40% of South Africans rely on social grants
New Ipsos data reveals the scale of South Africa’s reliance on social grants, with the Child Support Grant (CSG) dominating, the once-temporary Covid-era Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant becoming a lifeline for (especially) young South Africans, and a relatively...
Frogfoot, Vox, Hypa cash injection secures fibre expansion
Frogfoot, Vox and Hypa have secured a capital injection that will allow the companies quadruple their annual fibre rollout to 360 000 connected homes The new growth capital will materially accelerate the physical expansion of high speed fibre to previously underserved...
AI compresses cyberattack timelines, targets ungoverned AI identities
Attackers are operationalising artificial intelligence (AI) to collapse attack workflows from weeks to days, according to the latest Sophos AI Security 2026 Report, which adds that AI’s most immediate impact on cybercrime is speed, as well as a rise in attacks using...
Phishing campaign targets Microsoft authentication
Kaspersky has released a new report detailing a phishing campaign where attackers abuse Microsoft’s authentication mechanism. The campaign spanned from early April to mid-May 2026 and was styled as a notice from a law firm, aimed at stealing victims’ credentials and...
SA’s fastest-selling used cars
New research from AutoTrader show that newcomers are reshaping South Africa’s fastest-selling used car rankings with several recently introduced models selling quickly, while established vehicles such as the Toyota Fortuner and Suzuki Swift continue to slowly turn...
Global award for SA fintech
Omnisient, a South African-founded fintech that helps banks apply AI to anonymised and protected consumer data for credit scoring and precision marketing, has been named one of CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026. The recognition places Omnisient among a small...
Randburg licensing goes offline as consumables run out
Randburg licensing department yesterday shut its offices when a lack of stationery and consumables made it unable to render services. This, despite the booking and licensing process being largely online. A poorly-worded notice on the door of the licencing offices was...
Rectron goes into recovery mode after cyber attack
Rectron has become the victim of a cyberattack, the details of which are still unclear. On 15 July, the company identified an incident affecting some of its IT systems and operations. Investigations are ongoing to determine the nature and extent of the information...
How secure is SA’s critical infrastructure?
Kathy Gibson reports – South Africa’s energy infrastructure is expanding rapidly – but, in the absence of coherent cybersecurity policies, could be under threat. This is the headline takeaway from a panel discussion featuring cybersecurity and energy experts, which...
OpenAI agent goes rogue and raids digital library
A rogue OpenAI agent is responsible for a completely autonomous attack on Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The AI models responsible were being tested at the time, and managed to hack into the popular digital library, compromising some internal datasets and...
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Deepfake fraud escalates as detection technology enters SA
Certified AI Access, a South African AI trust and risk infrastructure company, and Reality Defender, a deepfake detection platform, today announced a partnership to deploy enterprise-grade deepfake detection technology across South Africa’s financial sector. The...
Galix is SonicWall’s FY26 Partner of the Year for Africa, Turkey and Upper Gulf
Galix has been recognised as SonicWall’s FY26 Partner of the Year for Africa, Turkey, and the Upper Gulf, honoured for its strong performance, technical expertise, and delivery of measurable cybersecurity outcomes across the region. SonicWall highlighted Galix’s...
Banks are already using agentic AI. Here’s why it matters for customers
Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative artificial intelligence were barely on the public radar, yet the technology has already evolved into its next iteration: agentic AI, a new breed of systems that are semi- or fully autonomous and able to...
Regional growth and data sovereignty will shape Africa’s data centre future
In 2026, Africa’s data centre industry stands at a critical point, driven by regional growth, evolving regulations, and an urgent push for data sovereignty. By Wiaan Vermaak, group chief commercial officer at Digital Parks Africa South Africa remains the continent’s...
The bottleneck slowing Africa’s fintech momentum
African fintech has firmly established itself as a global leader, backed by both capital flows and market fundamentals. In 2025, tech startups across the continent attracted around $4,1-billion in combined equity and debt, with the fintech segment still the largest...
