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20 June 2013
                       
 
 
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17 Apr 2013
 
 
UN: Navi Pillay: Address by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, at the University of Witwatersand, Johannesburg, (17/04/2013)
SPEECH
Ladies and gentlemen, Thank you for this kind invitation; I'm very pleased to be home, and at Wits. In the past four and a half years - since I became the High Commissioner for Human Rights - my...
 
 
13 Mar 2013
 
South Africans have yet to discover the real power of social media
SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Wireless communication and social media platforms have provided citizens with previously unimaginable possibilities to engage politically. For example, during the 2012 United States presidential...
 
 
06 Nov 2012
 
SA: Statement by Regenesys Business School, higher education institution, on launch of its free business education model (06/11/2012)
STATEMENT
Regenesys Business School, South Africa’s leading management and leadership higher education institution, has broken new ground by becoming the first business school in the world to offer free...
 
 
03 Oct 2012
 
SA: Statement by mPowa, mobile payment innovator, helps First National Bank to make merchant services mobile (03/10/2012)
STATEMENT
Mobile payment innovator mPowa has announced that it is working with First National Bank in South Africa to introduce a new mobile payment device to the bank’s merchant services offering in the...
 
 
02 Oct 2012
 
SA: Statement by First National Bank, on first steps towards making merchant services more mobile (02/10/2012)
STATEMENT
First National Bank today announced that it is working towards introducing an exciting new mobile payment device to its merchant services offering in the coming months. The announcement follows the...
 
 
02 Jul 2012
 
SARS: Magashula: Address by the Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service, on the launch of Tax Season 2012, Pretoria (02/07/2012)
Topics
Good morning and welcome to our Minister and Deputy Minister, members of the media, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues. As the Minister pointed out in his opening remarks, Tax Season is one of the...
 
 
26 Jun 2012
 
DA: Mazibuko: Address by Parliamentary Leader of the Democratic Alliance, on how the DA is using e-tools to remake South African politics, Bonn, Germany (26/06/2012)
Topics
It gives me great pleasure to be here today to speak about how the Democratic Alliance (DA) is using e tools in our ‘permanent campaign’ to change South Africa. The DA is the second-largest...
 
 
26 Sep 2011
 
ICT and telecoms seen as key to socioeconomic growth in Africa
TELECOMS & ICT
Internet usage in Africa grew by 2 527% between 2000 and 2011, compared with a world average of 480%, highlighted Standard Bank’s Africa Macro Insight and Strategy report, which looks at trends...
 
 
15 Apr 2011
 
Will the revolution be tweeted? The potential for democratisation through social media
CONSULTANCY AFRICA INTELLIGENCE
The Arab world is ablaze, people’s power is at its height and the firm grips of dictators and authoritarian regimes in the region have been severely compromised: Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali,...
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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