Tracking and tracing the next frontier in Covid-19 fight

South Africa is stepping up the fight against Covid-19 with a new track and trace solution for the country’s unique circumstances which has been developed by Telkom. President Ramaphosa on Monday announced that South Africa would be deploying 10 000 field...

Driving HR cost optimisation during the pandemic

A Gartner survey among approximately 160 HR leaders showed that 49% of respondents are implementing organization-wide new hiring freezes, and 41% are focused on making better use of technology. In response to the global Covid-19 pandemic, HR leaders have initialised...

Parental control software vital in protecting kids

According to Kaspersky’s Family Report, more than a quarter (28%) of parents globally with a child aged between seven and 12 consider harmful (violent or sexual) content as the most important risk facing their children while they are online. Harmful content can...

Untrained end users easy prey for phishers

Security specialist KnowBe4 has released a new Phishing by Industry Benchmarking Report to measure an organisation’s phish-prone percentage (PPP), which indicates how many of their employees are likely to fall for a phishing or social engineering scam. The...

Coronavirus takes toll on new car sales

One of the first tangible signs of the impact Covid-19 has had on the South African economy hit hard with the release of March’s new vehicle sales by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa). With the country impacted by...
What do people think about SA’s Covid-19 actions?

What do people think about SA’s Covid-19 actions?

South Africans think government could have done better in its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a survey conducted last week, just over 1 204 respondents described how they perceived the government’s response to the pandemic and the effects of the state of...