Injecting vocational skills into Gauteng’s economy

The Sparrow Combined Technical Skills School in Sophiatown, west Johannesburg, and the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) have pioneered a new programme to help high school learners with cognitive disabilities enter the job market. The qualification is called the...

SAP Africa investment into women ICT skills

SAP Africa will award five bursaries to women across Africa to pursue careers in Data Science. The announcement was made at the launch of the Africa chapter of the Women in Data Science (WiDS) Movement, which aims to inspire more women to pursue and excel in Science,...

Standard Bank launches African data-science skills pipeline

Standard Bank has launched its Data-Science and Analytics (DSA) graduate programme, with an inaugural intake of 13 graduates from six African markets. The programme is the latest addition to Standard Bank’s existing graduate programmes run across its Africa...

Content Guru delivers Verint solutions in the cloud

Verint Systems has entered into a global partnership with Content Guru in which Content Guru will deliver Verint customer engagement solutions–including workforce optimisation and speech analytics–as an integrated customer engagement suite in the cloud. In...

New leave policy empowers employees

Insurance software solutions provider SilverBridge has introduced a Discretionary Time Off leave policy for its employees. This has been designed to strengthen its position as an employer of choice focused on promoting a people-centric culture inside the organisation....

Econz Wireless stops time and pay theft

Econz Wireless has announced another tranche of new features to prevent time and attendance fraud of mobile workers. “Following the complete new Timecard GPS build announced in November, we have added a further set of features that will bring even better...