Finance organisations on the lookout for digital talent
The promise of AI in the finance function - and challenges in obtaining the required digital talent - are driving leading CFOs to concentrate hiring efforts and development resources on employees with the necessary aptitude and attitude to meet the function’s digital...
Strongest start to new vehicle sales in 13 years
New vehicle sales in South Africa continued their strong start in 2026, with naamsa reporting 209 838 units sold in the first four months, 12,5% higher than the same period in 2025 (186 599 units) and the strongest January-April performance since 2013 (217 296 units)....
Ungoverned AI agents, deepfakes now a critical threat
Autonomous AI tools are expanding the corporate attack surface faster than security teams can implement guardrails, according to new research by KnowBe4. The security specialists’ latest report – From Agentic Risk to Human Wins: Building a Culture of Security in the...
SMEs retreat into survival mode as confidence retreats
South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) entered 2026 on a more cautious footing as rising fuel prices, driven by global geopolitical tensions, continue to place increasing pressure on business operations. This was reflected in declining confidence levels,...
Gates invests $50m into dementia research
The Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF) has announced a $50-million investment from Bill Gates. The investment is Gates’ first to accelerate progress toward disease-modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. The DDF, managed by SV Health, is a venture fund focused...
The beginning of the end of that dreaded airport queue?
Passengers flying out of Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha can now check in, drop their bags, clear security and board using just their face instead of a boarding pass. HIA and Qatar Airways - with technology partner SITA - have launched Fast Pass, one of the...
Recycled plastic can still harbour toxins in kids’ toys
Some children’s products sold in South Africa may contain traces of toxic chemicals that were banned globally years ago, a University of Cape Town (UCT) study published in the Heliyon journal has found. The study – Legacy brominated flame retardants in children's...
GitHub Actions workflows house potential security issues
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has conducted a major review of the GitHub Actions workflows within top-starred repositories. Leveraging newly introduced Kaspersky Container Security capability, the researchers have discovered 8 repositories with...
Mission on to catch and lift a sinking satellite
NASA NASA is attempting to stop a space observatory from dropping to earth. The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is NASA’s astrophysics multitool, capable of quickly observing a wide range of cosmic objects in visible, ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray light. All...
AI threatens $234bn in enterprise application software spend
Agentic AI is set to disrupt enterprise software revenue models, with up to $234-billion of enterprise application spending exposed to agentic arbitrage between now and 2030, according to Gartner. By 2030, this will account for roughly 20% of enterprise application...
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AI and real-time monitoring are reshaping African investment decisions
Before financing a large agricultural project in central Africa, investors needed to answer a deceptively simple question: would there be enough water to sustain crops year after year? In many projects on the continent, questions like this are hard to answer with...
Managed firewalls positioned as active protection
South African organisations are increasingly dependent on connected systems, cloud platforms, remote access, and digital customer service. Yet many still treat firewall protection as something configured once and revisited only when there is a problem. IPT, a managed...
Employment‑led digital skills accelerate SA’s public sector transformation
South Africa’s ambitions for a more efficient, citizen‑centric public sector are well documented. Yet across government, the real constraint is often not policy or technology, but rather capacity in having skilled individuals inside departments who can turn digital...
The hidden productivity crisis costing businesses hours every week
Employees spend as much as 8,8 hours every week searching for information they need to do their jobs, according to workforce efficiency research by Synergis. For many organisations, that equates to more than an entire working day lost every week to finding information...
Duxbury Cybersecurity adds WatchGuard and Cynet
Duxbury Networking has strengthened its Duxbury Cybersecurity business unit with the addition of WatchGuard and Cynet. The move comes as cybersecurity buying becomes more fragmented and customer risk becomes harder to prioritise. Customers are no longer looking for...
Capturing SA’s AI moment: human advantage starts where the algorithm ends
When AI governance is still being defined at a national level, having control at an organisational level separates businesses from the competition. By Werner Joubert, commercial SYS business director (South Africa and SADC) at ASUS When South Africa’s government...
Acer Africa extends Nitro Gaming with Syntech
Acer Africa has officially announced a strategic distribution partnership with Syntech, a distributor of premier technology and gaming peripherals in South Africa. The agreement will see Syntech take the reins in driving the growth, local availability, and retail...
Security in the post-Mythos era
The fundamentals you ignored are the only things that will save you, writes Yuri Kramarz, principal engineer at Cisco Talos. In 2023, a colleague and I wrote a cybersecurity guide for businesses of any size. It was not glamorous work. Nobody was asking for another...
Evolve security policies for the AI era
As enterprises accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and agentic systems, the conversation around data protection is becoming more urgent. Yet, according to Dariel CTO Wayne Yan, organisations should resist the temptation to treat AI as an entirely...
Banks need a decisioning backbone for the AI era
For years, banks have modernised around channels. For example, mobile apps became better, onboarding became faster and customer engagement became more personalised. These improvements matter because customers feel them every day. But there is a more difficult shift...
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ENVIRONMENT:A leading Strategy, Services, and Technology partner in the online Education space seeks the coding talents of a Senior Full Stack Software Engineer whose core role will be to design, build & maintain several agent-based web applications built using...
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