CEO priorities shift to meet growth challenges

Growth continues to top the list of CEO business priorities in 2019 and 2020, according to a recent survey of CEOs and senior executives by Gartner. The most notable change in comparison to last year’s results is that a growing number of CEOs also deem financial...

Altron continues on growth trajectory

Allied Electronics (Altron) has reported improved financial results for the year ended 28 February 2019. Revenue from continuing operations increased by 7% to R15,7-billion; EBITDA from continuing operations increased by 30% to R1,6-billion; HEPS from continuing...

Virgin Active kicks TEM into touch with Apex BI

Taking control of its technology expense management (TEM) one of the country’s oldest health club chains, Virgin Active South Africa (VASA), has taken its promotion of a healthy lifestyle mantra and applied it internally to its IT and telecoms environment. In...

Business Continuity Awareness Week focuses on resilience

This year’s Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW), which takes place between 13 and17 May will focus on Investing in Resilience, ContinuitySA has announced. The BCAW is a global event facilitated by the Business Continuity Institute to raise awareness of the...
New clues about how ancient galaxies lit up the universe

New clues about how ancient galaxies lit up the universe

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe’s earliest galaxies were brighter than expected. The excess light is a byproduct of the galaxies releasing incredibly high amounts of ionising radiation. The finding offers clues to the...

Google’s guide to surviving voting day

Tomorrow (8 May), South Africans will again get the chance to exercise their democratic right and vote for the country’s leadership. As long as you’re registered, you get to go to your polling station and have your say. Right? Well, as any South African will tell you,...