There’s a deepening food insecurity problem in SA
New research paints a stark picture of hunger and hardship across South Africa prompted by rising food prices, high unemployment, and stagnant wages. FoodForward SA (FFSA), the country’s leading non-profit fighting hunger and food waste - in partnership with the...
Accelerating innovation for a sustainable future
A coalition of international partners have announced the creation of the Green Digital Action Hub (GDA Hub) - a new cooperation platform to harness technology innovation against climate change and anchored in Brazil as a legacy of the 30th UN Climate Change...
PMI shows another decline for manufacturing
The latest Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for April 2025 points to a deterioration in manufacturing sentiment. The index remained in contraction for a sixth straight month. The seasonally adjusted PMI fell by 4 points to 44.7 in April, the weakest reading since...
Machine learning helps protect endangered whales
SAS is helping Fathom Science Inc North Carolina State University tech spin-off that is building digital twins of the ocean, validate its whale location prediction model so vessels can avoid striking critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. Fathom Science...
AI makes privacy more complex than ever
With data privacy critical to establishing business value and trust, a complex landscape is emerging where the demand for local data storage intersects with reliance on global providers’ expertise. The eighth edition of Cisco’s Data Privacy Benchmark Study, conducted...
Doug Woolley exits Dell
Doug Woolley, GM and vice-president: sales for southern Africa at Dell, is leaving the global IT vendor after a 10-year tenure. Having joined Dell in 2015, Woolley has led the local company through a number of changes, including the merger of Dell and EMC in 2016....
Court upholds Turkcell appeal on MTN case
The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has overturned a previous high court judgement for MTN, and will allow a case brought by Iran’s Turkcell against MTN to be heard in South Africa. The judgement is the latest move in a 2013 high court case brought against MTN by...
Is it time to say goodbye to passwords?
Each year on the first Thursday of May, cyber security professionals urge the public to strengthen their password hygiene. But in 2025, this tradition may be past its expiry date. Why? Because our over-reliance on passwords is becoming the very risk we seek to avoid....
Be wary of AI password generation
Most online services and apps require the user to create a password – but chances are many of those passwords are not being used daily and due to this overabundance, there’s a high probability that many of the passwords are being reused. Poor password management is...
Datatec shares to trade in US markets
Datatec has been admitted to the OTCQX trading platform in the US. The OTCQX market is a platform that enables companies listed on qualified international exchanges to offer transparent trading for US investors during US trading hours, using share prices quoted in US...
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Key implications for information lifecycle management in 2023
Discovering how best to use the vast amount of data your organisation creates and collects is one of the key tenets of any organisation's strategy. By Iwona Sikora, senior vice-president and GM: records management Europe & South Africa at Iron Mountain Although...
January the most popular month to quit your job – but don’t rush
For ambitious financial services professionals lacking development opportunities, January is often the month to quit their jobs, with 21 January the most popular day. Yet, for all the sense of renewal that switching jobs can bring, there are serious costs. The change...
Reimagine public sector cloud services by harnessing shared, private sector skills
The cloud offers agility, accessibility and scale to public sector organisations, with IDC describing cloud as a key enabler for digital government, and Gartner predicting that over 75% of governments will operate more than half of workloads using hyperscale cloud...
Is data analytics impacting your bottom line or just creating more work?
In the last decade or so, there has been an explosion of Business Intelligence (BI), power BI and analytics platforms, and there are tens of thousands of data companies around the world. By Andrew Dawson, MD of MACmobile The aim of all of this is to mine, extract and...
Cloud is now an essential business strategy
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has outlined the top five cloud trends it believes will shape global enterprise in 2023: Cloud 2.0, sovereign cloud, 5G and edge computing, industry cloud, and the emerging cloud talent gap. The predictions form part of TCS' latest...
Observations on IT in 2023
There's no two ways about it - the last few years have been a bumpy ride for us all. 2022 especially will go down as one of the most tumultuous years in recent times, raising numerous issues that look set to fundamentally transform the landscape of business and...
Embrace business intimacy to drive growth and efficiency
Across every industry, leaders have been asked to be more efficient and productive as we face unprecedented headwinds and economic uncertainty. Zuko Mdwaba, country leader and area vice-president of Salesforce South Africa For CIOs and IT leaders, identifying where...
The luxury of outsourcing for ‘free’
In October last year, Discovery and Dialdirect, in conjunction with the City of JoBurg, launched the Pothole Patrol app, which would allow drivers to report potholes using geolocation data. By Richard Firth, CEO of MIP Holdings This wasn't the first time an app of...
Consumers can subscribe to a better life in 2023
By all economic standards, 2022 was not a good year for consumers. The price of life skyrocketed beyond the point of belief and people in all brackets were left struggling with growing levels of debt and a yearning to maintain their lifestyles - hence the debt....
Technology trends affecting the security sector in 2023
The fact that technology has become pervasive in our personal and work lives is not news. This is largely due to the benefits that new technologies bring to business and citizens around the world in delivering new, more effective, and increasingly efficient services....
DevOps Engineer (DotNet) – 2700 – Gauteng Pretoria
?? We're Hiring: Senior C# / .NET Core Developer (Azure | Kubernetes | DevOps) ??Are you passionate about cloud-native solutions and building scalable applications? We're looking for an experienced C# / .NET Core Developer with strong Azure and Kubernetes skills to...
Cybersecurity Engineer – Gauteng Midrand
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Fullstack Developer 2159
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Data Scientist
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IT Auditor – Remote Remote
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Fullstack Developer 2159 – Gauteng Pretoria
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Data Scientist – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
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Business Analyst
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System Analyst (Senior) at Parvana Recruitment
About our client:Our client is a global investment advisory firm focusing on long-term value creation through investment strategies. They work with a diverse group of institutional partners and pride themselves on their collaborative, sustainable, inclusive culture...
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