Africa emerges as iGaming fraud hotspot
Africa has emerged as the global epicentre of iGaming fraud. According to Sumsub’s newly released iGaming Fraud Report 2026 the continent records the highest fraud rate of any region analysed worldwide. The findings highlight a rapidly evolving threat landscape in...
AI makes future workspace needs harder to predict
AI is accelerating the pace of business and forcing companies to rethink how much and what style of office space they need, opting for the benefits of flexible and decentralised workspace models. According to a new study of CEOs and CFOs from International Workplace...
African entrepreneurs wow Amazon
Nine companies from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, and Cameroon have been selected for Amazon’s fourth AWS Social Entrepreneur Accelerator – the largest representation of any continent. The Accelerator brings together a global community of social...
NAPAfrica, ZANOG enhance community-driven interconnection in Cape Town
Cape Town’s emergence as a critical digital gateway for Africa continues to gain momentum, driven by growing interconnection demand and ongoing infrastructure investment. The recent expansion of the Cape Town Internet Exchange (CINX), operated by the Internet Exchange...
SA booking platform compromised
Customers of a South African hospitality company may have been compromised, and could become phishing victims. Cybernews researchers have uncovered an exposed server belonging to a threat actor containing documentation of attacks against accommodation-sector...
‘A defining opportunity for Africa to leapfrog into the AI era’
The transition from legacy 2G/3G networks to 4G and 5G will act as critical infrastructure for Africa's participation in the AI economy, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report: Sub-Saharan Africa, which says AI and uplink-heavy applications are set to...
Consumer confidence nosedives on higher fuel prices
The latest FNB/BER Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) reading is the lowest since the first quarter of 2025 (-20) when the Finance Minister tabled his (aborted) proposal to hike VAT by two percentage points in the February 2025 budget speech. This time around, it is the...
Overestimating GenAI will see mainframe exit projects fail
More than 70% of mainframe exit projects initiated in 2026 will fail to produce the intended benefits due to an overestimation of generative AI (GenAI) tooling capabilities, according to Gartner. “There is a widening gap between the marketing promise of GenAI and its...
National sovereignty now hinges on digital sovereignty
As geopolitical tensions mount and AI re-shapes the digital landscape, governments worldwide face an urgent new reality: true national sovereignty now depends as much on controlling digital infrastructure as it does on physical borders, according toGlobalData. The...
Master Power Technologies opens R50m Customer Experience Centre
Master Power Technologies (MPT) has opened its high-tech Customer Experience Centre, housed at its new regional headquarters in Midrand. Founded in 1999 by electrical engineer Menno Parsons, MPT has grown from its origins as a uninterruptible power supply (UPS)...
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Robust data protection strategies must underpin Africa’s data centre ecosystem
As Africa accelerates its digital transformation, local data centres are becoming critical enablers that bring cloud services closer to users, reduce latency and support compliance with data sovereignty laws. By Mohammed Sayed, head of technical operations at Data...
Unlock untapped talent by closing the disability skills gap
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Nutanix accelerates service provider growth
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Women are driving SA’s digital inclusion charge
M-KOPA South Africa has published its inaugural South Africa Impact Report, which shows that women are playing a leading role in the country's digital inclusion, both as first-time smartphone users and as income earners within the company's growing agent network....
The future of PC security is multi-layered and managed
Twenty years ago, enterprise security was straightforward in that enterprise devices never left the premises. By Werner Joubert, commercial SYS business director (South Africa & SADC) at ASUS Perimeter security proved sufficient as business networks were...
Vertiv AI Innovation Roadshow returns to Africa as virtual event
Vertiv is hosting the next edition of its AI Innovation Roadshow for Africa, this time in a fully digital format. The webinar is set to take place on Wednesday 15 April at 11:00 SAST. Under the theme ‘AI-Ready Data Centres for Africa: Building Infrastructure for...
Debunking AI myths: What SA businesses need in 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from experiment to expectation in South African boardrooms, writes Senzo Mbhele, MD of Cloud On Demand. In many of the conversations I have, the question is no longer whether AI matters, rather the question is how to approach it...
From AI ambition to AI readiness: What boards should test in 2026
According to the latest Forvis Mazars C-suite barometer, business leaders headed into 2026 with a striking combination of confidence and caution – 92% of executives surveyed had a positive outlook on growth for their organisation. By Shane Cooper, head of digital...
Enterprise software support is a boardroom issue, not a procurement decision
Enterprise software support such as SAP, Oracle or VMware is increasingly becoming a board-level discussion as organisations recognise the strategic and financial implications of how core technology platforms are managed. This is the word from Andrew Strachan,...
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Mid Software Developer (React, Node.js, TypeScript) (In Office) – CPT
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Senior Network Engineer (CCIE) (CPT Onsite) – Western Cape Cape Town
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