Plotting a course for SITA, SMME collaboration

The State IT Agency (SITA) has met with small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) to plan how they can work together going forward. A workshop at SITA offices in Centurion kicked off with two major concerns voiced by SMMEs. They include the litany of past promises...

UK employers feel the talent pinch

UK employers are facing challenges in retention, with 27,2% of UK employees in 1Q18 reporting a high intent to stay with the organisation, down 5,5% from the same period last year, according to Gartner. The latest Global Talent Monitor report shows that the UK had the...

Mohamed Cassoojee to lead IFS in SA

IFS has announcd the appointment of Mohamed Cassoojee as its new country manager and MD for South Africa. An IT veteran with more than three decades of experience, Cassoojee will focus on growing IFS’s South African presence in large enterprise accounts as well...

Youth unemployment a worrying reality

Unemployment among young South Africans stands at 65%, according to the 2018 Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) – but companies are battling to fill key jobs. This leading global competitiveness study surveys 63...

Partnership tackles youth unemployment

South Africa has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world. According to the 2018 Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa, in the first quarter of 2018, in South Africa there were 3,3-million youths between the ages of 15 to 24...
Ticket site hit by massive data breach

Ticket site hit by massive data breach

One of the biggest event booking sites in the world, UK-based Ticketmaster, has been hacked, exposing customer data that includes their payment card details. Any UK-based customers who used the site book tickets from February 2018 and 23 June 2018 may have lost data...