Agencies look to keep the sky dark and quiet
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Astronomical Union’s Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky (IAU CPS) have signed an agreement at the International Astronautical Congress to strengthen cooperation and develop technical solutions to...
AI is no longer a standalone investment theme
While information and communications technology (ICT) accounted for the bulk (62,7%) of all southern African venture capital (VC) deals in 2025, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning represented just 1,6% of deals as a standalone category. This figure,...
AI climate benefits struggle to compete with rising environmental footprint
Artificial intelligence’s (AI) climate benefits risk being overstated as surging data centre emissions and water consumption threaten to outpace efficiency gains, says a new report from GlobalData. While predictive AI can deliver measurable reductions across energy,...
Chief economists expect global economy to stabilise, but …
The global economy is stabilising, but the fiscal support that cushioned successive shocks since 2020 is unlikely to play the same role in the year ahead, according to the World Economic Forum's Chief Economist’s Outlook. A majority (56%) of chief economists surveyed...
Five-year goal to help 3bn people use AI in their own language
Organisations from across the global AI ecosystem have announced a joint commitment to help close one of AI’s most significant access gaps: providing safe, effective AI services in the languages people speak around the world. A group of 60 signatories are uniting...
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...
SA’s energy, mining and tech sectors resilience leaders in a three-speed global economy
Three different speeds, driven by three different factors. This is how the global economy is approaching 2027, with uneven and volatile growth, according to Allianz Trade’s Sector Atlas 2026. According to the report by the world's leading trade credit insurance...
New tests could slash SA’s TB deaths by two-thirds
A new study led by University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Associate Professor Leigh Johnson suggests that new tests, which can be performed in clinics on either tongue swab or sputum specimens, could reduce TB incidence by as much as 49% - and TB mortality by as much as 67%...
Negative sentiment drives call for data centre transparency
Kathy Gibson reports from Vertiv Week in Zagreb – With data centres experiencing massive growth around the globe, the industry needs to do a better job of telling people the benefits they offer humanity at large. Worldwide, uncertainty about possible risks posed by...
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Threat detection is only useful when action is built in
In a Security Operations Centre (SOC), detection is measured by what happens after an alert appears on a screen. By Timothy Smith, director: sales at DigitalShield Many organisations now have tools that identify suspicious activity across endpoints, email, identity,...
What the TrendAI/Anthropic partnership means for SA
I've sat through a lot of cybersecurity announcements. Most of them follow the same script: Two vendors shake hands. A press release goes out. Yet very little on the ground changes. I understand why people tune out, writes Gareth Redelinghuys, country MD at TrendAI...
Your IT team doesn’t need another dashboard. It needs breathing room
I do not think most IT teams need another dashboard, writes Michael Currie, director at The Cloud Crew. Many mid-market IT teams already have enough places to look. The real pressure starts after the dashboard lights up. Someone still has to decide whether the alert...
Your cloud strategy may be weakening the business
The biggest mistake CIOs make about cloud is believing that adoption equals modernisation. By Helen Kruger, MD of Troye It does not, in many cases cloud has simply given them a more expensive, more fragmented and harder to manage version of the infrastructure problems...
(A)I rest my case: AI and the future of online dispute resolution
If there is one thing organisations know well, it is that disputes are expensive. By Garth Duncan, partner; Brittany Leroni, senior associate; and Razina Mahomed, candidate attorney at Webber Wentzel The expense extends beyond legal fees, to management time, damaged...
What it will take to secure the foundation of digital education?
If the future of South Africa is shaped by the opportunities we create for young people today, then the promise of a digital education and the opportunities it provides is one of our most important and urgent endeavours. So too is the digital security of Gen Alpha’s...
The youth unemployment crisis is also a digital skills crisis
South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis cannot be solved without closing a parallel, faster-moving gap- - digital and AI fluency. The country’s youth unemployment rate stood at 60,9% among 15 to 24 year-olds in the first quarter of 2026 - one of the highest rates in...
AI turns customers into database entries – and business pays the price
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming customer service at unprecedented speed. Businesses are deploying chatbots, automated workflows and AI-powered support platforms in pursuit of greater efficiency, lower costs and faster response times. By Thato Moloto,...
Your self-driving car owes a debt to military technology
Every time your phone reroutes you around traffic, you are using a Cold War weapons system. By Dr Dithoto Modungwa, defence and security researcher at CSIR GPS began as NAVSTAR, a US Department of Defence positioning network built for missile guidance in the 1970s and...
Healthcare AI can only scale if the data can be trusted
Healthcare leaders shouldn’t be asking what AI tool to buy first, but whether their data environment is safe and trusted enough to support AI. By Henry Adams, country manager of InterSystems South Africa There is a lot of pressure on healthcare leaders to show how...
Java Developer – Full Stack Engineer
Our client is seeking a skilled Java Developer with strong full-stack capabilities to contribute to the development of modern enterprise applications. This permanent opportunity is suited to a developer who enjoys working across backend services, frontend development...
Java Developer – Full Stack Engineer – Gauteng Johannesburg
Our client is seeking a skilled Java Developer with strong full-stack capabilities to contribute to the development of modern enterprise applications. This permanent opportunity is suited to a developer who enjoys working across backend services, frontend development...
Audit Professional at MSP
If you are passionate about Audit and are tired of working with trainees, then this is the role for you! Our client is urgently seeking an Audit professional to join their team on-site in Benoni. Requirements Completed BCom & CTA degreeCompleted SAICA...
Audit Professional at MSP – Gauteng Johannesburg
If you are passionate about Audit and are tired of working with trainees, then this is the role for you! Our client is urgently seeking an Audit professional to join their team on-site in Benoni. Requirements Completed BCom & CTA degreeCompleted SAICA...
IT Intern
Open to all races12 month fixed contract. The IT Intern will provide technical support to the Information Technology department by assisting with day-to-day IT operations, troubleshooting, system maintenance, and user support. The successful candidate will gain...
IT Intern – Gauteng Sandown
Open to all races12 month fixed contract. The IT Intern will provide technical support to the Information Technology department by assisting with day-to-day IT operations, troubleshooting, system maintenance, and user support. The successful candidate will gain...
Senior Data Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
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