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...

Huawei, DCDT partner to drive broadband, SMME skills

Huawei South Africa and the Department of Communication and Digital Technologies (DCDT) have launched partnership programmes aimed at enhancing broadband deployment as a foundation for a digital economy and providing digital skills training for SMMEs. They...

Global PC shipments to return to growth in 2024

The road to recovery for personal computers (PCs) has been challenging coming off explosive years in 2020 and 2021, but signs of growth are finally returning. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker,...

Pandemic to devastate retail sales

Global retail sales are expected to drop by $2,1-trillion in 2020, according to a new report from Forrester. China is the worst affected country in the Asia Pacific region, with $192-billion of retail sales (excluding restaurants, automobile, and gasoline) lost from...

Trends that will impact the future of work

Organisations can differentiate themselves from competitors during the Covid-19 pandemic by leveraging nine ongoing trends, according to Gartner. These trends are broken into three categories: accelerating trends, new impacts that were not previously part of the...

Data drives Vodacom’s SA growth

The Vodacom group has reported group revenue up 4,8% (3,5 %) year ended 31 March 2020, supported by group service revenue growth of 5% (3,5%). The group also added 5,9-million customers, to serve a combined 116-million customers. Total financial services customers up...

Non-Covid healthcare must be maintained

Countries should maintain essential health care to non-Covid-19 patients while dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is a message from Secretary-General Patricia Scotland ahead of the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting taking place virtually on 14 May. Some...

Massive new oil cuts on the cards

The second quarter of 2020 will see the largest volume of liquids production cuts, including shut-in production, in the history of the oil industry. IHS Markit now expects much as 17 MMb/d total liquids output (which includes nearly 14 MMb/d of crude oil production)...

Lockdown, tyranny and the rule of law

House arrest is a recognised form of punishment for a convicted criminal, writes Rex van Schalkwyk, chairman of the FMF Rule of Law Board of Advisors and former judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa. The punishment can, however, only legitimately be imposed upon...

Pandemic accelerates modern B2B buying behaviour

Rapidly evolving environmental factors due to the coronavirus pandemic are driving profound changes in the behaviours of business-to-business (B2B) buyers. This poses a risk to all B2B organisations unless they adapt quickly and pivot their strategy to be more...

How to be competitive after Covid-19

Chief financial officers (CFOs) resorting to short-term and unsustainable cost cutting measures during the Covid-19 pandemic risk missing the opportunity to fundamentally reshape their competitive standing over the long-term, according to Gartner. Extensive long-term...

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Data Analyst – Gauteng Pretoria North

We are looking for a Data Analyst that is available immediately, so join our client on a 6 month contract with the possible option to extend.We are looking for an experienced Data Analyst, with CRM data analysis experience. In this role you will be required to oversee...

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Senior C#. NET / SQL Developer (SvW)

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