SASSA seeks extended deadline for RFP

The Constitutional Court has issued further directions for the SASSA (South African Social Security Agency) tender process. On 13 February, SASSA advised the court that it was not in a position file an amended draft request for proposals (RFP) for the social grant...

Businesses underestimate cyber-attack risk

South Africa is the fifth-most targeted country in the world in terms of cybercrime attacks, while informal consensus within the private sector places South Africa third behind Russia and China – but companies are not doing as much as they could to protect their...

Mobile key for Internet access in Africa

Africa is poised to become a hotbed for mobile growth and commerce in the coming years, and is the driving force behind the continent’s accelerating Internet adoption. These are among the findings of Opera Mediaworks’ State of Mobile Advertising report based on data...

ID management vital for IoT success

Managing identities and access is critical to the success of the Internet of Things (IoT), but in its current form identity and access management (IAM) cannot provide the scale or manage the complexity that the IoT brings to the organisation, according to Gartner....

Pinnacle earnings decline as revenue grows

Pinnacle Holdings has issued a trading statement alerting shareholders to the likelihood of its earnings declining for the six months to 31 December, despite an increase in revenue. Revenue is expected to grow 14% to 15% but headline earnings will likely be down 16%...

Blue Label increases revenue, earnings

Blue Label Telecoms has increased its headline earnings per share by 15% to 42.73 cents for the six months ended 30 November 2014. The growth was achieved in spite of the group’s share of losses in Blue Label Mexico increasing by R14,5-million, which negatively...