Most categories of aggravated robbery have increased, with truck hijackings seeing the biggest rise of 29.1%, according to the crime statistics for the 2014/15 period. There were 288 more truck hijackings in this period, pushing up the number to 1...
About 80 000 traders and their families in Africa’s Great Lakes Region should benefit from greater food security, more jobs, and an overall increase in welfare as a result of a $79 million International Development (IDA) grant and credit approved...
South African Hennie Heymans will commence his managing director role at DHL Express sub-Saharan Africa this week. From Thursday, he will oversee 51 countries and territories, over 3 500 employees and 250 facilities, five regional hubs and 14...
fastjet, buoyed by a 56% rise in booked flights during the half-year period to the end of June, is trialing flights in Zimbabwe and expects to launch flights from Harare to Victoria Falls in the next month. The budget airline, which is focused on...
GE South Africa Technologies (GESAT) has a new CEO. Zeenith Ebrahim, who has been with the company since 2008 and on its Board since 2011, succeeds Gorman Zimba in the role. As CEO Ebrahim will be responsible for the execution of the company’s...
The first merchant vessel registered under the South African flag since 1985, the Cape Orchid, arrived in Saldanha Bay this week. The 300m long Japanese-built bulk carrier is owned by Vuka Marine and is registered in Port Elizabeth. It will...
An industry leading construction and property solutions company, this year marks its ten year anniversary. Since it was founded in 2005, Profica has shown phenomenal growth and managed projects valued at more than R20 billion throughout Africa,...
More than 12 000 homes in Bryanston, Johannesburg, will have access to fibre technology by early next year, in what Telkom said would be the largest fibre rollout to date. According to a report by the CAJ News Agency Africa the fibre rollout,...
A leading engineering, procurement and construction company has undertaken a serious commitment towards an environment of Zero Harm on all its projects. This follows the introduction of a number of incident reduction strategies in 2013, which have...
