XON learnership programme grows skills

Pan-African ICT group, XON, has enjoyed considerable success from its learnership programme that kicked off in 2009.  To date all five graduates of the first round, which lasted until 2011, have been employed full-time by XON and the business is looking to employ the...

Master Power Technologies commits to Zambia

Power solutions and data centre specialist, Master Power Technologies, has recently invested resources in Zambia in order to better service its local sites. “Having identified a need to meet the ever increasing demand for power solutions and data centres in the...

Goods, services must move easily in Africa

A key topic of discussion among global leaders at the 24th World Economic Forum on Africa was the need for free movement of talent and goods across Africa, in order to significantly strengthen businesses and boost intra-Africa trade on the continent. This sentiment is...

Swift launches joint venture in Ghana

Swift Worldwide Resources has launched a joint venture called SOMINU with the Eastern Nsema Stool community in the western region of Ghana. SOMINU, which means, “help to lift,” will provide job opportunities for over 2 000 personnel to support the upcoming...

Content nodes accelerate Africa’s Internet

African Internet users are starting to enjoy the benefits of faster access to key Web resources as well as lower latencies, as telecom providers step up the roll out of content delivery networks (CDNs). That’s according to Mark Tinka, head of Engineering at...

Mayfox Mining starts systems upgrade

Mayfox Mining, a Kenyan-owned gold exploration company, has signed an agreement with Wingo.net, an authorised Sage ERP X3 solution provider, for the installation of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. The deal sees Mayfox Mining become the first mining...