Women embrace AI and narrow the workplace gender gap

South African women are narrowing the artificial intelligence (AI) skills gap with their male counterparts. This is according to the Pnet Job Market Trends Report for August 2026, based on an analysis of 1,5-million jobseeker profiles. Men account for around two...

Businesses win when women gain workplace flexibility

When businesses give women access to professional workspaces closer to home, they gain stronger collaboration, networking and performance in return. This ties into this year’s National Women’s Day theme, “Empower Woman, Empower the Nation”, to life, according to...

AI infrastructure boom shifts from chip race to supply-chain race

AI infrastructure spending has entered a new phase, says GlobalData, with demand outpacing semiconductors, memory, and power capacity despite record earnings across the technology ecosystem. This earnings season reveals that capital investment, geopolitics, and...

As AI adoption grows, more security alerts are ignored

Security operations centres are facing mounting pressure from growing alert volumes, increasingly sophisticated AI-powered attacks, and persistent staffing constraints. According to Prophet Security's Second Annual State of AI in Security Operations Report, presented...

JSE kicks off trading game, investment challenge

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) has announced that the 2025 edition of its annual Virtual Trading Game (VTG) and Investment Challenge (IC), its flagship financial literacy initiatives aimed at enhancing financial literacy among South Africans, have kicked off....

Africa’s Business Heroes crowned

The grand prize winner of the sixth annual competition Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a philanthropic initiative sponsored by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy, has been announced, along with the first and second runners-up. The ABH...

Irish fab begins high-volume production of Intel 4 technology

Intel has begun producing Intel 4 technology, which uses extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology, and the first use of EUV in high-volume manufacturing (HVM) in Europe. The arrival of this important moment ushers in the future for products like Intel's upcoming Intel...

New board member for Datatec

Datatec has announced the appointment of Sabine Everaet as an independent non-executive director of the company with effect from 2 October 2023. Everaet worked at The Coca-Cola Company from 1995 to 2021 where she held various IT management and senior leadership roles...

CIPC updates deadline for beneficial ownership compliance

All South African companies and entities were required to submit beneficial ownership information to the CIPC (Companies and Intellectual Property Commission) before 1 October 2023. If they didn't meet the deadline, they have a grace period until their next CIPC...

AI analyses cancer cells in the operating room

Medical device company Invenio Imaging is developing technology that enables surgeons to evaluate tissue biopsies in the operating room, immediately after samples are collected - providing in just three minutes AI-accelerated insights that would otherwise take weeks...

Hybrid working creates operational challenges

It's vital for companies to adopt always-on endpoint management to cater for increasingly dispersed global workforces, according to a new HP Inc study, conducted by Forrester Consulting. A massive 72% of companies surveyed currently have a hybrid working model, with...

Surge in DDoS attacks

Cybercriminals launched approximately 7,9-million distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2023, representing a 31% year-over-year increase. This is according to the DDoS Threat Intelligence Report from NetScout Systems. Global events like the...

Sandile Dube to leave HPE

Sandile Dube is to leave HP Enterprise (HPE) South Africa, having led the organisation for the last three years. It is believed that President Ntuli, the former country manager of HPE South Africa, will return from a UK-based position to take up the reins. Prior to...

Economic evaluation crucial for NHI success

The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Professor Edina Sinanovic - who has done numerous cost-effectiveness studies on alternative, preventative and diagnostic treatment and healthcare interventions - has highlighted the importance of economic evaluation in ensuring the...

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The past two weeks have seen a number of high profile data leaks and cyber security breaches. In addition to these, a collection of 2 844 files containing passwords connected to 80 million email addresses has been discovered online. The latest cache of data was...

EOH introduces managed security-as-a-service

In today's digital cloud era, organisations are actively pursuing the agility they need to stay ahead of competitors, leveraging new technologies to drive digital transformation. However, this is resulting in a new set of challenges, most notably how to ensure the...

Ecobank scoops African Banker awards

Ecobank has won two major awards at the African Banker's prestigious ceremony held at the Paradise Hotel in Busan, South Korea. The bank was named Best Retail Bank in Africa after impressing judges with the strides it has made to leverage digital financial services...

Closing the gap between open-source and enterprise-ready

From modest beginnings at the fringes of the staggering growth of the PC market in the 1980s and 1990s that was dominated by a small handful of large vendors, open-source has become a cornerstone of modern innovation and organisational success. From global financial...

Put premium brands back in the aisle

One of the most bizarre placements found in retail stores, at least for customers, is the positioning of baby formula, shaving blades, face and neck creams, condoms, medication and battery brands at the cigarette kiosk. Apart from the re-queuing inconvenience, a...

Smart factories just got smarter

The proliferation of data, and the tools technology has given us to make sense of this data, has made sizeable inroads in changing the way many industries operate. In manufacturing, the rise of 'smart factories' has re-invented the way factories operate, leveraging...

Steps to take in the event of a security event

Businesses around the world continue to be plagued by a high number of security breaches. The larger the business, and the more confidential data it houses, the bigger the risk. Despite companies having solid security policies and procedures in place, augmented by...

Africa most at risk from climate change

Scientific evidence shows that African economies are already reeling from the devastating effects of climate change, further exacerbating their development challenges. Of the 10 countries in the world that are most threatened by climate change, seven are in Africa....

KT expands in Africa

KT Corp, Korea's largest telecommunications company, will expand its co-operation with African countries in ICT, based on its successful nationwide LTE network in Rwanda, which is believes is a first in Africa. KT, formerly known as Korea Telecom, disclosed its ICT...

SA needs specialists to realise cloud potential

The race to the cloud continues as South Africa is slowly transforming into a digital economy. Andrew Cruise, CEO of cloud infrastructure provider Routed, says that South Africa's cloud maturity levels are still lower than other countries, but the market looks...

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Senior Front-End Developer

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