Climate change is redrawing the malaria map in Africa

Malaria is the deadliest climate-sensitive infectious disease. Yet, researchers and public health officials have debated how climate change has shaped its spread. A new Nature study by an international team, including the University of Cape Town (UCT), resolved this...

AI is driving more breaches, at an average cost of $6m

One in four malicious breaches were AI-enabled – a 56% increase over last year – and these breaches cost an average of $6-million, roughly $1-million more than the global breach average of $4,99-million. This is among the findings from IBM's 2026 Cost of a Data Breach...

AI automation is having an impact on entry-level hiring

Nearly a quarter (22%) of CHROs report that at least one business leader in their organisation has stopped hiring for entry-level roles due to AI automation, according to Gartner. The 4Q25 Gartner survey of 110 heads of HR also found that 95% of organisations have...

Africa’s young people want jobs, clean government

Africa’s young people are more optimistic about the future of their countries, economies and the continent than at any point since the pandemic - but they are demanding jobs, cleaner government, safer communities, a stronger political voice and a model of democracy...

More knowledge workers will move to hybrid

By the end of 2023, 39% of global knowledge workers will work hybrid, up from 37% in 2022, according to Gartner. "Hybrid is no longer just an employee perk but an employee expectation," says Ranjit Atwal, senior director analyst at Gartner. "Many employees started to...

Use grey listing to drive financial crime prevention

The decision announced by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) on Friday to add South Africa to the international watch dog's grey list was large expected. In fact, this was the sentiment expressed during a 'Fighting Fraud and financial Crimes - the Road Ahead'...

Energy-related projects dominate Gauteng South regional science expo

This year's Eskom Expo for Young Scientists in the Gauteng South's regional fair featured a surge in research projects in the energy category, with pupils aiming to find alternative solutions to power South Africa. Pupils looked into cow dung as a source of...

Global tech giants buy up AI firms

The deal-making landscape in the artificial intelligence (AI) tech space during 2014-2018 was dominated by global tech giants, according to GlobalData. Of the top five acquirers, four were based out of the US, with Ireland-based Accenture being the only exception in...

IoT Entrepreneurship Program serves up smart solutions

SqwidNet, the licensed Sigfox IoT network operator in South Africa, recently hosted its second IoT Entrepreneurship Program (IoT)E pitch day. Seven finalist groups, selected from a group of 60 prospective entrepreneurs and ICT business owners over the course of a...

CEO turnover is at a record high

CEO turnover hit a record high of 17% in 2018 but there is a group of executives holding steady. According to the 2018 CEO Success Study issued by PwC's Strategy&, while the median tenure of a CEO has been five years, 19% of all CEOs remain in position for 10 or...

Top wireless trends for 2019 and beyond

Wireless technology plays a key role in today's communications, and new forms of it will become central to emerging technologies including robots, drones, self-driving vehicles and new medical devices over the next five years. Gartner has identified the top 10...

60% rise in password stealing attacks

The use of malware designed to harvest consumers' digital data - known as password stealers - has seen a significant rise in 2019. According to Kaspersky's data, the number of users, targeted by the stealers, peaked from less than 600 000 in the first half of 2018 to...

MTN builds for a 4IR future

MTN is developing a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) and is re-purposing thousands of sites across the country to harness narrow band internet of things (NB-IoT) as the rollout of turnkey solutions for enterprise customers gathers pace. Giovanni Chiarelli,...

African Development Bank approves $300m TDB facility

The African Development Bank has approved a $300-million support facility for the Eastern and Southern African Trade & Development Bank (TDB). The COMESA regional trade and project finance package consists of a composite funded trade finance and project finance...

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