Quality, not quantity, must drive FETs
The Department of Higher Education is pumping R2-billion into Further Education and Training Colleges (FETs) in order to increase the number of artisans trained and delivered to the market – but the underlying problem is not with the quantity of artisans, but...SA entrepreneurs soldier on
Vital for economic growth but facing serious challenges, South African small and micro businesses are displaying unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, according to new research commissioned by Regus. Even though some might have fallen into business ownership through...Asia Pacific leads in phone sales
Worldwide mobile phone sales to end-users totalled nearly 426-million units in the first quarter of 2013, a slight increase of 0,7% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 210-million units in the first quarter of...New strategy head for Telkom
Dr Miriam Altman has been appointed as Telkom’s head of strategy, with effect from 1 June 2013. Dr Altman will support the development and execution of Telkom’s strategy and will report directly to group CEO Sipho Maseko. Dr Altman was an executive director at the...IS expands public cloud offering
Internet Solutions (IS) has announced that its Public Compute as a Service (CaaS) offering can now be purchased on a pay-as-you-go basis using a credit card. The IS Public CaaS platform, available through a Web-based portal, enables developers, independent software...