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...

Intel throws support behind Meta’s Muse Spark Open

Intel has enabled day-0 support for Meta’s Muse Spark Open across Intel Xeon processors and Intel data center GPU platforms, Intel GPU D-series, through targeted low-bit model quantisation. Meta’s official open-weight release of Muse Spark Open, an...

AI course enrollments up 75%

AI course enrollments in South Africa increased 75% year over year, while enrollments in critical thinking courses rose 132%, according to Coursera’s Global Skills Report 2026. South Africa also ranks second among the 11 sub-Saharan African countries covered and 73rd...

CFOS play an outsize role as AI scales enterprise-wide

As AI becomes more integrated into enterprise operations and decision-making, chief financial officers (CFOs) are taking on a larger role in shaping enterprise priorities around AI, helping turn strategy into execution, and determining how investments and capital...

CFOs must take a more disciplined approach to finance AI investment

As finance AI adoption moves beyond experimentation, CFOs must take a more disciplined approach to managing their portfolios, according to Gartner. Finance leaders are implementing this more disciplined approach by setting realistic time-to-value expectations,...

CHRO confidence remains positive, but inches down

CHRO Confidence among US chief human resource officers (CHROs) remained positive in Q3, but continued to edge down from its record high earlier this year, according to the latest survey by The Conference Board. The CHRO Confidence Index declined to 56 in Q3 from 58 in...

SA hits 1,5m domains

The ZA Registry Consortium (ZARC) has reached a milestone of 1,5-million domain registrations across South Africa’s commercial .ZA second-level domains. The milestone, spanning the .co.za, .org.za, .net.za and .web.za namespaces, reflects decades of sustained growth...

US taskforce aims to regulate renamed AI

US President Donald Trump has unveiled a new taskforce focused on artificial intelligence (AI) – which he has renamed as Super Intelligence. The new taskforce will be led by Jay Clayton, the director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. Other members of the team...

Agentic AI boosts cloud opportunities for telcos

Telcos searching to expand sales avenues are discovering evolving channel opportunities in cloud marketplaces which align with their AI strategies to streamline delivery of network services to enterprises, according to GlobalData. Factors ranging from agentic...

Two-thirds of organisations lack mature 24/7 security operations

There is a widening gap between security ambition and operational readiness as organisations face increasingly sophisticated and AI-enabled threats, according to a new report from Logicalis - Closing the Security Maturity Gap. Despite significant investment in...

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NFrance modernises sovereign data centre cooling

Vertiv has announced the successful modernisation of the cooling infrastructure at NFrance’s sovereign data centre. NFrance is a leading French provider of cloud hosting, colocation, and managed services. The project delivered an approximately 20% reduction in power...

Misconfigured clouds are a hacker’s easiest target

Cloud adoption has enabled businesses across sectors to achieve amazing speed, scalability and innovation. By Saurabh Prasad, senior solution architect at In2IT Technologies Startups can launch products in weeks, while larger companies update old systems. The cloud...

The reason behind all those failed enterprise AI projects

The failed pilots piling up inside South African organisations are not because AI is bad business technology. It’s a reflection of a deeper issue AI mirrors – and the usage bill is what makes that reflection harder and harder to ignore. By Warren Olivier, regional...

Corruption may just get more expensive

South Africa has been fighting corruption with legislation that, frankly, lacked teeth. By Kim Rew, partner at Webber Wentzel The Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act 12 of 2004 (PRECCA) has long been the cornerstone of the country's anti-corruption...

Productivity gains depend on people, not just platforms

Across South Africa, organisations are accelerating their investment in artificial intelligence (AI), deploying copilots, automation tools and advanced data platforms with the promise of unlocking productivity and reducing costs. By Ntsako Baloyi, data and AI lead for...

SA fintech processes R1bn in travel payments in six months

TurnStay, the South African fintech that helps African travel businesses get paid by international guests, has processed more than R1 billion in transactions so far this year - a milestone reached in just six months, and only three years after the company was founded....

We can no longer pretend Q-Day is only theoretical

Every major organisation is sitting on something incredibly valuable that not many people understand: cryptographic trust. By Antony Russel, chief technology officer at Telviva It enables businesses to move billions through online banking, run contact centres in the...

Your AI KYC tool won’t save you in an audit

South African companies are buying AI-powered compliance tools faster than they're reading the regulation those tools are supposed to satisfy. That gap is about to become very expensive, writes Bradley Elliott, CEO of RelyComply. Directive 11 is live; and SARS is...

The rise of the ‘ministers of defence’ in SA’s boardrooms

South Africans understand continuity better than most.  Resilience has come in the form of the generator, the water tank, the UPS, and the make a plan ‘just in case’ attitude that has led to households and businesses building operational muscle memory around the...

Operational resilience, digital sovereignty top the CIO agenda

For CIOs across the Middle East & Africa, keeping systems online is the foundation of customer trust. By Martin Lentle, vice-president: Middle East and Africa at Red Hat EMEA As public sector institutions and private enterprises accelerate their digital...

Project Manager

The Intermediate Project Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, and delivery of software projects of moderate complexity. This role manages the full project lifecycle, from initiation to closure, and ensures delivery within agreed scope, timeframes,...

Project Manager – Gauteng Johannesburg

The Intermediate Project Manager is responsible for the planning, coordination, and delivery of software projects of moderate complexity. This role manages the full project lifecycle, from initiation to closure, and ensures delivery within agreed scope, timeframes,...

Senior Backend Developer (C# & C++) – Centurion /JHB

ENVIRONMENT:A leading Security Solutions provider is seeking an Intermediate C++ Backend Engineer to join its technology team. This role focuses on the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance backend applications responsible for processing large...

SAP ABAP Developer and Integration Support Engineer

Our Client are looking for a technically curious SAP ABAP Developer to join a complex technical environment supporting Finance systems and custom SAP applications. Requirements 3-5 years' SAP ABAP development experienceStrong ABAP development, debugging and...

Scrum Master

Our client is looking for an experienced Scrum Master to support Agile delivery within an established IT environment.The role will focus on facilitating effective Scrum practices, supporting delivery teams and helping maintain a productive Agile environment throughout...

Scrum Master – Gauteng Johannesburg

Our client is looking for an experienced Scrum Master to support Agile delivery within an established IT environment.The role will focus on facilitating effective Scrum practices, supporting delivery teams and helping maintain a productive Agile environment throughout...

IT Project Manager

My client based in Midrand is currently looking for a Cyber Program Manager to join them on a 12 month contract 3 Day in office , 2 days WFHOwn laptopTelecoms Role Purpose The Cyber Programme Manager is responsible for leading the planning, coordination and delivery...

IT Project Manager – Gauteng Midrand

My client based in Midrand is currently looking for a Cyber Program Manager to join them on a 12 month contract 3 Day in office , 2 days WFHOwn laptopTelecoms Role Purpose The Cyber Programme Manager is responsible for leading the planning, coordination and delivery...

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