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22 September 2004, News
Southern Africa    Altech has purchased 50% of the Econet Wireless Group (EWG) for $70m. The transaction will position Altech favourably in the high-growth cellular (GSM) network operator market, it said. ...

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25 August 2004, News
Southern Africa In a bid to stimulate growth and employment in the electronics sector in the KwaZulu-Natal region, an interim association has been formed charged with the task of encouraging players ...

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11 August 2004, News
Southern Africa    Multisource Telecoms has announced that Zonkiziziwe Investments has secured a 23% shareholding. Multisource Telecoms, a wireless telecoms company, has been actively engaged for the past ...

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28 July 2004, News
Southern Africa    Zest Electric Motors and Drives has become a black-empowered company. In a cash transaction Medu Capital purchased 26% of the electric motor supplier.       Harris Corporation has received ...

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14 July 2004, News
Southern Africa    Reunert has entered the Australian market after purchasing Australian company Heinemann Electric for R25 m. The Melbourne-based company, with an estimated turnover of R80 m, will be incorporated ...

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30 June 2004, News
Southern Africa    Digicore Technologies and DexData Technologies are entering the fleet management market in Brazil. DEX will market, sell, install and fully support Digicore's fleet management systems ...

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16 June 2004, News
Southern Africa    The convergence of telecommunications and IT has prompted IT systems and communications distributor Comztek to establish a dedicated telecoms division. Uwe Brandkamp, sales director at ...

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2 June 2004, News
Southern Africa    Spescom Limited announced headline earnings of R20,6m for the interim half year ending 31 March, 2004. The group reported a 50% increase in trading profits for the first six months, when ...

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19 May 2004, News
Southern Africa    Altech has released its financial results for the year ending 29 February 2004, announcing that it is well-positioned to show real growth in the coming year with orders on hand at an ...

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5 May 2004, News
Southern Africa    Prism has announced it has delivered and implemented Thales e-security EMV P3 (personalisation preparation process) software at three of South Africa's leading banks in deals valued at ...

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21 April 2004, News
Southern Africa    Andile Ngcaba has joined Dimension Data South Africa (DDSA) to lead a BEE consortium, which will own 25% interest in DDSA, and to expand the penetration of DDSA throughout Africa. According ...

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7 April 2004, News
Southern Africa    Spescom Software, Spescom's US division, has formed an alliance with Aker Kvaerner, a supplier of project solutions and operations services relating to environmental clean-up in the UK ...

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24 March 2004, News
Southern Africa    Izingwe consortium, led by the former Nedcor director, Sipho Pityana, has bought up a 30% stake in power and telecommunications cable maker, Aberdare Cables, for R165m.       Sentech has ...

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10 March 2004, News
Southern Africa    The KwaZulu-Natal Innovation Support Centre (ISC) is appealing to inventors, individuals or companies to bring their innovative ideas to the centre in a bid to further develop their potential ...

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25 February 2004, News
Southern Africa    Altech subsidiary, Alcom Systems, has been awarded the South African Police Service tender for the supply, delivery, installation, commissioning and testing of a complete digital terrestrial ...

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11 February 2004, News
Southern Africa    South African designers and their new product prototypes were recognised at the recent SABS Design Institute annual award ceremony. The Q500 cellphone, the Series 2100 Payphone system ...

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28 January 2004, News
Xilinx has announced that its radiation-tolerant field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are playing a critical role in the successful NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Mars exploration mission. Xilinx ...

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19 November 2003, News
Southern Africa    Local uninterruptible power supply manufacturer, Meissner, says it has seen an 11% growth in sales for the first part of 2003 and is set to improve on the 38% growth achieved for the ...

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5 November 2003, News
Southern Africa    The Pretoria High Court has ruled against Telkom in its bid to have the sale, distribution and use of least-cost routing (LCR) equipment prohibited. The decision, with costs, ruled in ...

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8 October 2003, News
Southern Africa    Providing a conduit for skills development and entrepreneurship in Africa, the Cape Information Technology Initiative (CITI) and second hand computer distributor, FreeCom Group, have ...

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