When small businesses grow, South Africa grows
Every morning, across South Africa’s townships and communities, small businesses open their doors. A spaza shop owner stocks her shelves to serve customers. A township designer packs an order received online. A salon owner welcomes a new hairdresser. These businesses...
Small banks lead in AI, but scale lags
As AI use proliferates in the SMB sector, small banks, credit unions and lenders have put banking on the AI leaderboard – ahead of similarly sized firms in insurance, government, healthcare, and life sciences – according to an AI readiness study by SAS, with research...
Server revenue hits new record high
The worldwide server market reached a record $166,3-billion in vendor revenue in the second quarter of 2026 - the highest quarterly total in the history of IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, surpassing the previous high of $125,3-billion set in the fourth...
IBM and NASA debut open source AI model for lunar exploration
IBM and NASA have announced the open-source release of the NASA‑IBM Lunar Foundation Model, one of the first publicly available foundation models for scientific exploration of the Moon, now available. Trained on an extensive lunar observation dataset curated by IBM...
Record soil moisture, dam levels could soften El Niño impact
While the return of El Niño conditions is expected to increase climate risks for South African agriculture during the 2026/27 summer production season, the sector is entering the cycle from one of its strongest starting positions in recent years. “El Niño is typically...
Memory shortage drives external enterprise revenue up
The worldwide external OEM enterprise storage systems (ESS) market continued its sharp acceleration in the second quarter of 2026, reaching $10,3-billion in vendor revenue, a 33,6% year-over-year increase, according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Storage...
Research unlocks new insights into the hidden health of Africa’s giraffes
With their long necks, distinctive limbs and ornamented heads, giraffes are among Africa’s most iconic megafauna. Yet, despite being reasonably well studied in terms of their biology and ecology, remarkably little is known about pathologies and developmental...
Audit functions use AI, but many lack a formal strategy
Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in audit functions is nearly universal, with 93% of audit leaders reporting some level of AI use, according to a webinar poll by Gartner. The survey of 161 chief audit executives (CAEs), conducted in May 2026, also highlighted a...
Digital Parks Africa expands into Nigeria
Digital Parks Africa (DPA), the data centre business in association with the Master Power Technologies, is expanding into West Africa with the development of a new carrier-neutral data centre in Lagos, Nigeria. Menno Parsons, Digital Parks Africa’s founder and CEO,...
Unmanaged AI poses new ‘shadow agent’ crisis
A growing “shadow agent” crisis threatens to overwhelm businesses. According to the Veeam Software’ latest research, organisations across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are battling unmanaged AI on two fronts. On the data security front, 70% of organisations...
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The hidden productivity crisis costing businesses hours every week
Employees spend as much as 8,8 hours every week searching for information they need to do their jobs, according to workforce efficiency research by Synergis. For many organisations, that equates to more than an entire working day lost every week to finding information...
Duxbury Cybersecurity adds WatchGuard and Cynet
Duxbury Networking has strengthened its Duxbury Cybersecurity business unit with the addition of WatchGuard and Cynet. The move comes as cybersecurity buying becomes more fragmented and customer risk becomes harder to prioritise. Customers are no longer looking for...
Capturing SA’s AI moment: human advantage starts where the algorithm ends
When AI governance is still being defined at a national level, having control at an organisational level separates businesses from the competition. By Werner Joubert, commercial SYS business director (South Africa and SADC) at ASUS When South Africa’s government...
Acer Africa extends Nitro Gaming with Syntech
Acer Africa has officially announced a strategic distribution partnership with Syntech, a distributor of premier technology and gaming peripherals in South Africa. The agreement will see Syntech take the reins in driving the growth, local availability, and retail...
Security in the post-Mythos era
The fundamentals you ignored are the only things that will save you, writes Yuri Kramarz, principal engineer at Cisco Talos. In 2023, a colleague and I wrote a cybersecurity guide for businesses of any size. It was not glamorous work. Nobody was asking for another...
Evolve security policies for the AI era
As enterprises accelerate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and agentic systems, the conversation around data protection is becoming more urgent. Yet, according to Dariel CTO Wayne Yan, organisations should resist the temptation to treat AI as an entirely...
Banks need a decisioning backbone for the AI era
For years, banks have modernised around channels. For example, mobile apps became better, onboarding became faster and customer engagement became more personalised. These improvements matter because customers feel them every day. But there is a more difficult shift...
ISO 27001 is becoming a baseline requirement for doing business
Cyber threats are increasing in both frequency and sophistication, and organisations need a consistent way to manage information security. By Ryan Boyes, senior security administrator at Galix At the same time, businesses are increasingly being asked to prove how...
The real AI opportunity is not replacing technology, it is redefining the business
Much of the current conversation around artificial intelligence is still centred on technology choices. Which platform should we use? Which model is best? Which tools will replace the systems we already have? Across boardrooms and IT departments, organisations are...
Correcting the misalignment between digital skills and business needs
The conversation around AI is often dominated by speculation about job losses. By Mark Mc Kerr, managing executive at Paracon by Adcorp Yet this focus distracts from a more immediate and measurable challenge: South African businesses are investing in advanced...
Specialist Analyst – Gauteng Gauteng
To assist the department in ensuring that the approved authorised Financial Services Providers (FSPs) and their Compliance Officers comply with the Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS) legislationJOB DESCRIPTION Analyse annual financial statements and...
Project Manager (Public Health – 3 Month Fixed Term Contract – Wits Health Consortium)
Background:Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health SciencesWHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research...
System Administrator
A multi-company industrial group - six businesses, 650 employees and sites across the country - is looking for a hands-on Network and System Administrator to act as team lead for IT. The role is group-wide rather than single-site. You report to the Group IT Manager in...
Project Manager (Public Health – 3 Month Fixed Term Contract – Wits Health Consortium) – Mpumalanga Bushbuckridge
Background:Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health SciencesWHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research...
System Administrator – Gauteng Germiston
A multi-company industrial group - six businesses, 650 employees and sites across the country - is looking for a hands-on Network and System Administrator to act as team lead for IT. The role is group-wide rather than single-site. You report to the Group IT Manager in...
.NET Developer
We are looking for an experienced .NET Developer to take ownership of a modern, cloud-ready software platform that supports a nationally deployed, mission-critical service. Key Responsibilities Platform Ownership & Knowledge Transfer Take part in a structured...
Data Engineer
Our client is seeking a highly skilled Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer to design, build, and operationalize modern data solutions using the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge Data & AI initiatives, enabling advanced...
Senior Application Support Engineer (Client Platform) – Remote
Our client is a privacy-preserving data collaboration platform used by enterprise financial services, retail, and data-intensive clients across South Africa, the UK, US, UAE, and Brazil. The company's client-facing product is the company's Desktop Connect v2 (“Desktop...
.NET Developer – Western Cape Cape Town CBD
We are looking for an experienced .NET Developer to take ownership of a modern, cloud-ready software platform that supports a nationally deployed, mission-critical service. Key Responsibilities Platform Ownership & Knowledge Transfer Take part in a structured...
Data Engineer – Gauteng Braamfontein
Our client is seeking a highly skilled Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer to design, build, and operationalize modern data solutions using the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. This is an exciting opportunity to work on cutting-edge Data & AI initiatives, enabling advanced...
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