Author: Duncan McLeod

Standard Bank’s head of IT engineering has “resigned with immediate effect” following a series of IT outages that have embarrassed the financial services giant.

Macrocomm has signed an agreement with Germany’s Bosch to build internet of things devices and sensors at Bosch’s manufacturing facility in Brits.

Wiocc, one of the original investors in the Eassy submarine cable system, is gearing up for rapid expansion in data centres across Africa.

Former MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa has been appointed as the “non-life” CEO at insurance group Telesure Investment Holdings.

In a surprise development, Werner Kapp has stepped down as CEO of Dimension Data. He is being replaced in the role by Alan Turnley-Jones.

MTN Group has appointed Tim Pennington, until recently chief financial officer of Millicom International Cellular, to its board of directors.

MTN South Africa has completed its sale of its passive tower portfolio to IHS Towers.

Government is proposing extending a cut in the general fuel levy until early August to help shield consumers from high fuel prices linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Government last year lifted the cap on private power generation to 100MW, below which companies don’t need to be licensed. Now Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has questioned why there’s a cap at all.

Eskom CEO André de Ruyter has said South Africa has no choice but to shift from coal to renewable energy.