December sees manufacturing decline, but optimism for the future
The seasonally adjusted Absa PMI declined by 1.9 points to 46.2 in December, remaining in contractionary territory. This places the 2024 Q4 average PMI at 49 points, only slightly below 2024 Q3 (49.8 points) but above Q1 (47.8) and Q2 (48.1). While the manufacturing...
Upskilling will be needed to fill 78m new job opportunities
Job disruption will equate to 22% of jobs by 2030, with 170-million new roles set to be created and 92-million displaced, resulting in a net increase of 78-million jobs, according to the Future of Jobs Report 2025 published by the World Economic Forum. Technological...
Digital transformation a priority for African banks
A growing African population - forecast to be 2,49-billion by 2050 - coupled with spectacular increases in the number of devices such as smartphones and tablets (mobile phones now account for 75% of Web traffic in Africa) is the perfect recipe for an explosion in...
Alarming rise in deepfakes for the ‘world’s election year’
Africa, along with half the rest of the world's population, will have its share of elections in 2024 - and new data is showing an alarming increase in YoY trends in AI-powered scams. Sumsub - a global full-cycle verification provider - has detected upwards of a 245%...
African industries should look out for these threats …
According to Kaspersky statistics, in the first quarter of 2024, the percentage of industrial control systems (ICS) computers globally on which malicious objects were blocked decreased by 1,3 percentage points (pp) from the first quarter of the previous year, to...
Economic conditions weigh on new vehicle sales
New vehicle sales declined 14,2% year-on-year in May as consumers and business played their final waiting card in search of political stability. "While the politics will play out during June, the new vehicle market will hopefully be able to display more positivity...
Homeowners signal cautious optimism
Absa's Homeowners Sentiment Index for the first quarter of 2024 reveals an uplift in confidence in the property market, with overall sentiment among respondents surveyed climbing to 82% as optimism begins to remerge. In the survey of 1 149 respondents, the number of...
Seacom restores East Africa cable operations
Seacom has restored services to its customers following the completion of subsea repair operations on its East Africa (S1) cable. The physical repair of the subsea cable was completed on 31 May and the process to restore and test client services back to the original...
Gitex Africa Morocco 2024: It’s a wrap …
The second edition of Gitex Africa has wrapped up in Marrakech, Morocco. Kathy Gibson was there to find out what’s happening in the African tech space. Into the future with frontier technologies Humanity is facing an existential crisis as planet-wide issues...
Into the future with frontier technologies
Kathy Gibson reports from Gitex Africa Morocco 2024 – Humanity is facing an existential crisis as planet-wide issues like climate change threaten to cause irreparable damage. But frontier technologies are already on the drawing board that could reverse the damage...
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Ransomware attacks are more prevalent and dangerous than ever. In response, organisations are upgrading their data protection to stay ahead, writes Sujoy Mukherjee, head of portfolio: private compute at BT. It’s common knowledge that ransomware attacks are on the rise...
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When AI goes wrong in 2022 …
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Bursaries the missing link in your B-BBEE spend
January and February can be some of the most stressful months of the year for companies looking to retain or improve their B-BBEE rating. With the financial year-end looming, some businesses may be scrambling to make the spend required to achieve their Skills...
How much you really pay to drive between Joburg and Durban
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Defending the public sector against increasing cybersecurity threats
The public sector is an attractive target for cybercriminals, for a number of reasons, and this is evidenced by the growing number of successful and highly-publicised attacks. By Saurabh Prasad, solution architect at In2IT Technologies While public sector...
Ricoh acquires Axon Ivy to boost digital services portfolio
Ricoh has acquired Axon Ivy, giving Ricoh customers direct access to the company’s digital process automation platform, recognised for its process automation and orchestration capabilities with low- and no-code software development features. Axon Ivy has more than two...
Fraud safety tips for online shoppers and merchants
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Educating children to explore the online world safely
During the pandemic, the cyber world replaced the real world for many children who were locked down at home. They may have become very adept at navigating the internet as a result, but the experience has also increased their exposure to many risks. By Doros...
To protect your business on Safer Internet Day, start with your people
2021 was a record year for data breaches, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center – but instead of building their defences, many companies are putting their heads in the sand. Interpol estimates that nine out of every 10 African businesses are operating...
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