With sustained stress, workers turn to escapist behaviours

There has been a steady year‑on‑year rise in addictive behaviours among South African employees, reflecting how prolonged stress is reshaping the ways people cope, escape and self‑manage emotional pressure. Drawn from a five‑year analysis of Lyra Southern Africa’s...

SA has world’s highest cyberattack rate, identity visibility gap

South African companies have significant gaps in workforce password security, underscoring growing risks as they contend with rising cyber threats, increasing regulatory pressure, and limited visibility into user identities and access. This is according to a new study...

AI-enabled attacks drive ransomware surge

Cybercrime no longer functions as a series of isolated campaigns. Today, it operates as a system, with malicious hackers operating across an end-to-end life cycle and compressing the attack life cycle with shadow agents. This is the headline finding from the 2026...

Employees are the biggest cyber threat – and it will only get worse

South Africa experienced a 46% increase in insider cyber risk in 2026, surpassing the global average of 44%. What’s more, 63% of South African companies surveyed expect insider‑driven data losses to increase as growing numbers of disgruntled employees are resorting to...

Growth, technology trump workers as top business priorities

CEOs ranked workforce as their third most important business priority for 2024 to 2025, behind growth and technology, according to Gartner. Gartner surveyed 416 CEOs and other senior business leaders in July 2023 and October through December 2023 and found that...

Public cloud spend set to double by 2028

Worldwide spending on public cloud services is forecast to reach $805-billion in 2024 and double in size by 2028, according to the latest update to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Software and Public Cloud Services Spending Guide. Although annual...

Challenges ahead as employees redefine work

As companies are forced to improve wages and career development opportunities due to the so-called Great Resignation, which began in early 2021, employees are in a stronger position than they have been for years, says GlobalData. However, the data and analytics...

Cross-border payments still vital for many families

The cross-border payments network was vital to the financial survival of families around the world at the height of the Covid-19 crisis and continues to play a key role post-pandemic, according to the 2022 Mastercard Borderless Payments Report. Mastercard surveyed...

AMD launches Ryzen Embedded V3000 Series processors

AMD has introduced the Ryzen Embedded V3000 Series processors, adding the high-performance "Zen 3" core to the V-Series portfolio to deliver reliable, scalable processing performance for a wide range of storage and networking system applications. With greater CPU...

PMI fell in September

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) once again declined in September. The index fell to 48.2, from 52.1 in August and averaged 49.3 points in Q3. More intense load-shedding during the month was likely to blame for the decline relative to...

SA student wins global innovation award

A digital application developed by an engineering student from Stellenbosch University (SU) that provides information about water quality in water supply systems, took third place at a recent international gathering in New York where more than 250 young leaders from...

Naspers terminates BillDesk purchase

On 31 August 2021, Naspers announced that an agreement had been reached between PayU Payments, a subsidiary of Prosus, and the shareholders of the Indian digital payments provider BillDesk to acquire BillDesk for $4,7-billion. Closing of the transaction was subject to...

DFA, Vumatel come together under Maziv umbrella

Dark Fibre Africa (DFA) and Vumatel are now running under a new parent company, Maziv. Pieter Uys, chairman of holding company Community Investment Ventures Holdings (CIVH), says both  operating companies have demonstrated impressive growth, with DFA increasing...

Rain makes formal offer for Telkom – updated

Rain Group Holdings has made a formal proposal to acquire Telkom. This follows an offer on 15 July from MTN acquiring the entire issued share capital of Telkom in return for shares or a combination of cash and shares in MTN. Rain also made an offer in August, which is...

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Airtel Nigeria, Ericsson aim for universal broadband

In the second half of 2015, Nigeria was among the top five countries worldwide in terms of mobile subscription additions, and Nigerian businesses are increasingly adopting mobile-first strategies. In fact, 83% of mobile phone subscribers in Nigeria rely solely on...

What if accounting could simplify your life?

Accounting systems don't nearly go far enough in tying up all the ends of your business, but what if they could? asks Andries Kok from PayAccSys. Business people have been using accounting systems since well before the abacus, and there is currently a plethora of...

BankservAfrica rolls out INTIX Data Management

BankservAfrica, headquartered in Johannesburg and operator of Africa's largest interoperable payments switch, will implement the INTIX Data Management technology to financial institutions' customers located in South Africa and other African countries. The INTIX...

