Africa

Joseph Otieno, acting managing director, discusses how KVM, and Kenya as a whole, is attracting the interest of some of the planet’s most recognisable players in the automotive industry.

Chief commercial officer Danie du Toit talks about a phase of expansion at South African coach services company Intercape, and the latest luxurious addition to the Sleepliner fleet.

Through the work of its Respondez brand, Spanco Limited has introduced its outsourcing solutions to Africa’s thriving telecommunications sector.

Though still in its relatively early stages of development, Africa’s telecommunications market is lauded as being one of the fastest-growing in the world. Throughout the 2000s, mobile telephony across the continent, particularly in sub-Saharan nations, skyrocketed to the point where today it is substantially more widespread than its fixed line equivalent.

Africa’s IT industry is gearing up toward the clouds on the opening day of the annual summit conference.

Hosted by international business-to-business conferencing company, Kinetic Events, the 3rd annual Cloud and Virtualisation Summit Africa, is being held today and tomorrow at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg.

The summit was officially opened by Derrick Plank, Director of ClearSpace Consulting with an interesting take on the increasing impact of cloud computing on business technology. Derrick will also be moderating the event this year.

Having established a reputation for solving tough industrial drying problems, particularly in the minerals industry, South African engineering company Drytech is now taking that expertise globally.

Jimmy Johnston, project director for the St Helena airport project, discusses the work being undertaken to deliver the island its own international airport and the benefits this will create.

Following the re-opening of the plant, which was shut down in July, the company has revealed that three yellow stones weighing 27, 17 and 15 carats respectively, and three white stones weighing 12.4, 9.2 and 9.1 carats have been recovered during the last quarter.

The country’s Tobacco Industrial and Marketing Board (TIMB) states that an estimated 120,000 hectares of land will be used for tobacco production. This follows the revelation that sales for this year totalled 144 million kilograms, bringing in $525 million at an average price of $3.66 per kilogram.

In comparison, last years’ sale of 131.9 million kilograms helped the country generate $360.9 million with a kilogram averaging at $2.74 per kilogram.

Charles Wells, general manager of sustainability, talks about the company’s approach to sustainability and the initiatives it has in place to leave behind a positive social, environmental and economic legacy when it moves on.