Steady growth puts digital trade firmly on the map

New experimental estimates show that digital trade is increasing significantly across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2023, underscoring the importance of digital technologies in shaping international trade. Up to now, much of the...

Geopolitics creates inflationary pressures for SA

As the Middle East moves towards a fragile lull in hostilities, the economic shock caused by the conflict – supply chains perturbation, inflation etc - is already spreading to the global economy with oil-importing economies such as South Africa particularly exposed to...

Credit trends diverge as consumers navigate affordability

South African consumers are reshaping how they access and use credit as affordability pressures persist, according to TransUnion’s Q1 2026 South Africa Industry Insights Report. The report’s findings show that credit demand remained resilient, but diverging risk...

Small fibre operators outshine giants in ISPA survey

ISPA's Perception Survey gauges ISPs’ perceptions of fibre network operator (FNO) performance across a range of metrics - and the most recent results reveal smaller FNOs are outshining the established competition. South Africa’s official internet Industry...

Export-led growth hinges on livestock health,

Robust biosecurity systems, disease surveillance and coordinated response mechanisms are critically important to protect South Africa’s livestock industry against transboundary animal diseases. This is one of the recommendations of the Spring edition of the Absa...

SA is Africa’s prime target for DDoS attacks

South Africa, Morocco, and Kenya were the three most targeted African countries for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in the first half of 2025, according to NetScout’s latest global threat intelligence report – with South Africa ranked as the continent’s...

SA is Africa’s best investment destination

Africa – and especially South Africa - is a vital destination for investment from European countries, according to presentations at the 11th “TEHA CEO Dialogue on Southern Africa”. The European House Ambrosetti (TEHA) Africa CEO Pietro Mininni says: “We keep saying,...

SA risks losing top tech talent

With South Africa’s unemployment reaching 8,3-million people as of mid-2024, the loss of developer talent to international markets is more than a brain drain - it’s a serious threat to the country’s economic future, based on the insights provided by OfferZen’s 2024...

E-commerce spend surges ahead of Black Friday

Absa has noted a significant increase in the total value of e-commerce transactions over the past year, with total turnover increasing 25% year-on-year in the first quarter, 16% year-on-year in the second quarter and 19% year-on-year in the third quarter. The data...

SA youth fly the flag high at Türkiye science fair

Research projects by South African young scientists that aim to enhance our understanding of exercise physiology, and present a viable alternative for sealing wounds, will be showcased at this year’s İzmir International Innovation Science Energy Engineering Fair...

Blackwell ups the ante on training performance

In MLPerf Training 4.1 industry benchmarks, the Nvidia Blackwell platform has delivered impressive results on workloads across all tests - and up to 2,2x more performance per GPU on LLM benchmarks, including Llama 2 70B fine-tuning and GPT-3 175B pretraining. In...

AMD debuts Versal Premium Series Gen 2

AMD has announced the AMD Versal Premium Series Gen 2, an adaptive SoC platform designed to deliver the highest levels of system acceleration for a wide range of workloads. Versal Premium Series Gen 2 will be the FPGA industry’s first devices featuring Compute Express...

Ultrafast memory boosts Intel data centre chips

While Intel’s primary product focus is on the processors, or brains, that make computers work, system memory (that’s DRAM) is a critical component for performance. This is especially true in servers, where the multiplication of processing cores has outpaced the rise...

Africa Tech Festival: It’s a wrap …

The Africa Tech Festival, taking place this week (11-14 November) in Cape Town, saw telecommunications vendors and operators get together with governments and key policy-makers to pilot the continent on it’s transition to a digital economy. Kathy Gibson reports  ...

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Andela Learning Community surpasses 100 000 learners

Andela, the global talent network that helps companies build remote engineering teams, has announced a new milestone for its developer learning community: the Andela Learning Community (ALC) has surpassed 100 000 learners. ALC was launched in 2017 with the belief that...

Things you should know about digital signatures

Digital transformation and automation have turned electronic signatures into a business necessity and a legitimate replacement for traditional wet signatures. In light of this, businesses can no longer ignore digital signatures. Although similar, electronic signature...

