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Can I Still Trade Bitcoin in South Africa Despite SARS Clampdown?
/* custom css */ .tdi_4_78e.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_78e.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } South Africa is one of the countries where the growth, adoption, and use of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to move at a fast pace. People are looking for how to buy bitcoin now more than ever. However, a lot of crypto traders are facing pressure from the South Africa Revenue Service (SARS) regarding their cryptocurrency investments. This has raised a lot of panic in the South Africa crypto community. Since the main purpose of digital assets is to encourage anonymous P2P transactions anywhere around the globe, they are used by some as a tool to bypass tax. To curtail this, SARS has joined a number of tax bodies around the world in monitoring profits made by crypto tra...
Adama Diouf of SYLVERSYS Talks Amazon Partnership, Cloud Computing and Digital Transformation in Africa
SYLVERSYS is a solutions integration company that currently provides its services for African countries, mainly in the West Africa region. With a speciality in providing secure computer and network products/solutions for businesses and organizations in the private and public sector, the UK-based company has moved from strength to strength. Now, as the pandemic begins to decline in many parts of the world, SYLVERSYS realigns its sights on expanding to more African markets, including those in sub-Saharan Africa. Recently, SYLVERSYS partnered with Amazon to bring its cloud solutions to Yup, a mobile payment platform based in Senegal. ITNA’s Luis Monzon had the opportunity to chat with Adama Diouf, VP of SYLVERSYS, and self-styled “Digital Transformation Evangelist” to discuss how the company ...
Chasing the Unicorn: The Global Search for Cloud Skills
Whenever there is a new technology trend or an evolution of how organisations service their customers through technology, we have subsequent demand for new or enhanced IT skills. The recent increase in cloud computing has created an increased demand for cloud-related skills and we are currently in a cycle where the global demand for cloud skills outstrips the supply. We simply don’t have enough skilled cloud engineers in the market to satisfy the demand. Cloud Skills On Demand As more organisations accelerate their cloud adoption strategies, we also have cloud providers themselves looking for cloud skills globally to meet the increased utilisation of their cloud services as they simultaneously scale up to introduce more cloud regions and availability zones across the world. Amazon Web Serv...
5 Intriguing Business Ideas for You to Make Extra Money After Work
/* custom css */ .tdi_4_0ab.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_0ab.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Additional income is an important way to provide more financial security for yourself and your family. It likewise allows you to achieve your goals faster or afford certain items or holidays that were just out of reach before. These ideas below are not just for once-off boosts in income, they are intended for those who are looking for new permanent sources of income, both additional and main. This collection contains ideas from different areas so that people from many walks of life and interests can find a suitable option for themselves. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_dd2.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_dd2.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Perhaps you already have an idea...
How to Fix the “d3dx9_42.ddl Error” You Get Playing Classic Games Like EverQuest
Image sourced from Polygon. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_068.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_068.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Whenever you play a game on Windows PC or laptop, Microsoft DirectX handles most of the tasks in game programming. d3dx9_43.dll is just one of the files in DirectX. But if this file goes missing, you may end up in various errors while playing any sort of game that was published before more modern versions of the Windows OS. Examples include classics like EverQuest, Fallout New Vegas, The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind, and so on. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_6aa.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_6aa.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Sometimes the errors may happen if you’re using an outdated version of DirectX or you had deleted the d3dx9_43.dll fil...
Sage Provides Award-Winning Cloud Solutions to Help All Businesses Perform at Their Best
/* custom css */ .tdi_4_620.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_620.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } Sage is the global market leader for technology that helps small and medium businesses perform at their best. The company is trusted by millions of customers worldwide to deliver the best cloud technology and support, with our partners, to manage finances, operations, and people. “We believe in doing everything we can to help people be the best they can be, so the combined efforts of 12,000 Sage colleagues working with businesses and communities make a real difference to the world,” the company says. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_ea6.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_ea6.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } “Sage. Perform at your Best.” Having similar humble origins to the myr...
Mobile vs Desktop: Which is Better for Trading?
