Premium-Class travel now the way to fly
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its latest World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) which show that Premium-Class travel is now on the up and showing strong growth. Updated annually, WATS provides data related to demand, supply, and...
New battery factory drives industrialisation, job creation
Kathy Gibson reports - Actom has opened a new assembly line for locally-assembled LiFePO₄ battery energy storage systems (BESS). Yesterday, the company also announced that is expanding manufacturing capacity for its high voltage equipment. These moves are significant...
Avoid being a victim of ‘Grand Theft’
Following the official launch of Grand Theft Auto VI game pre-orders late June, which saw a global fan frenzy, threat actors quickly began exploiting the event as a lure, says Kaspersky. Scammers leveraged the heightened demand to deploy deceptive schemes - from fake...
PC shipments tank as memory crunch bites
Worldwide PC shipments fell 4,9% year-over-year in Q2 2026 to 68,2-million units, according to IDC — the first decline after nine consecutive quarters of growth. A persistent memory chip shortage drove the reversal, pushing vendors to pull inventory forward as far as...
Battle of the AI models hots up
Meta and OpenAI have both launched new artificial intelligence (AI) models. Meta Spark is said to be better at coding than the company’s last interation released in April, performing at levels close to the offerings from rival AI companies in writing, reasoning and...
Africa emerges as iGaming fraud hotspot
Africa has emerged as the global epicentre of iGaming fraud. According to Sumsub’s newly released iGaming Fraud Report 2026 the continent records the highest fraud rate of any region analysed worldwide. The findings highlight a rapidly evolving threat landscape in...
AI makes future workspace needs harder to predict
AI is accelerating the pace of business and forcing companies to rethink how much and what style of office space they need, opting for the benefits of flexible and decentralised workspace models. According to a new study of CEOs and CFOs from International Workplace...
Finding focus: A strategic approach to cybersecurity for small and medium companies
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) hold valuable data, serve as entry points into larger supply chains and often lack the defences of enterprise organisations. These facts alone make SMBs an attractive target for cyberattacks. Some of their top challenges...
Finance organisations on the lookout for digital talent
The promise of AI in the finance function - and challenges in obtaining the required digital talent - are driving leading CFOs to concentrate hiring efforts and development resources on employees with the necessary aptitude and attitude to meet the function’s digital...
Strongest start to new vehicle sales in 13 years
New vehicle sales in South Africa continued their strong start in 2026, with naamsa reporting 209 838 units sold in the first four months, 12,5% higher than the same period in 2025 (186 599 units) and the strongest January-April performance since 2013 (217 296 units)....
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The hidden productivity crisis costing businesses hours every week
Employees spend as much as 8,8 hours every week searching for information they need to do their jobs, according to workforce efficiency research by Synergis. For many organisations, that equates to more than an entire working day lost every week to finding information...
Duxbury Cybersecurity adds WatchGuard and Cynet
Duxbury Networking has strengthened its Duxbury Cybersecurity business unit with the addition of WatchGuard and Cynet. The move comes as cybersecurity buying becomes more fragmented and customer risk becomes harder to prioritise. Customers are no longer looking for...
Capturing SA’s AI moment: human advantage starts where the algorithm ends
When AI governance is still being defined at a national level, having control at an organisational level separates businesses from the competition. By Werner Joubert, commercial SYS business director (South Africa and SADC) at ASUS When South Africa’s government...
Acer Africa extends Nitro Gaming with Syntech
Acer Africa has officially announced a strategic distribution partnership with Syntech, a distributor of premier technology and gaming peripherals in South Africa. The agreement will see Syntech take the reins in driving the growth, local availability, and retail...
Security in the post-Mythos era
The fundamentals you ignored are the only things that will save you, writes Yuri Kramarz, principal engineer at Cisco Talos. In 2023, a colleague and I wrote a cybersecurity guide for businesses of any size. It was not glamorous work. Nobody was asking for another...
Evolve security policies for the AI era
As enterprises accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and agentic systems, the conversation around data protection is becoming more urgent. Yet, according to Dariel CTO Wayne Yan, organisations should resist the temptation to treat AI as an entirely...
Banks need a decisioning backbone for the AI era
For years, banks have modernised around channels. For example, mobile apps became better, onboarding became faster and customer engagement became more personalised. These improvements matter because customers feel them every day. But there is a more difficult shift...
ISO 27001 is becoming a baseline requirement for doing business
Cyber threats are increasing in both frequency and sophistication, and organisations need a consistent way to manage information security. By Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix At the same time, businesses are increasingly being asked to prove how...
The real AI opportunity is not replacing technology, it is redefining the business
Much of the current conversation around artificial intelligence is still centred on technology choices. Which platform should we use? Which model is best? Which tools will replace the systems we already have? Across boardrooms and IT departments, organisations are...
Correcting the misalignment between digital skills and business needs
The conversation around AI is often dominated by speculation about job losses. By Mark Mc Kerr, managing executive at Paracon by Adcorp Yet this focus distracts from a more immediate and measurable challenge: South African businesses are investing in advanced...
Senior SQL Developer – Financial Services (CPT)
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Senior SQL Developer – Financial Services (CPT) – Western Cape De Waterkant
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Senior Database Administrator at Adapt IT
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Senior Database Administrator at Adapt IT – Gauteng Midrand
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Technical Business Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Shift Into the Fast Lane of Innovation!Tired of the same old grind? Ready to apply your analytical superpowers where they actually move the needle — in shaping the future of premium mobility?We are hunting for a standout Business Analyst to join the high-octane...
Technical Business Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Rosslyn
Shift Into the Fast Lane of Innovation!Tired of the same old grind? Ready to apply your analytical superpowers where they actually move the needle — in shaping the future of premium mobility?We are hunting for a standout Business Analyst to join the high-octane...
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Our client, in the Payments and Lending industry is seeking an experienced and passionate Intermediate Software Developer to join our dynamic Technology team. This role is a critical part of our software delivery function, where you will design, develop, maintain, and...
Cyber Security Engineer at Financial Intelligence Centre – Gauteng Pretoria
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Intermediate Software Developer (Oracle) – CH1253 – Western Cape De Waterkant
Our client, in the Payments and Lending industry is seeking an experienced and passionate Intermediate Software Developer to join our dynamic Technology team. This role is a critical part of our software delivery function, where you will design, develop, maintain, and...
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