United effort key to tackling SA’s plastic pollution
With World Earth Day coming up on Monday (22 April), the Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) has underscored the critical need for concerted efforts to combat plastic pollution - a pressing environmental challenge in South Africa. This year's...
Digital investments market to hit $2,8trn in 2024
The assets under the management of the digital investments market - including robo-advisors and neobrokers - have snowballed over the past years, rising from $3,8-billion in 2017 to a whopping $2,26-trillion in 2023. And the entire market is expected to continue...
Tight labour market poses biggest business risk
The tight US labour market is the biggest perceived threat to business today, according to a Stifel Financial Corp survey of corporate executives, business owners, and private equity investors. Nearly all those surveyed (95%) have had to raise wages in order to...
Modest growth for MEA’s PC market
The Middle East and Africa (MEA) personal computing devices (PCD) market, which is made up of desktops, notebooks, workstations, and tablets, experienced year-on-year growth of 5% in the second quarter of 2021, according to the latest industry analysis conducted by...
UP’s digital twin city aims to improve metro management
The University of Pretoria (UP) has created the Hatfield Digital Twin City, a new initiative that aims to boost service delivery with the help of smart technology. “In making cities smarter and future fit, we need instruments to help our cities become more efficient –...
SA’s digital fraudsters shift focus
As the prevalence of digital fraud attempts on businesses and consumers continues to rise, TransUnion's newest quarterly analysis found that fraudsters in South Africa are re-focusing their efforts from financial services to the gambling, travel and leisure and...
Close to half of businesses feel threated by cyber incidents
Over the years, cyberattacks and data breaches became one of the biggest risks in the business sector, compromising sensitive data and causing a massive financial hit to companies and organizations worldwide. According to data presented by BuyShares.co.uk, more than...
Bosses mistrust people who work remotely
Although 35% of employers trust their staff fully while working remotely only 19% say productivity decreased since they transitioned to remote working. This is one of the paradoxes found in research conducted for Ricoh by Opinion Matters who polled 1 500 European...
Study reveals factors behind weak civil society
There are several deficiencies in the current design of regulatory frameworks for the civil society sector. This is one of the finding from a study commissioned by the National Development Agency (NDA) to analyse the current legislative, policy and regulatory...
Cautious optimism as government moves to strengthen nomination process for senior appointments at SOEs
According to reports, government is planning to intensify the vetting of non-executive directors and other employees at SOEs to improve the quality of appointments. These moves are long overdue and should be welcomed - but with caution, says Parmi Natesan, CEO of the...
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Financial institutions at high risk
A financial institution not investing in a long term information security strategy is gambling with the protection of corporate and client data, according to information security experts at 4Di Privaca. The executive mind-set of viewing information security as a...
Adaptability is key to better leadership
In a recent article for LinkedIn, best-selling author and CEO of Likable Local Dave Kerpen points out 11 simple concepts that every business leader can use to become a better leader. He emphasises that all of them are simple. "Yet, perhaps in the name of revenues or...
Smile launches 4G network in Uganda
Smile Communications Uganda Limited (Smile) has launched the first true 4G (“fourth generation”) LTE broadband network in Uganda. Smile has had commercial customers using its 4G LTE services for the past six months and, with the launch, Smile becomes the only operator...
Fujitsu introduces new mainframes
Fujitsu has significantly reduces losses in time and costs in the constant battle against IT downtime by introducing an expanded high availability concept for Fujitsu BS2000/OSD mainframes, at the Fujitsu Mainframe Summit in Fulda, Germany. In a world first, Fujitsu...
Cloud-based security is imminent
Cloud-based security services are gaining momentum as organisations look at smarter ways of managing their security strategies. Enterprise security no longer just encompasses firewalls and antivirus software, but a complex blend of secure e-mail and Web gateways,...
Technology advancements grow SMBs
A common cause of business failure is over-investment in fixed assets; the high costs associated with purchasing, setting up and managing infrastructure, hardware and software can be daunting and detrimental to the cash required to fund growth of the business....
LSD IT opens new office in Cape Town
Level 2 BBBEE accredited service provider, LSD Information Technology, opened a new office in Cape Town in February 2012. The Cape Town Branch is headed up by long-term LSD member, Derryn Askham. An important new addition to the Cape Town team is a full-time Linux...
Biometrics leads in commercial security
For companies, knowing who a person is, where they are on the premises and why they are there - and validating this information - is the main driver behind security and biometric access control technology integration in the workplace. To this end, technology which...
Maitland boosts operational efficiency
Maitland, the largest third party administrator in South Africa, has selected SunGard’s Investran. Investran will help to automate the investment accounting process and investor reporting operations. The automation of key processes will help increase Maitland’s...
ASUS expands PC range
ASUS has announced a number of new personal computers (PCs) at Computex, featuring fourth generation Intel Core processors. The G10 and M51 are stylish, floor-standing PCs, while the ET2311 and ET2702 are slim-line All-in-One PCs with 23-inch and 27-inch widescreen...
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...
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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...
Mid Software Developer at Accenture
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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...
Control Systems Engineer
Electrical / Electronic Degree or Diploma This Dynamic and Rapidly Expanding Consulting Engineering Organisation in the Oil & Gas and Mining Sectors, require a Junior Control Systems Engineer to do the following : Background in process plant engineering and...
Mid/Senior Level C# Developer
Are you an experienced developer looking to join a dynamic team in the heart of Sandton? We are seeking a skilled developer with 3-5 years of experience in C# to join an innovative fintech company. If you're passionate about writing clean code, have a strong...
Software Developer – KwaZulu-Natal Kloof
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Mid Software Developer at Accenture – Gauteng Midrand
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