SA is wired up but switched off

Despite the fact that 84% of South African homes have access to electricity, over a quarter of households do not use it for cooking and over half do not use it for heating, according to the latest South Africa Survey published by the South African Institute of Race...

Vodacom beats solar record

Vodacom has unveiled the largest solar array of panels on a single building in Africa at its offices in Century City, Cape Town.  The installation of the solar array is part of Vodacom’s ongoing drive to help reduce the amount of energy the company consumes. The...

Bytes deploys Zambian securities exchange

Bytes Connect has successfully installed the infrastructure to take the new Zambian Securities Exchange live. The new Bonds and Derivatives Exchange (BaDex) launched in Lusaka recently, with infrastructure and applications sourced in South Africa. South African...

Security goes beyond antivirus

The new challenges of organised cybercrime and a boom in employee-owned devices have made protecting business data tougher than ever.  Eugene Kaspersky, chairman, CEO and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab, comments: “We’ve entered the age of high-profile targeted attacks,...

dotFNB store opens in Cape Town

FNB has expanded its dotFNB branch footprint by opening a dotFNB store at Cavendish Square, the first of its kind in Cape Town.  Following the success of the first dotFNB branch, which opened in April 2012, five stores have since opened around South Africa –...

Absa launches ‘branch-on-the-move’

Absa has embarked on its first operational trial of a “branch-on-the-move” in Idutywa in the Eastern Cape – where the original branch had been destroyed by fire. Absa’s head of retail markets, Arrie Rautenbach, says the branch-on-the-move concept is designed to...