How can SA plug the ICT skills gap?

Kathy Gibson reports from the IITPSA Workforce Conference – While South Africa records the highest unemployment rate in the world, there is still a dire shortage of critical IT skills. Presenting the IITPSA IT Skills Survey, Lehlohonolo  Mokenela, MD of Africa...

Is talent debt depleting your institutional knowledge?

Organisations cutting costs through workforce reduction to weather tough conditions may be trading a visible saving for an invisible liability that will cost them far more later, warns Advaita Naidoo, Africa MD at executive search firm Jack Hammer Global. “Globally,...

In 2027, AI could account for 20% of all business tech spend

In the coming year, CIOs and CISOs will face growing pressure to realise returns on their AI investments in infrastructure, security, digital sovereignty, and emerging technologies, according to Forrester’s 2027 technology and security predictions. Additionally, with...

Banks expect to hand decisions to AI – even if they can’t explain them

Banks are racing toward a future where AI no longer merely informs key credit, treasury, and risk decisions – it makes them autonomously. Yet AI governance is not keeping pace with adoption, according to new AI risk research by FT Longitude, SAS and Microsoft. Even as...

Covid put paid to big-ticket VC deals in 2020

Big-ticket venture capital (VC) deals were non-existent in the cybersecurity space during the Covid-hit 2020. Low-value deals (where the investment was less than or equal to $10-million) also took a hit, but still accounted for the majority of global investment...

DBE partners with Microsoft on digital skills training

The Department of Basic Education partnered with Microsoft to provide digital skills training to 25 000 unemployed youth in South Africa, as part of the Basic Education Employment Initiative (BEEI) which created more than 300 000 job opportunities across the country....

PR needed to build African brands

The compelling story of Africa and other emerging economies can only be told effectively when the emerging economies appreciate the role of country brands where people are proud of their country and have a strong sense of unity.  This brand and its story will greatly...

Universities call for government funding

The vice-chancellors, principals and rectors of universities in South Africa, have issued the following joint statement: We, the vice-chancellors representing all 26 universities in South Africa, remain committed to continuing the widening of student access to...

Travel risk map integrates information

International SOS, the world's leading medical and travel security services company, and Control Risks launch Travel Risk Map 2016 to help organisations better understand the risks in the markets where they operate and travel. International SOS has published a Health...

Women’s summit travels to Cape Town

Dell's seventh annual Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network Summit, an exclusive invitation-only conference for female entrepreneurs globally, will convene 27-28 June 2016 in Cape Town. The summit will bring together more than 150 of the top female entrepreneurs, business...

Content collaboration software sees healthy growth

In a newly published study, International Data Corporation (IDC ) forecasts healthy growth for the content collaboration software market. The market is forecast to grow to a total of $6,2-billion by 2019, representing a 13,4% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for the...

Africa’s people power to decline

The people power witnessed in 2014 and 2015, for example in changes of government in Burkina Faso and Nigeria, will be proved limited in 2016. A combination of elections, constitutional pressures and financial difficulties will test governments across the region,...

South African consumers score low on loyalty

Compared to the international average, South Africans score low on loyalty. Fewer than two thirds of South Africans are loyal to the brands and companies they support and will leave mainly due to cost, impolite, rude or uninterested staff or when they have to make too...

So how much does Santa earn?

Help wanted, male, age 30-60. Must be jovial with large belly. Apply here. It's not the average job description that you'll find in the wanted ads, but as Andy Williams says it is the "most wonderful time of the year" and malls are scrambling to fill their Santa Claus...

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