Following the departure of former country manager Pieter Bensch to head up the local HP operations, Oracle SA has announced a new interim country lead. Kevin Attard, who was based in London as an Application Strategy & Sales Development senior director for the ECE/MEA region, takes up the position with immediate effect.
The COMESA Competition Commission has approved Telkom’s acquisition of Business Connexion, paving the way to the takeover being finalised. Once the Competition Authorities have given the approval for the acquisition, approval must still be granted by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) and then the Takeover Regulation Panel can then issue a compliance certificate.