For most of the past century, Big Oil executives found it pretty easy to explain to investors how their businesses worked. Just locate more of the commodities that everyone needed, extract and process them as cheaply as possible, and watch the profits flow. Source: BusinessTech
President Cyril Ramaphosa will chair a virtual meeting on the President’s Coordinating Council on Tuesday (15 September) ahead of the country’s expected move to a level 1 lockdown. Source: BusinessTech
As a response to the growing sophistication of coordinated cyberattacks on businesses and institutions around the world, Kaspersky provides insights into threat intelligence tools and services. Source: BusinessTech
Black Friday 2020 will take place on 27 November, and this year is expected to see a big increase in the number of people shopping online. This is thanks to COVID-19 bringing ecommerce to the fore. In fact, a recent survey reported on by Google reveals that 73% of consumers said their shopping behaviour has …
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The bond that prospective South African homeowners can afford will depend on a number of factors, including their actual take-home pay as well as how much of a deposit they put down, says Gerhard Kotzé, managing director of the RealNet estate agency group. For those in formal employment in South Africa, the current average monthly …
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Eskom and the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) have concurred on the procurement of 11,813MW of electricity generation infrastructure, which is set to help the country’s growing power problems. The power utility said there has been progress with the procurement of the 2,000MW emergency power, which it hopes will start being connected to …
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Professor Salim Abdool Karim says that South Africa should be able to ease a number of restrictions when government announces a move to a level 1 lockdown. Karim, who is the chairperson of the ministerial advisory committee on Covid-19, told 702 that the key issue will be avoiding ‘super-spreader’ events that could spark a second …
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With a significant number of South Africans working from home and the subsequent need for new IT hardware, professional laptops are in high demand. Pinnacle, South Africa’s leading ICT distribution company, offers the perfect products to address this demand – the HP ProBook 450 and EliteBook range. Pinnacle sells directly to resellers, and new customers …
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The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) has filed a high court application calling for the Aarto Act and the Aarto Amendment Act to be declared unconstitutional. The Aarto Amendment Act was signed into law by the President and published in the Government Gazette in August 2019, but a date for it to come into effect …
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Parts of the long-awaited Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act came into force on 1 July 2020, and companies will have a period of one year to become compliant, or risk substantial fines or even imprisonment. While the updated rules around personal information and marketing are well documented, the POPI also introduces obligations on employers …
