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Improved business confidence could be shaken by geopolitics
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Despite challenges, SA grows women business owners
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Inappropriate remuneration is the coalface of corruption
The litany of serious governance failures laid bare in the published elements of the Zondo Report is a wake-up for South Africa, and remuneration issues are at the heart of the problem - and it's solution. This is according to Dr Mark Bussin, executive committee...
First-time consumer credit defaults improve as economy re-opens
The rate people defaulted on their loans for the first time improved in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to Experian South Africa's Consumer Default Index (CDI). People defaulted on their loans at a lower rate than the fourth quarter of the previous year,...
Cybercrime set to spike in the wake of Ukrainian conflict
The financial pressure on Russia, as a result of global sanctions following the military conflict in Ukraine, is increasing to the point where cybercrime is now seen as a viable alternative to conventional revenue sources. This is according to Deon Smal, CEO of Cyber...
Industry leaders foster open ecosystem for chiplet design
Intel, along with Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE), AMD, Arm, Google Cloud, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, have established an industry consortium to promote an open die-to-die interconnect standard called Universal...
IT security leaders lean on external support for threat intelligence
IT security leaders seeking to boost internal threat intelligence (TI) programs would prefer to delegate five out of eight major TI aspects to external vendors rather than develop them in-house, according to a commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on...
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Angolan initiative announces scholarship
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Is your critical data secure in the cloud?
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