Jul 3, 2013
Although the growth of South Africa’s black middle class has more than doubled over the past eight years, growing from 1,7-million people in 2004 to an estimated 4,2-million in 2012 – according research by the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic marketing...
Jul 3, 2013
Flash memory manufacturer SanDisk has signed a distribution deal with Mitsumi, one of the largest and fastest-growing IT distributors in Africa. Mitsumi will distribute to 22 countries in Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Ghana, Tunisia, Morocco, Mozambique, Zambia...
Jul 3, 2013
With the promulgation of the Protection of Personal Information Bill (POPI) later this year, the protection of consumers’ personal information is becoming increasingly important. In light of the increase in cell phone banking fraud in South Africa, this has become...
Jul 3, 2013
MTN SA has joined forces with CSG International, a global provider of software- and services-based business support solutions, to bring optimised routing solutions to the South African market for the first time. The new offering helps clients generate revenue and...
Jul 3, 2013
The Nedbank group, the first carbon-neutral bank in Africa, has now rolled out a power management system that is set to save the group between R2,2-million and R3,5-million per year. Once fully implemented, it will also realise a carbon saving equivalent to taking 1...
Jul 3, 2013
Cell C will extend the promotional pricing on some of its data products. In April, Cell C introduced promotions with effective per megabyte rates of between 1c and 8c, and an out of bundle rate of 15c per Mb. These promotional offers were due to expire at the end of...