Image sourced from VorteXz Signals. /* custom css */ .tdi_4_d09.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_d09.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } There’s no doubt that Africa has become increasingly active from an investment and economic perspective of late, with this thanks largely to a huge increase in mobile penetration rates and accessibility. To this end, smartphone sales in Africa grew to comprise 6.6% of the global marketplace in 2019, compared with 6.3% in 2018 and just 5.9% in 2017. The continent is expected to make up 7.1% of the worldwide market in just two years’ time, as it continues to grow incrementally and impressively. /* custom css */ .tdi_3_910.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_3_910.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } But is your smartphone the best option for...
What are CFDs and How Can You Start Trading Online?
/* custom css */ .tdi_4_61e.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_61e.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } The use of Contracts for Differences (CFDs) continues to trend among retail traders, given these financial derivatives are ideal when market volatility is elevated and valuations have a directional bias. Understanding what are CFDs and some of the main threads linked to them is not difficult, even when it comes to people that are just getting started in the industry. The Basics of CFDs People will very often hear about the stock markets, FOREX, or commodities in the media. These are financial assets with a floating value, creating incentives for speculation. Retail traders and institutions all around the world are getting involved in these markets daily, based on changing economi...
The Haller Foundation Partners with Deciwatt to Improve Accessibility for Safe Sources of Light and Electricity in Kenya
Deciwatt’s NowLights supply renewable, sustainable energy. The Haller Foundation, a grassroots NGO registered in the UK and based in Kenya, is continuing its efforts to support smallholder farmers in the country through its Partnership with Deciwatt – an organisation and charity that provides sustainable, low-cost, low-energy lighting and electricity to rural communities across the globe. To aid the Haller Foundation’s efforts in supporting and enriching the lives of smallholder farmers in rural areas in Kenya, Deciwatt supplied 12 sustainable NowLights to the Foundation in support of the re-launching of the Haller Foundation’s award-winning Haller Farmers App. “We’re really excited to be building on our existing relationship with The Haller Foundation, where we supplied Gravity Ligh...
Accelerated eLearning Adoption Could Contribute to More Impactful Outcomes in the Education System for Africa
/* custom css */ .tdi_4_262.td-a-rec-img{ text-align: left; }.tdi_4_262.td-a-rec-img img{ margin: 0 auto 0 0; } The world of digital has broadened the play and fuelled greater expectations as it shifted the traditional perspectives around time and space. The proximity to the customer is incrementally getting shortened, while the expectation for service leans towards the now. Those who lay claim to the gift of intuition have even pondered the veracity in the statement that the world as we know it has come to an end. But it has, in the process, ushered in a new one that is full of possibilities and diverse opportunities. Never has there been a better time for the re-imagination of one’s destiny. The dexterity to meander the future is not and should not be exclusive as it was before. The perv...
Airtel Nigeria Awarded “Best in Test” – An Interview with Hakan Ekmen of umlaut
Hakan Ekmen, CEO of Telecommunications for umlaut. Hakan Ekmen, CEO of Telecommunications at umlaut – an international, full-service, cross-industry, end-to-end company that offers advisory and fulfilment services to clients all over the world – chats with ITNA about umlaut’s recently published telecommunications report in Nigeria and the company’s future plans in Africa. Here’s what transpired: umlaut is well known in the Telecommunications industry, but that’s only part of the story. Can you please tell us a little bit more about umlaut? umlaut is a technology-driven and future-oriented company, providing services to numerous sectors and industries, like automotive, energy, aviation, rail and telecommunications. We transfer our expertise and knowledge across the industries. Our own value...
Offline Device Locking: Protect Your Financed Devices against Non-payment with NuovoPay
Sourced from Travellers With the advent of 4G technology and the promising 5G technology, smartphones have offered people a gateway to enter the digital economy and get socio-economic benefits. According to Statista, in 2020 global smartphone unit sales for end-users were 1.38 billion. This shows a strong demand for smartphones, which is largely driven by consumers from developed countries. The consumer in developed countries has easy access to smartphone finance, affordable loans, alternative forms of credit scoring, etc. This necessarily does not hold true for certain emerging markets such as Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia. According to Newzoo Global Mobile Market Report 2018, Smartphone penetration in South Africa was 35.5%, Vietnam was 37.7%, Indonesia was 27.4% as compared to 83% an...
