Winners of the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Decade of Service awards in 2024: AfriSam’s Louise van der Bank and the University of the Witwatersrand’s Dr Stanley Mpofu. To honour the outstanding contributions of South Africa’s CIOs over the past year, ITWeb Brainstorm, in partnership with MTN Business, is introducing two new CIO awards for 2025. The…
Adrian Hinchcliffe, editor-in-chief at ITWeb; Nomonde White-Ndlovu, CIO at Bidvest Bank – winner of the Visionary CIO Award 2024; and Tshifhiwa Ramuthaga, founder and CEO of TGR Global Enterprises. (Photo: IITPSA) Nominations are now open for this year’s Institute of IT Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) President’s Awards, which include the Visionary CIO Award. Established nearly…
Faith Burn, chief technology and operations officer of the Land Bank. Technology executive Faith Burn has been appointed as chief technology and operations officer (CTOO) of the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank). Established in 1912 and reconstituted in 2002, the Land Bank is a wholly government-owned agricultural development finance institution,…
When Nedbank realised early last year that its mammoth core banking overhaul and modernisation programme was going awry, it turned to Marijke Guest for help. Guest, CIO of Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) and payments, and a veteran of the financial services group, tells TechCentral’s Meet the CIO about how the bank realised it…
