The Department of Home Affairs has dismissed Simphiwe Hlophe, chief director: infrastructure management for information systems (IS), who was found guilty on counts relating to gross negligence and gross dereliction of duty. Hlophe was responsible for IT issues that...

Facebook users are today reporting numerous issues with the social media platform, with some receiving comments to celebrity accounts. DownDetector is reporting a higher level of reported outages on Facebook, including a spike in issues from South African users. A...

Absa's Rise innovation hub in Cape Town has selected five black women in technology entrepreneurs to participate in an entrepreneurship assistance programme, hosted at the Cape Town facility. Despite climbing up one spot to rank 22nd in terms of gender parity, South...

Worldwide industrial semiconductor revenues grew by 11,8% year over year, reaching $49,1-billion in 2017, according to the latest analysis from IHS Markit. Industrial electronics equipment demand was broad-based, with continued growth in commercial and military...

The Expropriation Act authorises government expropriation of private property for market-value compensation, writes Gary Moore, lawyer and senior researcher for the Free Market Foundation. The Constitution states that compensation for expropriation must reflect...

SAA CEO Vuyani Jarana has taken up a R100 000.00 wager by Free Market Foundation executive director Leon Louw. Louw threw down the gauntlet yesterday, wagering R100 000.00 that Jarana's three-year turnaround plan for the national airline will fail. The condition for...

To reduce the risk of cyberattacks and boost their bottom line, businesses should eliminate unlicensed software in their networks and introduce software asset management,. This is according to the 2018 Global Software Survey from BSA The Software Alliance, which found...

Today, World Environment Day (5 June), Greenpeace Africa has launched an online campaign platform for ordinary citizens to run environmental petitions. The Vuma.Earth (www.VUMA.earth) platform provides a space for Africans to start campaigns that address environmental...

Smartphone sales in South Africa grew by 12,4% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2018, reaching around 3,2-million units for the period. However, the value of the smartphone segment increased by 22,8% as sales of entry-level devices to low- and mid-income consumers...

Generation Z, those born after 1995, is starting to enter the workforce. This tech-savvy generation, born into a world where having a phone, a tablet and a computer is the norm, will soon make up one-fifth of the workforce. In a country like South Africa where...