How will your career withstand the impact of AI?

New research from The TEFL Academy’s South African Career Resilience Report 2026 reveals that 57% of local respondents have questioned whether their chosen career or qualification will still be valuable because of artificial intelligence - while 84% say AI has already...

Cyber resilience the foundation for Africa’s next phase of digital growth

Building strong cyber resilience will be the key to sustaining the current remarkable growth of Africa’s digital economy, according to a new white paper from Mastercard. The report – Africa’s Digital Defence Race - highlights that between 2016 and 2025, mobile money...

Underfunding a leading cause of AI failures for SA firms

South African organisations whose AI ambitions outrun their budgets are seven times more likely to say AI has fallen short, according to preliminary results from DayOne’s State of AI Delivery in South Africa survey. Of the more than 170 employees, founders, managers...

Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

FSCA awards licence to Luno

South Africa's largest and oldest crypto asset service provider, Luno, has secured a licence from the Financial Services Conduct Authority (FSCA) to operate as a financial services provider. Luno is the first dedicated crypto asset service provider in South Africa to...

Intel takes up challenge in enterprise GenAI

At its annual Intel Vision 2024 conference, the chipmaker introduced the Intel Gaudi 3 accelerator to bring performance, openness and choice to enterprise generative AI (GenAI) – along with a suite of new open scalable systems, next-gen products, and strategic...

SA companies fork out record amounts for data breaches

Data breaches now cost South African companies R46-million on average, according to a study by IBM Security - the highest cost in the six-year history of the report. Based on in-depth analysis of real-world data breaches experienced by organisations in South Africa,...

Malware attacks in Africa on an upward track

Kaspersky research highlights that malware is rife across Africa with various countries exhibiting strong growth in all malware types in the first half of 2021, when compared to the same period last year. This is a 5% increase in the region, as cybercriminals and...

CES 2022 to goes live – but only for the vaccinated

CES is set to go ahead in Las Vegas from 5 to 8 January 2022 - but only vaccinated delegates will be allowed to attend. More than 1 000 companies, including major brands and start-ups, have committed to be in Las Vegas, where CES 2022 will feature the latest tech...

Measuring damage from unrest on banking infrastructure

The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) has confirmed that at least 1 227 ATMs and 310 bank branches were vandalised or destroyed in the unrest from 9 July to 17 July. SABRIC has been assessing the threats, and quantifying the losses incurred by the...

Help for SMEs impacted by unrest

Thousands of small businesses in KwaZulu-Natal and parts of Gauteng are trying to rebuild themselves after the devastating political unrest that saw businesses looted, trashed and even burned to the ground. The Department of Small Business Development has announced...

Eskom Expo for Young Scientists boosts young scientists

Eskom Expo for Young Scientists will be holding a series of provincial expos from August to September 2021. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and the continuous interruptions to formal learning, a record number of entries for the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists has been...

Working from home and the digital workplace

Companies are re-evaluating their business models and operations. The question is: Do they revert back to the traditional office like it was pre-2020, or do they operate a hybrid model? While Covid-19 is set to have a permanent impact on the real estate industry and...

Uber now serves 80% of the urban population

Uber has announced its expansion into over 21 smaller cities and towns across South Africa, making Uber available in over 40 cities across the country, and serving more than 80% of the urban populations. Riders will be able to request a ride in Polokwane, Cape West...

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Banks step up efforts to mitigate risk

The financial services industry, particularly banks, has stepped up efforts in gearing up its intellectual capital base to manage risk and money-laundering activities, says Alison Thom, principal consultant at leading executive search and consulting group Mindcor....

Lombard Tyres stays on the road with SAP

Lombard Tyres, one of the country’s largest independent tyre dealers for the past 30 years, has turned to SAP Business One ERP technology to centralise its accounting, business management, stock control and reporting processes. “A major stumbling block for us was that...

Employee negligence risks company data

Employee negligence poses a serious threat to the security of corporate confidential data, according to more than half the respondents in the recent Worldwide Security Products survey by IDC. The companies identified this as a priority for 2013, and intend to work...

