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...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

Despite barriers, AI deployments are set to accelerate

New research commissioned by IBM has found that about 42% of enterprise-scale organisations (over 1 000 employees) surveyed have AI actively in use in their businesses. Early adopters are leading the way, with 59% of responding enterprises already working with AI...

Global real GDP growth of 2,3% forecast for 2024

Weaker annual real GDP growth rates are forecast across the largest regions in 2024 compared to 2023, according to a new S&P Global Market Intelligence report. The newly published Top-10 Economic Predictions for 2024 forecasts global real GDP will expand at 2,3%...

Telkom sees slight uptick in Q3

Telkom has reported that revenue for the nine months ended 31 December 2020 increased 0,9% year on year to R32 432-million, driven by a strong growth of 40,.7% in mobile service revenue. The year to date earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation...

Changing the future for African girls

With Africa's future reliant on its ability to adapt to digital transformation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), levelling the playing field for women has become critical. The 2021 Tomorrow's Cyber Heroines study by CyberHeroines, KnowBe4 Africa and...

Employers urged to leverage skills adjacencies to fill talent gaps

HR leaders are finding it increasingly difficult to quickly find and develop talent with the most in demand skills, yet 58% of the workforce needs new skills to get their jobs done. Gartner TalentNeuron data shows the total number of skills required for a single job...

As print gains in popularity, service providers fall behind

As digital marketing experiences declining returns - a result of digital fatigue - the role of print as an increasing part of the marketing mix is gaining traction. But Canon Europe's Insight Report, "Creating Customer Value," reveals the changing demands of the print...

Account takeovers shot up in 2020

In 2020, every second fraudulent transaction in the finance industry was an account takeover, a report by Kaspersky Fraud Prevention has found. According to anonymised statistics of events detected by Kaspersky Fraud Prevention from January to December 2020, the share...

Net 1 posts quarterly losses

Net 1 UEPS Technologies has posted lower revenue for the second quarter, but is confident that organisational changes will see performance improve going forward. During the quarter, the group recorded a net increase of 44 000 EasyPay Everywhere (EPE) account holders,...

Capitec named as world’s third strongest banking brand

Capitec has, for the second time, been recognised as the third-strongest banking brand in the world. Two-thirds of banks in the annual Brand Finance report on the 500 strongest and most valuable banking brands experienced a decline in brand value due to Covid-19, but...

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Adobe Experience Developer at Accenture – Western Cape Cape Town

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, song, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all...

Embedded Developer – Western Cape Cape Town

Are you ready to contribute to the cutting-edge world of connected, intelligent transportation systems (ITS)?A leading developer of ITS solutions, is seeking a talented Embedded Software Engineer to join our team in Cape Town. Software Engineer to join our team in...

Senior C#.Net (API) Developer – Gauteng Pretoria

Senior C#.Net (API) DeveloperJOB DESCRIPTION Support existing and develop new functionality and components.Understand existing product and domain elements and work with business analysts to refine and implement new requirements.Refactor and improve the code to keep...

Developer (C#/SQL) – Western Cape Somerset West

ENVIRONMENT:A dynamic provider of Enterprise Software Solutions seeks the coding talents of a deadline-driven Intermediate C# / SQL Developer who enjoys solving complex problems. Your role will entail App design, critical software testing, troubleshooting operating...

Scrum Master at Accenture

As a Scrum Master, you will help teams from our clients with their Agile way of working, more specifically help Scrum teams to thrive. This key position will put you in a central and challenging position, which offers a great opportunity to be highly visible within...

Project Manager at C-Pact Enterprise

Together with the Management team, you are responsible for choosing the most economical, safe and successful method to carry out the project.Establish the scope of work, schedule and budget expectations.Manage schedule, budget, and contractual performance on...

IT Technology Consultant (2nd level support)

Our client based in Johannesburg is seeking an IT Technology Consultant to join their team. The ideal candidate would develop and provide products and services to optimize/automate IT infrastructure services, improve work efficiency and liaises with 3rd level Support....

Intermediate SQL Developer

Intermediate SQL DeveloperJOB DESCRIPTION Develop complex T-SQL queries, Stored Procedures and Triggers.Assist in the design of the relational database architecture for new development projects.Develop new / alter existing SQL objects based off a set of...

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