Uncertainty about VAT hikes no excuse for inaction
Despite rumours of a potential reversal on the proposed VAT increase, businesses in South Africa must prepare for an increase from 15% to 15,5%, effective 1 May 2025. By Shaheed Patel, senior tax consultant at CMS South Africa With Parliament only set to adopt the...
Google continues positive momentum in team collaboration
As part of Google Cloud Next ’25, Google has explored enhancements coming to Google Workspace, its team collaboration platform. The enhancements are fueled by Gemini, Google’s most capable set of large language models (LLMs) ever. They incorporate both generative AI...
Datatec ups its stake in Mason Advisory
Datatec PLC has acquired an additional 40% holding in Mason Advisory from the management team, taking its interest to a majority shareholding of 80%. Mason Advisory is a UK-based digital and technology consultancy working across the public and private sectors, with...
Intel helps power a more resilient grid
Intel has announced that its technology is helping power the Edge for Smart Secondary Substations (E4S) Alliance's new solution to modernise the energy grid. The E4S solution disrupts the existing system, helping it move from a proprietary, closed-hardware...
Saffers listened to more local songs this year
Spotify Wrapped 2023 demonstrates that South Africans are consuming more local songs compared to 2022. Spotify Wrapped is the streaming company's thorough look into the music and podcasts that defined the year for South African users. Spotify Wrapped 2023 shows that...
Africa has a key role in the global green transition
Each year, the call for climate action appears to be intensifying from scientists, activists, and civil society. As global leaders gather at this year's 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), a key aspect that is expected to garner attention is tangible measures that...
Energy transition needs to be expedited
With political and business leaders gathering in Dubai this week for this year's UN Climate Change Conference, S&P Global has released new research highlighting the need for an expedited energy transition, in a special edition of its quarterly sustainability...
IBM advances geospatial AI to address climate challenges
IBM has announced new efforts that apply its geospatial AI technologies, including IBM's geospatial foundation model developed in collaboration with NASA, to climate efforts including analysis of urban heat islands in the United Arab Emirates (UAE); reforestation...
Cyber Week sales up from last year
Sales during Global online Cyber Week (21 November to 27 November) totaled $298-billion, up 6% year on year (YoY) from $281-billion in 2022. Growth was driven primarily by order volume, rather than inflation, signalling increased consumer demand for the first time in...
FNB customers spend R3bn on Black Friday
FNB customers once again hit R3-billion in purchases on Black Friday, in line with last year's highest spend peak. FNB also saw a positive shift in usage of the FNB Virtual Card, with a 94% year on year increase in customer spend over Black Friday weekend....
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SA insuretech secures international finance
Click2Sure Holdings, a South African full stack digital insurance platform, launched in 2017, has formalised a partnership with Greenlight Re Innovations, part of Greenlight Capital Re, a specialist property and casualty reinsurance company headquartered in the Cayman...
TaxiCAM brings commuters into the social network
The JET8 Foundation, in collaboration with SA Taxi and TaxiChoice joint venture TaxiConnect, has launched TaxiCAM, which it believes is the world's first social media engagement app created for minibus taxi commuters. TaxiCAM allows users to share branded selfies and...
CA adds autonomous AI for operations
CA Technologies has announced that CA Digital Experience Insights is now combined with CA Operational Intelligence and CA Automic Service Orchestration. Together they form the new CA Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) platform, to enable IT teams to...
ZTE releases 5G white paper
ZTE has released its "5G Network Intelligence White Paper, aiming to address the internal and external challenges that the telecom networks will be confronted with in the 5G era. The "5G Network Intelligence White Paper" focuses on ZTE's 5G network intelligence...
Security-savvy employees reduce cyber threats, costs
Employees are often touted as one of the biggest threats to an organisation's IT security. However, Charl Ueckermann, CEO at AVeS Cyber Security, says they can actually act as a powerful defence against cyber security threats. "Educating employees on cyber threats and...
Technology improves the retail experience
Technology has entrenched itself into virtually every industry, and retail is no different. By Simon Shaw, business development manager: retail and consumer at Wipro, Africa A recent report from Forrester lists the top four retail tech trends as; personalising the...
Fujitsu, NetApp systems certified for SAP
Fujitsu and NetApps's jointly developed NFlex Converged Infrastructure solution is now available for SAP environments. Optimised to manage SAP installations -- from SAP Business Suite to SAP S/4Hana and SAP BW/4Hana deployments -- the pre-configured data center...
IBM unveils multicloud management technology
IBM has launched a new open technology that makes it easier to manage, move and integrate apps across different cloud computing infrastructures. IBM's Multicloud Manager provides an operations console for companies as they increasingly incorporate public and private...
Plugging the multi-cloud skills gap
The skills to understand, manage, and secure multi-cloud deployments are more vital than ever as enterprises struggle to keep pace with technological innovation. By Simon McCullough, major channel account manager at F5 Networks Across EMEA, there is an urgent...
Datacentrix appointed as first SA Facebook Workplace reseller
In today's decentralised world, the ability to connect, collaborate and communicate in real-time, from anywhere, is a necessity for any business, regardless of size. Datacentrix is poised to assist local companies in simplifying internal communications, with its...
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One of our esteemed clients in the Western Cape is looking for the services of a Oracle PL SQL Developer on a permanent basis. Our client works Hybrid hours 3 days in the office, and 2 days remote. To qualify for this position you will need: Bachelor's degree in...
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One of our esteemed clients in the Western Cape is looking for the services of a Oracle PL SQL Developer on a permanent basis. Our client works Hybrid hours 3 days in the office, and 2 days remote. To qualify for this position you will need: Bachelor's degree in...
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Our client, in the Payments and Lending industry, has an opening for a Senior Business Analyst. The Senior Business Analyst will be in charge of gathering the company's business requirements, assessing the impact of those changes, capturing, analysing and documenting...
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Senior Business Analyst (Finance) (CH1085) – Western Cape Kuils River
Our client, in the Payments and Lending industry, has an opening for a Senior Business Analyst. The Senior Business Analyst will be in charge of gathering the company's business requirements, assessing the impact of those changes, capturing, analysing and documenting...
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