{"id":27288,"date":"2012-11-26T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T08:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=27288"},"modified":"2012-11-26T10:55:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T08:55:22","slug":"xpanse-tries-its-hand-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/27288\/xpanse-tries-its-hand-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Xpanse tries its hand at IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xpanse Investments has acquired a 12% equity stake in Khauleza IT Solutions to help the group\u00a0grow a national network of SMMEs.<\/p>\n<p>The current owners will reduce their ownership accordingly in relation to this transaction,\u00a0Xpanse said.<\/p>\n<p>Xpanse will manage equipment warrantees on behalf of customers in addition to rendering on-site remedial maintenance services for most leading computer, printer and peripheral brands.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception in 2003, Xpanse has mainly participated in mining, advertising, maritime transport and logistics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve long been a believer in the unique linkages between information communication technology and logistics. Partnering upstream with service and maintenance companies in ICT is even more important today in the dynamic marketplace in which we compete,&#8221;\u00a0said\u00a0Xpanse CEO,\u00a0Innocentia Motau.<\/p>\n<p>Motau has also been\u00a0appointed director to the board of Khauleza IT Solutions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tremendous opportunity to enhance Xpanse&#8217;s industry-leading portfolio of investments in maritime transport and logistics, while also strategically entering the ICT market,&#8221;\u00a0Motau said.<\/p>\n<p>With a nationwide footprint, Khauleza IT Solutions manages end-to-end architecture, deployment and ongoing management of \u00a0switching centres or data centres.\u00a0It provides central support and assistance to customers and their IT managers with 24\/7 service desk availability \u2013 ranging from catch and dispatch through to level 2 remote remedial support services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to working with Khauleza, the company\u2019s management team, and all of its shareholders, including Mustek Limited, to build on years of success and take Khauleza IT Solutions to greater heights&#8221; \u00a0Motau added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mustek partners with UK firm\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/22734\/mustek-partners-with-uk-firm\/\"><strong>Mustek partners with UK firm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The big issues in African ICT\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/26760\/the-big-issues-in-african-ict\/\"><strong>The big issues in African ICT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SA and Ireland partner in ICT business\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/26718\/sa-and-ireland-partner-in-ict-business\/\"><strong>SA and Ireland partner in ICT business<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xpanse Investments has acquired a 12% equity stake in Khauleza IT Solutions to help the group grow a national network of SMMEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[25,4687,4686,1097,4685],"class_list":["post-27288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-active","tag-innocentia-motau","tag-khauleza","tag-mustek","tag-xpanse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27288"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27293,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27288\/revisions\/27293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}