A familiar face takes the reins at Tarsus

By Mark Davison - After months of speculation, Alviva Holdings – parent company of Tarsus Distribution – has announced a new, permanent CEO for one of South Africa’s oldest and leading distributors. Thibault Dousson, currently director of Lenovo’s Solution and...

European orbiter detects hints of volcanic activity on Mars

New evidence from gas seeping above volcanic rifts suggests Mars is not geologically dead deep inside, but merely sleeping. Fresh fissures along the Alba Mons region hint at active spots under the surface, where gases from inside the planet may be making their way up...

NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings

NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...

Turn vision into reality with the right AI strategy

Kathy Gibson reports from Dell Technologies Forum in Johannesburg - Today's leaders aren't asking whether to adopt AI, they're asking how to turn it into outcomes the business can see. And South African companies can no longer afford to take a wait-and-see attitude to...

Most crypto workers are in the US

The US dominates the global crypto workspace by nearly 30%. As of July 2023, over 190 000 people hold down crypto jobs. Edith Reads, financial analyst at BitcoinCasinos.com, comments: "The crypto workspace is expanding quickly, providing significant income for the...

Experts think new vaping tax misses the mark

The vaping industry has vociferously opposed a new tax on vaping products. But only the largest containers of e-liquid will feel hefty price increases, according to the University of Cape Town (UCT) experts Dr Nicole Vellios and Professor Corné van Walbeek. As of 1...

UCT among top 40 international universities

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has been ranked 39th in the Times Higher Education (THE) list of the 200 most international universities. These institutions collaborate on research across the world, have a strong reputation globally and have a high proportion of...

Vodacom adds more than 2m customers

Vodacom Group has issued a trading update for the quarter ended 31 December 2019, reporting that group revenue was up 6,6%, supported by service revenue growth of 5,7%. The network added 484 000 customers in South Africa, supported by a successful Summer campaign. In...

Antivirus could have saved these businesses $71bn

Data gathered and calculated by Precisecurity.com shows that some businesses could have saved about $71-billion - simply by having an effective antivirus solution. The affected businesses saw millions of records exposed due to poor security. In total, all records...

More SA ransomware attacks ring alarm bells

News has emerged that Tracker SA Systems were hacked over the weekend in the form of a ransomware attack. Heino Gevers, cybersecurity expert at Mimecast, comments: "South African organisations are likely to continue being targeted by cybercriminals until they enhance...

Mellanox, Dell partner on supercomputing platforms

Mellanox Technologies, a of high-performance, end-to-end smart interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, has recently announced a partnership with Dell Technologies. The two companies are working together in moving the arenas of...

Lawbots to take on internal legal requests

Intense pressure on legal departments to increase their responsiveness and efficiency is leading them to look toward automation, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing, according to Gartner. In fact, Gartner predicts that...

Bitcoin rises in January, ahead of May’s halving event

January has seen bitcoin prices climb from $6 836 (R102 313) at the beginning of the month to $9 341 (R139 804) on 31 January. Marcus Swanepoel, CEO of Luno, comments: "Digital assets are still subject to high levels of volatility but we are seeing greater adoption,...

How tax breaks have helped SMEs, created jobs

Tax incentives have helped to stimulate and grow the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector of the South African economy. This is the word from Dino Zuccollo, chairman of the 12J Association of South Africa and principal at Westbrooke Alternative Asset Management,...

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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 Solutions Analyst – Gauteng Crown Mines

Purpose summary Issues data regarding cost, cost estimates, budgets, expenditure, commitments, cash flow forecasts, final cost forecasts, cost studies and analyses, variation orders and cost variances. Informs personnel of budgeted and final estimated costs....

Senior C# ASP.Net Developer / Team Lead – Western Cape Cape Town

A fast-growing international startup consultancy building bespoke software to create digital transformationsolutions for a wide variety of corporate clients requires a Senior C# ASP.Net Developer in Cape Town. The candidate must be willing to learn new technologies...

DevOps Engineer at Adapt IT – Gauteng Midrand

Introduction The purpose of the Deployment Engineer is to create and deploy software builds, manage releases and monitor security scanning. To provide technical advice and solutions to streamline builds and deployments and to monitor the objects that other developers...

Systems Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD

The main purpose of the job is to work as part of a team executing the systems engineering during design, construction, integration, verification and commissioning of the SKA Mid Dishes and associated supporting systems, both in the laboratories in Cape Town and on...

Senior Application Developer at Reverside

Reverside is an IT services provider; we are always looking for professional candidates to join our team in Software Development, providing opportunities to work on exciting projects, within our well-established client base. We are looking for a Senior Application...

Senior System Engineer

Purpose To advance the maturity of the SKA Mid Dish through assembling, integrating and verifying the SKA Mid Dish systems and products while applying systems engineering leadership and recognised engineering competence and skills across multiple domains, teams and on...

Intern/Junior Analyst

Hire Resolve's client is looking for a Junior Analyst to join their team in Cape Town. Ideal Candidates for this vacancy will have a flair and passion for investments with a strong work ethic.RequirementsCandidates must have a 65% GPAQualification in Portfolio...

Front-End Developer (Angular)

ENVIRONMENT: A Software and digital services company who has grown into a multi-faceted digital powerhouse, who create bespoke software platforms, mobile apps, VR apps, and websites is seeking a Front-End Developer (Angular) with awith a strong design mindset and...

Security Network Engineer at NRF National Research Foundation

Postion Summary: SARAO requires a detail-oriented cyber Network Security Engineer who will be responsible to plan, architect & design, implement, optimize, audit, monitor and troubleshoot the network security system to improve the efficiency and cybersecurity...

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