Global dialogue shapes unified digital policy priorities
Representatives of governments, industry, academia, civil society and the technical community at the World Telecommunication/ICT Policy Forum 2026 (WTPF-26) this weekend adopted a set of Opinions on critical issues shaping the digital future. ITU – the UN agency for...
Key metros still up in the air ahead of November elections
Two months before South Africans head to the polls to elect new local governments, Ipsos research suggests that electoral outcomes remain far from settled, with significant numbers of registered voters still available to be persuaded. The political landscape remains...
In the age of agentic AI, who is actually doing the shopping?
Venture money is flooding into AI shopping agents. Payment networks, browser makers and AI labs are racing to define how autonomous agents will shop, compare and buy. However, the infrastructure behind that race isn't keeping pace with the capital says Joshua Harvey,...
Nvidia and CrowdStrike strengthen agentic cybersecurity frontier
Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. This is the word from Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang, telling the CrowdStrike Fal.Con 2026 conference last week that the IT industry is at an inflection point in cybersecurity. Huang joined CrowdStrike CEO and...
Incubator aims to test AI EdTech tools
Injini has launched its AI for Education Venture Builder and Incubation Program. Supported by philanthropic funder Coefficient Giving, the eight-month initiative takes pre-formed teams from the ideation stage to launching market-ready, impactful EdTech startups. The...
Scan to Pay now live in Samsung Wallet
EFT Corporation has partnered with Samsung to bring its Scan to Pay QR payment technology into Samsung Wallet, giving Galaxy device users in South Africa a fast, secure way to pay at thousands of merchant locations nationwide. Galaxy users can now open the Wallet,...
Ford SA partners with TUT for Sasol Solar Challenge
Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa will sponsor the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) SunChaser IV team in the 2026 Sasol Solar Challenge. On 10 September, TUT’s student-built solar car will cross the start line in Sasolburg, beginning an eight-day public-road...
FairMoney passes 30m Nigeria users
FairMoney Microfinance Bank, a CBN-licensed digital financial institution in Nigeria, has surpassed 30-million registered users in the country. Through the FairMoney app, customers can open and manage an account, save money, pay bills, make transfers, use cards,...
Digital companies’ emission reductions lag climate commitments
Despite progress in climate reporting and renewable electricity use, digital companies are falling short in cutting emissions at the pace required to achieve global climate targets, according to the new report Greening Digital Companies: Monitoring Emissions and...
Customers are not forgiving of chatbots after a negative experience
Customers say they are open to using customer service chatbots, but only 27% of customers say they would be willing to try a chatbot again after a negative experience, according to a Gartner survey. Eric Keller, senior director analyst in the Gartner Customer Service...
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Africa’s mobility opportunity needs the right conditions to thrive
Africa has never lacked ambition or an appetite for innovation. Across the continent, technology has transformed how people communicate, access financial services, run businesses and participate in the economy. Mobility has the potential to be the next great chapter...
How AI could make governments more responsive
For most of the past decade, digital government has meant digitising what already existed: moving paper forms online, replacing queues with portals, converting manual registers into databases. While useful, this largely automated processes instead of changing them in...
Digital safety tools are failing our kids
The reported arrest of a 16-year-old in Malmesbury in a case involving child sexual abuse material should disturb us for several reasons, write Anzio Jacobs and Aluta Sneke from the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund. Somewhere, children were exploited to create that...
When patients move, their healthcare data should move with them
A patient in an underserved community may begin their care at a local clinic, be referred to a district hospital, have tests processed elsewhere, and later need specialist treatment or follow-up in another province. By Henry Adams, country manager at InterSystems...
Building a cybersecurity workforce ready for what’s next
Only a few years ago, AI was present in the workplace but peripheral, a specialised tool operating largely out of sight. Today, it’s fundamentally changing how we learn, work, and lead. By Marci Paino, chief learning officer of enterprise learning and growth at Cisco...
SARS is fighting harder. Taxpayers must fight smarter
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has become a far more formidable opponent in tax disputes, wielding the tax acts with greater purpose and precision. Once it raises an assessment, it is increasingly prepared to dig in and defend its position. That means...
The cloud gold rush is over. Now comes the hard part
For much of the past decade, cloud migration was the main topic in technology discussions. Organisations were urged to shift workloads from on-premises systems to the cloud as quickly as possible. By Avinash Gupta, head of the Centre of Excellence at In2IT...
Forget the AI hype: SA’s AI race is about power, infrastructure and execution
For years, South Africa’s electricity crisis was one of the biggest obstacles to economic growth. Now Eskom is reportedly talking to some of the world’s largest technology companies about using surplus electricity to power the data centres needed for the next wave of...
The role of flash storage in the era of physical AI
While artificial intelligence (AI) has been particularly good at answering questions, many may be wondering how else the technology could help us in our daily lives. Well, we are already starting to see the next phase of AI, where intelligence has leapt off the screen...
NetScout data platform transforms AI-driven network operations
NetScout Systems has expanded its data platform to provide the trusted operational context required to build the foundation for enterprise AI. The NetScout data platform observes digital interactions, converts packets into high-fidelity, compact, contextualised...
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Systems Engineer (Microsoft 365 / Azure / Windows Server) – Pinelands / S/Suburbs – Onsite – Western Cape Cape Town
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer – AI / GenAI at Datonomy Solutions
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer – AI / GenAI at Datonomy Solutions – Gauteng Sandton
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The Analyst acts as the link between the business and technical delivery teams. The role is responsible for understanding business requirements and translating them into clear, practical functional and technical specifications that can be developed, tested and...
Functional Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment – Gauteng Johannesburg
The Analyst acts as the link between the business and technical delivery teams. The role is responsible for understanding business requirements and translating them into clear, practical functional and technical specifications that can be developed, tested and...
Functional Analyst at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
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