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...

Healthy growth for global security appliance sales

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Security Appliance Tracker, total market revenue in the overall security appliance market grew 7,6% year over year in the second quarter of 2023 (2Q23) to more than $4,2-billion. This represents...

SA on the cusp of a BPO boom

Kathy Gibson reports - The business process outsourcing (BPO) industry in South Africa is booming, with significantly more growth ahead. Thanks to years of investment by government and the private sector, the BPO sector already accounts for around 100 000 jobs and has...

Keys to unlocking vehicle sales

New vehicle sales looked for a jump start as the industry resumed activity from a practically dormant April. Levels of activity and sales during May showed the very real impact provided by the decision to allow the motor industry to return to work under Alert Level 4....

Notebook prices across Western Europe strengthen

The selling prices of notebooks through Distribution across most Western European countries has strengthened over the past few weeks, according to a new and more accurate price index devised by Context, the IT market intelligence company. Regular average selling price...

CFO traits that drive better performance during Covid-19

Gartner has identified nine traits CFOs should implement for better performance during the coronavirus pandemic. Gartner experts base the recommendations on findings from the past 20 years of Gartner research into how CFOs of efficient growth companies guide their...

Connected digital signs shipments to reach 32,8m units in 2024

According to a new research report from Berg Insight, global shipments of connected digital signage displays grew by 16,7% to 17,2-million units in 2019. Market growth is driven by greater demand for digital signage solutions in all market verticals, technological...

Giant mustelids roamed SA 5m years ago

Over 5-million years ago wolf-sized otters and leopard-sized relatives of living wolverines (members of the weasel family that look more like badgers than wolves) lived along the West Coast of South Africa. This is according to recent discoveries by scientists at the...

Priorities for reopening and reinventing your business

Just weeks after winding down their operations, companies are being asked to restart their engines at an unprecedented rate as lockdown rules are gradually relaxed. The challenge is complicated by uncertainties about the progression of Covid-19 and the social,...

New details of attacks targeting industrial companies

In early 2020, a series of targeted attacks on industrial organisations in various regions was reported. According to the latest Kaspersky ICS CERT findings, these hits were focused on systems in Japan, Italy, Germany, and the UK. The list of targets included...

Learn how to save money, reduce complexity with SUSE Manager

The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the world into crisis, with business declining as lockdowns drive a global economic downturn. In this environment, organisations are looking for ways to cut costs as far as possible. Linux could be a big part of the solution to this...

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Senior Python Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD

This role can be fully remote. Our client makes online commerce and digital payment acceptance easier and more accessible across all Africa. Based in Cape Town, South Africa, we work with small and largemerchants to provide a complete toolkit to accept, manage and...

Business Process Analyst – Gauteng Randburg

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What are we looking for? Matric, Relevant Tertiary Qualification preferred5 years experience in Microsoft C# .NETSolid experience in writing unit/integration tests using NUnit/xUnitSolid experience in mutli-tenant environments and large scale dataGood skills in...

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