Chip crisis could scuttle the AI boom
A deepening shortage of memory chips is rapidly evolving into a legitimate risk for investors with portfolios heavily exposed to AI, tech, consumer electronics, and the automotive sectors warns a leading financial advisory group. “This is a potential profit shock...
Digital infrastructure build must dovetail with jobs growth
President Cyril Ramaphosa promised in his State of the Nation address to boost South Africa’s ailing water infrastructure as Gauteng residents protested this week over taps running dry. There were also undertakings to deploy soldiers in gangster-ridden areas and...
Tokenomics and how inference providers are cutting AI costs
A diagnostic insight in healthcare. A character’s dialogue in an interactive game. An autonomous resolution from a customer service agent. Each of these AI-powered interactions is built on the same unit of intelligence: a token. Scaling these AI interactions requires...
Bitcoin faces a muted 2026
Bitcoin is expected to continue following its traditional four-year cycle pattern, with a post-halving rally followed by a year or more of muted pricing. This is according to John Singh, vice-president of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South...
Data growth drives Telkom revenues
Data has led Telkom’s improved revenues for the third quarter ended 31 December 2025. Group data revenue is up 9,6% to R6,86-billion, increasing 8.5,5% year-to-date and contributing 60% to total revenue. Mobile data revenue grew 12,9%, while fibre-related data revenue...
Mustek anticipates improved earnings
Mustek's shareholders have been informed that, for the half year ended 31 December 2025, the group’s headline earnings per share is expected to be between 250% and 270% higher than reported in the comparative period at between 82,13 cents and 86,83 cents (31 December...
Over-reliance on AI set to drive poor decision-making
As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) rapidly reshapes work, especially for less experienced employees, Gartner predicts that by 2030, 30% of enterprises will face declining decision-making quality due to an overreliance on AI. Chief human resources officers...
New sea snail discovered in the Great African Seaforest
After nearly a decade of taxonomic puzzle-solving, a team of scientists from the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Department of Biological Sciences, Sea Change Project, the University of Tokyo and Stellenbosch University has unveiled a remarkable discovery: a parasitic...
Saffers are generally happy in love, but Gen Z is left out
As Valentine's Day approaches, a new Ipsos Love Life Satisfaction study reveals that South Africans continue to thrive in matters of the heart, with feeling loved and appreciated ranking as the nation's number one source of happiness – even as financial stress weighs...
Winners and losers as trade policies shift
Trade policy changes can shift who wins and who loses in global markets. When governments adjust tariffs, preferences or other trade costs, they change prices and competitive conditions. Some exporters gain advantages while others lose ground, reshaping trade flows...
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FNB extends digital services for stokvel banking
FNB has launched an enhancement to its Stokvel digital account offering, enabling members to open accounts entirely through the FNB app and online banking platform. This completes the bank's digital transformation journey for stokvels, effectively making the account...
Kyocera’s A4 portfolio earns BLI 2026 Line of the Year Award
Kyocera has won the BLI 2026 A4 Line of the Year Award from Keypoint Intelligence, following independent testing across its A4 printer and multifunction device portfolio. The award recognises performance across an entire A4 range, not a single flagship device....
SolarAfrica secures R1,5bn to deliver affordable power
SolarAfrica has secured financial close on R1,5-billion to build SunCentral 2, the next 114MW plant of its flagship utility-scale solar development in the Northern Cape. SunCentral 2 will follow SunCentral 1, which reached financial close at the end of 2024, also at...
Telkom Business deploys mobile network at Africa’s tallest bridge
Telkom Business has deployed new mobile connectivity infrastructure in a highly remote part of the Eastern Cape, adjacent to the construction site of the Mthentu Bridge near Lundini, which is set to become the tallest bridge in Africa. The LTE base station is already...
Huawei and National School of Government partner to boost public sector digital skills
Huawei South Africa and the National School of Government (NSG) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen digital skills development within the public sector and accelerate government’s digital transformation journey. Under the two-year agreement, Huawei...
Cyber resilience moves from IT issue to board risk
Cybersecurity has shifted decisively from an IT concern to a core business risk, and South African organisations are feeling this change acutely. By Boland Lithebe, security lead for Accenture, South Africa The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026...
Paratus lights up East Africa fibre highway
Pan-African telecommunications and network services provider Paratus Group has switched on a major new fibre route in East Africa, directly connecting Mombasa on the Kenyan coast to Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through a protected terrestrial...
Cisco adds AI era solutions
Cisco has unveiled a series of solutions that together enable customers to raise their ambitions for secure and trusted Agentic AI. “AI innovation is moving faster than ever before and we’re delivering the critical infrastructure our customers need to move fast and...
In cybersecurity, the when is just now
Cyber-risk in South Africa is not an if anymore, it’s when the attackers get in and how equipped the company is to deal with it, writes Mohammed Pochee, product manager: security at Vox. A company can very easily find itself offline for more than a week. Attackers can...
Vertiv in strategic agreement with University of Bologna
Vertiv has signed a framework collaboration agreement with the University of Bologna, establishing a broad collaboration focused on knowledge development, skills advancement and territorial impact. "For Vertiv, this collaboration with the University of Bologna is a...
Agile Master (Expert) 0749
Part of a DevOps team responsible for the development and maintenance of the Central Ordering applications.Independently develop solutions of high quality and on time.Provide support for existing solutions (DevOps) including standby. Willing and able to be on standby...
Senior Data Engineer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Western Cape Cape Town
An experienced Senior Data Engineer is required to support and scale data engineering pipelines that power Product Health dashboards across multiple business units.The role focuses on maintaining, enhancing, and optimising data pipelines to ensure high data integrity,...
Systems Administrator at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
The Technology Systems Administrator will be responsible for the support, maintenance, and administration of core business systems, including ERP, CRM, BI, and Workflow platforms. The role requires a proactive, systems-oriented professional with a strong grasp of...
Agile Master (Expert) 0749 – Gauteng Pretoria
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Interface Monitoring: IDOC and RFC's processing.Receiving, troubleshooting, resolving and closing Operational and Maintenance tickets within defined SLA's (Service Level Agreements).Create and maintain Solution Guides.Ensure Knowledge Transfer within team.Interaction...
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SAP Functional Consultant (Expert) 0450 – Gauteng Pretoria
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