DiData announces new appointment

May 7, 2015

Dimension Data has announced the appointment of Lubabalo Dyantyi as the Public Sector executive for Middle East and Africa, reporting directly to Derek Wilcocks, CEO for Dimension Data Middle East and Africa.Prior to his appointment, Dyantyi was the Gauteng regional...

New country manager for Red Hat

Mar 24, 2015

Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, has announced the appointment of Mark Bannerman to country manager for Red Hat in sub-Saharan Africa. As country manager, Bannerman will be responsible for management and growth of Red Hat across all...
Telkom to begin staff transfers

Telkom to begin staff transfers

Mar 23, 2015

Telkom will proceed with the automatic transfer of staff from its call centre, supply chain and IT environments to new employers on 31 March, after unions failed to secure a majority consensus on an additional offer from the company. Persistent industrial action in the form of “go-slows” at Telkom’s call centres also escalated this weekend, with incidents of staff intimidation and walk-outs reported.

Westcon appointment grows Cloud Solutions

Feb 24, 2015

Due to growing demand amongst resellers for assistance in establishing themselves as cloud businesses, WestconGroup Southern Africa has further bolstered its Microsoft technical support skills with a key appointment in this area. The distributor, which is aggressively...

Telkom closes stores, lays off staff

Feb 17, 2015

Telkom is to close some stores and lay off more staff members as it outsources core operations, including some IT systems. The company’s restructure is currently focusing on certain Telkom’s Direct stores; call centres; IT legacy systems; and internal printing, supply...