Air is the safest way to travel, but Africa’s accident rate is still high
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released its 2025 Annual Safety Report demonstrating a solid year of safety performance with the following highlights: The all-accident rate of 1,32 per million flights (one accident per 759 646 flights) was better...
Hybrid working a win-win for women
New research from International Workplace Group (IWG) reveals that when businesses give women access to professional workspaces closer to home, they gain stronger collaboration, networking, and performance in return. Hybrid and more flexible ways of working are also...
AI autonomy will be key for the self-driving enterprise
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NASA’s blockchain technology could enhance air travel safety
Through a drone flight test at NASA’s Ames Research Centre in California’s Silicon Valley, researchers tested a blockchain-based system for protecting flight data. The system aims to keep air traffic management safe from disruption and protect data transferred...
Cedarberg reveals tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start life
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global mass extinction. The team, led by Dr Claire Browning, an Honorary...
Resilience could waver on asset prices, debt, geoeconomic tensions
The global economic outlook has improved modestly but remains uncertain, with asset valuations, mounting debt, geoeconomic realignment and rapid artificial intelligence deployment creating both opportunities and risks, according to the World Economic Forum's...
SA needs to close the AI implementation gap
South Africa is not short on ambition when it comes to artificial intelligence – what the country is short on is execution. That is the harsh conclusion from Joshua Harvey, head of growth at Specno. He points out that, while global benchmarks show South Africa is...
After a milestone year, what does 2026 hold for crypto?
2025 delivered milestone achievements alongside a choppy market. Total crypto market capitalisation surpassed $4-trillion for the first time, and Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of $126 000. At the same time, macro uncertainty – monetary policy, trade tensions,...
BlockFi bankruptcy raises risk of crypto phishing
Kaspersky has detected a wave of phishing attacks preying on former customers of the bankrupt crypto lending platform BlockFi. These scams leverage the ongoing distribution of customer assets following BlockFi's 2022 bankruptcy, tricking victims into surrendering...
SA’s top young scientists to compete in the IRIS Global Symposium in India
Four of South Africa’s finest young scientists will represent the country at the Initiative for Research and Innovation in STEM (IRIS) Global Symposium in India, where they will showcase their scientific brilliance. The learners were top achievers at last October’s...
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What the High Court ruling means for capital export restrictions
The High Court Gauteng Division, Pretoria (High Court) recently delivered a judgment in the case of The Standard Bank of South Africa versus The South African Reserve Bank and Others (Standard Bank case) dealing with, inter alia, the Exchange Control Regulations...
PwC SA wins AFSUG’s first African hackathon
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Bolt SA’s fleet partner secures $10m in funding
Bolt South Africa’s key fleet partner, MyNextCar (MNC), has successfully closed its first funding round, raising $10-million from Emso Asset Management, with the support of Bolt, Assemble Capital, and E2 Investments. The funding validates the early success of Bolt...
Ethical fintech key to digitising the kasi economy
With an estimated annual turnover exceeding R750-billion, South Africa’s informal or ‘kasi’ economy been tapped as a key growth sector for financial services. As fintechs race to digitise payments and expand access in this space, industry leaders are calling for a...
Salus Cloud secures $3,7m seed funding
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Stadio launches mobile network to tackle data costs
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1Bonding aims to solve IT collaboration drag
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How brands can tackle consumer dictatorship
Modern consumers are no longer satisfied with being “delighted” by good service, rather they expect instant results, full transparency, and absolute flexibility - all on their terms. And, if they don’t get what they want, they switch brands without hesitation, writes...
SA’s strategic role in Africa’s digital transformation
Africa is huge. The continent spans more than 30-million square kilometres and has 54 countries and more than 1,5-billion people. It isn’t one digital market; it’s multitudes and it offers the scale and connections that can have a transformative impact on its...
Disputes are inevitable. Delays don’t have to be
The money is spent, the project is built, but the turbines stand idle. By Kirsten Wolmarans, partner at Webber Wentzel A several hundred-million-dollar wind farm, ready to supply much-needed power, is left stranded, waiting on grid access delayed by a contractual...
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Senior Business Analyst – WMS Project at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
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Decision Support System Developer at Bigen – Gauteng Bloempark AH
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