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...

Microsoft still tops brand phishing rankings

Microsoft remains the most impersonated brand in Q3 2026, accounting for 33% of all brand phishing attempts tracked and up from 23% in Q2, according to Check Point’s Brand Phishing Ranking for the period. Attackers, the security specialists say, continue to exploit...

For insurers, AI value depends on trust, transparency

For all the discourse about an AI hype bubble, many insurers are already seeing big returns from their investments. But to realise those gains, companies have to trust their AI to provide the right answers – and the AI must show that it warrants that trust. These are...

Social media record is not ‘the public’

A new research paper by the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) experts in information systems suggests that social media cannot be read as a straightforward record of public opinion on controversial technologies such as ShotSpotter, an acoustic gunshot-detection system...

Cisco study uncovers new AI opportunities for partners

The AI market is maturing, and this is presenting new opportunities for reseller partners, writes Alex Pujols, PhD, vice-president of solutions engineering global partner sales at Cisco. For the third year in a row, we conducted a survey of partners around the world...

AI’s dangerous money loop exposed

SpaceX’s talks to borrow $40-billion to buy Nvidia chips lay bare a dangerous loop at the heart of the AI boom, with the industry’s biggest supplier bankrolling the very customers who buy its products and global investors left carrying the risk. This is the warning...

IBM, Red Hat patch old open source vulnerabilities

IBM and Red Hat has alerted users that Lightwell has identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used Java libraries. The companies also announced the general availability of Lightwell Clearinghouse which allows enterprise...

Young programmers shine at Programming Olympiad

Frederick (Erik) Senekal, from Hoerskool Menlopark, has taken the gold medal at this year’s South African Programming Olympiad. The story to his final triumph this year is one of patience and persistence. Erik first took part in the Olympiad in Grade 5 in 2019 and...

Goodall apologises to NTT, agrees to pay back R208m

Jason Goodall, former CEO of NTT and the Dimension Data Group, has admitted wrongdoing in the sale of the Johannesburg Campus in 2019, and will pay back about R208,6-million. His admission comes as NTT is proceeding against Goodall and other former executives Jeremy...

SA must put jobs at the centre of its AI future

South Africans are embracing AI, but turning that appetite into economic opportunity will require trained educators, reliable Internet, affordable access, recognised skills pathways, scaling of existing financing models, and investment in the country’s own languages,...

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Why great banking apps no longer win customers

For many years, digital banking was defined by one question: does your bank have an app? Today, that question has largely been answered. Every major South African bank offers a capable mobile banking platform, digital payments, self-service functionality and online...

Autonomous AI agents will drive the next productivity surge

Prompt‑driven AI cannot deliver the reliability, scale or governance that modern enterprises need. Productivity gains have plateaued, operational risks are rising, and global competitors are already moving into a new phase of AI maturity built around autonomous...

Verified channels are now banking’s strongest defence

Bank impersonation fraud has become South Africa’s most prolific financial threat, thriving in the grey zone between trust and technology. By Brighton Chidoma, senior customer growth executive at Infobip According to the South African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS),...

Access to a real-time rail isn’t the same as delivering one

Connecting to a real-time payment rail is the straightforward part. Delivering an experience that genuinely feels instant is where the real work - and the competitive advantage - lies, writes Derick Truscott, chief financial officer at Hyphen. There is plenty of...

Banks don’t need faster AI. They need more accountable decisions

Financial leaders are now being asked to fund artificial intelligence (AI), govern it, and explain the value it creates. That is not a simple technology question. In banking, it is becoming a test of leadership. By Michel Ghorayeb, MD of SAS UAE AI is starting to...

Future skills will determine SA’s  economic competitiveness

Artificial intelligence (AI), automation and digital technologies are reshaping the global labour market, transforming the jobs available and the skills employers increasingly demand. According to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025, structural...

Resilient businesses treat AI as an enabler, not a strategy

Artificial intelligence (AI) may dominate discourse in the boardroom, but chasing innovation without resilience is a strategic blind spot. By Derek Street, head of sales and marketing at Data Management Professionals AI is not a replacement for sound judgement – it...

Payment security starts with design, not the audit

While many businesses still view the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) primarily as a compliance obligation, the reality is that payment security has a direct impact on operational stability, customer trust and commercial resilience. By Johannes...

Knowing when it is time to switch to a new career

It is not unusual to go through a rough patch at work or to dislike some elements of your job, writes Nolundi Matomane, talent acquisition manager at Pnet. It is also not uncommon to find yourself in a work environment that does not suit your personal needs or style....

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