SA’s unemployment figure looks grim
South Africa saw an increase of 345 000 in the number of unemployed persons to 8,5-million according to the Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) – Q2: 2026 released today. During the period, there was a decrease of 16 000 in the number of employed persons to...
Women embrace AI and narrow the workplace gender gap
South African women are narrowing the artificial intelligence (AI) skills gap with their male counterparts. This is according to the Pnet Job Market Trends Report for August 2026, based on an analysis of 1,5-million jobseeker profiles. Men account for around two...
Randburg licensing goes offline as consumables run out
Randburg licensing department yesterday shut its offices when a lack of stationery and consumables made it unable to render services. This, despite the booking and licensing process being largely online. A poorly-worded notice on the door of the licencing offices was...
Rectron goes into recovery mode after cyber attack
Rectron has become the victim of a cyberattack, the details of which are still unclear. On 15 July, the company identified an incident affecting some of its IT systems and operations. Investigations are ongoing to determine the nature and extent of the information...
How secure is SA’s critical infrastructure?
Kathy Gibson reports – South Africa’s energy infrastructure is expanding rapidly – but, in the absence of coherent cybersecurity policies, could be under threat. This is the headline takeaway from a panel discussion featuring cybersecurity and energy experts, which...
OpenAI agent goes rogue and raids digital library
A rogue OpenAI agent is responsible for a completely autonomous attack on Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The AI models responsible were being tested at the time, and managed to hack into the popular digital library, compromising some internal datasets and...
Inflation negates slight increase in salaries
South African salary earners saw a modest increase in nominal net salaries during June 2026, but rising inflation continued to erode purchasing power. This has pushed real take-home pay to its lowest level in around two years, and placed increasing pressure on...
Competition helps to boost procurement pay
South African procurement and supply professionals are enjoying their strongest salary growth in years, but employers face mounting pressure to attract and retain skilled talent in an increasingly competitive market. According to the latest Chartered Institute of...
Accelerated AI adoption could strengthen African health supply chains
Healthcare consulting firm, Salient Advisory, has published a landscape report that identifies seven key health supply chain problems in Africa which AI solutions could have significant impact in alleviating. Salient’s report – AI Applications in African Health Supply...
The reality of banking in the agentic era
Africa’s banking sector remains firmly committed to AI, but is entering a harder-nosed "accountability phase" in which boards are demanding evidence that the technology is paying for itself, according to a new report – The State of AI in African Banking 2026: The...
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Africa must think in grid-scale power to compete in the AI economy
The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping global energy demand, with implications that extend well beyond traditional power planning. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the growing energy footprint of data centres. Facilities...
Ozow expands payment ecosystem
Ozow has announced a new partnership with Happy Pay that will enable its merchants to offer buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) at checkout, without requiring any additional integration. South Africa’s BNPL market was projected to grow to over $815-milliomn (approximately...
Santi4 modernises investment management
Santi4, a next-generation investment technology platform, has launched with R720-billion ($35-billion) in client assets under administration, and is positioned to reach the R1-trillion ($58-billion) milestone within the next year. The platform enters the market with...
Connectivity fails when people can’t use it
As South Africa prepares to mark World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on 17 May, the conversation around connectivity is shifting from infrastructure to impact. Vuyani Jarana, CEO of Ilitha Telecommunications, says the next phase of South Africa’s...
Your multi-cloud strategy is a lie. It’s actually a Frankenstack
When cloud first hit mainstream business use, companies were told to move fast. Then they were told to move everything. Now, many organisations are discovering what they actually built, and it’s not a modern platform, or a streamlined architecture, and it certainly...
Voice bots with hearts: building the data foundation for AI that actually listens
What are the many AI voice bots that are about to start helping companies with customer engagement actually going to say? For all the hype and buzzwords around AI, what really counts is everything behind the voice. By Bruce von Maltitz, CEO of 1Stream There’s a...
Double the grant, double the growth: turning policy into progress
Many South African organisations have long regarded the Skills Development as a regulatory requirement rather than a real opportunity. By Daniel Orelowitz, MD of Training Force Businesses contribute 1% of their payroll each year, but for many companies, the process of...
Agentic AI will drive the next evolution of customer experience
South African customers now expect problems to be solved before they even complain – on WhatsApp, in‑app, or over the phone – often in minutes, not days. Yet many businesses are still struggling to meet these expectations. By Lauren Potgieter, country manager at...
Fraudsters could turn to AI mandates
As AI agents begin to transact on behalf of customers, anxiety among financial institutions (FIs) is mounting. But banking and payment authentication company, Entersekt, says the industry already has the right foundations to manage the rapid growth of agentic commerce...
DevSecOps is no longer optional in the age of AI-driven exploits
For years, DevSecOps was treated as a sign that engineering and security were beginning to cooperate a little better than before. It was often presented either as process work or a more elegant way of structuring delivery. Thanks to AI, we have now entered a different...
Senior IT Project Manager at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
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