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...
Microsoft dominates in phishing trends
These are the brands most tPhishing still targets major brands In Q1 2025, Microsoft maintained its position as the most targeted brand, accounting for 36% of all phishing attempts. Google surged to second place with 12%, while Apple remained in the top three with 8%....
SA sees massive increase in leaked accounts
Surfshark’s global data breach analysis ranks South Africa as the 27th most-breached country in Q1 2025, with 205 900 leaked accounts. Globally, a total of 68,3-million accounts were breached, with the US ranking first and amounting to 25% of all breaches from January...
Summit to examine the impacts of online fraud
South Africans have become accustomed to the narrative that fraud surrounds them, and the fraud landscape is growing significantly as the country attempts to break its bonds of low economic growth. “The public is often unaware of how sophisticated criminals are and...
4Sight Holdings acquires HR specialist XFour Group
Global artificial intelligence (AI) technology group 4Sight Holdings has announced its acquisition of XFour, a fast-growing human resource (HR) and payroll technology services provider, in a deal worth over R40-million. Founded in 2017 by Clark Fourie, Jaco Smit and...
Nexalus, Intel partner on cooling
Hidden out of plain sight, small, suitcase-sized boxes perched high on transmission towers are responsible for every cellphone call, video and text, every second, every day. Crammed inside each box, an orchestra of Intel-based communications equipment – GPU, CPU,...
Nvidia Blackwell boosts water cooling efficiency
Traditionally, data centres have relied on air cooling — where mechanical chillers circulate chilled air to absorb heat from servers, helping them maintain optimal conditions. But, as AI models increase in size, and the use of AI reasoning models rises, maintaining...
Vertiv, iGenius, Nvidia to deploy Colosseum AI supercomputer
Vertiv is collaborating with Nvidia and iGenius to deploy Colosseum, one of the world’s largest Nvidia DGX AI supercomputers with Nvidia Grace Blackwell Superchips. Set to deploy in 2025 in Italy, Colosseum will be a first-of-its-kind sovereign AI data centre for...
African Space Agency launches in Cairo
The African Space Agency (AfSA) has officially launched. AfSA is the second regional space agency after the European Space Agency (ESA) and has been in development since 2015, with the African Union Commission adopting an African space policy and strategy in 2016....
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Companies under siege as cyberattacks increase
Cybersecurity threats have become one of the biggest risks facing companies in 2022 – and this is only set to get worse. HP research shows that cyberthreats have grown by a staggering 300% year on year (YoY), with close to three-quarters of companies reporting they...
Why wait to upgrade your software when Windows 11 ESD is here!
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Hack yourself regularly to stay safe
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The culture opportunity your business can’t afford to ignore
The ways in which a business creates and maintains its culture are changing. Previously, a business's culture may have centred around its office, but in today's do-anything, from-anywhere economy, this approach is no longer fit for purpose. By JG Pons, senior...
Managed services can alleviate the impact of a growing IT skill shortage
South Africa is in the midst of an ongoing and deepening IT skills shortage that is exacerbated by the high global demand for IT talent from the country's skills pool. The exodus of quality skills is often spurred on by attractive remuneration and the opportunity to...
The new era of cloud decisioning
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Keeping a finger on the pulse of healthcare’s digital transformation
There's no question that digital transformation has had a profound effect on many industries, and while uptake may have been a little slower within the healthcare sector, the outlook for the future of African healthtech is a promising one. So Brian Smith, technical...
Secure and access data in an anywhere operations world
Organisations across industry sectors face the continuing scourge of being victims of cyberattacks. For any organisation, cyberattacks are not a matter of 'if,' but 'when': A cyberattack is unavoidable. Following the changes the pandemic has brought about in the...
Business continuity requires a holistic approach to resilience
A massive 86% of EMEA businesses have a protection gap between how much data they can afford to lose after an outage and how frequently data is backed up, and 84% plan to increase their data protection budgets this year By Chris Norton, regional director for Africa at...
Why virtual agents make sense to customers and the FD
When it first became clear that various AI-enabled tools would play an important role in customer self-service, most prominently in the shape of chatbots, there was a lot of hope that they'd have a positive impact on company finances. Not only would they provide a...
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Our client in Centurion is looking for a Technical Support Agent who can deliver exceptional customer service to their clientele, with their technical expertise and awesome personality. We are looking for someone who has experience on fixed wireless broadband...
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Technical Support Agent – Gauteng Centurion
Our client in Centurion is looking for a Technical Support Agent who can deliver exceptional customer service to their clientele, with their technical expertise and awesome personality. We are looking for someone who has experience on fixed wireless broadband...
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Junior Data Scientist
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Companies of all sizes successfully rely on our client's management and IT consulting to solve relevant BI, planning and digitization challenges efficiently, modernly and reliably. They combine the strategic vision and commitment of a founder-managed company with the...
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