SA institute to tackle radioactive waste
The National Radioactive Waste Disposal Institute (NRWDI) was formally launched in Pretoria yesterday, with the aim of overseeing the safe management and disposal of radioactive waste in South Africa. This follows its promulgation by Parliament on 9 January 2009, in...IDC names leaders in mobile app development
International Data Corporation (IDC) has published a new vendor assessment profiling providers that offer mobile application development, testing, management and infrastructure (mADTMI) services to enterprise-class firms. The MarketScape report found that Accenture,...Corporate learning helps Africa’s boom
Emerging markets specialist and economist Charles Robertson predicts that Africa is about to “boom”. According to Robertson, the per capita incomes in Africa have doubled since the year 2000, and life expectancy has increased by one year every three years for...Home-based agents set for take-off
The total number of outsourced agents working at home will soon exceed 100 000 globally, and the variety of industries that are availing themselves of this business model is expanding, according to global analyst firm Ovum. Peter Ryan, principal analyst in Ovum’s IT...SA travellers miss home cooking
Aside from missing their families and homes, South African business travellers reveal that they are very much attached to their home cooking. The latest survey by Regus finds that home cooking (29%) is among the top three things South Africans miss when travelling for...