SA users rates ride-hailing service as safer than other transport modes
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How to unlock Africa’s economic potential
Africa's abundant natural resources, young population and expanding middle class are set to redefine the continent's role in global economic growth, sustainable development and the energy transition. This is according to S&P Global’s Look Forward: Unlocking...
Final call for 2025 SAVCA Industry Award nominations
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How SMEs can weather tariffs
The confirmation that South Africa will from next month be hit by a 30% export tariff by the US should motivate small business owners to invest in their competitive advantage, and urgently scrutinise their internal operations for efficiencies. This is a significant...
Nvidia’s historic $4trn market cap highlights AI’s key role
Nvidia briefly became the first publicly-traded company in history to reach a market capitalisation of $4-trillion yesterday (9 July), outpacing tech giants Apple and Microsoft, and marking a pivotal moment in the global AI landscape. This milestone underscores Wall...
Deepfake fraud losses creep towards $1bn
The first half of 2025 had almost four times as many deepfake incidents (a total of 580 incidents) as the entire year of 2024 - and losses from deepfake-related fraud reached $410-million, according to a new report from Surfshark. Since 2019, deepfake technology used...
New malware uses AI to bypass protection
Kathy Gibson reports - Researchers have uncovered new malware threats that use artificial intelligence (AI) to bypass existing malware detection. This is the word from Eli Smadja, worldwide research group manager at Check Point, who says the new AI evasion malware was...
PC shipments strong as vendors get ahead of tariff deadlines
PC shipments during the second quarter of 2025 grew 6,5% from the prior year, with global volumes reaching 68,4-million shipments, according to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker....
CEOs back inflation target cut amid declining confidence
The Q2 2025 Merchantec CEO Confidence Index reveals a near-flatline in overall CEO sentiment, inching up from 45.2 in Q1 to just 45.3. Confidence has bottomed out at these levels, underscoring the enduring pressure on South African corporate leaders amid persistent...
Procurement professionals urged to step up as industry transitions
The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) has issued a strong call to action for South African procurement leaders following the release of its Global State of Procurement & Supply 2025 report – Cool Heads in the Storm. The wide-ranging report,...
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David Behr is MTN’s CEO of ICT Centre of Excellence
MTN Group and MTN South Africa have appointed David Behr as the new CEO for the ICT Centre of Excellence (CoE), effective 1 November 2023. Behr will succeed Vaughn Naidoo, who held the interim position. In the context of ICT enterprise, a CoE is a centralised unit...
Cyberattacks push security professionals to breaking point
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Safety in cyberspace under the spotlight
Cybersecurity Awareness Month in October is always an opportune time for children and their parents or guardians to collaborate on making homes safer for children online. Now, recent unsettling world events have reinforced the message that the Internet is no place for...
Securing the hybrid cloud is a balancing act
To protect data and other digital assets in hybrid cloud environments, businesses need to adopt a modernised, flexible and scalable cybersecurity approach. While small and mid-sized companies may not have the same IT challenges - and benefits - of larger...
Innovation without disruption resonates with SA enterprises
Avaya’s South African customers face the same challenges in moving to the cloud, and many of them have bought into the company’s phased approach. Brett Butler, country manager of Avaya South Africa, points out that many of Avaya’s largest customers in the financial...
PMT™ expands Emerald value-added service platform into the cloud
Pattern Matched Technologies™ (PMT) will be making its Emerald™ Realtime value-added service distribution platform available to customers in Africa as a cloud-based service. The solutions developer is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and First Distribution...
Nutanix highlights customers hunger for multi-cloud
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The power of the scaffolding software development approach in retail
In recent years, many South African retailers have come to rely on no-code and low-code solutions which ostensibly simplifies the software development process. While the appeal is undeniable, these methods often trap businesses in a web of unoptimised code, vendor...
Unravelling the complex web of AI in SA
De Wet Bisschoff, director of operations for Accenture in Africa, looks at the complex task of defining artificial intelligence and delves into the age-old question of what constitutes intelligence, highlighting that while humans view it as a mix of cognitive,...
Women’s financial inclusion our fight of the decade if we are to meet SDGs by 2030
Last month, I represented the African Development Bank's Gender, Women and Civil Society Department at the Alliance for Financial Inclusion's (AFI) 2023 Global Policy Forum in Manila, writes Malado Kaba, director of the gender, women and civil society department at...
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