How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Political, economic certainty would boost residential property sales

Estate agents surveyed by Lightstone at the end of 2023 say political and economic certainty will lead to better residential property sales after a disappointing 2023, where less than 40% said they achieved volume or value sales targets. Although South Africa faces...

GenAI leads the trends impacting tech providers

Gartner has highlighted the top trends that will impact technology providers in 2024. "Generative AI (GenAI) is dominating the technical and product agenda of nearly every tech provider," says Eric Hunter, managing vice-president at Gartner. "The technology reshapes a...

Huge growth for co.za domains

South Africa's flagship co.za Internet domain has from March 2020 to February 2021 experienced net growth of about 73 000 domain names, while renewals were 6,5% higher than the previous 12 months. The solid performance by co.za takes its current tally to over 1 300...

Almost half of SA employees look to change jobs

In view of the global Covid-19 pandemic, 44% of employees in South Africa are thinking of shifting to a new job in the next 12-months. According to Kaspersky's "Securing the Future of Work" report, the two biggest drivers that people stated for this career change are...

Massive growth in cyberattacks during pandemic

There's been a 48% surge in cyberattack volumes globally, since March 2020, with sudden increases in cyberattack volumes corresponding to spikes in Covid-19 infection rates in April and October. In sub-Saharan Africa there was a 41% increase in cyberattacks from 2019...

Covid-19 drives mobile money uptake

The GSMA's annual "State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money" reveals a dramatic acceleration in mobile transactions during the Covid-19 pandemic as lockdown restrictions limited access to cash and financial institutions. The report found that the number of...

Inflation declines in February

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on 24 March that consumer price inflation declined from 3,2% y-o-y in January 2021 to 2,9% y-o-y in February. The latest reading was slightly below expectations (3% y-o-y) and the lowest reading in eight months, according to...

Zoom anxiety and how to deal with it

During the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns, working from home has taken off, with remote communications taking the place of physical meetings - and this has given rise to a condition that has come to be knows as Zoom anxiety. The widespread adoption of video calling...

Take-home pay bounces back in February 2021

are likely to see a pick-up in monthly economic activity, particularly for informal businesses. "According to the BankservAfrica Take-home Pay Index (BTPI), the average South African salary in nominal terms increased to R15 821 in February 2021, following the R15 608...

Economic environment in 2020 drove fewer credit defaults

The rate at which people defaulted on their loans fell at the end of last year, primarily due to a combination of the impact of payment holidays and lenders tightening their criteria. This is according to Experian's Consumer Default Index (CDI) for quarter 4 (Q4)...

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