South Africa – Biometric passports
Posted by Robert in news on 19. Apr, 2009 | 1 Comment
I found this very interesting article that I had to share.
The South African Department of Home Affairs has begun rolling out security enhanced passports to new applicants from this week.
A facility in Pretoria which prints the new passports was officially opened last week by the minister of home affairs, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Until now South African [...]
Why Real time info is important
Posted by Robert in news on 03. Jan, 2009 | 0 Comments
We live in the information age. Where information and data is sent across the world in a matter of seconds. News is spread from America to South Africa over to any other Country in the world.
Why is it important for us to keep track of this high speed information?
In the past it would take forever [...]
Happy New Year
Posted by Robert in news on 31. Dec, 2008 | 0 Comments
Its the end of the year and all things are coming to an end.
Stores closing and doing stock take. I Lauched Gitui at the begining of this year. This is my seccond blog. Its been going well and I’ve learnt alot since then.
I have also lauched a blog called iambored. That has been quite successfull [...]
Girl fired after facebook picture shows swastika
Posted by Robert in news on 07. Nov, 2008 | 0 Comments
Facebook is everywhere, On the news, at home, office, public places. Facebook has had some very good reports of itself, and also some really bad ones. The latest one is of a girl getting fired when a picture was found of her holding a Swastika next to a passed out man.
A New England Patriots [...]
Telkom, Mvelaphanda Suspend Talks
Posted by Robert Jooste in news on 20. Sep, 2008 | 0 Comments
After months of protracted discussions around the sale of Telkom to Mvelaphanda and its consortium, the talks have been “suspended”. However, talks with Vodafone are ongoing.
The utility released the announcement on the JSE yesterday, saying the talks had been suspended because of “market conditions and pricing considerations”.
Telkom’s group executive of investor relations Nicola White says [...]