BCX, Conscript partner on talent solution

In continued efforts to create solutions that help South Africa and the rest of Africa tackle unemployment and talent attraction, Business Connexion (BCX) has joined forces with specialist recruitment company Conscript Africa to create SkillsMap – a talent community...

HP expands printing portfolio

HP recently announced an expanded portfolio of printing and personal systems products and solutions designed to help organisations save time and resources.  The new offerings integrate seamlessly into existing enterprise environments and advance the speed of the...

Lead generation partnerships yield results

When companies launch a new product, they generally have a marketing plan in place in order to ensure they promote the new offering most effectively. However, regardless of how well-planned a marketing campaign is, there is very little guarantee of it reaching the...

Huawei launches Ascend P6

Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, has unveiled the Huawei Ascend P6 - the world's slimmest smartphone, measuring just 6,18mm. The smartphone features a 1,5GHz quad-core processor and a sleek metallic body....

Legitimate sites can risk company data

Employees could be putting their company’s network and data at risk by visiting legitimate Web sites that have been secretly compromised with malware. This is according to Richard Broeke, sales manager at Securicom, a specialist provider of IT security services in...

Stratasys, Scheu Dental collaborate

Stratasys, a leading manufacturer of 3D printers and production systems for prototyping and manufacturing, has announced its collaboration with Scheu Dental for offering orthodontic labs a complete digital solution. Digital orthodontics is rapidly becoming the...

Mitel expands collaboration, voice solutions

Mitel, a leading provider of cloud and premises based unified communications (UC) software solutions, has announced two new product offerings: MiVoice for Lync and MiCollab 5.0 (formerly Mitel Application Suite or MAS). Building on its open Freedom Architecture, Mitel...

DevOps Consultant 2709

Large, international Automotive client actively looking for highly competent DevOps Consultant Product / Feature Team Information (if applicable)Manual Warehouse (MAN)ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:· SAP Technical Operations· Incident Management (IM)· Change Management...

SAP BI BW Specialist – Gauteng Midrand

Are You Ready to Warp into the Future of Data Modeling? Join Our Galactic Team! Calling all SAP BW4/HANA Data Modeling Wizards! We're on the hunt for a stellar talent to join our dynamic crew and take our data game to infinity and beyond! Essential Skills: Masterful...

C# Back-End Developer – Gauteng Centurion

Our client, a Company specialising in Intelligent Software Solutions is looking for a C# Backend Developer to join their dynamic team.Minimum Qualifications Applicable, 3-year BSc degree in computer science. NQF Level 7.Advantage Qualifications Applicable Microsoft...

Geospatial (Back-End) Developer – Gauteng Pretoria Region

Develop on cloud and KubernetesParticipate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debuggingWrite clean code to develop functional web applicationsTroubleshoot and debug applicationsPerform UI tests to optimize performanceCollaborate with Front-end...

Scrum Master (CH994) – Western Cape Kuils River

Our client, in the Payments and Lending industry, has a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned Scrum Master who will be responsible for the facilitation of workflows within one or two software development teams to ensure that they deliver on their respective commitments...

C#.Net Software Engineer (CPT Remote) – Western Cape Woodstock

ENVIRONMENT:A young & dynamic EdTech startup seeks the coding talents of a C#.Net Software Engineer to join its team where your core role will be to successfully develop, deliver, and maintain high quality software (requirements, design, code, documentation,...

DevOps Consultant 2709 – Gauteng Centurion

Large, international Automotive client actively looking for highly competent DevOps Consultant Product / Feature Team Information (if applicable)Manual Warehouse (MAN)ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:· SAP Technical Operations· Incident Management (IM)· Change Management...

Software Developer

An exciting opportunity for an intermediate developer to join a growing company specialising in the utility and energy management space. You will be responsible for building software by writing code, as well as modifying existing code to fix...

Senior Data Engineer

The Data Engineer skill is required to enable the data lifecycle within, namely the ability to integrate data between the source system (golden/trusted) and the target database, hence providing good quality data by applying the necessary framework/s and governance to...

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