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 | Business leaders are becoming increasingly aware of the need to create policies, programmes, and controls to address fraud and misconduct. This is according to Peter Goss, head of Forensics and Public Sector Leader at SizweNtsalubaGobodo. read more>> |
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 | Adele Shevel Hundreds of insurance claims have flooded in after the earthquake that rocked parts of South Africa this week. read more>> |
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 | A tidal wave of data is drowning the enterprise. A terabyte, maybe two a few years ago, has grown to several petabytes for the larger entities and most cannot cope with the speed and velocity at which this data is coming at them. Moreover, the vast majority of the data is unstructured, meaning that some 80% of data isn't stored in manageable and easy-to-use databases. read more>> |
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 | Africans have long used technology developed abroad, but now a Kenyan cash transfer network which bypasses banks is being adopted in Europe... read more>> |
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 | Sun International says it will sell a portion of its interests in its African assets to a foreign subsidiary of Thailand-listed Minor International Public Co (Mint) for R664m. read more>> |
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 | Mark Allix Super Group‚ an industrial transportation operator‚ says it delivered "an excellent set of results" for the year to June‚ with earnings growth resulting from its integrated logistics plan. read more>> |
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 | Samarah Lagerdien The University of Stellenbosch Business School has been rated the best in SA for MBA and MBL degrees for the third consecutive year. read more>> |
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 | Joan Muller Des de Beer and his team's ability to make money for Resilient shareholders is underscored by the 20,9% increase in income payouts achieved for the year to June. read more>> |
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 | Tom Elliott, an international investment strategist at deVere Group, has urged investors to keep calm and carry on. read more>> |
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 | The Mining Lekgotla has officially kicked off at Gallagher Estate, with the gathering set to see many robust discussions on issues around transformation and the industry's role in growing the country's economy. read more>> |
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 | The Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) is talking to government and private companies to help fund a multimillion-rand agricultural venture to farm soya beans. read more>> |
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 | Although strike action is disruptive and a sign of declining relations, it is also part of normality. Wage negotiations take place every few years and are part of collective bargaining. read more>> |
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 | The City of Cape Town is proposing a sweet property deal for The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation with the hope that it will help rejuvenate the grimy inner city centre. read more>> |
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 | David Furlonger South Korean car manufacturer Hyundai is preparing to build vehicles in SA and has confirmed it will assemble light delivery vehicles in Gauteng from next year. read more>> |
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 | Asha Speckman Africa's largest cellular company, MTN, which reported a 9% rise in half-year profits last week and now has 215m subscribers across the world, has a plan to boost flagging revenue in South Africa. read more>> |
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 | Amanda Visser The latest survey of employers and self-employed South Africans by Statistics SA shows the informal sector's contribution to gross domestic product has remained at about 5% from 2001 to 2013. read more>> |
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 | Linda Ensor The annual financial results released by state-owned arms manufacturer Denel show that the company has returned to profitability on a sustainable basis‚ group Chief Executive Riaz Saloojee says. read more>> |
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 | Michael Yeates and Shane Johnson A foreign national who intends establishing a business or investing in a business that is established within the Republic of South Africa will need to obtain a certificate from an accredited chartered accountant which verifies that an amount prescribed by the Minister of Home Affairs is available. read more>> |
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 | Charlotte Mathews The imminent revival of the Integrated Energy Planning (IEP) process, which allows the public to give its views on what SA's future energy mix should be, provides an opportunity to move well beyond conservative and fatalistic thinking. read more>> |
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 | David Furlonger A five-year initiative to create a sustainable industry to recycle millions of scrapped tyres every year, is making progress and attracting international interest. read more>> |
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 | Even before its assets registration process has been completed, the Gauteng provincial government has already identified more than 37,000 properties, many of which it is looking to offer to township businesses. read more>> |
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: Samsung is buying a US home automation start-up SmartThings, as the South Korean electronics company seeks to expand beyond the increasingly saturated smartphone market. read more>> |
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 | NEW DELHI, INDIA: India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said a "digital India" could compete with the world and hailed its information technology professionals for banishing the country's image as a land of "snake charmers and black magic". read more>> |
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 | HONG KONG - Lenovo has posted a 23% jump in quarterly net profit, beating market estimates as the Chinese technology company logged strong sales of personal computers and smartphones. read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: A rise in low-cost smartphone sales, notably in emerging markets, helped Google's Android platform extend its dominance in the mobile market in the second quarter according to a survey released this week. read more>> |
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Sony says that global sales of its newest PlayStation have past the 10m mark in less than a year, a record for the Japanese electronics company. read more>> |
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Twitter has unveiled a new advertising program that delivers "promoted videos" to the tweet stream of users of the popular messaging platform. read more>> |
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 | A rural agricultural cooperative, which uses animal fat to make bars of soap won the 2014 North West Female Entrepreneur Award. read more>> |
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 | Nosihle Shelembe Government has set itself the goal of 'creating' 100 black industrialists in the next three years to contribute to the economy and create jobs, Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Mzwandile Masina said. read more>> |
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 | Pretoria - Matlosana Local Municipality residents, affected by last week's earthquake, have expressed their satisfaction and gratitude to the North West provincial government and the Gift of the Givers Foundation, for their continued efforts to assist them. read more>> |
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 | More Matshediso Government has no intention of nationaliseing people's pension (or provident) funds, or preventing them from accessing their money, says the Department of Basic Education. read more>> |
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 | South Africa and Africa in general benefitted immensely from the recent US-Africa Leaders' Summit held in Washington last week, Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies said on his return. read more>> |
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 | The Department of Transport will, over the next three years, invest billions of rands in the country's transport infrastructure in a bid to reduce road deaths. read more>> |
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