SOEs urged to ditch dotcom

South Africa’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) should nail their proudly South African colours to the mast and ditch the .com URLs that many of them use for their official web presence. “There’s a sense of renewal in the air and it’s therefore...

Levelling the gender playing field

Absa’s Rise innovation hub in Cape Town has selected five black women in technology entrepreneurs to participate in an entrepreneurship assistance programme, hosted at the Cape Town facility. Despite climbing up one spot to rank 22nd in terms of gender parity,...

TI leads semiconductor boom

Worldwide industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 11,8% year over year, reaching $49,1-billion in 2017, according to the latest analysis from IHS Markit. Industrial electronics equipment demand was broad-based, with continued growth in commercial and military...

Expropriation Act would affect the rule of law

The Expropriation Act authorises government expropriation of private property for market-value compensation, writes Gary Moore, lawyer and senior researcher for the Free Market Foundation. The Constitution states that compensation for expropriation must reflect...

Update: SAA’s Jarana takes up R100k wager

SAA CEO Vuyani Jarana has taken up a R100 000.00 wager by Free Market Foundation executive director Leon Louw. Louw threw down the gauntlet yesterday, wagering R100 000.00 that Jarana’s three-year turnaround plan for the national airline will fail. The condition...

Unlicensed software increases security threat

To reduce the risk of cyberattacks and boost their bottom line, businesses should eliminate unlicensed software in their networks and introduce software asset management,. This is according to the 2018 Global Software Survey from BSA The Software Alliance, which found...