Due to slow uptake, South Africans will have another 6 months to RICA their cellphones and SIM cards, in terms of legislation, cellphone users had to register their SIM cards by the end of December this year. A combination of slow response times and now formal way for Mobile Operators to enforce this on their [...]
Continue reading...10. August 2010
ArcelorMittal, one of the world’s major steel producers have bought Imperial Crown Trading (ICT) for R800m that will yet again put another twist in the competition for Kumba’s Sishen iron ore mine. ArcelorMittal CEO Nonkululeko Nyembezi-Heita said in a statement that, “whilst we continue to vigorously pursue our arbitration with Kumba Iron Ore Limited, we [...]
Continue reading...1. August 2010
Construction and civil engineering group Sea Kay Holdings announced on Friday that it would be selling the entire issued share capitals of Silver Falcon and Seriso 474, trading as Sedibeng Bricks. Sea Kay said it had entered into its disposal of Silver Falcon with the purchaser Mr C Kruger, and the Corne Kruger Family Trust [...]
Continue reading...23. June 2010
Mazor Group, one of South Africa’s leading structural steelwork and aluminium specialists has successfully acquired a 50% stake in Hulamin Building Systems HBS after the conditions of the R35m purchase had been fulfilled. Hulamin Building Systems and their business arm Hulamin Extrusions is one of the leading aluminium-building systems suppliers to the South African architectural [...]
Continue reading...31. May 2010
Fifa 2010 World Cup accommodation has been under the spotllight the last couple of weeks as the uptake from International visitors have been slow to non existent in some areas. When the football world cup frenzy hit South African home owners, they just saw pounds, euros and dollars. Now many of them are left in even [...]
Continue reading...31. May 2010
Eskom, South Africa’s primary power utility announced on Sunday that it had signed a new deal with BHP Billiton to remove commodity pricing from its deal around its Mozambican smelter. The contract to supply electricity to the mining firm’s Mozal smelter in Mozambique and its Hillside and Bayside smelters in South Africa accounted for nearly [...]
Continue reading...25. May 2010
Nokia and Yahoo Inc unveiled a wide Internet services deal, including maps and e-mail service, as the two battle new rivals on the wireless market. The role of mobile services and software has increased sharply since Apple and Google entered the industry, forcing traditional phonemakers like Samsung and Nokia to hurry to build up their [...]
Continue reading...18. May 2010
Standard Bank, one of South Africa’s largest banks will be aiding online banking customers in the fights against the rising threats of phishing scams by giving banking customers access to free anti-phishing software. The Rapport anti-phishing software package will protect clients from divulging sensitive financial details to unscrupulous third parties when banking online. The Rapport [...]
Continue reading...18. May 2010
Massmart Holdings, the holding company behind famous South African brands like Builders Warehouse, Makro, Game and Dion Wired has come out with a very positive outlook on to the new year and the future of their newly launched Dion Wired Electronic stores. Massmart aims to open another 7 Dion Wired stores over the next three [...]
Continue reading...4. May 2010
TopTV, ODM or On Digital Media‘s new PayTV offering launched on Saturday and they were clearly not ready for the tv gold rush that followed. All TopTV decoders and dishes were sold out on the first day. There has also been quite a bit of confusion around the installation costs and costs related to TopTV [...]
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11. November 2010
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