Author: Duncan McLeod

Telkom has joined MTN and Vodacom in shutting stores in violence-torn KwaZulu-Natal, and has now decided to close its outlets countrywide until further notice as a precautionary measure.

EOH Holdings CEO Stephen van Coller said late on Friday that he is confident that the IT services group will not be blacklisted by government.

The news this week that the State IT Agency is pressuring national treasury to ban government from doing business with JSE-listed IT services group EOH Holdings makes no sense.

Eswatini’s biggest mobile operator, MTN, has been sued after the company cut off users’ access to the Internet on 29 June in line with a government directive.

Businessman, entrepreneur, deal maker and advisor Duarte da Silva joins Duncan McLeod on the TechCentral podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about South Africa’s IT industry, with a specific focus on Dimension Data.

QSure, a big player in South Africa’s insurance industry, has been hit by a data breach in which bank account numbers and other sensitive information were compromised by a third party.

EOH said on Tuesday that the civil suits against several of its former directors mark a “significant milestone” in holding those responsible for the governance failings that took place at EOH accountable.

Exclusive | EOH Holdings is suing its co-founder and former CEO, Asher Bohbot, and its former chief financial officer, John King, for R1.7-billion in damages each. It is also pursuing several other former executives.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has placed South Africa back on a strict level-4 lockdown, with restrictions – including a ban on all alcohol sales – in place for the next two weeks.

Dimension Data’s newly appointed CEO, Werner Kapp, said the company’s parent, NTT, sees Africa and the Middle East as ripe with potential.