SA’s recovery plan in numbers

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the country’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. Here are the salient numbers. 2-million – people who lost their jobs in the second quarter of this year. 16.4% – the contraction of South Africa’s...

Vote in the Channelwise Awards and win …

Voting is open for the Channelwise Awards – and there are prizes up for grabs for resellers who take part in the survey. Chris Westran is in the first lucky winner in the weekly draw, taking home R200.00 in Uber Eats vouchers. There are more Uber Eats vouchers...

Pandemic accelerates digital transformation

Dell Technologies released results from a global study that shows organisations are shifting their digital transformation programs into high gear and are on the path to accomplish in a few months what would normally have taken them years. The findings, updated...

Intensified scamming activities around iPhone launch

Several days ago, Apple held its annual event introducing the new iPhone 12 lineup. As year-to-year data shows, not only Apple users are interested in these events, but also scammers. During the first nine months of 2020, Kaspersky has seen that scammers are...

First Africa Migration Report commissioned

African migration in the 21st Century takes place mainly by land, not by sea. African migrants’ destinations are overwhelmingly not to Europe or North America, but to each other’s countries. Those are among the historic findings of the study, Africa...

Declining services revenue set to recover in 2021

Worldwide IT and business services revenue declined 1,9% year over year (in constant currency) during the first half of 2020 (1H20) according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Services Tracker. Derailed by the pandemic in the first...