Industry body to professionalise B-BBBEE

The Association of B-BBEE Professionals and the National Association of BEE Consultants (NABC) announced they are merging to form a single professional body for the broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) industry. The new entity will retain the Association of...

Huawei to invest in local ICT talent

On an official visit to China, South African Deputy President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa met with Huawei executive board director Jason Li at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen. Ramaphosa and Li discussed extensively how both parties can construct ICT...

Mergers, acquisitions grow in SSA

Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals, today released the quarterly investment banking analysis for the sub-Saharan Africa region. According to estimates from Thomson Reuters / Freeman Consulting,...

Microsoft BizSpark aids start-ups

With unemployment breaking past 26% in South Africa, the need for job creation to stem the tide of poverty has become a stark reality. The reality being that out of 36-million employable South Africans, only 15,5-million have a job. According to statistics for 2014...

New appointment for EMC Southern Africa

EMC Southern Africa has appointed Rudi van Rensburg as Head of XtremIO for Africa. EMC’s XtremIO product line fully capitalises flash technology and enables the data centre of the future. Van Rensburg joined EMC Southern Africa in April 2008 as channel sales lead and...

Integrat rebrands as InTarget

Leading mobile services aggregator Integrat is now InTarget after completing a rebranding exercise that will see it better-positioned to explore opportunities as a diversified mobile advertising and related solutions provider. As one of South Africa’s most...