{"id":59349,"date":"2014-06-01T06:23:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T04:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=59349"},"modified":"2014-06-01T06:23:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T04:23:30","slug":"gijima-legal-woes-continue-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/59349\/gijima-legal-woes-continue-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Gijima legal woes continue: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gijima is facing R3.3 million lawsuit from Isiqina Property Holdings for the non-payment of goods and services. This is according to a report in the Sunday Independent.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Gijima is blaming rogue employees for not paying. It also said that the company does not have the right to bring this action against Gijima.<\/p>\n<p>Gijima said in court papers that Isiqina Property Holdings ceded its R7 million claim to Sizwe Cabling, which is also suing the company.<\/p>\n<p>This report follows other legal battles, including a dispute with Anderson Scanning Technologies (AST).<\/p>\n<p>Gijima was facing a R184 million damage claim by AST who was axed by Gijima from a contract to digitise the records in South Africa\u2019s deeds offices.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2014 Gijima CEO, Eileen Wilton said that the listed ICT service provider is six months into a three year turnaround strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Gijima reported a decline in revenue from continuing operations to R741 million, from R911 million in 2012; however, the group narrowed its operating loss to R17.7 million, from R123 million before.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: bold;\">More on Gijima<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #006699;\" title=\"Gijima targets three year turnaround\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/55085\/gijima-targets-three-year-turnaround\/\"><strong>Gijima targets three year turnaround<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #006699;\" title=\"Gijima appoints new CFO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/54266\/gijima-appoints-new-cfo\/\"><strong>Gijima appoints new CFO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gijima is facing multi-million rand lawsuit from a supplier who said it was not paid for goods and services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[641,26],"class_list":["post-59349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-gijima","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59349","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=59349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59353,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59349\/revisions\/59353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}