Drivers and trends for transport electrification
Regulations for decarbonisation are one of the main drivers of vehicle electrification worldwide. IDTechEx's master electric vehicles report, "Electric Vehicles: Land, Sea, and Air 2025-2045", focuses on the eleven main transportation sectors including passenger cars,...
Cassava, Microsoft collaborate on community engagement
Pan-African technology company Cassava Technologies, in a strategic collaboration with Microsoft, has launched a community engagement initiative focused on South Africa. Through this initiative, the two organisations will establish training hubs for youth in the local...
African entertainment, media industry set to grow
Since emerging from the grips of the Covid-19 pandemic, various industries across Africa have rebounded relatively well after having to undergo a process of reinvention. Across the continent, key multibillion dollar industries are navigating new challenges to meet...
SA students anxious, burning out
A majority (53%) of South African students say they have trouble meeting new people and making friends, the second highest of any country surveyed after Australia (55%) and alongside the US. More than two-thirds (67%) also say they have struggled with not sleeping...
Enterprise-startup relationship key to creating more African unicorns
Known for its innovation, Africa is making headway in becoming a launchpad for novel new high-tech companies. According to BCG, between 2015 and 2020, there was a 46% growth in companies attracting and securing funding. The problem, however, is nurturing an...
IT spend in Europe set for 9% growth
IT spending in Europe is projected to total $1,1-trillion in 2024, an increase of 9,3% from 2023, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. IT spending in Europe is on pace to surpass $1-trillion by the end of 2023. "Despite a conflated economic situation, IT...
Ford celebrates 100 years in SA
Ford Motor Company is celebrating 100 years in South Africa with a R5,2-billion investment in its local operations for production of the first-ever Ford Ranger Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). The company is also launching an expanded product range that will...
Tarsus on Demand helps SMEs on their digital journey
Tarsus On Demand has launched a digital business hub marketplace, Tarsus on Demand, designed to empower SMEs on their digitalisation journey by addressing their unique challenges and helping them to leverage opportunities within the digital landscape. Senzo Mbhele, MD...
SA businesses follow a cloud smart strategy
Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore - As multi-cloud and cloud smart strategies become the de facto choice for organisations around the globe, VMware reports encouraging growth in South Africa. And, despite the uncertainty of the Broadcom acquisition in the...
Data sovereignty a key concern as cloud accelerates
Kathy Gibson reports from VMware Explore - As organisations move more of their mission-critical workloads to the cloud, the issue of data sovereignty and privacy is becoming more relevant than ever. To address concerns, VMware launched its Sovereign Cloud offering...
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Take a human centric approach to security
Every time the details of a new security breach hits the headlines, something is made clear: Security tools and solutions aren’t working. Yet businesses continue to throw more and more money and technology at the problem. It’s time to look at the human factor, which...
AYO buys majority stake in Sizwe
AYO Technology Solutions is acquiring a 55% equity stake in Sizwe Africa IT Group for an estimated R165-million. The investment into Sizwe is set to more than double AYO’s revenue and significantly contribute to growing its bottom line. Sizwe has a broad base of blue...
Acceleration bootcamp from IBM, Tshimologong
IBM South Africa, through its Equity Equivalence Investment Programme (EEIP) together with Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct, have announced the launch of a startup accelerator taking place from 8 October to 16 November 2018. The Startup Accelerator is...
JDA partners with Microsoft in the cloud
JDA Software has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to enable JDA to build cognitive SaaS solutions on the market-leading Microsoft Azure cloud platform. This will, in turn, accelerate JDA’s vision to deliver an Autonomous Supply Chain through an...
Why many customers fail with cloud
At the recent Dell EMC Africa Partner Summit, partners from all over Africa gathered in one place to share information, and many of those discussions focused on cloud. Brad Pulford, GM for Channel & Distribution at Dell EMC South Africa offers insight into why...
Eaton appoints Mustek for sub-Saharan Africa
Power management company Eaton South Africa has appointed Mustek as a distributor for its Power Quality Portfolio of products in sub-Saharan Africa, with effect from 1 September 2018. The portfolio includes Eaton's 5E, 3, 5 and 9 Series Uninterruptible Power Supplies...
10X-e, Alphacode accelerate top fintechs
10X-e, will partner with the fintech incubator subsidiary of RMI, Alphacode to support South Africa's top fintechs on their path to scale. The collaboration will initially see five of South Africa's highest-profile fintech companies investing two years in scaling up...
Paranoia and personas to secure IoT
The low-cost, low-power nature of the IoT can cause security considerations to be deferred till much later in the product implementation stage, or sometimes, indefinitely. By Sherry Zameer senior vice-president: IoT at Gemalto However to realize IoT's true potential,...
FlySafair uses tech to speed check-in
FlySafair has launched Express Check-In, a new technology that allows the airline to service passengers more quickly than ever before. Express Check-In, which has already been rolled out at all the airports from which FlySafair operates, enables the airline's queue...
SAS, Redington in East African partnership
According to independent research, the global business intelligence and analytics market is accelerating at break-neck pace and is poised to grow at around 10,3% in 2019, reaching an estimated value of $27-billion by 2020. Emerging markets are set to grow at an even...
Systems Engineer (Azure/Cloud) on-site (contract) (TB)
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Software Developer II – Gauteng Sandton
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Senior Data Engineer – Western Cape Century City
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IT Project Manager at M&M Consulting – Gauteng Woodmead
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Systems Engineer (Azure/Cloud) on-site (contract) (TB) – Gauteng Johannesburg
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Scrum Master
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Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.We are looking for a Data Engineer to join our financial services client based in Sandton for a 12-months contract role.What you will be doing The...
Senior Software Developer
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Scrum Master – Gauteng Centurion
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