246 The Pan African DataCentres Exhibition & Conference (PADC) returns to the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on 23 and 24 June, showcasing the infrastructure, technologies, expertise and ideas shaping the future…
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Flagship broadband programme in South Africa stalled
233 Communications department director-general Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani Government’s flagship broadband programme, SA Connect, was effectively frozen for most of the past financial year after funding the communications department had been counting on failed…
Why most cloud migrations inherit risk before they create value
205 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…
Cape Town wants Transnet action after ‘world’s worst container port’ ranking
200 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
225 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
252 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
187 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
196 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
216 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
177 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…