56 A typical migration environment looks manageable on paper. An established organisation, a predominantly on-premises setup, a directive to move to the cloud. What the scoping work usually reveals is something more…
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Cape Town wants Transnet action after ‘world’s worst container port’ ranking
68 Despite improvements, the port’s poor performance against its global peers is hurting economic growth, says the city. The City of Cape Town has called on port manager Transnet to speed up…
Post Office moves to exit business rescue
75 The South African Post Office’s joint business rescue practitioners have asked the high court to end the entity’s business rescue, declaring the adopted plan substantially implemented nearly three years after the…
Prominent South African investor joins the board of SpaceX
61 Roelof Botha In a major corporate governance move following its blockbuster Wall Street debut, SpaceX has appointed prominent South African-born venture capitalist Roelof Botha to its board of directors. According to…
Exposed: The rot in Sanral’s procurement system
70 It appears to have contravened the PFMA by not advising National Treasury within the stipulated time about contract awards that deviate from normal bidding processes. The extent of the rot in…
Cook warns of unavoidable Apple price hikes
75 Apple CEO Tim Cook Apple plans to raise prices on its products to offset increasing memory and storage chip costs, CEO Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal in an interview….
Finish the job Mandela started
62 The author, VALR CEO Farzem Ehsani Before we defend or abolish exchange control, we should ask a simpler question: what is the policy actually trying to achieve? It is usually justified…
SA feels Middle East war impact as inflation jumps to near two-year high in May
66 Economists remain hopeful that the end of the period of interest rate hikes is near For weeks, economists cautioned that the economic fallout from the war in the Middle East would…
SpaceX vaults past Amazon and Microsoft in market value
57 SpaceX roared past Amazon’s market valuation on Tuesday and briefly topped that of Microsoft, rapidly scaling the list of the world’s most valuable companies on a topsy-turvy trading day fuelled by…
Tongaat Hulett escapes liquidation, saving at least 250 000 jobs
49 ‘The parties have chosen to instead work together to keep Tongaat Hullet operating and to protect the value it holds for its employees.’ Tongaat Hulett, South Africa’s century-old sugar giant, has…