What Africa’s stablecoin boom means for its financial system
Back in 2014, two blockchain pioneers set out to solve a problem confronting the early cryptocurrency ecosystem: the extreme price volatility of Bitcoin and the first generation of altcoins made them difficult to use for everyday transactions and impractical as a...
Staying relevant as a data scientist in the age of AI
In its 2025 Future of Jobs Report, the World Economic Forum projects that AI will displace around 92-million jobs by 2030. Data science itself - the very discipline that gave birth to modern machine learning - now appears on the list of professions highly vulnerable...
West African banks are at a crossroads
Banks in West Africa face a critical infrastructure choice in their digital transformation between cloud, colocation or on-premises storage, as data sovereignty laws are reshaping banking infrastructure. By Oluwamuyiwa Akinmejiwa, end user business leader at Schneider...
From pipeline to pipe dream: South Africa’s mathematics crisis
Only one in three matriculants took pure Mathematics in 2025. For a country where STEM skills are officially classified as critical - and where the National Development Plan targets 450 000 university-ready maths and science students by 2030 - that number should alarm...
Intellehub, TASEZ sign MoU for skills development in Tshwane
Intellehub People Solutions has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tshwane Automotive Special Economic Zone (TASEZ) to collaborate on skills development initiatives aimed at strengthening Tshwane’s automotive industry. The agreement establishes a...
Project Manager (Networks FTTH) at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
The Project Manager (Networks FTTH) will be responsible to plan, facilitate, manage and track implementation projects of all new transmission links, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring the successful completion of network projects is within scope, schedule,...
Business Systems Analyst (CH1259) – Western Cape Dormehls Drift
Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to optimizing business operations across diverse industries such as agriculture, logistics, manufacturing, and supply chain. Our client, a leader in providing innovative solutions within a collaborative and...
Application Developer (Core Java, JSP JEE) – Contract | Hybrid – Pretoria – Gauteng Pretoria
ENVIRONMENT:Our client is a trusted ICT and digital transformation partner with a strong footprint across South Africa. They deliver end-to-end advisory, innovative technology solutions, managed services, and people solutions that drive measurable business impact,...
Project Manager (Networks FTTH) at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Pretoria
The Project Manager (Networks FTTH) will be responsible to plan, facilitate, manage and track implementation projects of all new transmission links, collaborating with stakeholders, and ensuring the successful completion of network projects is within scope, schedule,...
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Fullstack (. Net) developer Duration: 12 months (8 hours per day, 4/5 days per week) Location: Bellville, Cape Town The client seeks a suitably qualified, experienced, and competent contract resource (.Net Developer) to support the Information Communication Services...
Solaris Server Administrator – Contract | Hybrid – Pretoria
ENVIRONMENT:Our client is a trusted ICT and digital transformation partner with a strong footprint across South Africa. They deliver end-to-end advisory, innovative technology solutions, managed services, and people solutions that drive measurable business impact,...
Microsoft Specialist at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
We're hunting for a sharp, slightly rebellious AI Automation Specialist who doesn't just love Microsoft 365 — they weaponize it.You'll spend your days hunting down soul-crushing repetitive work across the business, then building real Copilot Studio agents, Power...
. Net Developer – Western Cape Cape Town
Fullstack (. Net) developer Duration: 12 months (8 hours per day, 4/5 days per week) Location: Bellville, Cape Town The client seeks a suitably qualified, experienced, and competent contract resource (.Net Developer) to support the Information Communication Services...
Solaris Server Administrator – Contract | Hybrid – Pretoria – Gauteng Pretoria
ENVIRONMENT:Our client is a trusted ICT and digital transformation partner with a strong footprint across South Africa. They deliver end-to-end advisory, innovative technology solutions, managed services, and people solutions that drive measurable business impact,...
Microsoft Specialist at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Western Cape Stellenbosch
We're hunting for a sharp, slightly rebellious AI Automation Specialist who doesn't just love Microsoft 365 — they weaponize it.You'll spend your days hunting down soul-crushing repetitive work across the business, then building real Copilot Studio agents, Power...
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