Author: Gugu Lourie
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is on a major recruitment drive, targeting to hire 250 new call centre service agents. On Monday (27 March), the revenue service announced that it was looking to hire vibrant, energetic and driven individuals to join its call centre team who makes customer happiness their mission in life and create awesome moments of their speciality. SARS is hiring for its offices in Bellville – Cape Town, Durban – KZN, Doringkloof – Centurion or Alberton – Johannesburg. “With your expertise, help ensure that each taxpayer who deals with us has an exceptional experience,” said SARS.…
MTN South Africa says Telecom Italia executive Michele Gamberini will become its new Chief Technology and Information Officer (CTIO). His appointment is effective 1 February 2022. Gamberini joins MTN from Telecom Italia (TIM Group) where he gained 25 years of experience across the business at TIM Italy and most recently in the position of Global Group CTIO. Having worked in Italy, Spain, Greece and supported Brazilian technological choices, Gamberini had the unique experience of preparing the network evolution ahead of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He holds a master’s degree in electronics engineering. MTN SA’s Chief Executive Officer, Charles…
MTN South Africa announced today it has appointed insider Megan Nicholas as MD for Supersonic, the network provider’s fibre and broadband internet service provider. Her appointment is effective 01 January 2022. Currently, General Manager for Residential at MTN South Africa, Nicholas’s internal appointment is a strategic move from MTN to ensure continuous customer growth in the residential market, of which MTN aspires to own 30% market share across all technologies by 2025. “Residential broadband delivery is a critical strategic focus, as we work to bring our superior network and service into more of our customer’s homes. This battle for the…
JSE-listed niche business bank and asset manager Sasfin has announced that Angela Pillay has resigned as the company’s financial director. The financial services group said Pillay had tendered her resignation to pursue other endeavours. Pillay will serve a three-month notice period until 8 April 2022 and the board will commence with a process to find an appropriate successor immediately. Shareholders will be kept informed in this regard, said Sasfin Pillay has been the financial director of Sasfin since 2018. “The Board would like to thank Angela for her dedication, hard work and commitment over the past few years and wish her…
With BMW iX Flow featuring E Ink being presented at CES 2022, BMW is offering the prospect of a future technology that uses digitisation to also adapt the exterior of a vehicle to different situations and individual wishes. The surface of the BMW iX Flow featuring E Ink can vary its shade at the driver’s prompting. The innovative E Ink technology opens completely new ways of changing the vehicle’s appearance in line with the driver’s aesthetic preferences, the environmental conditions or even functional requirements. The technology thus offers unprecedented potential for personalisation in the area of exterior design. The BMW…
Sony Vision-S continues its aim of evolving mobility to be even closer to people while developing technologies centred on safety, security, adaptability, and entertainment. At CES 2022, Sony announced and exhibited an SUV-type prototype vehicle (Vision-S 02) as a new form factor. Sony notes that this vehicle uses the same EV/cloud platform as the prototype (Vision-S 01), which is being tested on public roads. By offering entertainment experiences utilising the large interior space and variations of a 7-seater, this new prototype will, together with Vision-S 01, promote the accommodation of a large variety of lifestyles within a society where values…
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), BMW Group presents the third, even more, powerful model variant of its new technology flagship: the BMW iX M60. The BMW Group said in a statement the iX M60 combines a vehicle concept consistently geared towards sustainability with the design of a modern Sports Activity Vehicle and thrilling dynamic driving characteristics. With its technological highlights, which also include the areas of automated driving, operation and connectivity, the new BMW iX M60 represents a new understanding of advanced luxury, high performance and premium character,” said the German carmaker. The BMW iX M60 accelerates from…
Carmaker Hyundai today shared its vision for pioneering the use of robotics in both the real world and metaverse at CES 2022. The concept of the metaverse, essentially a virtual social space, gained traction in 2021. The metaverse is a network of always-on virtual environments in which many people can interact with one another and digital objects while operating virtual representations – or avatars – of themselves. Think of a combination of immersive virtual reality, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game and the web. The metaverse is a concept from science fiction that many people in the technology industry envision as the successor to…
Digital Realty, the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Teraco, Africa’s leading carrier-neutral colocation provider, from a consortium of investors, including Berkshire Partners and Permira, in a transaction valuing Teraco at $3.5 billion or R55.6 billion. After closing the deal, Digital Realty will own 55% of Teraco, while the remaining 45% will be held by a consortium of existing investors, including management, Berkshire Partners LLC, Permira, van Rooyen Group, Columbia Capital, Stepstone Ventures and the Teraco Connect Trust.…
Reunert would consider acquiring a renewable energy company, the JSE-listed electronics and electrical engineering group disclosed in its latest annual report. “We will actively pursue acquisitions in ICT in the Solutions and Systems Integration cluster to complete our service offering for +OneX,” Reunert said in the annual report. “We may also be interested in other ICT assets that may be wholly Reunert owned. “We would also consider acquisitions in the renewable energy space.” In May 2021, Reunert and A.P. Møller Capital announced a new joint venture, Lumika Renewables. Lumika provides impetus to Reunert’s renewable energy strategy which has traditionally centred around investments…