
SA IT recruitment gains momentum as talent war intensifies
Recruitment activity for IT professionals rebounded in the final quarter of 2025, despite persistent skills gaps in specialised IT roles.
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Recruitment activity for IT professionals rebounded in the final quarter of 2025, despite persistent skills gaps in specialised IT roles.

South Africa’s IT channel warns of rising PC prices and shipment delays as global hardware shortages and supply pressures intensify.

Fomi watches you work, then scolds you when your attention wanders. It’s helpful, but there are privacy issues to consider.

Bowers & Wilkins’ latest Px7 headphones keep sound and style at the forefront, with brilliant results.

Strong CX foundations are no longer optional – they’re the key to meeting rising customer expectations.
India’s digital payment platforms process trillions of dollars a year through UPI, the government-built real-time payments rail that handles more than 90% of all payment transactions in the country, but one of their largest net revenue line items is not a payment product at all: it’s a cheap plastic speaker that sits on a shopkeeper’s counter and reads out incoming payments aloud. The roughly...

The Sage Intacct cloud-based accounting system incorporates AI agents to automate accounting processes and gives users real-time visibility, automation and scalable control.

The Huawei Developer Competition, Code4Mzanzi, has kicked off in partnership with the Department of Small Business Development and various academic institutions, including the University of Cape Town, the University of Johannesburg, the University of Pretoria, and the University of the Witwatersrand. The competition, which is part of a larger international initiative, brings together South...

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown, according to a report. Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to machine learning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the...

The worker, who posted dozens of defamatory videos, narrowly avoids activating a suspended 30-day prison sentence.

Cyber security professionals have reacted to SONA 2026, urging government to classify digital security as critical infrastructure and prioritise skills development.

On a busy afternoon in Cape Town, a customer taps her crypto card at a café counter. The transaction clears in seconds. The barista hands over the receipt and moves on to the next order. What makes the exchange different is not visible to anyone in the queue. The payment was made using crypto. Until […]

Synthetic identities are becoming a quick and easy way to establish trust, bypassing business processes by exploiting those who hold the keys, says Antonios Christodoulou, founder and CEO of Cyber Dexterity.

Eighty-two percent of local companies invest more in preventing attacks than in preparing to recover from them, says Musa Masungwini, data protector and cyber defender at Dell Technologies SA.

While edtech solutions promise to address long-standing challenges in the education system, a lack of contextual awareness and support means that many fail to deliver.

Rapid7 and Trinexia empower South African organisations to turn cybersecurity visibility into decisive action.

The 2026 cohort for the MTN Foundation-Helios Towers ICT learnership begins 12-month on-the-job training.

The university’s Centre for Automotive and Electric Vehicle Innovation turns academic research into road‑ready electric mobility solutions.

AI is reshaping consulting’s business models, pricing structures and hiring practices – and South Africa is no exception.
According to Lara Trump, Donald Trump has prepared but not yet delivered a speech about extraterrestrial life, though the White House says such a speech would be “news to me.” White House Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt continued: “I’ll have to check in with our speech writing team. Uh, and that would be of great interest to me personally, and I’m sure all of you in this room and apparently...