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...

Majority of SA organisations deploy extra email defences

The vast majority (95%) of South African organisations use third-party solutions in addition to what is offered by their email providers to help secure their email against the growing volume of cyberattacks. This is among the findings from new Mimecast research that...

Cyber espionage targets mostly information and finance industry

Organisations worldwide are losing billions due to cybercrime each year. Although most of them significantly increased their cybersecurity budgets, cyberattacks like data breaches, phishing, ransomware attacks, or cyber espionage still represent one of the biggest...

R150m fibre factory for Durban

Global telecommunication optical fibre supplier YOFC will invest R150-million in a new fibre cable manufacturing facility in South Africa. Yangtze Optical Fibre (Africa), with headquarters in Johannesburg, will construct an optical fibre cable manufacturing plant with...

Africans believe corruption is getting worse

A majority of Africans say corruption has risen in the past 12 months and most governments are seen as failing in their duty to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals, according to a new opinion poll from Transparency International. In the report "People...

South Africans’ gambling to reach R30bn

Gambling revenues improved in Africa in 2014, despite challenging and weakening economies. Gross gambling revenues in South Africa posted their second-largest annual increase over the past five years, with casinos taking the largest share of this growth by rising 4,5%...

SA goes online for festive shopping

Almost half of South African shoppers save up their rewards to spend on festive season gifts. This is according to the online festive survey, carried out by eBucks Rewards, which found that 46% of consumers see the value in stockpiling loyalty rewards to boost their...

Gumtree warns about new scam

A widespread scam is targeting prospective buyers on major classifieds sites pretending to sell high value items. Claire Cobbledick, head of Gumtree South Africa marketing, says that their customer service desk has received numerous enquiries asking to validate...

Poor inclusivity by SA cities

South African cities perform badly compared to other cities in Africa on the latest MasterCard African Cities Growth Index. The new research shows Pretoria coming in at number 22, with a score of just 36,6, followed by Johannesburg at number 28, with a score of 34,6....

Telkom extends broadband rollout

Telkom will be extending its SmartBroadband Uncapped High Speed Wireless packages focusing on select LTE base stations across 520 sites in the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North West and Western Cape. This is an extension of...

#blackfriday goes global on Twitter

The hashtag #blackfriday saw nearly 3,7-million tweets globally on Friday as retailers across the globe marketed their heavily discounted products and services to consumers. A relatively new concept for the South African market, we ranked 17th on the Twittersphere...

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