Mint Group named 2025 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year. Mint Group today announced it has won 2025 Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award. The company was honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. “Our recognition as the…
What set firms apart? Selecting the right software development company is one of the most strategic choices a business can make. Yet in a crowded market, it’s easy to be swayed by marketing claims or “top company” awards. What’s harder to see, but far more important, are the capabilities, culture and practices that actually set…
Liesle Botha, Key Account Executive at NEC XON. NEC XON, which positions itself as a leading African systems integrator, has partnered with Mimosa Networks, a global leader in fixed wireless solutions, to accelerate digital inclusion by delivering high-speed broadband connectivity to underserved and rural communities across Africa. This partnership has already secured a landmark deployment into…
Pictured left: MakwaIT’s leadership team, Rishi Birbal and Chris Kistasamy, visited Hitachi Vantara’s Global Center of Excellence in the Netherlands to strengthen ESG-driven partnerships. Pictured right: Al Patel, Rishi Birbal, Zandi Ndlovu, Chris Kistasamy, Gerald Painter, and Paul Le Roux at the awards ceremony, where MakwaIT proudly accepted the Partner of the Year Award. MakwaIT…
Cohort of WeThinkCode students. Software development academy WeThinkCode has welcomed non-profit organisation Collective X as a strategic partner, it announced on Tuesday. This, to build a more inclusive, outcomes-based tech talent pipeline for South African youth. Collective X co-invests with employers to support junior ICT talent in gaining relevant digital skills through work-integrated learning. See…
On 20th September 2025, the African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) and Cambridge University Press & Assessment (Cambridge) signed an agreement to work together on education initiatives that will help shape the future of teaching and learning across Africa. The agreement was signed in New York on the sidelines of the just concluded…
Conceptual image is courtesy of Persona AI A groundbreaking collaboration to develop inspection technologies for Persona AI’s humanoid robot platform that enhances productivity and safety in shipyards was formalized today with the signing of an MOU between ABS and Persona AI. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250923457571/en/ The initiative will…
A British woman from an aristocratic family and her partner were sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison each for the death of their newborn daughter, who died while they were living off-grid in freezing temperatures. Passing sentence, Judge Mark Lucraft told Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, that the way they treated their…
Justin Lee, regional sales director at Palo Alto Networks NEC XON Cyber has been named Palo Alto Networks’ sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Partner of the Year, recognising the company as the region’s top-performing partner for 2025. The award was presented at Palo Alto Networks’ recent annual partner gathering in Istanbul, Turkey. The SSA Partner of the…
From left to right: Yugen Naidoo, MD, Lenovo South Africa; Werner Schoeman, Relationship Sales Lead at Lenovo; Anle Els, Datacentrix Product Manager: End User Computing at Datacentrix; Tony de Sousa, Divisional Managing Director: Inland Technology Solutions and Security Solutions at Datacentrix; and Casey Lee Sundstrom, Marketing Manager at Lenovo. Datacentrix, which positions itself as a…
