Cracks appear in Africa’s growth

The political limits to sub-Saharan Africa’s growth story will become apparent this year. This is according to Control Risks, the global business risk consultancy, which today launched its annual RiskMap report at an event for East Africa’s business leaders in...

IBM: Millennials not lazy, selfish

Everything you thought you knew about Millennials could be wrong. A new IBM study reveals much of the hype about Millennial employees simply isn’t true. They aren’t the “lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow” workers that many believe them to be. The results of the...

Bytes completes big Edcon rollout

Bytes Managed Solutions (Bytes MS) has successfully completed the rollout of more than 11 000 signature pad units across 1 200 Edcon stores in South Africa. In addition, the migration includes a three-year support contract for both the signature pads and the back-end...

Africa needs power to grow

A lack of electricity is arguably the single biggest factor inhibiting sub-Saharan Africa’s economic growth – and fulfilling the continent’s economic and social promises depends upon our ability to develop its electricity capability. This is the overarching...

Guma plans to buy, delist Gijima

Yebo Guma Investments has made an offer to acquire all of Gijima’s shares, following which it plans to delist the company from the JSE Securities Exchange. Guma has made an offer to acquire all of the remaining shares in the issued ordinary share capital of Gijima,...

Cern set for new LHC switch-on

It’s almost two years since the team in the Cern Control Centre switched off the beams in the Large Hadron Collider, marking the end of the accelerator’s first three-year run – and now it’s preparing to switch it on again. For the last two years, hundreds...