DHL-Absa partnership opens global trade opportunities for African SMEs
DHL and Absa Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to expand DHL's GoTrade programme across sub-Saharan Africa, formalising a strategic partnership that paves the way for the rollout of the DHL GoTrade programme across key markets in the region. By...
ID-based attacks rife as phishing, authentication abuse on the rise
Phishing accounted for more than half of cybersecurity incident response engagements in the second quarter of 2026, while authentication abuse was observed in 65% of engagements, according to the latest Incident Response Trends report from Cisco Talos. The findings...
Jem secures $8,4m Series A to scale workforce management
Jem, the WhatsApp-based workforce management platform for deskless teams, has raised an $8,4-million Series A funding round led by global fintech investor Quona Capital. The investment will support Jem’s ongoing growth from an HR and benefits provider into a...
Industrialisation high on the SADC Summit agenda
Southern African leaders have agreed that industrialisation is key to the region’s success. Concluding the 46th Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government held over the weekend in eThekwini, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa said that, while it is important to...
China’s AI hardware export boom offers Wall Street hedge
China’s new wave of AI hardware exports offers investors a hedge against Wall Street’s “dangerously circular” artificial intelligence trade, says a leading global financial advisor. Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, says that as fresh analysis maps out a new...
Stokvels could help improve healthy eating
South Africa’s stokvels could become an important platform for improving nutrition and food security in low-income communities, but their collective buying power is currently used largely to purchase foods chosen for affordability, quantity, and shelf life rather than...
SA companies are shunning public cloud for AI workloads
South African organisations are shifting AI workloads out of the public cloud faster than their counterparts anywhere else in the world, according to new global research commissioned by Cloudera. The Great AI Re-Architecture Survey, conducted by Wakefield Research...
Cyber resilience now a critical priority for manufacturing
As 60% of manufacturers race toward full digitalisation, cyber risk is increasingly manifesting as a business risk, according to a new global report by Kaspersky and VDC Strategy. This means cybersecurity is not merely a compliance function, it is a cornerstone of...
Top 20 African Business Heroes advance to semi-finals
The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a philanthropic initiative of Alibaba Philanthropy, has announced the 20 entrepreneurs who will advance to its 2026 semi-finals in Nairobi later this week. The top 20 were selected from an expanded top 100 cohort...
Anthropic to add watermarking to Claude content
Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This feature complies with the EU AI Act, and will help to determine the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text. All artificial intelligence (AI) vendors will have to provide a similar...
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Correcting the misalignment between digital skills and business needs
The conversation around AI is often dominated by speculation about job losses. By Mark Mc Kerr, managing executive at Paracon by Adcorp Yet this focus distracts from a more immediate and measurable challenge: South African businesses are investing in advanced...
We are educating for a world that no longer exists
South Africa keeps talking about job creation while ignoring the far more uncomfortable truth: millions of young people are entering the economy unprepared for the jobs that actually exist. The country is not short on talent, it is short on digital skills development,...
Check Point and Illumio expand partnership
Check Point Software Technologies and Illumio have expanded their strategic partnership to help organisations defend against a new category of threat: frontier AI models capable of autonomously executing full-scale attacks at machine speed. "Security teams are being...
Lenovo grows at hybrid infrastructure adoption accelerates
Lenovo has concluded its annual regional summit, Lenovo Accelerate 2026 Southern Africa, outlining the strategic roadmap for enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) deployment across the continent. Addressing an audience of regional CIOs, enterprise decision-makers,...
Ukiyo platform connects SA’s youth to education and work
Ukiyo, a South African edutech and youth development organisation, has launched its Global Student Support Platform [GSSP], a mobile app that brings education, funding, career opportunities and student support into one place. The launch comes at a difficult point for...
INSETA dispute raises issues about board authority
Recent media reports regarding the precautionary suspension of the CEO of the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (INSETA) and the subsequent intervention by Higher Education and Training Minister Buti Manamela raise important questions about the role of...
How to get over the AI hype hangover
The early excitement around generative artificial intelligence (AI) is giving way to a more clear-eyed assessment of its real-world impact and potential. Where the technology once felt akin to magic, it’s now being tested against practical business outcomes, and is...
Get ready the rise of pay transparency
Pay transparency is rapidly becoming a defining issue in the global workplace, and South African organisations can no longer afford to ignore the shift toward greater remuneration disclosure and accountability. According to Carmen Arico, chartered reward specialist...
AI governance without complexity: A business leader’s guide
There is a version of AI governance that looks like a hundred-page policy document, a steering committee and a six-month implementation roadmap. Most businesses do not need that version, writes Senzo Mbhele, MD of Cloud On Demand. What leaders actually want is...
Vertiv completes ThermoKey acquisition
Vertiv has completed the acquisition of ThermoKey, a provider of heat rejection and heat-exchange technologies with long-standing relationships across original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators. The acquisition expands Vertiv's thermal management...
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