RAMageddon puts pressure on smartphone prices
A wave of price increases across this summer's flagship smartphone launches offers the clearest evidence yet that the AI-driven memory shortage - often dubbed RAMageddon - is reshaping the mobile device market: what phones cost, how much memory they carry, and which...
Festive demands come up against a new cost squeeze
With the release of GoTyme Bank’s SME Outlook for Q4 2026 report, its group executive, Miguel da Silva, examines the economic forces likely to shape the critical festive-trading quarter – from resilient but selective consumer demand to rising fuel costs, constrained...
Study underlines Africa’s unique cardiovascular conditions
A University of Cape Town (UCT) led study, the Sub-Saharan Africa Survey of Heart Failure (THESUS II), has found that the conditions of those most affected by heart failure in Africa haven’t changed much. Africans presenting with heart failure are still 10-20 years...
Companies urged to use the Export Block Exemption
The publication of the Block Exemption for Promotion of Exports enabling South African exporters to collaborate in pursuing international markets will not benefit them unless they make full use of the regulation. This is according to the Kwanele Mkhwanazi, director:...
SA students shine in Tashkent Olympiad
South Africa's national programming team has returned home with four awards from the 2026 International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The team brought home one Bronze medal and three Honourable Mention certificates, a strong showing...
Nvidia to buy Hugging Face in $12,9bn deal
Nvidia has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,93-billion. “Together, we will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand access to AI for developers and institutions worldwide,” says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a post announcing the...
GoTyme Bank completes app transition
GoTyme Bank, formerly TymeBank, will retire the old TymeBank app on 6 September 2026, completing the phased transition to the GoTyme Bank app launched early this year. The new GoTyme Bank app has already recorded more than 4,5-million downloads. Customers still using...
Transport costs keep millions away from work and education
As South Africans face sharply higher fuel prices from yesterday, new Ipsos research shows that transport affordability is already affecting access to work and education for a significant number of people. The nationally representative findings, from the Ipsos...
Scientists may have found dark matter
Global scientists have encountered an intriguing particle interaction in their search for dark matter, which might help pave the way for answering one of the biggest unresolved questions about our universe. The study, led by a University of Bristol astro-particle...
SA online retail to reach R159bn this year
South Africans are expected to spend about R159-billion online in 2026, as e-commerce grows by an estimated 22,5% and records its first full year at 10% of national retail turnover on a like-for-like nominal basis. These are the central findings of Online Retail in...
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Nutanix signs sub-Saharan Africa MoU with Datamellon
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Huawei Code4Mzansi helps young developers build for SA’s real economy
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Dell delivers production-ready agentic AI
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Horizen debuts consumer-grade NB-IoT tracker for portable assets
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RMA launches digital claims platform
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Trust is infrastructure. And Africa’s fintech reckoning proves it
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Paying Lagos is still harder than paying London
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Africa’s energy transition is a growth story – but only if we act together
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Securing Africa’s future through a circular water economy
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Intermediate Azure Integration Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
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Intermediate Azure Integration Developer at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Sandton
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Data Manager (24 Month Fixed Term Contract – Wits Health Consortium)
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Data Manager (24 Month Fixed Term Contract – Wits Health Consortium) – Gauteng Parktown
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...
Data Manager (24 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...
Data Manager (24 Month Fixed Term Contract – Wits Health Consortium) – Gauteng Parktown
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...
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Full Stack Software Engineer (Python, C#, React) (JHB Onsite)
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