Transport costs keep millions away from work and education

As South Africans face sharply higher fuel prices from yesterday, new Ipsos research shows that transport affordability is already affecting access to work and education for a significant number of people. The nationally representative findings, from the Ipsos...

ID-based attacks rife as phishing, authentication abuse on the rise

Phishing accounted for more than half of cybersecurity incident response engagements in the second quarter of 2026, while authentication abuse was observed in 65% of engagements, according to the latest Incident Response Trends report from Cisco Talos. The findings...

Tech sales under the lash as consumers curb spending

South Africa’s fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market is proving resilient so far in 2026, although retailers and brands in the tech and durables (T&D) sector are experiencing a number of challenges. This is according to NielsenIQ (NIQ) South Africa, which has...

Roman space telescope begins its quest to the dark universe

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun a three-month, million-mile journey to its final orbit where it is hoped it will reveal the universe’s darkest secrets. The mission launched at 7:26 AM EDT Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch...

Afreximbank to double intra-African trade financing

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) plans to double its financing of intra-African trade from $20-billion in 2021 to $40-billion by 2026. This is according to Haytham ElMaayergi, Afreximbank's executive vice-president: global trade bank, addressing the African...

Africa faces unprecedent surge in mpox cases

The African region is experiencing an unprecedented increase in mpox cases since the start of 2024, with more countries previously unaffected by the disease reporting cases in an expanding spread of the virus. World Health Organisation (WHO) has elevated the mpox...

Human leadership the next priority to focus on

The human aspects of leadership are becoming increasingly important for companies to succeed - but fewer than a third of them are actually doing it. A Gartner survey of more than 230 HR leaders revealed that 90% believe that to succeed in today's work environment,...

Businesses show fighting spirit despite high inflation

Statistics South Africa released its latest consumer price index with inflation recorded at 6,5% in May 2022, up from 5,9% in April 2022. Despite this, all but four out of the 27 industries monitored by Skynamo's Industry Thermometer bounced back with positive growth...

Good commercial demand balances weak consumer market for PC monitors

New results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Monitor Tracker show that the global PC monitor market posted flat results in the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22), registering a 0,3% increase in shipment volume compared to the same quarter...

First carrier-neutral data centre opens in Namibia

The new Paratus Namibia Armada data centre (DC) will launch in Windhoek in August 2022, opening its doors to both network operators and individual colocation tenants so they will not be bound to a single network service provider. Armada enables clients' freedom of...

Russia the most targeted country for data breaches

Russia reported the most data breaches in Q1 2022, with over 3,5-million incidences representing an 11% surge over Q4 2021. That increase saw it leapfrog the US as the most affected country globally, according to CryptoMonday analysis. Jonathan Merry, CEO of...

Nvidia accelerates data centre democratisation

Nvidia has become a founding member of the Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project, while making its NVidia DOCA networking software APIs widely available to foster innovation in the data centre. Businesses are embracing open data centres,...

Afrinurse hackathon finds solutions to nursing challenges

Few occupations are as essential to a country's people as is nursing. Yet the nursing sector has seen very little innovation over the years, even as medical technology in hospitals steadily evolves. Looking to bring nursing into the 21st century, AfriNurse in...

If you are online, you are a cybersecurity risk

Kathy Gibson reports from All Things Cyber Security - Everyone has something that can be stolen - and we make a big mistake in not realising that all of us can provide access to lucrative cybercrime targets. This is the word from Professor Elmarie Biermann from the...

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Choosing storage to suit your business

For those in the market for storage for their home or small and medium business (SMB), the discussion of the moment is deciding between local or cloud based storage, says Anamika Budree, sales manager, Branded Products at WD South Africa. On both sides of the fence...

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If you are not entering university with at least a 70% average on your matric results, then you probably aren’t going to make it through your first semester of studies. This is the hard-hitting view of Peter van Nieuwenhuizen and Jacques De Villiers of The Growth...

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Enterprise apps must mimic consumer apps

Companies that want to drive the best results from mobilising their business processes need to give their employees access to apps that are as simple, attractive, integrated and rich as the consumer mobile apps they use every day. This means organisations and their IT...

Cloud or bust: how ERP is changing

The world is going cloud crazy and it’s not difficult to see why, says Alan Sher, director HansaWorld South Africa. Where enterprise resource planning software is concerned, the old paradigms of immense cost, lengthy deployments and fiendish complexity are giving way...

Coded in Braam explores hybrid apps

Continuing its tradition of supporting the local tech community, ThoughtWorks is hosted the first Coded in Braam event of the year on Saturday 28 March. This hands-on session introduced developers to Spring Boot, a tool based on the Spring IO platform that introduces...

CommProve wins monitoring contract

CommProve has announced its working with an African telecommunications regulator to monitor the quality of service (QoS) of multiple mobile network operators (MNOs) in country. “Typically, a telecommunications regulator has no way of determining the actual customer...

Change your employee engagement strategy

It is widely acknowledged that there is a shortage of software engineers worldwide, and that the best ones are in incredibly high demand. It is also acknowledged that in the service industry, the way a company’s employees engage with their clients can make or break...

E-commerce drives industry transformation

In the last two years, IDC visited more than 30 traditional enterprises and industry clusters proceeding from the emerging mode of Internet such as e-commerce, and obtained a deep insight into the impact of Internet on traditional industry transformation and upgrade....

Dax Data to launch Adobe Document Cloud

Adobe has announced the upcoming release of Adobe Document Cloud, a modern way to manage critical documents at home, in the office and across devices. Document Cloud will address the waste and inefficiency associated with document processes. “Once again Adobe has...

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