No clear direction in MTBP

Kemp Munnik, head of structured solutions at Bravura, offers his take on yesterday’s mid-term budget. The new Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba delivered South Africa¹s 2017 medium term budget policy statement against the backdrop of glaring revenue shortfalls,...

SMEs applaud Gigaba’s start-up fund

Viresh Harduth, vice-president: new customer acquisition at Sage Africa & Middle East, comments on the mid-term budget. In his first mid-term budget policy statement as Finance Minister, Malusi Gigaba painted a worrying picture of the South African economy. In...

Oracle wants to partner on cloud

Kathy Gibson reports from Oracle PartnerDays in Johannesburg – IT value-added resellers (VARs) are not necessarily sure about where they should be going on their own future journeys. “For many partners, there is a lot of uncertainty,” says Jean-Marc Gottero,...

How to combat Bad Rabbit malware

Bad Rabbit, a new strain of ransomware that is similar to NotPetya — which crippled companies across the world in June this year — hitting organisations in Russia and Ukraine. It is also showing signs of spreading to other countries. So far, the victims...
IoT devices to hit 125bn

IoT devices to hit 125bn

The number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide will jump 12% on average annually, from nearly 27-billion in 2017 to 125-billion in 2030, according to new analysis from IHS Markit. In a new free ebook entitled “The Internet of Things: a...

Agritech to shake up chemical market

Smart agriculture is expected to play an important role in the African chemicals industry, in the medium term. Grassroots companies and initiatives by non-government organisations are pioneering the use of smart agriculture as a result of increased mobile connectivity...