How technology is changing decision-making in mining

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and particularly AI, is no longer a pipedream in South African mining - technology is already influencing how decisions are made, how risks are managed, and how value is created. It’s a critical period for the local mining...

AMD launches full-stack compute for agentic AI

AMD has launched its next-generation AI infrastructure and physical AI portfolio, led by AMD Helios rackscale solutions now in production and set to be be deployed by at gigawatt scale. At its Advancing AI 2026 event yesterday, AMD chair and CEO Dr Lisa Su said: “The...

Does SA have what it takes to stay off the FATF greylist?

On 24 October 2025, the Financial Action Task Force removed South Africa from its list of jurisdictions under increased monitoring, 32 months after being placed there in February 2023. The reforms that got it off the list were real: new legislation, better beneficial...

OpenAI agent goes rogue and raids digital library

A rogue OpenAI agent is responsible for a completely autonomous attack on Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The AI models responsible were being tested at the time, and managed to hack into the popular digital library, compromising some internal datasets and...

Urgent call to unlock youth potential in agriculture 

While agriculture remains one of the country’s most critical yet under‑utilised sectors for job creation, entrepreneurship and long-term economic inclusion, young people continue to enter the farming industry at far lower rates than required to secure the future of...

The growing importance of AI sovereignty

A new global study by the IBM Institute for Business Value finds that as enterprises embed AI deeper into core business operations, most surveyed organisations remain locked into AI systems they cannot easily change - reinforcing the growing importance of AI...

SA’s youth ‘apply technology with purpose to lived reality’

South Africa requires some unique solutions throughout every level of its society to deal with its most pressing social and economic challenges – and the top finalists in the Huawei Developer Competition Code4Mzansi look to have come up with some. Solutions geared...

Families neglect to secure devices

On International Day of Families observed today (15 May), a global Kaspersky study reveals that while 55% of respondents from South Africa talk about online safety, only 33% secure all their family devices – highlighting the need for proactivity from family digital...

Information integrity passes geopolitics as the top risk

Information integrity risk, caused by the proliferation of AI‑enabled decision-making and uncertain AI transparency requirements, gained the top rank of emerging risks for the first quarter of 2026, according to Gartner. The Gartner Quarterly Emerging Risk...

Repeat identity attacks ramp up

A massive 71% of organisations suffered at least one identity-related breach in the past year, with an average of three separate incidents reported per company. According to the Sophos State of Identity Security 2026, a vendor-agnostic survey of 5 000 IT and...

Banking fraud and losses are on the rise

A ​new survey​ of fraud-management, anti-money laundering (AML), and compliance team leaders at South African banks depicts a country still searching for a solution to meaningfully reduce an onslaught of fraud. Three-fourths of those surveyed (75%) report increasing...

SA organisations badly prepared for inevitable attacks

Seventy-nine percent of South African organisations experienced at least three successful identity-related breaches in the last 12 months, driven largely by the explosion of agentic and machine identities. This is according to the Identity Security Landscape Report...

$2,5trn in crypto exposed to quantum attacks

Although several major blockchains started working on quantum security this year, the total value of cryptocurrency exposed to these attacks remains high. According to data presented by TechGaged.com, none of the world`s 20 largest blockchains is fully...

Headwinds challenge global telecom services

Worldwide spending on Telecom Services and Pay TV Services reached $1,551-trillion in 2025, expanding by 2% year-over-year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker. IDC expects that the worldwide spending on...

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Student developers imagine a new future for tourism

When the G20 Tourism Hackathon challenged South Africa’s brightest young minds to “hack” the future of tourism, a diverse team of students from across the country rose to the occasion. The G20 Tourism Hackathon aimed to unite government, business and academia;...

Africa Data Centres, CSSi partner for expanded data storage

Africa Data Centres has entered into a strategic partnership with CSSi SA, a cloud and VM provider and distributor of data storage, servers and data centre equipment. Under the agreement, CSSi SA has structured an alliance to deploy racks and provide data sovereignty...

