IT spend will breach $7trn for the first time in 2027
Worldwide IT spending is expected to reach $7,35-trillion in 2027, up 15% from 2026, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. “Collectively, the market forces are reinforcing spend around AI infrastructure, AI-enabled cloud platforms, and advanced software...
How to minimise PHP threats
Attackers may have used the PHP security flaws made public on 21 October before anyone else knew about them, says Tomas Stamulis, chief security officer at cybersecurity specialists Surfshark. Also, on sites that haven’t installed the PHP fix yet, attackers could take...
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...
SMEs have clear expectations and voting intentions ahead of local elections
South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have entered the local government election period with clear expectations around the conditions needed to operate, invest and grow. Municipal service delivery, good governance and the effective management of illegal...
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...
AI course enrollments up 75%
AI course enrollments in South Africa increased 75% year over year, while enrollments in critical thinking courses rose 132%, according to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2026. South Africa also ranks second among the 11 sub-Saharan African countries covered and 73rd...
Global recognition for SA-built AI platform
A South African-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to help researchers prepare clinical trial databases faster has placed second in the 2026 CDISC AI Innovation Challenge. Leova was created by Johannesburg-based clinical data management...
SITA ups its game
The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has achieved an unqualified audit opinion. Presenting its 2025/26 Annual Report to the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies in Parliament, SITA outlined important progress in strengthening...
Changing structures will not fix governance without changing behaviour
The reported withdrawal of the National State Enterprises Bill and government's consideration of a new model for overseeing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) presents another opportunity to address the governance challenges that have affected these institutions for many...
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Rectron has launched a new Zebra Technologies experience centre at its Midrand headquarters, where channel partners and enterprise customers across Africa can experience Zebra Technologies’ technologies in action. The Rectron Experience Centre demonstrates how...
Scholarship opens 20 fully funded pathways to in-demand careers
HyperionDev has announced the Moola Motlomelo & Muslim Hands Scholarship 2026, offering 20 young people full tuition funding, mentorship and career support, with applications open from 21 September to 9 October 2026. The scholarship will award 20 full-tuition...
Agentic AI is becoming a new architectural layer in business
Agentic AI is becoming a new architectural layer within the business because it can sit between people, data, applications, and workflows. It can operate inside processes, reason across information, use approved tools, interact with enterprise systems, and take action...
Rethinking risk in an unpredictable yet interconnected world
The past several years has demonstrated just how quickly separate risks can combine and amplify one another. In relatively close succession, South African businesses have had to contend with a global health pandemic, periods of widespread socio-political unrest,...
The role of AI in democratising access to justice
The South African Constitution recognises access to justice as a fundamental human right. But in reality, most South Africans lack access to the legal advice they need to protect themselves and their loved ones, writes Michael Visser, head of services at My AI Lawyer....
Cloud security in the age of complexity: why the risk hasn’t disappeared
For years, cloud adoption was seen as a destination. Organisations moved workloads, updated applications, and welcomed the flexibility and scalability promised by cloud environments. By Kumar Vaibhav, lead senior solution architect L cybersecurity at In2IT Today, that...
AI risk is the next test of ESG maturity
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Why your employees are lying about using AI
Buried in KPMG's global AI research is a detail that gets skipped past too quickly: more than half of employees — 57% — admit they hide their AI use and pass the output off as their own work. By Gareth Redelinghuys, country MD at TrendAI Not "use AI without telling...
Why it’s important for AI to speak our language
When farmers take a photo of unfamiliar spots on a crop and ask a question on their phone, they’re not thinking about digital systems or models. They are looking for reassurance, guidance and something they can act on before the problem spreads. Moments like these are...
The end of cloud-only thinking in SA
For years, “cloud-first” has dominated enterprise technology strategy. But across South Africa, that conversation is beginning to shift. By Dean Wolson, GM: Infrastructure Solutions Group at Lenovo, Southern Africa Today, CIOs are grappling with a more complicated...
Sales Operations Business Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
This is a remote position.Love untangling sales processes and making them run better? Do it from home. Our clients Global Business Services team needs a hands-on BA to own Opportunity-to-Order improvements across quoting, ordering and sales operations. It's fully...
Sales Operations Business Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
This is a remote position.Love untangling sales processes and making them run better? Do it from home. Our clients Global Business Services team needs a hands-on BA to own Opportunity-to-Order improvements across quoting, ordering and sales operations. It's fully...
Data Engineer
Background:Excellent career opportunity for a Data Engineer to join a leading retail groupMinimum Requirements:3 Year IT related degreePost graduate qualification (advantageous)5-10 Years' experience and understanding in designing and developing data warehouses...
Senior Scrum Master at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Our client in the financial services and insurance space is looking for a Senior Scrum Master who can turn delivery from busy to genuinely valuable. This is a role for someone who coaches teams to own their work, clears the path, and uses data, not noise, to make...
Data Engineer – Remote Remote
Background:Excellent career opportunity for a Data Engineer to join a leading retail groupMinimum Requirements:3 Year IT related degreePost graduate qualification (advantageous)5-10 Years' experience and understanding in designing and developing data warehouses...
Senior Scrum Master at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Clubview
Our client in the financial services and insurance space is looking for a Senior Scrum Master who can turn delivery from busy to genuinely valuable. This is a role for someone who coaches teams to own their work, clears the path, and uses data, not noise, to make...
Senior Oracle Developer (perm) at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Own the data platforms that keep financial services running. A leading client in the Financial Services and Insurance space needs a senior Oracle specialist to design, build and shape mission-critical Oracle database solutions. You'll lead projects, mentor the next...
Senior Oracle Developer (perm) at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Clubview
Own the data platforms that keep financial services running. A leading client in the Financial Services and Insurance space needs a senior Oracle specialist to design, build and shape mission-critical Oracle database solutions. You'll lead projects, mentor the next...
Lead Application Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
Lead Application Developer (Full Stack Microsoft .NET)Own the build. Lead the team. Ship software that people actually use.We need a Lead Application Developer who can sit with a requirement, turn it into a working [URL Removed] is a hands-on lead role: you still...
Lead Application Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
Lead Application Developer (Full Stack Microsoft .NET)Own the build. Lead the team. Ship software that people actually use.We need a Lead Application Developer who can sit with a requirement, turn it into a working [URL Removed] is a hands-on lead role: you still...
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