SA and Mauritius lead Africa in AI Youth Readiness Index
South Africa has emerged as one of the Commonwealth’s leading countries for youth artificial intelligence readiness, ranking 13th out of 56 nations in a international study, as the new research finds a possible $9,18-billion increase in the level of the country’s GDP...
Holiday retail predictions: A unified yet fractured journey
Holiday retail planning used to follow a predictable playbook: Optimise the checkout funnel; launch the campaigns; stock the shelves; brace for Cyber Week. But in today’s market, that playbook is obsolete. Data from the Salesforce Shopping Index tells the story...
AI adoption accelerates, but major gaps between businesses and generations
AI adoption is expanding rapidly across OECD economies, but significant gaps among businesses and generations risk limiting the benefits of digital transformation, according to the OECD Digital Economy and Society Outlook 2026. Large firms are more than twice as...
New UN guide keeps people in charge of AI in smart cities
The United Nations has launched its first system-wide toolbox designed to ensure that people, rather than machines, remain accountable for public decisions in smart cities in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). AI is already at work in city halls around the...
Three steps for CFOs to turn AI time savings into business
CFOs are under increasing pressure to show returns from AI investments, yet productivity gains in most organisations are too marginal to materially impact financial performance or consistently lower headcount, says Gartner, adding that active governance is needed to...
Summit highlights cyber resilience as a boardroom responsibility
As AI and increasingly connected technologies reshape the way businesses operate, South African organisations must rethink how they manage cybersecurity, with greater accountability at board level and a stronger focus on resilience, trust, and collaboration. This was...
92% of Africa’s ransomware now hits SA but our real crisis is silence
There is a number I can’t stop thinking about after reading the latest Interpol African Cyberthreat Assessment, writes Anna Collard, senior vice-president: content strategy and CISO advisor at KnowBe4 Africa. There are plenty of interesting figures in the report, for...
littlefish and Halo Dot partner to integrate payments
littlefish and Halo Dot has announced a strategic partnership that gives banks, merchant acquirers and payment providers a single, integrated way to help their merchants accept payments and run their businesses. The partnership brings together two complementary...
Sophos secures the AI-era network
Sophos is helping organisations keep pace with the performance and security demands of the AI era with the Sophos Firewall v23, new XGS hardware, and a standalone Sophos NDR offering. Together, they drive stronger AI-era network defenses through Sophos Fusion, the...
Sage payroll connects directly to SARS
Sage has launched a new Monthly Employer Declaration (EMP201) integration, enabling employers to submit their monthly EMP201 returns directly from their payroll system to the South African Revenue Service (SARS). This removes one of the most manual and error-prone...
Datacentrix wins SolarWinds’ SA Growth Partner of the Year
SolarWinds has named Datacentrix, a leading hybrid ICT systems integrator, as Growth Partner of the Year for South Africa, acknowledging its commitment to developing the partnership. According to Lucky Qwabe, senior security solutions specialist at Datacentrix, the...
Paratus Lesotho opens for business with Starlink
Paratus Lesotho has been set up to provide high-speed internet services backed by local customer and technical support and offers Starlink enterprise connectivity alongside Paratus network solutions to businesses and organisations across the country. Makali Lepholisa...