Net salaries hold steady for now, but uncertainty looms

The PayInc Net Salary Index, which tracks the average nominal net salaries of approximately 2,1-million South African earners, edged higher in March 2026. Remaining above year-ago levels, the data points to a stabilisation in net salaries over the first quarter of...

Technology convergence redefines competitive advantage

The next wave of competitive advantage will come not from individual breakthrough technologies but from the ability to combine and scale multiple technologies across entire operating systems, according to a new World Economic Forum report. As artificial intelligence...

SA’s economic recovery remains fragile

After nearly two decades of weak growth, declining investment and rising structural constraints, South Africa faces a narrow window in which decisive reforms could determine whether it escapes long‑term stagnation or remains trapped in low growth. Coface research...

In an era of instability, restructuring promotes resilience

The era of corporate stability is over and this is why the most important C-suite appointment companies can make in 2026 is a full-time and continually proactive chief restructuring officer (CRO) in charge of a CRO office. A new Global CRO Study 2026, authored by the...

Dell extends GenAI offerings

Dell's PowerEdge XE9680 will support the upcoming AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator, offering customers more choice when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) performance. With eight MI300X GPUs, 192Gb of 5,3Tbps High Bandwidth Memory (HBM3) per GPU for a total...

Axiz is 2023 Channelwise Distributor of the Year

Axiz has been selected as South Africa’s favourite IT distributor, scooping the 2023 Channelwise Distributor of the Year Award by a comfortable margin. The award is made to the distributor who garnered the most votes in the annual Channelwise survey, where resellers...

Teraco connects to new ACE cable

The ACE submarine cable is now live and available for interconnection at three of Teraco’s data centres across South Africa. ACE is the eighth submarine cable system to connect at Teraco. Spanning approximately 17 000km along the West Coast of Africa, ACE lands in 19...

Top tech ideas for township economic growth

Over the weekend of the 19th and 20th of June 2021, Silicon Cape and the US Mission to South Africa hosted a virtual hackathon aimed at discovering digital solutions to accelerate inclusive economic growth for local businesses in the township economy. This was the...

SA businesses among the best at coping with Covid challenges

Although organisations worldwide found their businesses disrupted, projects postponed, and strategies challenged during 2020, South African companies were very adept at coping with business related challenges as a result of Covid-19, says Project Management Institute....

Digital regulators must collaborate to build a better post-Covid world

Bold regulatory approaches are needed to guide ground-breaking technology uptake, foster collaboration, and drive digital transformation in the post-Covid world, This is according to participants at the latest Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-21) organised by the...

Merchants, developers invited to join VodaPay platform

Kathy Gibson reports - Vodacom is calling on merchants and developers to join its VodaPay platform. Shameel Joosub, CEO of Vodacom, describes the VodaPay platform as a super-app offering a range of shopping and payment services made possible by the agreement signed...

Banks set to form customer-centric ecosystems

A significant 65% of global banking executives believe branch-based banking will be "dead" within five years. This is according to a report written by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) entitled "Branching out: can banks move from city centres to digital...

New Intel XPU targets HPC and AI

At the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) Intel is announcing advances in its Xeon processor for HPC and AI as well as innovations in memory, software, exascale-class storage, and networking technologies for a range of HPC use cases. "To maximize HPC...

To win, insurers need to navigate future factors

The insurance industry should aim to provide enhanced advice and assistance to a greater proportion of the country's population. This is among the finding of a PwC report on the future of advice and engagement in the South African insurance industry. Riaan Singh,...

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Fujitsu servers power SMEs

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Not all WiFi is created equal

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Bytes SI boosts biometric security

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BT, Dolby transform conference calls

BT and Dolby Laboratories have announced the launch of BT MeetMe with Dolby Voice, an audio conferencing service that can dramatically transform one of business’ most essential, but problem-plagued daily activities - the conference call - by replicating the sound of...

The biggest mistakes call centres make

It’s a fact: a call centre can either be the best tool for improving customer relationships, or the thorn in the proverbial side, says Jed Hewson, director of 1Stream. After all, the contact centre is the “shop window” – it’s the first point of call when a customer...

Senwes migrates to Linux

When Senwes, one of the largest grain handling companies in the southern hemisphere, decided to upgrade its main data centre and disaster recovery site, it was looking for flexibility. The company required a flexible and scalable solution that would allow it to easily...

Etisalat, MasterCard celebrate partnership

Etisalat Group has celebrated an enduring partnership with MasterCard that has brought award-winning technology to the market at GITEX Technology Week. “Over the last few years, Etisalat has used GITEX as a platform to launch innovative solutions that are now being...

IS eases mobility risk, enables compliance

Internet Solutions (IS) this week announced the launch of its mobile device management (MDM) solution. IS MDM assists businesses with the management of the mobile devices that their employees are using to access company resources and information.  As smartphone use...

Fujitsu simplifies business continuity

Fujitsu provides fast and consistent data recovery to minimise business downtime and enhance productivity with the FUJITSU Storage ETERNUS Snapshot Manager (ESM), an optimised and fully integrated software solution for the ETERNUS DX disk storage family. ESM adds easy...

Seven reasons to start an online business

PayU, SA’s leading online payment solutions provider, has encouraged budding entrepreneurs to become their own boss. “Entrepreneurship is a viable career choice for young South Africans” says PayU CEO, Mark Chirnside. “It is with this in mind that PayU is encouraging...

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My client based in Cape Town (Northern Suburbs) is currently looking for an Analyst Developer (Actuarial Values) to join them on an independent contract basis IT / Finance Responsibilities Build features and applications that exceed the business specifications and...

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Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.We are looking for a Solution Architect to join our financial services client based in JHB North for a 6-months contract role.What you will be...

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Junior HTML Coder at Accenture – Western Cape Cape Town

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