Mar 24, 2021
South Africans lag behind the rest of the world when it comes to cybersecurity skills. New research shows that South Africans have slightly better skills when it comes to knowing how to react to online threats and phishing attacks. They scored 78.6 points out of 100,...
Mar 23, 2021
Global restrictions implemented to curb the spread of Covid-19 have had a direct impact on manufacturing supply chains. Constraints are still evident across many manufacturing subsectors a year after the country first went into hard lockdown, according to the Q1 Absa...
Mar 19, 2021
6G communications, expected to be widely deployed by 2030, is set to become one of the largest technology investments ever. A new IDTechEx report, “6G Communications Market, Devices, Materials 2021-2041”, predicts 6G communications may be more...
Mar 18, 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed structural weaknesses and widened inequalities across the world. Even before the pandemic, the rise of automation and innovative technologies were transforming the world of work, resulting in an urgent need for upskilling of talent....
Mar 17, 2021
Kathy Gibson reports – South African CEOs are confident about the future, but are very cognisant of the many challenges that we need to overcome. These are among the findings from the PwC Annual Global CEO Survey, 2021, which reflects the fact that we are living in a...
Mar 16, 2021
A Gartner survey of more than 5 000 employees conducted in the fourth quarter of 2020 found that more than one-quarter of the workforce (29%) described itself as depressed as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The same survey revealed that nearly half (49%) of...