How to get hybrid working right for your business

In a recent report conducted by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which included almost 209 000 participants in 190 countries, South Africa emerged as one of the countries that would embrace 'fully remote' work. By Andrew Bourne, regional manager: Africa at Zoho Compared...

Net neutrality and its place in SA

The Internet is disruptive by nature. It has transformed the way societies and economies work, communicate and play, businesses operate, and how governments deliver services to citizens. By Carmen Cupido, head of legal at Seacom Digital technologies are paving the way...

Is SA ready for the next phase in the cloud evolution?

Public cloud has taken centre stage in the global IT space, thanks in large part to the pandemic forcing accelerated adoption of next-generation technology solutions. By Sarthak Rohal, vice-president: IT services at AlphaCodes According to Forrester Research, the...

Is remote working for everyone?

Remote working at the current scale was never a choice, but a necessity, and for the most part it has worked. It's desirable: people want it. It's feasible: the crisis has shown it can work at scale. It is viable and commercially the numbers add up. Willie Schoeman,...

Logicalis SA appoints security practice manager

Logicalis South Africa has announced the appointment of Doctor Mafuwafuwane to the role of security practice manager as part of the solutions team. "We are excited to welcome Doctor into our team of seasoned IT and tech experts at Logicalis. His impressive...

Taming the data analytics beast

Data is the one thing every business has a lot of. And that is probably why many organisations struggle to turn it into a strategic asset. By Henry Adams, country manager of InterSystems Disconnected legacy systems and data stored in siloes and in different formats...

What does the future hold for cybersecurity and cloud platforms?

With the staggering number of cyberattacks and data breaches that occurred during the last 12 - 18 months, cybercrime is one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises in 2021. Willem Barnard, business development manager and alliances, and Christo Esterhuizen, cloud...

SA well-positioned to sell BPO globally

With Covid-19 proving that work can be done from home, in another city, or anywhere, South Africa's business process outsourcing (BPO) industry has emerged as a force to be reckoned with for international clients. By Stephen Joannides, MD: Accenture operations and...

Business Analyst (SAP Supply Chain)

Our client is seeking a skilled and motivated Business Analyst SAP (Supply Chain) to join their team. This role is essential in driving continuous improvement across the company supply chain operations through the effective use of SAP MM, WM, and TM modules. Role...

DevOps Engineer – 3071 – Gauteng Pretoria

Hybrid Role: Menlyn/Midrand/Roslyn/Home OfficeESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:Strong expertise in DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipeline design and implementationProficiency in managing and automating infrastructure using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or...

Senior Full-Stack Developer – Western Cape Cape Town Region

A Cape Town-based product company (hybrid setup) is hiring a Senior Full Stack Developer with solid architecture experience to join a close-knit team solving technically interesting problems. The work touches on everything from performance and scale to system security...

Business Analyst (SAP Supply Chain) – Remote Remote

Our client is seeking a skilled and motivated Business Analyst SAP (Supply Chain) to join their team. This role is essential in driving continuous improvement across the company supply chain operations through the effective use of SAP MM, WM, and TM modules. Role...

Full Stack Developer – 2219

Hybrid Role: Menlyn/Midrand/Roslyn/Home OfficeESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:Proficiency in Java programming and related frameworks (e.g., JavaEE, Hibernate)Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and agile methodologiesExperience with...

Senior Audit Professional – Cape Town

Job Title: Senior Audit ProfessionalLocation: Cape Town, Western CapeIndustry: Accounting / Auditing / Financial ServicesEmployment Type: Full-timeHire Resolve's Client is seeking to hire a Senior Audit Professional in Kenilworth. A reputable and established...

First Line Support Engineer

We are currently recruiting for First Line Support candidates to join the Managed Service teams for clients based in Century City, Western Cape and for Sandton, Gauteng. Please note that both position will be onsite at our client's respective offices. This is a...

Business Analyst (SAP Sales Distribution)

Our client is seeking a skilled and motivated Business Analyst SAP (Sales & Distribution) to join their team. This role is essential in optimizing the companies order-to-cash processes and ensuring seamless customer invoicing and delivery. Role PurposeOptimize...

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