Author: Chris Anu

Effective communication is the cornerstone of any successful community. For residential estates, gated communities, municipalities and smart cities, managing communication between residents, estate managers, service providers, local governments, and governing bodies is crucial for smooth operations and enhanced living standards. Enter Glovent Solutions’ Communication Centre, a powerful communication tool and part of Glovent’s core Community Management platform, which revolutionises how communities, municipalities, and smart cities manage and streamline communication. Unlike traditional e-mail platforms or fragmented communication systems, the Glovent Communication Centre is a comprehensive property management and governance platform designed with the specific needs of gated communities, municipalities and smart…

Netskope – IDC MarketScape 2025. Netskope, which positions itself as a leader in modern security and networking, today announced it has been named a leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DLP 2025 Vendor Assessment. Netskope believes this recognition, in IDC’s inaugural MarketScape report evaluating data loss prevention (DLP) vendors, is the latest industry validation for its ongoing leadership in unified data security.“Digital transformation, privacy and compliance requirements and the rapid adoption of AI technologies have demonstrated the value and vulnerability of enterprise data. In turn, buyers are demanding more from their data loss prevention solutions to assist them in addressing…

Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie will retire in July Long-serving Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie is retiring. He will step down at its AGM in July after 25 years in leadership positions at the bank. Fourie, who is a founding member of Capitec, will be replaced by another Capitec veteran, Graham Lee. “Under his stewardship as CEO, Capitec transformed from a challenger bank serving five million clients to South Africa’s leading digital bank and a diversified financial services provider serving over 24 million clients,” Capitec said in a statement to investors on Friday. “Gerrie’s leadership has been instrumental in fostering a culture…

UVU Bio boosts bioeconomy. A strong biotech sector will position Africa as a leader in innovation, sustainability and economic resilience; however, the continent’s entrepreneurs, scientists and researchers are struggling to progress. This is mainly due to a lack of affordable lab facilities and the extremely high cost of research and development (R&D) services.To address these challenges, UVU Bio, a non-profit organisation that’s dedicated to driving innovation and growth in Africa, has come up with a solution. “Our solution is to provide state-of-the-art lab infrastructure, technical expertise and commercial guidance to help scientists become entrepreneurs,” says UVU Bio CEO, Dheepak Maharajh.…

Mustek’s head office in Midrand, Johannesburg Printing and packaging firm Novus Holdings’ offer to buy out other shareholders in technology group Mustek has hit a fresh regulatory hurdle. The Takeover Regulation Panel (TRP) has “unilaterally withdrawn” its approval of Novus’s “firm intention announcement” regarding the Mustek offer and given the firm 20 business days to publish a revised announcement, Novus said late on Friday. It did not immediately provide reasons for the TRP’s decision. Novus was legally compelled to make a mandatory offer to Mustek shareholders last November after its shareholding in the technology distributor breached the 35% mark. Novus…

Under the deal, Vodacom was looking to acquire a 30% stake in the newly-created Maziv. The Competition Tribunal has finally released the details of its prohibiting of the R14 billon Maziv and Vodacom merger deal.In October, the tribunal decided to block the deal, which would have combined the country’s largest mobile operator, Vodacom, with one of South Africa’s largest fibre infrastructure players, Maziv.Maziv is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH), which has two main operating fibre subsidiaries, Dark Fibre Africa and Vumatel.Under the deal, Vodacom was looking to acquire a 30% stake in the newly-created Maziv, with…

Elon Musk. Image: TED Conference Elon Musk’s xAI has acquired X in a deal that values the social media platform at US$33-billion and allows the value of his artificial intelligence firm to be shared with his co-investors in the company formerly known as Twitter. The deal could also help xAI’s ability to train its chatbot known as Grok. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined,” Musk, who also heads car maker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, wrote in a post on X. “Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent.” Today, we officially take…

ZTE showcases the industry’s number one full life cycle FTTx solution, indicating that the entire FTTx construction and O&M process has entered the “zero era”, which has four features: zero-touch planning, zero construction threshold, zero fault blind spot and zero idle resources.ZTE builds “one smart home, one-key control, and AI-enabled quality life”, and reconstructs a new ecosystem of digital home life through the AIOT technology.ZTE showcases cost-effective, lightweight transport network solution with compact, low-power design for optimised deployment and operations.ZTE showcases all-optical products and solutions at FTTH Conference 2025. ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), which positions itself as a global…

South Africa is working to reset US relations that have been under assault by Donald Trump since his return to the White House. Pretoria is preparing a bilateral trade agreement as a backstop in case it loses access to a preferential accord, according to the deputy trade minister. And it’s shoring up its diplomatic presence in Washington following the expulsion of the country’s ambassador this month. As part of the multi-pronged strategy, a South African business delegation also visited New York this week for talks with some of the 600 US companies who operate in the country on how to…

Tony Christodoulou, Founder, CIO/CISO at Cyber Dexterity and Adjunct Faculty for GIBS Business School. (Image: Supplied) At a time when cyber threats are evolving in sophistication, approach and frequency, many organisations have been driven to take swift action to improve their security posture. However, much of the focus has been on meeting compliance standards, ticking boxes and implementing rigid processes that look good in theory and on paper, but often miss the mark when it comes to creating a truly secure environment or is thrown to the waste side when dealing with a real breach. While compliance is undeniably important…