Organisations Struggle Over Cloud Services

by | Feb 6, 2013 | NewsFeed

ISACA, a non-profit association of 100,000 IT professionals in 180 countries, today released further insights from its 2012 IT Risk/Reward Barometer. The study, conducted amongst 4,500 IT professionals from 83 countries, many of whom are of senior management level or...

Investing in Bonds: Is It Crazy

by | Feb 6, 2013 | NewsFeed

Most advisers say it’s crazy to invest in bonds. But then they would, wouldn’t they? Nearly all of them, and their clients, missed out on what has been one of the greatest bull markets in history for this asset class. According to BCA Research, since September 1981...

Renewable energy programme

by | Feb 6, 2013 | NewsFeed

Pretoria – The Department of Energy says it is expecting R47 billion to be invested in the country through Window 1 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme (REIPPP). The department introduced the REIPPP in August 2011, with the first bid...

Dti working on expanding abroad

by | Feb 6, 2013 | NewsFeed

Pretoria – The Department of Trade and Industry is in the process of securing funds to expand its global footprint in the 29 foreign economic offices (FEOs) it has abroad. Earlier this week, DA spokesperson on Trade and Industry, Dr Wilmot James, indicated that...

Govt committed to thriving mining industry

by | Feb 6, 2013 | NewsFeed

Cape Town – The government of South Africa is committed to creating a thriving and successful mining industry, the Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu said today. Addressing hundreds of policymakers and delegates from mining companies from around the...