Overhauled Pick n Pay app drives 40% year-on-year growth

Pick n Pay's reimagined asap! delivery app is driving on-demand grocery retail turnover growth of 40% year-on-year in the first half of FY26, following a complete technology transformation in April. The next-generation app has driven a 131% growth in first-time buyers...

RebelUp platform supports vulnerable women

South Africa is considered to be the rape capital of the world, with one woman being raped every three hours. The statistics are horrific and Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) is a widespread and common occurrence in South Africa. According to the South African Family...

Adams & Adams launches AI legal service

Law firm Adams & Adams has launched the SMARTAI IP Portal, a digital platform and advisory service designed to help businesses understand, assess, and address the risks posed by artificial intelligence (AI). “As AI transforms industries at an unprecedented pace,...

Business Partners launches new Basadi-Women Growth Fund

The GEM SA Special Report: Women’s Entrepreneurship in South Africa Report (2024) reveals a concerning trend: the rate of women entrepreneurs exiting their businesses is higher than those starting and running businesses. The key driver of this attrition is access to...

SA must invest and innovate in education to close the divide

As artificial intelligence (AI) reaches into the everyday personal and professional lives of South Africans, the country’s education system is at a crossroad, as the immense potential of the technology is overshadowed by barriers like spotty internet, power outages,...

Integrity360 expands in Africa with Redshift acquisition

Integrity360 has acquired Johannesburg-based cyber security services company Redshift, bringing the group’s resources in South Africa to a team of over 230 employees serving the needs of customers across Africa. Integrity360’s operations in Johannesburg and Cape Town...

AI-driven Liquid G expands Google Cloud access in Africa

Liquid C2, a business of Cassava Technologies, has announced the launch of its AI-powered Google Cloud distribution programme. Known as Liquid G, the programme is designed to accelerate cloud adoption and growth for African resellers and enterprises. Delivered through...

C# Developer – Gauteng Johannesburg North

Our client is looking for an experienced C# Developer to join their software engineering team. This role is suited to a technically strong, detail-oriented, and solutions-driven software development professional with hands-on experience in C# development, RESTful API...

Data Analyst – Paarl

Our client is looking for Data Analyst for a permanent role based Paarl.Minimum 3 years' experience as a Data AnalystExperience with analyticsRole will focus on offering finance data analysis to financial services sectorSome BA experience is advantageousBuilding...

Data Manager (12 Months Contract – Wits Health Consortium)

Background:Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health SciencesWHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research...

Lead Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Gauteng

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Full Stack Developer with strong expertise in modern web and mobile technologies. This role is ideal for a proactive engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment, takes ownership of solutions, and continuously evolves their...

IT Systems Administrator

The Systems Administrator will be responsible for the day-to-day management, support, maintenance and continuous improvement of the company's IT environment, ensuring systems remain secure, stable, reliable and fit for business operations. This is a hands-on, onsite...

IT Systems Administrator – Eastern Cape Gqebera

The Systems Administrator will be responsible for the day-to-day management, support, maintenance and continuous improvement of the company's IT environment, ensuring systems remain secure, stable, reliable and fit for business operations. This is a hands-on, onsite...

Systems Support Engineer

Role Description:The Systems Support Engineer is a key part of the company's service framework providing end to end management of tickets and service requests reported by the customer. Manage Tickets and RequestsReceive and record all calls from the companies...

Systems Support Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town

Role Description:The Systems Support Engineer is a key part of the company's service framework providing end to end management of tickets and service requests reported by the customer. Manage Tickets and RequestsReceive and record all calls from the companies...

Technical Integrator (9-12 month contract) – Hybrid

Our Pretoria based client is looking for a Technical Integrator for a 9-12 month contract - Hybrid. The candidate has to be based in Gauteng.Minimum Requirements (Must-have)A relevant tertiary qualification at a minimum NQF Level 6 (National Diploma) in Engineering,...

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