaneously for the first time, in a pooled arrangement that its architects say solves one of the biggest commercial obstacles to scaling…
Here’s how young graduates and professionals can get onto the property ladder sooner
122With repayments limited to just the interest for the first two years, the prospect of buying your own home can move from being a ‘one day’ dream to a ‘right now’ possibility….
Webinar today: a 30-day plan to protect your SME from cyberattacks
122 In the past few weeks alone, we’ve seen a series of reported breaches and cyber incidents affecting education institutions, technology providers and industry organisations in South Africa. These incidents reinforce the…
Pick n Pay’s online growth slows as Sixty60 lead widens
166 Pick n Pay CEO Sean Summers Pick n Pay’s online business has held onto the profitability it first reported a year ago, but turnover growth has slowed materially as the retailer…
Gauteng transport department ordered to pay Putco R154.4m
134 Department also issued with a punitive court cost order for failing to comply with its obligations. The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport has been ordered to pay commuter bus company…
Altron surprises with special dividend
128 Altron Group CEO Werner Kapp Altron Group has declared a R500-million special dividend and lifted its final ordinary dividend by 44% to 72c/share, returning a substantial chunk of cash to shareholders…
Huawei claims chip design breakthrough
141 Ali Song/Reuters Huawei Technologies said on Monday that its high-end chips will have transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm processes in five years, underscoring Beijing’s efforts to neutralise US sanctions that have…
Eskom turned the lights back on
151 Congratulations must go to Eskom for achieving a full year without load shedding. That is a remarkable turnaround from only three years ago when we experienced 300 days of load shedding…
DDoS attacks expose South Africa’s cyber response gap
179 South Africa has the legislative foundation to respond to nation-scale cyberattacks but the practical capacity has yet to be realised. A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks earlier this week disrupted…