How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

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...

Get ready for Dell Technologies Forum in Joburg next week

Dell Technologies Forum 2026 will take place at Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Johannesburg on 3 November, bringing together business and technology leaders to examine how organisations can scale artificial intelligence, modernise technology infrastructure and build...

Free AI filmmaking programme opens in five African countries

Akuna Learning, from The Akuna Group, chaired by Sir Idris Elba, has opened applications for From Script to Screen with AI, a free programme that equips eligible African creators to tell stories on screen leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). Delivered in...

AI Academy looks to build on SA’s AI talent

Meta, in partnership with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), has launched AI Academy South Africa - a programme that will equip South African developers, startups, students, and early-career professionals with practical AI skills built...

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,...

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Leadership reset needed to transform customer experience

Across South Africa, a new generation of business leaders is reshaping what transformation looks like by placing customer experience (CX) at the centre of organisational strategy. By Lauren Potgieter, country manager at Infobip South Africa This shift reflects a...

Your recycling certificate is no longer enough

For years, organisations have relied on recycling certificates to prove that retired technology assets were disposed of responsibly. By Kwirirai Rukowo, managing executive of Qrent That standard is rapidly becoming outdated. Investors, auditors, and corporate...

Traditional QA undermines modern customer experience

Every business in South Africa will understand just how competitive the enterprise landscape has become. By Martie de Beer, chief revenue officer at Telviva It’s a story about more than just technology advancements for businesses. It is a story underpinned by...

Endpoint protection is only as strong as what happens after you buy it

Antivirus has moved well beyond spotting known bad files. “Modern endpoint protection watches behaviour, context and patterns instead,” says Angela Pringle, cyber security lead at CyberLogic. That shift, from traditional antivirus to endpoint protection platforms...

AI fluency doesn’t necessarily equate to data competence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is giving data professionals faster ways to write code, generate queries, prepare documentation, and work through technical problems. For junior talent in particular, that creates opportunities to learn and contribute more quickly....

Vertiv partners with Pinnacle ICT

Vertiv has announced a distribution partnership with Pinnacle ICT, extending the availability of Vertiv’s power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions portfolio across the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. "Our distribution partnership with...

AI success starts with the digital backbone

As organisations move from experimenting with generative AI to deploying agentic systems that can reason, act and interact with core business processes, the quality of the data and architecture beneath them is becoming a critical factor in whether AI creates...

Nutanix takes SA’s infrastructure reset beyond virtualisation

South African organisations are reassessing some of their most fundamental infrastructure choices while pressure is growing to modernise applications, make better use of cloud and establish a workable foundation for enterprise AI. That changing technology agenda was...

Fraudsters are banking on consumer trust this tax season

Cyber criminals see opportunity in the current financial pressure and misplaced trust in AI across South Africa. SARS auto-assessments were issued in July, with non-provisional filing open until 23 October. Two-pot retirement withdrawals continue monthly, and in June,...

Senior Machine Learning Engineer – AI / GenAI at Datonomy Solutions

Role OverviewWe are looking for an experienced Senior Machine Learning Engineer to design, build, deploy and support enterprise-scale Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI solutions.The role is strongly focused on the productionisation and...

Intermediate Network & VoIP Engineer

Intermediate Network & VoIP EngineerLocation: Kyalami, GautengEmployment Type: PermanentLevel: IntermediateAbout the RoleWe are looking for an experienced Intermediate Network & VoIP Engineer to join our technical team in Kyalami, Gauteng.The successful...

Data Engineer at Datonomy Solutions

Role OverviewOur Insights Team turns enterprise data into reliable business decisions. We are looking for a hands-on Data Engineer to develop and support the data pipelines, warehouse structures, reports and dashboards used across the Group.The role is centred on SQL...

Intermediate Network & VoIP Engineer – Gauteng Midrand

Intermediate Network & VoIP EngineerLocation: Kyalami, GautengEmployment Type: PermanentLevel: IntermediateAbout the RoleWe are looking for an experienced Intermediate Network & VoIP Engineer to join our technical team in Kyalami, Gauteng.The successful...

Data Engineer at Datonomy Solutions – Western Cape Parow

Role OverviewOur Insights Team turns enterprise data into reliable business decisions. We are looking for a hands-on Data Engineer to develop and support the data pipelines, warehouse structures, reports and dashboards used across the Group.The role is centred on SQL...

Senior .NET Application Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Build software that people actually use. This is a senior seat for a developer who can take a requirement, design the application, and ship it. You will own the work from specification through coding, testing, debugging and release, inside an Agile team that expects...

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