Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Mankind’s first journey to another star set for 2029 launch

Plans are underway for mankind’s first journey to another star – a trip that is expected to take about 80 000 years. The Fermi Explorer Mission, a nonprofit organisation, hopes to set off for Alpha Centauri by 2029. The more than 40-trillion kilometre journey is...

Nvidia launches OpenShell reference architecture for safe agents

Nvidia has announced the Nvidia OpenShell Reference Architecture, which enables building, containing, observing and enforcing safe agents on enterprise infrastructure and edge systems. The OpenShell Reference Architecture builds on the foundation of Nvidia OpenShell...

SA can benefit from efficient data centres

South Africa needs energy-efficient data centres to pull inefficient business computing out of local offices and homes and funnel it towards better-optimised environments. That’s according to Adriaan Venter, CEO of Cube ICT Solutions, ahead of tomorrow’s International...

Exams are not the only challenge matric students face

During this matric exam period, thousands of learners need more than study time; they need food, transport, stationery, safe spaces, and someone to believe in them. Starting last week, more than 700 000 matriculants sat down to write the most important exams of their...

South Africans turn to AI for increasingly personal matters

AI is becoming part of consumers’ everyday lives – and users in South Africa are increasingly turning to AI services for personal matters, raising new privacy and cybersecurity concerns, according to Kaspersky. In a META regional survey, the security firm found that...

Spatial data maps where Super El Niño will hit SA hardest

The South African Weather Service gave the clearest sign yet on 1 September: this El Niño is on course to become the strongest event in living memory, with sea surface temperatures already tracking past 3°C above normal. A national outlook can't say which town or...

ISPA calls for action on comms affordability

While the price of data in South Africa continues its welcome downward trend, the overall cost of digital communications requires urgent attention. ISPA, South Africa’s official internet Industry Representative Body (IRB), says little action is evident when it comes...

OEMs roll out Nvidia RTC Spark laptops

Nvidia has announced the availability of Nvidia RTX Spark laptops, bringing together RTX graphics and Nvidia’s full-stack AI platform in slim, premium Windows PCs for accelerated creation, immersive gaming and powerful local AI — rolling out from ASUS, Dell, HP,...

Intel throws support behind Meta’s Muse Spark Open

Intel has enabled day-0 support for Meta’s Muse Spark Open across Intel Xeon processors and Intel data center GPU platforms, Intel GPU D-series, through targeted low-bit model quantisation. Meta’s official open-weight release of Muse Spark Open, an...

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The jack of all trades is losing ground to the specialist economy

South African businesses are rethinking how they build high-performing teams, with an increasing number choosing to augment their internal capabilities through specialist expertise rather than expanding permanent headcount. As digital transformation, artificial...

Workonline consolidates Cape Town network

Workonline Communications is consolidating its Cape Town network around Teraco CT2 as customers seek direct national connectivity from a carrier-neutral data centre with the power, space and interconnection ecosystem to support enterprise, cloud, carrier and subsea...

Walletdoc launches Visa Payment Passkeys

Walletdoc is bringing Visa Payment Passkeys to local merchants, enabling them to offer shoppers a faster, more secure and passwordless online checkout. This means South African shoppers can now skip the frustrating redirect to their bank and the one-time PINs that...

Axis and Cisco collaborate on cloud-based management solution

Across Africa and the Middle East, enterprise IT and physical security are becoming increasingly connected. Network cameras and other security devices are no longer isolated systems: they depend on reliable network connectivity, cybersecurity, firmware updates,...

Vertiv expands EMEA power and cooling manufacturing

Vertiv has announced a major expansion of its Nové Mesto nad Váhom campus in Slovakia, adding to other recent expansion initiatives across its manufacturing facilities in Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Malaysia, Mexico, and the US. Over the next 18 to 24 months, Vertiv...

Africa’s net-zero ambition must become operational

Africa’s green economy is on the right trajectory, however as the famous quote goes: “Success can be a long and winding road, filled with many obstacles and challenges.” This is certainly the case with the continent, as it carves its own path towards sustainability....

How Africa’s ‘hidden’ resources can change the energy equation

Africa's most overlooked energy resource may be energy efficiency. As the continent races to expand generation capacity and works to connect millions more people to reliable electricity, we also need to extract more value from every unit of energy we already produce....

AI without morals a weapon in the hands of the youth

While headlines worldwide warn of growing threats to humanity from rogue AI agents and those using it as a means to harm others, youth development organisation Afrika Tikkun cautions about the risks of a young generation using AI without a firm moral compass to guide...

Paystack adds onsite Shopify card checkout

Paystack has introduced what it says is South Africa’s first onsite card checkout for Shopify, allowing shoppers to pay directly within a business’s online checkout without being redirected to a separate payment page. For businesses preparing for Black Friday, the...

AI could reduce call centre job churn

Frontline voice work has some of the highest churn of any job globally, but South Africa’s growing pipeline of young, first-time workers don’t need to face that reality the same way – or with the same mental health burdens. By Bruce Von Maltitz, CEO of 1Stream South...

Technical Enterprise Architect – Gauteng Midrand

My client based in Midrand is currently looking for a Technical Enterprise Architect to join their team on a contract basis. IT / FINANCE Responsibilities Lead architecture design reviews, establish standards and ensure compliance with approved designs.Govern...

Data Engineer at Datonomy Solutions

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our team based in Cape Town, this is a contracting role and onsite. The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the data infrastructure necessary for our Insights team to analyze data and...

Data Engineer at Datonomy Solutions – Western Cape Cape Town

We are seeking a Data Engineer to join our team based in Cape Town, this is a contracting role and onsite. The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the data infrastructure necessary for our Insights team to analyze data and...

Senior Angular Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Great Angular developer who codes smarter with AI? This one's for you. Join a team that builds platforms which millions of customers use. The team wants engineers who pair solid Angular skills with sharp judgment on AI-assisted tools, not people who can just recite...

EPM Functional Specialist

Our client is seeking an experienced Oracle EPM Cloud Functional Consultant to support a strategic Finance Transformation Programme. The successful candidate will work closely with Finance stakeholders, business process owners, project teams, and implementation...

EPM Functional Specialist – Gauteng Pretoria

Our client is seeking an experienced Oracle EPM Cloud Functional Consultant to support a strategic Finance Transformation Programme. The successful candidate will work closely with Finance stakeholders, business process owners, project teams, and implementation...

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