Africa Data Centres enhances Gauteng campuses
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More South Africans are returning home
A growing number of South Africans abroad are returning home, bringing international experience, global networks and new perspectives with them. New research released as part of the Reverse Emigration Among South Africans report by The TEFL Academy suggests that...
Cedarberg reveals tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start life
An international team of scientists from South Africa, Canada, France and the UK has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem that helped kick-start the recovery of Earth’s oceans after a global mass extinction. The team, led by Dr Claire Browning, an Honorary...
Resilience could waver on asset prices, debt, geoeconomic tensions
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SA needs to close the AI implementation gap
South Africa is not short on ambition when it comes to artificial intelligence – what the country is short on is execution. That is the harsh conclusion from Joshua Harvey, head of growth at Specno. He points out that, while global benchmarks show South Africa is...
After a milestone year, what does 2026 hold for crypto?
2025 delivered milestone achievements alongside a choppy market. Total crypto market capitalisation surpassed $4-trillion for the first time, and Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of $126 000. At the same time, macro uncertainty – monetary policy, trade tensions,...
BlockFi bankruptcy raises risk of crypto phishing
Kaspersky has detected a wave of phishing attacks preying on former customers of the bankrupt crypto lending platform BlockFi. These scams leverage the ongoing distribution of customer assets following BlockFi's 2022 bankruptcy, tricking victims into surrendering...
SA’s top young scientists to compete in the IRIS Global Symposium in India
Four of South Africa’s finest young scientists will represent the country at the Initiative for Research and Innovation in STEM (IRIS) Global Symposium in India, where they will showcase their scientific brilliance. The learners were top achievers at last October’s...
Most brands will use agentic AI in one-to-one interactions by 2028
By 2028, 60% of brands will use agentic AI to facilitate streamlined one-to-one interactions, according to Gartner. This transformation in marketing strategy will shift traditional channel-based approaches and usher in a new era of personalized, autonomous engagement....
Could 2026 be SA’s year of being back in the game?
If 2025 was the year South Africa had to steel itself for a tsunami of crises, 2026 could well shape up to be the year the country starts coming up for air. Locally, there was historic progress, marked by the stability of the Government of National Unity and a...
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The value of female mentorship in the BPO sector
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The Just Energy Transition: Lessons from SA and Senegal
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Social engineering is still the top cybersecurity threat
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Data Engineer (Senior) 1462
Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and performant data pipelines and ETL processes to support analytics and ML use-cases.Develop data models and data warehouses / lakes that support reporting, analytics and machine learning needs.Implement and operate data...
Power BI Data Analyst – Stellenbosch
ENVIRONMENT:A start-up, agricultural software company building solutions to optimise the value chain, while offering a business-to-business service, is seeking a Data Analyst to synthesize strategies for their clients (growers and buyers) by leveraging data management...
Mid-Senior Full Stack Developer (C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL) (CPT Onsite)
ENVIRONMENT:A leader in Conversational Analytics seeks the coding expertise of a highly driven Mid-Senior Full Stack Developer with 7-10 years of professional Software Development experience. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects which will...
Senior Back-End Software Developer (Ruby on Rails API) (JHB/Stellenbosch) – Western Cape Stellenbosch
ENVIRONMENT:DESIGN, implement, and maintain the core business logic, APIs, and data storage systems of web applications of a dynamic AgriTech company seeking your coding expertise to be its next Senior Back-End Software Developer. Your focus will be on developing...
Data Engineer (Senior) 1462 – Gauteng Pretoria
Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and performant data pipelines and ETL processes to support analytics and ML use-cases.Develop data models and data warehouses / lakes that support reporting, analytics and machine learning needs.Implement and operate data...
Power BI Data Analyst – Stellenbosch – Western Cape Stellenbosch
ENVIRONMENT:A start-up, agricultural software company building solutions to optimise the value chain, while offering a business-to-business service, is seeking a Data Analyst to synthesize strategies for their clients (growers and buyers) by leveraging data management...
Mid-Senior Full Stack Developer (C#, ASP.NET, MSSQL) (CPT Onsite) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:A leader in Conversational Analytics seeks the coding expertise of a highly driven Mid-Senior Full Stack Developer with 7-10 years of professional Software Development experience. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of projects which will...
Junior Full Stack Developer (Ruby/Ruby on Rails) (Stellenbosch Hybrid)
ENVIRONMENT:A dynamic AgriTech company seeks a Junior Full Stack Developer with an interest in building software that interfaces with industrial control systems. This role supports their broader mission of transforming Agricultural operations through automation,...
Back-End Developer (Entry) 2411
Assist in the development and maintenance of document templates using Exstream software.Collaborate with team members to gather and understand user requirements.Write and test XML, XPath, and Perl scripts for template customization.Support Unix scripting tasks to...
Data Controller (JHB / Stellenbosch / Eastern Cape)
ENVIRONMENT:Our client operates as a development company with offices in Stellenbosch and Johannesburg, specializing in the advancement of state-of-the-art agricultural technologies. They are seeking a Data Controller who is essentially an introduction to the group's...
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