Campus unrest affects Programming Olympiad

It is not only the future of the 2016 academic year that hangs in the balance; other organisations using campus facilities are affected too. What do you do when you have booked accommodation and paid for learners to fly in from all over the country, and with less than...

SA payments startup expands into Africa

Peach Payments, a fintech startup that makes customer payments to online merchants seamless and secure, is now processing more than R1-billion in transactions per year and expanding into Kenya and Nigeria with plans for other African countries. The business started...

Absa to offer walletdoc for bill payment

Absa has partnered with walletdoc, a South African fintech startup, offering users a smart, secure and convenient way to pay their bills such as monthly subscriptions and utilities – without the tedious filing and administration normally associated with...

Java skills can fast track youth into employment

A year ago, Storm Brown, 18, had little hope of continuing his education after high school, and thought it unlikely he’d be employed and on a career track any time soon. Today, however, he’s already spent three months in a paid internship, which has since...

Accenture to create apps on Siemens MindSphere

Accenture is building a range of applications for MindSphere, a cloud based platform from Siemens to enable industrial equipment makers to benefit from new services based on data insights. MindSphere is an industrial IoT ecosystem with easy connectivity for all types...

Global online learning marketplace partners with local job portal

Careers24 has announced a major partnership with Udemy, a global marketplace for learning and teaching online that will give the Careers24 users access to thousands of carefully curated, online courses. Udemy recently announced a strategic investment from Naspers to...