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School pupils to return in phases in South Africa
Pupils will return to school in phases. Grade 12 and 7 pupils will go back to school on May 6. Grade 6 pupils will return on May 20, Grade 5 on June 3 and Grade 4 pupils on June 17. Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Basic Education and the Select Committee on Education and Technology, Sports,

SA Express provisionally liquidated
This comes after practitioners lodged the application in the Pretoria High Court on March 25, 2020

Emirates dips into cash reserve and refunds 500,000 airfares
Emirates is one of the few global airlines that is refunding customers

Oil and gas production halted in Sub-Sahara Africa
Virtually all oil and gas projects and licensing rounds are on hold in Equatorial Guinea as it braces for an extended oil downturn because of the coronavirus pandemic, the country's hydrocarbons minister said on Monday. Equatorial Guinea, a tiny west African nation that relies on oil and gas for 90% of state revenue, had already

Kodak Alaris outlines INfuse infrastructure roadmap
Artificial intelligence, robotic process automation and machine learning will continue to change scanning requirements

SA’s mall owners slash rent for tenants who couldn't open during lockdown
SA’s group of large landlords – including the biggest malls in the country – has sweetened its rent offer to tenants who couldn’t open during lockdown. But no agreement has been reached with some of its biggest tenants – including The Foschini Group (TFG), Truworths, Mr Price Group, Woolworths and Pepkor. Since the start of

Axis Communications signs Compass Visual Security as new VAD for Africa
Distribution rights cover South Africa and the rest of Africa

Boeing terminates agreement to establish JV with Embraer
Boeing exercised its rights to terminate after Embraer did not satisfy the necessary conditions

IMF Executive Board approves $442m for Senegal
Disbursement falls under the Rapid Credit Facility and Purchase under the Rapid Financing Instrument

Mastercard Foundation commits to CMMB COVID-19 efforts
The $250,000 contribution will support Catholic Medical Mission Board's emergency relief efforts to fight the spread of COVID-19 in low-resource countries

Are you ready for the next big business disruption?
Dino Psoulis, solution architect – Aruba and HPE at Axiz, explains that in the event of a disaster like the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s vital that network administrators can control their infrastructure

South Africa seeking $5bn from multilateral lenders to fight virus: Treasury official
Africa’s most advanced economy is talking to several multilateral lenders including the BRICS bank.

Kaspersky offers free online modules to minimise security risks while working remotely
Security vendor touts introduction of a new free online module about working from home security basics

Mitigating against ransomware: Don’t let back-ups be the back door
Rick Vanover, senior director, Product Strategy at Veeam, outlines how businesses must be prepared for the reality of relentless cyber attacks and have a contingency plan in place should the worst happen.

Sextortion activity on the rise: Sophos reports reveals
Money trail leads to underbelly of cyber criminal activity, according to SophosLabs Report

Kodak Alaris hails virtual annual Partner Summit
Vendor says 66% of partners who attended the virtual event say that COVID-19 had "considerably changed" their business

Kaspersky to remotely support inadequately connected point of sale devices
IT security vendor introduces network threat protection to improve ATM and PoS security posture against attacks

Cuba sends doctors to South Africa to combat coronavirus
Caribbean nation has sent 216 healthcare workers to South Africa, the latest of more than 20 medical brigades it has sent worldwide

New Gov.rw portal goes live
The new Gov.rw was designed with the aim of harmonising Rwanda Government’s presence online

AXIS unveils C1410 network mini speaker
The latest offering is easy to integrate with other systems like VoIP telephony and video cameras and analytics
