Shoppers used Black Friday 2025 to plan, not splurge
South Africans did not treat Black Friday as a spending free-for-all this year. Instead, they shopped with far more discipline, using flexible payment tools to manage cash flow and time purchases more deliberately. This is according to payments platform, PayJustNow,...
GenAI and its role in education
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) has shared early insights from its emerging research into how staff and students develop the literacies needed to use generative AI (GenAI) ethically, critically and...
Checkers Sixty60 breaks delivery records in Early Black Friday
Checkers Sixty60 has set new records for daily orders, pick rates and on-time deliveries during its Early Black Friday online exclusive promotion. Between 20 and 23 November, Checkers Sixty60 ran online-only deals across both groceries and general merchandise,...
SA schools shine at Inspired Builds robotics competition
Three South African schools – Reddam House Bedfordview, Reddford House The Hills and Reddam House Umhlanga – have earned top honours in the global Inspired Builds robotics competition, a technology challenge involving 111 schools across 24 countries. The annual...
Africa unites to save lives on Red Saturday
The South African National Blood Service (SANBS) and the Western Cape Blood Service (WCBS) will join blood services across Africa for a ground-breaking blood donation event, Red Saturday, scheduled for Saturday 29 November 2025. The event aims to engage thousands of...
Biology model IDs more than 1m species, and counting
Tanya Berger-Wolf’s first computational biology project started as a bet with a colleague: that she could build an AI model capable of identifying individual zebras faster than a zoologist. She won. Now, the director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute and a...
COP30 delivers benefits for Africa
The COP30 conference in Belem, Brazil showed that climate cooperation is producing results that matter for people’s lives, with real benefits across African nations. One hundred and ninety-four countries, representing billions of people, concluded that the Paris...
IBM and Cisco aim for network-distributed quantum computing
IBM and Cisco have announced their intention to collaborate on the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realized as soon as the early 2030s. By combining IBM's leadership in building useful quantum computers with Cisco's quantum networking...
Intel, Cisco partner to put AI workloads on the edge
The edge is quickly taking hold as a new frontier for compute, especially as the demand for agentic and physical AI workloads increases. Enterprises now require more adaptable infrastructures that can scale across multiple industries – like retail, manufacturing and...
FNB braces for more than R3,3bn in Black Friday spend
FNB anticipates another strong day of spend on Black Friday this year, with continued growth expected in digital payments, online shopping and overall transactions expected to exceed R3,3-billion. Early signals across 2025 show consistent customer spending and...
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Valdene Reddy takes on group CEO role at JSE
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Kaspersky uses LLMs for training
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Google gives African students free access to advanced AI tools
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Collective X signs on as WeThinkCode_ strategic partner
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Digital skills key for public service delivery transformation
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SA leaders can’t afford to get governance wrong
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Business Analyst (Student Information Systems) at Parvana Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
About our client:Our client is a well-established and highly regarded South African software development company that develops, supports and consults software solutions for the academic sector. With offices in Jhb and Cape Town, they are progressive with regard to...
Principle .Net Developer/Architect – EvdB – Gauteng Pretoria
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Digital Implementation Specialist (Senior) at Parvana Recruitment
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Business Analyst (Lending) at Parvana Recruitment
About our client:Our client offers financial service solutions helping their clients achieve their dreams. With an emphasis on culture fit, they boast a dedicated team of over 600 employees, many with over a decade of tenure. They have built their culture on a feeling...
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Business Analyst (Payment Gateway & Card Processing) Contract (6 months) – Western Cape Cape Town
ENVIRONMENT:Are you passionate about building world-class payment experiences? Do you have hands-on experience with payment gateway solutions, Online card acceptance and processing, and the South African acquiring landscape? If yes, they would love to meet you. Our...
Software Engineer at Parvana Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
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