Turn disability inclusion into real careers
Disability Rights Awareness Month runs from 3 November to 3 December. It is a time to talk about dignity and inclusion. For South African employers, it should also be a time to act. The numbers are stark. Unemployment among persons with disabilities is estimated at...
AI investment needs a more informed boardroom
Artificial intelligence has moved onto the board agenda faster than many boards have developed the skills to oversee it. The issue for boards is no longer simply whether their organisations should invest in AI, but whether they have sufficient literacy to distinguish...
Nutanix expands Elevate Partner Program
Nutanix has expanded its FY27 Elevate Partner Program, representing its largest investment in the programme to date. The updates bring systems integrators into Elevate, add incentives for referrals, renewals, and customer expansion, and increase support for...
Stop optimising technology in silos
Reliability, delivery speed, security, cost and application experience are often managed by different teams. The customer, however, experiences only one service, writes Byron Phillips, head of managed operations at Synthesis. Modern technology operations have become...
AI raises the cyber stakes for African enterprises
Generative AI has done to cybercrime what it has done to content production: collapsed the cost and the skill required to produce convincing output at scale. For African enterprises, that shift is arriving faster than most governance frameworks can absorb it. By Wayne...
The overlooked data risk: What your business’s everyday paperwork reveals
Businesses invest in cybersecurity, access controls and data protection systems, but personal information can still be exposed through everyday operational processes. A courier label on a parcel, a delivery note left on a desk or a customer document discarded without...
Mukuru partners with Flash to add cash pay-in points
Mukuru has partnered with Flash, a payments technology company with an extensive network of spaza shops across South Africa, adding 170 000 cash pay-in points where customers can now pay for their Mukuru remittance orders. The network includes Flash’s broader merchant...
Logicalis earns Cisco Secure Networking specialisation
Logicalis has achieved Cisco’s Secure Networking Specialisation, recognising its expertise across networking, security and managed services. The designation validates Logicalis’ ability to design, implement and manage secure environments that bring connectivity and...
Five forces triggering Wall Street’s $3trn tech crash
There are five main triggers behind the $3-trillion tech crash that tore through Wall Street on Thursday, according to Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group. His comments come as the Nasdaq plunged 5.5% in its most brutal session since April 2025, slamming into correction...
Beyond AGOA: Building a more resilient export strategy
The prospect of South Africa losing its benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) understandably raises concerns, writes Meluleki Nzimande, partner at Webber Wentzel. Preferential access matters, particularly where exporters operate on tight...
NASA experiments with drones for planetary landings
NASA successfully demonstrated technology designed to help spacecraft autonomously navigate to safe landing sites on the Moon and on other planets. An Alta-X drone equipped with the agency’s Safe and Precise Landing – Integrated Capabilities Evolution (SPLICE)...
Strategic workforce planning in the AI era
By 2029, 30% of employees who were terminated and replaced by AI will be rehired, often at a higher cost, as organisations struggle to align workforce decisions with evolving business needs, according to Gartner. At the research group’s recent HR Symposium/Xpo,...