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...

Analytics, AI play a big role in digital resiliency

Today's interconnected world makes global crises more likely. Covid-19 has highlighted a new kind of resiliency -- Digital Resiliency - that is necessary for enterprises to survive and thrive during such crises. Digital Resiliency is a company's ability to rapidly...

Financial hardship drives unsecured credit up

The ongoing uncertainty and financial hardship caused by Covid-19 have impacted the consumer credit market. This is according to TransUnion's new South Africa Industry Insights Report, which covers a period where economic headwinds prevailed, and consumer confidence...

Depressed commodities add supply chain risk

The protracted slump in commodity prices has pushed supply chain risk across sub-Saharan Africa to record high levels in the third quarter of 2015 but the impact is being felt unevenly across the continent, according to the Chartered Institute of Procurement &...

San Francisco experience boosts SA startup

Home cleaning platform SweepSouth has returned from the four-month 500 Startups programme in San Francisco - and it believes more local entrepreneurs should be taking up the chance. Aisha Pandor, CEO and co-founder of SweepSouth says: "We are going to be working with...

Tips for safe online holiday shopping

The holidays are here and this means online shopping for those Christmas gifts.  This also means that cybercriminal scams are aplenty.  Carey van Vlaanderen, CEO of ESET, shares six top tips to help ensure that it is a fun and safe experience. Spot those phishing...

North West leads with securitised number plates

The Bokone Bophirima Department of Community Safety and Transport Management announced today the implementation of a securitised number plate system that is aimed at tackling organised vehicle crime and the growing incidence of vehicle and licence plate cloning head...

MTN pledges to resolve grievances

Members of the MTN South Africa executive team has met with a delegation from the Freedom Front Plus to discuss customer queries that the Freedom Front Plus had pledged to pursue with the National Consumer Commission (NCC) on behalf of MTN customers. The issues...

What changed in cyber-security in 2015

Cyber-attack tools used against businesses in 2015 were different to those used against consumers, according to Kaspersky Lab's review of corporate threats in the last 12 months. They included greater exploitation of legitimate software programs and malware being...

Now for smart agriculture …

Smart agriculture could help to offset the effects of climate change for African farmers. "Collaboration by variousstakeholders including governments, NGOs and research bodies is needed now to rapidly scale-up the African agricultural sector to improve food security...

Personal cloud market set to boom

The world personal cloud market is estimated to garner revenue of $89,9-billion by 2020, registering a CAGR of 33,1% during 2015-2020. According to a new report by Allied Market Research titled, "World Personal Cloud Market- Opportunities and Forecasts, 2014-2020",...

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Frontend Developer

PRIMARY FUNCTION OF JOBThe Frontend Developer is responsible for performing frontend development life-cycleactivities including- Collaborating with the product owner on the compilation of the user businessrequirement- Translation of the above into a technical...

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