The week in review

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THE BANKING Association SA is liaising with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) over the new Companies Act, as the sector cannot comply with some requirements that necessitate IT system overhauls. The legislation will allow businesses to register names that contain symbols such as +, &, #, @ and %, as well as longer entity names. It was initially meant to come into force this month, but has now been delayed until next April.

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THE BLACK IT Forum (BITF) has thrown down the gauntlet over Kelly Group's "removal" of deputy CEO and leading IT personality Mthunzi Mdwaba from its board. Kelly stripped Mdwaba  former BITF president - of his position and his role on the board towards the end of August, releasing a vague statement to the market in which no reasons were supplied.

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THE COMPANIES and Intellectual Property Registration Office (Cipro) is furiously trying to find a solution to get its cancelled IT overhaul project back on track. The agency has to have an enterprise content management system in place by October when the new Companies Act comes into play.

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GERALD O' SULLIVAN, CTO of the State IT Agency, has said integrating the software programs selected to drive the various modules of government's Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) has been problematic. Specifically, the Human Resource Management Module, driven by SAP's Human Capital Management System, is having trouble speaking to the Procurement Management Module, based in Oracle's eBusiness Suite.

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