How long until we see gender parity?
Globally, women currently hold just 34% of senior leadership positions, up 0.5 percentage points from 2024, according to the 2025 Grant Thornton Women in Business report. At this pace, we’ll not see gender parity in senior management roles in mid-market companies...
Air cargo demand rises in January
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for January 2025 global air cargo markets showing that total demand, measured in cargo tonne-kilometers (CTK), rose by 3,2% compared to January 2024 levels (3,6% for international operations) for an 18th...
Exceptional women under spotlight
Absa and Women in Tech (WiT) hosted the second edition of the Women in Tech Africa Awards on 5 October 2023, at Cape Town's Mount Nelson Hotel, recognising Africans who have made a mark in the technology industry. Award categories included Women in Tech Start-Up,...
TikTok brand is worth $65,7bn in 2023
Over the past six years, TikTok's user base has grown five times to over 1,9-billion. With users, revenue, and downloads rising, TikTok has also become the world's most valuable social media brand. According to data presented by OnlyAccounts.io, TikTok's brand value...
Young scientists bag cash prizes at 2023 Eskom Expo ISF
The 2023 Eskom Expo International Science Fair (ISF) has reached a life-altering culmination as some young scientists emerged victorious, winning prestigious bursaries to advance their education, while others claimed substantial cash and other prizes. The fair was...
Standalone 5G network market set to hit $33,4bn
The global standalone 5G network market size is expected to reach $33,42-billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 54,3% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new study conducted by Grand View Research. The increasing demand for standalone (SA) 5G networks in applications...
Virtual wheeling could decentralise power generation
Kathy Gibson reports - Virtual wheeling could go a long way to solving one of the biggest bottlenecks in the power ecosystem - getting electricity from new, green generation projects to the consumer. According to Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, minister or electricity, new...
AI helps to tip the balance in fighting wildfires
California has a new weapon against the wildfires that have annually devastated the state - artificial intelligence (AI) - with a new system powered by Nvidia GPUs to provide timely alerts to first responders across the Golden State every time a blaze ignites. The...
The ozone hole is growing again
The European Space Agency (ESA) reports that this year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the biggest on record. The hole, which is what scientists call an “ozone depleting area”, reached a size of 26-million square kilometres on 16 September 2023. This is roughly...
Africa reels under increasing cyberthreats
Threat actors are proliferating in Africa, with attacks on the continent now ranking alongside the world's biggest economies in the number and scope of attacks. Emmanuel Tzingakis, technical lead: African cluster at Trend Micro, explains that, in July, Egypt ranked...
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CA Technologies sponsors SA student in global initiative
CA Technologies is supporting the Young Global Pioneers (YGP) Talent Network, which includes sponsoring a South African student on a three-week intensive learning program to help nurture the next generation of responsible and global-minded leaders. Thabang Maake, a...
#BRICS: Future is bright for SA’s SMEs
The 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg this week highlights the growing opportunities for South Africa's small and medium businesses to export their goods and services to emerging market peers such as Brazil, Russia, India and China. By Pieter Bensch, executive...
Security at the heart of successful transformation
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Every organisation has security at top of mind, and CIOs are grappling with the challenge of implementing digital transformation while keeping it secure. Hein Kern, who looks after the RSA business in South...
Services, attach add value to the tech
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Technology is all very well, but means very little without pre-sales, deployment and after-sales services. Dell EMC partners are able to offer these services to their customers, either through their own...
Benefits to partnering with Dell EMC
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Dell EMC is committed to helping partners to be successful. “Simple, predictable, profitable is the mantra for our partner programme – but it is something we really mean,” says Dell EMC channel executive David...
Transformation begins with the workforce
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town - Technology is an important enabler of workforce transformation, but the change actually begins with the user. Today, one technology cannot support the whole workforce, says Chris Buchanan, client solutions...
Christel House and the legacy of doing good
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town – Christel House is a school that aims to break the cycle of poverty in the poorest Cape Town communities. The school not only focuses on education, but life skills and nutrition as well. In South Africa, only...
The data centre of the future
Kathy Gibson is at Dell EMC Partner Summit in Cape Town - Adopting a modern data centre is less about technology, and more about a new way of thinking. This is the message from Ossama El Samadoni, regional director: modern data centre at Dell EMC, who points out that...
PoPI: Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg
As they currently stand, the draft regulations relating to the Protection of Personal information Act (PoPI) could significantly harm a key driver of inclusive economic growth - direct marketing. By David Dickens, CEO of the Direct Marketing Association of South...
Corr-Serve adds Codima
Corr-Serve has added Codima to its distribution offering Spider an active monitoring and visualization application that provides the inventory, mapping, monitoring, replay and diagnosis of the network and its security incidents from any browser-based device including...
Senior Delphi Developer – Gauteng Pretoria
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