Most audit teams lack strategic adoption and application of AI
While 93% of audit leaders report some level of AI use, only 38% have an AI strategy, according to a new survey by Gartner. The webinar poll of 743 audit professionals, taken in 2026, revealed that generative AI (GenAI) use cases in internal audit centre on isolated...
NYDA calls on government, business to prioritise youth employment
South Africa’s youth unemployment crisis requires structural economic transformation and job-creating growth. This is the word from the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA), which notes with serious concern the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for the...
Vodacom, UJ, AWS aim to grow SA’s AI talent pipeline
Vodacom has partnered with the University of Johannesburg (UJ), in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), to help address South Africa’s growing demand for job-ready artificial intelligence (AI) and data science skills. The partnership brings industry, academia...
Apple regains position as world’s most valuable company
Apple is once again the most valuable company in the world, as Nvidia stocks dropped. It’s been two years since Apple ceded the title first to Microsoft, then to Nvidia. The margin by which Apple took the title is extremely narrow and will probably slip within days....
Chinese startup unveils powerful open AI model
A Chinese firm has launched an open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) model said to be equivalent to Anthropic’s Claude Fable. Kimi K3 is a 2,8-trillion parameter model from Moonshot AI that is particularly suited to advanced reasoning and long-horizon coding....
Worried about water security? A UCT lecture not to be missed …
By 2050, 60% of global economic growth and 70% of global population growth are expected to occur in the Global South - with Africa playing a significant role in driving these changes. But this increase in population and economic activity affects how water and other...
Tech leaders clash over open source AI
US technology leaders have come out in support of open source artificial intelligence (AI) models, as some AI heavyweights urge the state to restrict access. Microsoft, Nvidia, Meta, Palantir and IBM are among those in the open source camp, while vendors like OpenAI...
Rectron’s doors reopen
Rectron has shaken off the worst of the effects from its security breach earlier this month, with all of its branches open and trading today. A notice to resellers confirms that all core systems are once again operational. “Our team is hard at work trying to get the...
How technology is changing decision-making in mining
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), and particularly AI, is no longer a pipedream in South African mining - technology is already influencing how decisions are made, how risks are managed, and how value is created. It’s a critical period for the local mining...
SA cities among the most dangerous in the world
Crime is a concern for anyone, but South African cities have a much greater concern than others, according to rankings of survey data of local residents. Analysing the data, Compare the Market AU found Pietermaritzburg ranked as the most dangerous city in the world,...
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Nutanix signs sub-Saharan Africa MoU with Datamellon
Nutanix has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Datamellon, formalising a strategic collaboration with a born-in-the-cloud partner in sub-Saharan Africa. The two companies aim to support organisations across Sub-Saharan Africa as they modernise...
Huawei Code4Mzansi helps young developers build for SA’s real economy
South Africa's emerging developers are building close to the ground, with many of the strongest solutions at the inaugural Huawei Code4Mzansi finals focused on the systems people use every day: township retail, healthcare, energy, agriculture, payments and the...
Shared infrastructure is becoming critical to Africa’s digital future
With African countries placing greater emphasis on trade, ecommerce and financial inclusion, attention is increasingly shifting towards the unseen systems quietly powering economic activity behind the scenes. Behind every payment, remittance and cross-border...
Dell delivers production-ready agentic AI
Dell Technologies has introduced Dell Deskside Agentic AI, a new addition to the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA that gives workgroups the ability to deploy and scale agentic AI workflows locally without the cost, latency and data sovereignty constraints of cloud-only...
Horizen debuts consumer-grade NB-IoT tracker for portable assets
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RMA launches digital claims platform
Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA) has launched e‑CARE, a digital claims platform designed to modernise the organisation’s service delivery, streamline claims processing and enhance the experience of injured workers, employers, healthcare providers and internal teams. e‑CARE...
Trust is infrastructure. And Africa’s fintech reckoning proves it
For most of the past decade, African fintech was a land grab. Valuations rewarded user numbers, interfaces got flashier, and “disruption” was the pitch that attracted capital investment. From the outside, it was clear the model was running hotter than it could...
Paying Lagos is still harder than paying London
For many South African businesses, paying a supplier in Lagos still involves more friction, delays and administrative complexity than settling a payment in London — a paradox that Ola Oyetayo, CEO and co-founder of Verto, says continues to undermine African trade...
Africa’s energy transition is a growth story – but only if we act together
Africa’s energy transition to lower-carbon, more reliable and accessible power systems has the potential to reshape economies, uplift communities, and support development throughout the continent. By Shameel Joosub, CEO of Vodacom Group With abundant renewable energy...
Securing Africa’s future through a circular water economy
Africa Day (today, 25 May 2026) provides an opportunity to reflect on the continent’s shared future. In 2026, that future is increasingly being shaped by one issue that cuts across every sector of society and the economy: water. By Dr Harrison Pienaar, chairperson of...
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