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Not business as usual

SAS South Africa has a new country manager. He`s determined to move the business forward, but without upsetting the already solid apple cart.

At the coalface of cyber crime

Put the law, technology and a globe-trotting lifestyle in security consulting together and you have Ian Melamed. But what makes him tick?

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Paul Furber

Playing god in the virtual world

Cory Ondrejka is chief technilogy officer of Linden Labs and creator of the virtual online phenomenon known as Second Life. It all started with a simple idea...

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Brite young things

Four Dimension Data companies have been consolidated under a new name. Although they have each retained their individual brand names, this may change over time.

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Graeme Scala

Wiki-man keeps walking

Jimmy Wales is most famous for founding Wikipedia. But before this philanthropic undertaking, he was all about the business.

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Simon Dingle

No mountain high enough

Sitting at the summit of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, watching the sunrise, was all that Tony van Marken needed to drive him onto greater things. He hasn`t looked back since.

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Graeme Scala

Competition on the up

Stephen Blewett finds much to admire in South Africa`s telecoms sector. But he doesn`t flinch from pointing out the nasty bits as well.

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Rodney Weidemann

A feisty advocate for the underdog

When Lynda Odendaal talks about women empowerment, it has the ring of authenticity. Her own journey to the top as CEO of Network Support Services started on an assembly line in an Eastern Cape factory.

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Clairwyn van der Merwe

Ring fencing its clients

Through a name change, some key acquisitions, ‘ring fencing` what it has, keeping competitors out and customers happy, Enterprise Connection has now become an individual enterprise in its own right which has been able to ‘sever the links of the past`

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Brett Haggard

N-Direct`s new CEO looks for new challenges

The new CEO of N-Direct has to push growth in the online space for the company`s brands, kalahari.net, Leisure and Books and Leserkring.

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Stephen Whitford

Turning the corner

Software AG appears to be on the way back to profitability after several tough years. The company`s newly appointed CEO spoke to us on a recent visit to SA.

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Brian Bakker

New chemistry at HP

HP`s new local CEO, Thoko Mokgosi, is clear about where she wants to take the company.

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Georgina Guedes

Woman on tax

Travelling alone, a young Kenyan lawyer is venturing where few women have gone before her: into the centre of Africa`s male-dominated telecommunications regulatory scene.

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Clairwyn van der Merwe