Verint appears in two Magic Quadrants

Verint Systems has announced its inclusion in the newly published Magic Quadrant for the CRM Customer Engagement Center report by research and advisory firm Gartner. This marks the fourth year the company's solutions have been recognized in this evaluation for ability...

INET BFA improves IT operations, service delivery

In conjunction with OSCOSM consulting services, INET BFA has concluded the first phase of its IT service management improvement program. The overall project goals were to improve management control, overall IT service delivery and align to good practices such as ITIL....

Ghana takes to MTN Mobile Money

MTN Mobile Money has become the fastest growing method of receiving WorldRemit international money transfers in Ghana. The number of transfers received on mobile accounts is growing by 13% per month on average, as Ghanaians abroad discover the convenience of sending...

Zebra Technologies is a Forbes Best Employer

Zebra Technologies has been named one of "America's Best Employers" by Forbes in the magazine's annual ranking. Based on recommendations from current employees and industry professionals, Zebra ranks among the top 500 employers across 25 industries to receive this...

Deloitte wins SAP kudos

Deloitte has received a 2016 SAP Pinnacle Award as the SAP S/4HANA Adoption Partner of the Year, which recognises its contributions as an SAP Partner. SAP presents these awards annually to the top collaborators that have excelled in developing and growing their...

Emirates lets shoppers use Visa Checkout

Emirates Airline, the world's largest international airline, will now offer Visa Checkout, the online checkout service by Visa, allowing shoppers to pay with their cards online and on any device. Visa Checkout is now available to Emirates Airline customers in 15...

AlphaCode partners to boost African fintech

Envestnet   Yodlee, a data aggregation and data analytics platform powering cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, has announced a strategic partnership with AlphaCode, a collaborative club for next-generation financial services entrepreneurs in South...

Systems Analyst

The Systems Analyst works closely with Business Analysts, Architects and Developers to design new IT solutions, modify, enhance, or adapt existing systems and integrate new features or improvements, with the aim of improving business efficiency and productivity....

Data Scientist

We are looking to hire a skilled and experienced Data Scientist with a robust background in data analysis, machine learning, and statistical modeling. Demonstrates proficiency in leveraging advanced analytical techniques to extract meaningful insights from large and...

Data Engineer

Our client in the centre of Pretoria, a large financial institute has a vacancy for a Data Engineer on a contract basis.The Company has embarked on a multi-year IT transformational programme to renew the Finsurv IT landscape. This programme is known as the 1FinSurv...

IT DevOps Engineer – Western Cape Woodstock

This role aims to implement DevOps principles and practices within engineering teams by offering training, documentation, and direct, hands-on expertise. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the entire lifecycle of our infrastructure, from design through the...

Network Engineer (CPT) (EE) – Western Cape Cape Town

ENVIRONMENT:A dynamic Internet Service & Network Specialist seeks the technical expertise of a Network Engineer whose core role will be to contribute high-level support such as strategic planning of network upgrades and high-level network performance analyses. You...

Systems Analyst – Gauteng Johannesburg Region

The Systems Analyst works closely with Business Analysts, Architects and Developers to design new IT solutions, modify, enhance, or adapt existing systems and integrate new features or improvements, with the aim of improving business efficiency and productivity....

Data Scientist – Western Cape Cape Town

We are looking to hire a skilled and experienced Data Scientist with a robust background in data analysis, machine learning, and statistical modeling. Demonstrates proficiency in leveraging advanced analytical techniques to extract meaningful insights from large and...

Data Engineer – Gauteng Pretoria

Our client in the centre of Pretoria, a large financial institute has a vacancy for a Data Engineer on a contract basis.The Company has embarked on a multi-year IT transformational programme to renew the Finsurv IT landscape. This programme is known as the 1FinSurv...

Senior Security Engineer

As a Secure Application Specialist, you will work collaboratively with the entire Technology team, although this may extend to other teams and other other systems, to drive our internal information security program and cyber resilience goals. You'll help us scale our...

IT Support Team Leader

Our client is seeking a client-driven, IT Support Desk Team Leader that has previous ITManaged Service Provider (MSP) experience, to manage one of their IT support desk teamsin their Cape Town office. The team consists of two senior IT Support Technician, four 2ndLine...

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