The department of correctional services wanted to overpay a company by more than R300m for providing IT services that should have cost the taxpayer R50m. The government’s chief procurement officer, Kenneth Brown, revealed in parliament on
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The latest Standard Bank South Africa Purchasing Managers’ Index paints a bleak picture of the South African economy, signalling the most marked deterioration in operating conditions in over one-and-a-half years. The Standard Bank survey produced by
Trade & industry minister Rob Davies published a draft aligned ICT sector code for public comment in the Government Gazette on 24 February 2016. Five days later, on 29 February, the minister
The historic combination of favourable macroeconomic conditions for Africa began to reverse in 2013, with a weakening of most commodity prices as well as the taper tantrum in the global financial
Cape Town audiologist Gail Jacklin, who lost over R200 000 in a Sim-swap scam earlier this year, says she is emotionally drained and has lost trust in both First National Bank and MTN. Earlier this week, private consulting forensic
Over the past few weeks, I have worked with the national treasury to deliver a budget that reinforces South Africa’s fiscal credibility and outlines the measures we will take to improve economic growth and tackle our challenges of poverty, inequality and unemployment
Earlier this month, YouTube’s new subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, YouTube Red, launched its first swag of “original” programmes. This followed news of significant rights acquisitions by SVOD services at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals
The Post Office’s acquisition of a R161m, 10-year lease in 2010 for an office building in Centurion, Gauteng was “tainted by procurement irregularities and corruption”. This is according
State security minister David Mahlobo urged parents to keep an eye on what their children were doing on the Internet and social media. ”Have an interest. What is your child doing
Camera technology has taken centre stage at Samsung’s launch of its new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge, which were launched on a stage ahead of the Mobile World Congress in