Barcode scanners in cybersecurity threat to warehouse industry
As part of a security audit of a warehouse digital ecosystem, Kaspersky experts have discovered a new cyberattack vector via a widely used barcode scanner model that could expose e-commerce supply chains to cyberattacks. Modern warehouses are far more than simple...
10 000 developers gear up for the 2026 FNB App of the Year Hackathon
More than 10 000 developers have registered to participate in this year’s FNB App of the Year Hackathon, making it one of the biggest hackathons in South Africa. Taking place from Friday, 23 October to Sunday, 25 October 2026, the event will bring together developers...
South Africans turn to AI for increasingly personal matters
AI is becoming part of consumers’ everyday lives – and users in South Africa are increasingly turning to AI services for personal matters, raising new privacy and cybersecurity concerns, according to Kaspersky. In a META regional survey, the security firm found that...
Before a carmaker gives SA its next model, it looks at how its plants run on a Monday morning
It's 06h10x on a Monday morning at an auto plant in Gqeberha, and a team leader is staring at two empty stations. One operator's taxi hasn't come, and the other is off sick. Someone on the next line has done this job before, but he has no idea who, so he starts...
Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest
The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...
ISPA calls for action on comms affordability
While the price of data in South Africa continues its welcome downward trend, the overall cost of digital communications requires urgent attention. ISPA, South Africa’s official internet Industry Representative Body (IRB), says little action is evident when it comes...
SMEs have clear expectations and voting intentions ahead of local elections
South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have entered the local government election period with clear expectations around the conditions needed to operate, invest and grow. Municipal service delivery, good governance and the effective management of illegal...
OEMs roll out Nvidia RTC Spark laptops
Nvidia has announced the availability of Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, bringing together RTX graphics and Nvidia’s full-stack AI platform in slim, premium Windows PCs for accelerated creation, immersive gaming and powerful local AI — rolling out from ASUS, Dell, HP,...
Intel throws support behind Meta’s Muse Spark Open
Intel has enabled day-0 support for Meta’s Muse Spark Open across Intel Xeon processors and Intel data center GPU platforms, Intel GPU D-series, through targeted low-bit model quantisation. Meta’s official open-weight release of Muse Spark Open, an...
AI course enrollments up 75%
AI course enrollments in South Africa increased 75% year over year, while enrollments in critical thinking courses rose 132%, according to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2026. South Africa also ranks second among the 11 sub-Saharan African countries covered and 73rd...
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Why AI must be built for Africa, not imported into it
The narrative about Africa’s technological future is often framed through the narrow lens that the continent must “catch up” to global innovation. By Gillian Darko, vice-president of strategy at Yellow Card But this framing misses a critical point: Africa has never...
Vodacom SA, SmartOps Fleet aim to grow e-hailing
Vodacom South Africa and SmartOps Fleet have brought together partners from the technology, financial services, automotive and e-hailing sectors, in a new integrated programme designed to broaden participation in South Africa’s growing e-hailing economy. With an...
Hyprop’s SHIFT Gaming Experience crowns national champions
South Africa’s competitive gaming community stepped into the spotlight at Canal Walk, where the national finals of Hyprop’s SHIFT Gaming Experience brought the tournament series to a thrilling close and crowned champions across three titles. Ethan Luck, known by the...
PawaPay licensed as a PSP in Mozambique
Pan-African payments aggregator PawaPay has been granted a Payment Service Provider (PSP) licence by the Bank of Mozambique through its local subsidiary, Quidexplus Mozambique. The authorisation makes PawaPay one of the first companies to be licensed to operate as a...
Paratus Namibia launches Eutelsat’s OneWeb LEO connectivity
Paratus Namibia has launched Eutelsat’s OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite service in Namibia. The new service, designed to appeal countrywide to both the residential and commercial market, combines high-speed, low-latency satellite connectivity with competitive...
Vodacom ploughs R500m into digital inclusion in the Western Cape
Vodacom Western Cape is making bold strides towards digital inclusion through an investment of more than R500 million in network infrastructure during the current financial year. The investment will focus on network expansion, modernisation and upgrades, energy...
The real cost hiding in businesses isn’t on the balance sheet
South African businesses have gotten good at spotting cost pressures. Inflation, fuel, hiring freezes - none of it goes unnoticed. What gets missed, according to Nic Laschinger, technology director at Euphoria Telecom, is the money quietly leaking out of a business...
The future of healthcare is human
When most of us hear the words artificial intelligence, we imagine robots replacing people. In healthcare, the reality is far more reassuring. AI is transforming the way doctors diagnose disease, but it isn’t replacing the expertise, empathy or judgement that patients...
iTOO and Certra warn of surging business email compromise
South African businesses are facing an unprecedented rise in business email compromise (BEC) leading to fund transfer fraud (FTF), a form of digital fraud occurring far more often than ransomware despite receiving far less media attention. As artificial intelligence...
Can SADC cross-border procurement move from vision to reality?
Intra-SADC trade accounted for 20,2% of total regional trade in 2025 (SADC 46th Summit Publication, 2026). Yet for many organisations, sourcing across Southern Africa remains far more difficult than regional trade ambitions suggest. "Despite progress towards regional...
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer – Remote Remote
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Senior Support Engineer (Active Directory, GPO, Entra ID, Intune) (Northern Cape) – Northern Cape Northern Cape
ENVIRONMENT:PROVIDE high-level support for user and infrastructure environments ensuring careful and optimal call management and efficiencies as the next Senior Support Engineer sought by a dynamic Internet Service & Network Specialist to join its team in the...
Junior Developer (Flutter/Dart) – Hybrid Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:Our client is a leading international gaming, leisure, and entertainment group offering exciting and entertaining customer experiences, in venues or online. They are looking for a Junior Software Engineer (Flutter) who will help build and maintain their...
Senior Support Engineer (End-User/EUC) (CPT Onsite)
ENVIRONMENT:DELIVER consistent, high-quality first- and second-line support to end users to ensure productivity and service continuity as the next Senior Support Engineer wanted by a dynamic Internet Service & Network Specialist to join its team. This role focuses...
Junior Developer (Flutter/Dart) – Hybrid Cape Town – Western Cape Cape Town
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Role: Senior Software Engineer / Senior .NET Developer (Contract) Location: Cape Town, hybrid; preference for candidates based in Cape Town Contract: Initial 12 months Experience: 8-10 years software development; at least 5 years hands-on with Microsoft .NET...
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Role: Senior Software Engineer / Senior .NET Developer (Contract) Location: Cape Town, hybrid; preference for candidates based in Cape Town Contract: Initial 12 months Experience: 8-10 years software development; at least 5 years hands-on with Microsoft .NET...
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