Thousands of ICT jobs in SA are going unfilled
South Africa’s digital economy is growing fast, but not fast enough to keep up with the country’s pressing need for jobs. New research by Collective X shows that, while employers need digital skills, too many junior roles are going unfilled. This highlights a critical...
Malatsi defends equity equivalence policy direction
Solly Malatsi, minister of communications and digital technologies, has refuted suggestions that the policy direction he gazetted on Friday (23 May 2025) was a direct result of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s White House meeting. “There is no conspiracy on our part; no...
New Android malware variants exhibit diverse features
Three new dangerous Android malware variants have been analysed by Kaspersky researchers - the Tambir, Dwphon, and Gigabud malicious programs - which exhibit diverse features ranging from downoading other programs and credential theft to bypassing two-factor...
Enterprises across industries embrace AI and ML
As the world moves towards adopting and enabling new capabilities and efficiencies, there is a heightened emphasis on enterprises adopting artificial intelligence (AI) and expanding intelligent business capabilities by leveraging AI/machine learning (ML) algorithms...
Paradigm shift in customer experience
New research from global cloud communications platform, Infobip reveals how conversational customer experiences and generative AI (GenAI) developments have created a long-lasting impact for how people and brands interact. Infobip analysed more than 473-billion digital...
NFT market continues losing momentum
Since reaching a peak in September 2021, global NFT sales have been consistently falling as collectors spend less and less money on digital artwork. Although revenues of NFT marketplaces are still expected to see double-digit growth, rising by 41% year-over-year to...
SA stands out as a global air pollution hotspot
Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa have emerged as Africa's most polluted countries in terms of air pollution disease burden, with profound health consequences for Africa's people and exacerbated impacts on climate change, a report prepared by Greenpeace Africa and...
SIU concludes Treasury’s Oracle contract was irregular
Parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) has given National Treasury three weeks to come up with a way forward after the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) concluded that an almost R1-billion contract with Oracle was irregular. The integrated financial...
Increase in demand for APIs will come from AI
More than 30% of the increase in demand for application programming interfaces (APIs) will come from AI and tools using large language models (LLMs) by 2026, says Gartner. "With technology service providers (TSPs) leading the charge in GenAI adoption, the fallout will...
AI companies dominate the unicorn club
Last year, fewer than 100 companies joined the global unicorn club - the lowest number since 2017 and a steep drop compared to 2022 and 2023, which saw hundreds of private startups valued at $1-billion or more. Still, in a year that showed becoming a unicorn is much...
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BT delivers security services for icare
BT has signed a contract to deploy a cloud-based SIEM service for icare, a regional provider of insurance and care services to the businesses, people and communities of New South Wales, Australia. By selecting BT, icare will benefit from market-leading cyber security...
SUSE enhances delivery of containerised, cloud native applications
SUSE has announced updates to its application delivery solutions that help customers accelerate production of modern containerised and cloud native applications. These updates advance SUSE's delivery and support of solutions to create, deploy and manage workloads...
Vox expands SME assessment programme
Vox has introduced its IT Assessment Programme, which is aimed at ensuring that small and medium enterprises' IT infrastructure is up to date and secure, and that it is maintained in line with global best practice. "We have developed a software tool that...
DHL rolls out eShop to more countries
Since its initial introduction in April of this year, the DHL Africa eShop app has seen its user base grow rapidly and, within the first three months of operation, it had already been rolled out to 20 countries across sub-Saharan Africa. DHL Express has announced that...
FNB customers send billions in eWallet funds
The volume of money sent via FNB's eWallet has grown 19% to 46-million by end of June 2019. The total value transmitted was over R25-billion for the year, with regular recipients continuing to grow. FNB Consumer CEO, Dr Christoph Nieuwoudt, says: "The record volumes...
Prosus lists in Amsterdam, Johannesburg
Prosus, a global consumer internet group and one of the largest technology investors in the world, has started trading through a primary listing on Euronext Amsterdam and a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. With assets valued in excess of...
4IR: ICT and energy sectors equally crucial
Energy has played an enabling role in each of the past industrial revolutions, and the fourth is no different. By Vino Govender, executive for strategy, mergers and acquisition and innovation for Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) But instead of powering factory machinery and...
VMware delivers disaster recovery
ACS, a division of Altron and a provider of secure electronic transaction solutions, has implemented VMware Cloud Director and VMware Cloud Availability for a failproof cloud-hosted disaster recovery (DR) environment for the business and its clients. Established in...
Vodacom Tanzania, Smart Lab partner to boost start-ups
Vodacom Tanzania and Smart Lab have launched the Vodacom Digital Accelerator, a programme that intends to help early-stage and growth-stage technology startups become profitable and revenue generating businesses. The new programme, which will run yearly, aims at...
IBM reappointed to US president’s African advisory council
The US Department of Commerce, on behalf of the president of the US, has reappointed Takreem El Tohamy, IBM's GM for the Middle East and Africa, to the US President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA). The PAC-DBIA was established in 2014 to...
System Engineer (Graduate) – Western Cape Bellville
An exciting opportunity has become available within the energy industry, for a System Engineer (Graduate) role based in Bellville, Cape Town. The System Engineer is responsible for implementation of systems to enable data integration for various clients. The nature of...
Software Engineer (Typescript, React, Node.js) – Western Cape Stellenbosch
ENVIRONMENT:Our client, a comprehensive digital agency located in Reading, UK, and Stellenbosch, South Africa, is in search of a skilled Software Engineer to become a valuable member of their team. As a problem solver, you will collaborate with both customers and...
Devops Engineer (Hybrid) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:Our client is a software development company specializing in architecture consulting, systems integration services, and bespoke software solutions. Their mission is to make technology an asset for businesses, seamlessly integrating it to provide leverage...
Technical Business Analyst (12-Month Contract)
ENVIRONMENT:A well-established Independent Asset Management Firm seeks the expertise of a highly skilled & proactive Technical Business Analyst with experience in data integration, process automation and product support. Your core role will be to deliver...
Scrum Master at Datonomy Solutions
We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our team in Cape Town. This is an initial 12-month hybrid contract - onsite 3 times a week.The Scrum Master's primary accountability is enhancing team effectiveness and assisting self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its...
Full Stack Developer (JavaScript & Angular)
ENVIRONMENT:Our client, a leading, cutting-edge health tech software company based in Pretoria, is seeking an exceptional developer with a strong command of various skills. If you excel in 2-3 of the following technologies: JavaScript (including Node.js, [URL Removed]...
PHP / Laravel Developer
ENVIRONMENT:Our client is a full-service, integrated ad agency with offices in Cape Town and they're one of the largest independently owned agencies in South Africa. They're looking for a PHP Developer with experience in PHP, Laravel, and Node.js to join their team....
Technical Business Analyst (12-Month Contract) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:A well-established Independent Asset Management Firm seeks the expertise of a highly skilled & proactive Technical Business Analyst with experience in data integration, process automation and product support. Your core role will be to deliver...
Scrum Master at Datonomy Solutions – Western Cape Cape Town
We are looking for a Scrum Master to join our team in Cape Town. This is an initial 12-month hybrid contract - onsite 3 times a week.The Scrum Master's primary accountability is enhancing team effectiveness and assisting self-organizing, self-managing team achieve its...
Full Stack Developer (JavaScript & Angular) – Gauteng Pretoria
ENVIRONMENT:Our client, a leading, cutting-edge health tech software company based in Pretoria, is seeking an exceptional developer with a strong command of various skills. If you excel in 2-3 of the following technologies: JavaScript (including Node.js, [URL Removed]...
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