Industrial Policy plan reaps benefits

South Africa outperformed the rest of Africa, as well as its upper middle-income economy peers, in a World Bank survey of trade efficiency, improving its previous performance despite a general slowdown in trade logistics performance in the wake of the global recession.

The number of internet users in South Africa accelerated dramatically over the past year, driven by mobile phones, as the internet "finally arrived in the hands of the mass market", according to the latest Internet Access in South Africa study.

South African services and solutions provider Dimension Data, recently named global partner of the year by US communications firm Polycom, has now added US IT giant Cisco's partner of the year award to its trophy cabinet.