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...

Mustek reports R10,13bn revenues

Mustek has announced a 13,7% increase in revenue for the year ended 30 June 2023, taking it to R10,13-billion. The gross profit percentage decreade to 13,9% from last year's 14,3%. Headline earnings per share were 375,18 cents, up 5%; and basic earnings per share were...

Young scientists compete for top honours

This year's Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair (ISF) is set to be a global showcase of talent, featuring participants from 35 regions across South Africa, alongside international learners from 10 countries. From 3 October to 6 October 2023, a...

TymeBank a strong contender as FNB named top digital bank

FNB has achieved first place as South Africa’s Best Digital Bank, with a score of 81. Capitec placed second, with a score of 78. This is according to InSites Consulting South Africa’s ninth annual SITEisfaction survey that measures customer satisfaction with digital...

Covid-19 takes toll on printing market

Worldwide page volumes printed from office and home devices combined will see a sharp decline in 2020 as Covid-19 changes where and how work is done. New research from IDC forecasts total page volume will fall 13,7% in 2020, from 3,2-trillion pages in 2019 to...

Incidence of digital banking fraud increases

Robust mitigation strategies deployed by member banks and partners are showing results in terms of fewer incidences of crime. This is according to the annual crime stats for 2019 released by the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric). Digital banking...

China’s ‘big fill’ sets oil stocks record

IHS Markit estimates that China's crude oil inventories will increase by 440-million barrels over the first six months of 2020. This "big fill" dwarfs the largest ever six-month increase in US crude stocks to date which was during late 2014 and early 2015 when stocks...

New attack steals online shoppers’ payment details

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a new technique for stealing users' payment information on online shopping websites - a type of attack known as web skimming. By registering for Google Analytics accounts and injecting these accounts' tracking code into the...

Converged systems market shows resilience

Global converged systems market revenue increased 4,5% year over year to $3,9-billion during the first quarter of 2020, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Converged Systems Tracker. "The overall converged systems market showed resilience during a difficult macro...

Gen Z shoppers pave the way for mobile commerce

Generation Z, people aged 18 to 24, is paving the way for innovation in the e-commerce space. Baby Boomers, aged 55 to 64, are not far behind them. These are among the figures released by payment gateway PayFast, which has seen an increase in online shopping and...

POPI: What you need to know

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the operative provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (POPI) - which governs when and how organisations collect, use, store, delete and otherwise handle personal information - will come into force on...

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