Revenue to hit $1bn as quantum breakthroughs advance

Worldwide, quantum computing revenue is projected to total $1,1-billion in 2027, according to Gartner. “Nations and businesses have scaled spending in quantum literacy, patents, partnerships, and early use-case exploration,” says Gaurav Gupta, vice-president analyst...

Fuel price shock will hit supply chains hard, driving prices up

South Africa’s latest fuel price increase will put fresh pressure on already strained supply chains, says supply chain industry body SAPICS. The organisation warns that the cost impact is likely to extend far beyond the transport sector and into consumers’ pockets at...

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,...

SA’s data centre boom starts to raise questions

South Africa’s rapidly expanding data centre sector is highlighting a fundamental gap in how the country plans and regulates major digital infrastructure: there is no comprehensive public record of how many facilities are operating, where they are located, or how much...

Crypto winter looks to be ending

Bitcoin’s bulls are back in charge, says Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, as the digital asset pushes past $85 000 and tests its highest level since January. And, he adds, as US spot Bitcoin exchange traded funds attract fresh billions. Inflows have totalled about...

Google and AWS rank highest among enterprise AI platform providers

AI platform providers are racing to incorporate tools that strengthen agentic AI governance, improve visibility into and control over token usage, and support a range of deployment options, says research group GlobalData. To capture the hype around agentic AI, several...

Labour disputes emerge as SA’s top legal concern

Labour matters rank highest among the everyday legal questions that South Africans are asking. This is according to data aggregated by My AI Lawyer, which found that more than a third (37%) of the queries processed on My AI Lawyer in the first six months of 2026 is...

Global dialogue shapes unified digital policy priorities

Representatives of governments, industry, academia, civil society and the technical community at the World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum 2026 (WTPF-26) this weekend adopted a set of Opinions on critical issues shaping the digital future. ITU – the UN agency for...

Key metros still up in the air ahead of November elections

Two months before South Africans head to the polls to elect new local governments, Ipsos research suggests that electoral outcomes remain far from settled, with significant numbers of registered voters still available to be persuaded. The political landscape remains...

In the age of agentic AI, who is actually doing the shopping?

Venture money is flooding into AI shopping agents. Payment networks, browser makers and AI labs are racing to define how autonomous agents will shop, compare and buy. However, the infrastructure behind that race isn't keeping pace with the capital says Joshua Harvey,...

Nvidia and CrowdStrike strengthen agentic cybersecurity frontier

Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. This is the word from Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, telling the CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026 conference last week that the IT industry is at an inflection point in cybersecurity. Huang joined CrowdStrike CEO and...

Incubator aims to test AI EdTech tools

Injini has launched its AI for Education Venture Builder and Incubation Program. Supported by philanthropic funder Coefficient Giving, the eight-month initiative takes pre-formed teams from the ideation stage to launching market-ready, impactful EdTech startups. The...

Scan to Pay now live in Samsung Wallet

EFT Corporation has partnered with Samsung to bring its Scan to Pay QR payment technology into Samsung Wallet, giving Galaxy device users in South Africa a fast, secure way to pay at thousands of merchant locations nationwide. Galaxy users can now open the Wallet,...

Ford SA partners with TUT for Sasol Solar Challenge

Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa will sponsor the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) SunChaser IV team in the 2026 Sasol Solar Challenge. On 10 September, TUT’s student-built solar car will cross the start line in Sasolburg, beginning an eight-day public-road...

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Embedded AI must be a board-level priority in 2026

A new phase of enterprise AI is emerging, one that demands attention at the very top of the organisation. by Sergio Maccotta, senior vice-president and GM of SAP MEA South For years, companies throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa have experimented with AI by...

VMware licensing turns XenServer into an enterprise comeback story

XenServer has quietly re-emerged as one of the most discussed alternatives in enterprise virtualisation circles, especially among organisations looking to reduce hypervisor costs without rebuilding their entire infrastructure stack. This is according to Troye MD Helen...

Data storage customers can learn from my experience

Many of our customers, in South Africa and around the globe, choose to stay on older software because it feels safer, even if it quietly limits their capabilities, writes Jonathan Allmayer, senior account executive at Dell Technologies South Africa. When customers...

Healthtech is only as strong as the hands that shape it

Healthcare is investing heavily in technology, but outcomes do not always improve at the same rate or deliver the desired effect. By Vishal Barapatre, group chief technology officer at In2IT Technologies The issue is rarely a lack of tools. More often, it comes down...

Automic Automation gives AI agents a safe pair of hands

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) began as an Anthropic initiative designed to bring order to the complex challenge of connecting large language models (LLMs) with external systems. It has since evolved rapidly into an important open standard for AI connectivity. This...

Visa makes the smartphone a cash register

Visa has announced new capabilities across Visa Accept and Visa Direct that are designed to expand how smartphones can accept and send digital payments. The updates are intended to make it easier for small businesses in emerging markets — from street vendors to...

Shop2Shop and Pay@ enable bill payments

Shop2Shop and Pay@ have launched a partnership that lets informal retailers facilitate everyday bill payments directly on their existing Shop2Shop card machines. The solution sits inside the Shop2Shop vending application and offers traders access to Pay@’s network of...

SCAN RF Projects, Q-KON in strategic partnership

SCAN RF Projects, a member of the iOCO Group, has announced a strategic partnership with Twoobii Smart Satellite Services provider Q-KON. The collaboration aims to enhance industrial field communications by delivering Eutelsat OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite...

NEC XON expands ISO 27701:2025 alignment

NEC XON has aligned its data protection (privacy) management framework with the latest requirements of ISO 27701:2025, strengthening the company's ability to protect customer data and support evolving governance expectations. "Privacy expectations have evolved...

The future of work is about reinvention, not redundancy

As artificial intelligence (AI) advances at remarkable speed, concerns about job displacement continue to dominate global discussion. However, the focus should not be on replacement, but reinvention. A narrative of AI replacing large segments of the workforce, on the...

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Our company is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of strategic regulatory, governance, risk, and compliance initiatives within a highly regulated banking environment. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional with strong financial...

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Our company is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the delivery of strategic regulatory, governance, risk, and compliance initiatives within a highly regulated banking environment. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional with strong financial...

Functional Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment

The Analyst acts as the link between the business and technical delivery teams. The role is responsible for understanding business requirements and translating them into clear, practical functional and technical specifications that can be developed, tested and...

Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town

A company that develops, owns, and operates utility-scale power generation and energy storage plants across the African continent is seeking a Senior DevOps / SRE Cloud Engineer who will own the company's Azure-based Kubernetes platform end-to-end - remote or hybrid...

Senior Software Engineer – Western Cape Cape Town

To research, analyse and evaluate requirements for the existing or new software applications.JOB DESCRIPTION Prototyping and software development of the telescope operational software (all stages of the full software development life cycle will be encountered).Provide...

Desktop Support Technician – Gauteng Braamfontein

About the RoleWe are seeking a customer-focused and technically driven Technical Support Technician (1st Line Support) to join our dynamic IT team. This role will serve as the first point of contact for end users requiring technical assistance and will be responsible...

Technical Support Technician

We are recruiting on behalf of a premier electronic security and surveillance technology distributor. They are seeking a skilled Technical Support Technician to provide tier-1 and tier-2 technical support to system integrators, clients, and internal teams. The Support...

Python/Spark/AI Developer

Python/Spark/AI DeveloperRole purpose & context:Our client is looking for a Python/Spark/AI Developer to replat form legacy T-SQL onto Spark/Delta Lake pipelines and build the APIs and AI features around them, writing type-safe, spec-first Python. Key roles &...

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