Crackdowns alone won’t stop online wildlife trafficking

A new major global review shows that platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are fueling a fast-growing and difficult-to-track illegal wildlife trade. The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Dr Annette Hübschle, a co-author of the study, says closing...

Nvidia’s quarter was bigger than TSMC’s entire year

Nvidia generated more revenue in a single quarter than the company that manufactures its chips generated in the whole of last year. This comparison puts the scale of the result into sharp focus, says deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Nvidia reported quarterly revenue of...

AI dominates the corporate risk landscape

AI-enabled discovery of cyber vulnerabilities emerged as the most critical emerging risk facing organisations worldwide in the second quarter of 2026, according to Gartner. The Gartner Quarterly Emerging Risk Report series compiles insights and perspectives from...

AI misinformation is accelerating Africa’s risk landscape

As misinformation, cybercrime, health emergencies, civil unrest, extreme weather and infrastructure disruption become progressively interconnected across Africa, organisations are under growing pressure to distinguish fact from fiction before uncertainty escalates...

AWS and Nvidia to deliver 2m more GPUs and AI infrastructure

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Nvidia have announced a major expansion of their strategic collaboration to meet surging global demand for AI infrastructure as demand continues to accelerate. Building on already-rapid customer adoption of Nvidia-accelerated compute on...

AI spend by customer service surges

AI spending by customer service leaders has surged despite near-stagnant overall budget growth for customer service and support functions, according to a survey by Gartner. Customer service organisations are prioritising technology investments as AI rapidly reshapes...

AI vulnerabilities grew 10-fold in the first half of this year

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is happening across multiple sectors and has also led to an increase in the number of vulnerabilities discovered within AI services, according to Kaspersky’s Quarterly Exploits and Vulnerabilities Report. It’s a...

Ebolavirus vaccine candidate advances to clinical trials

African biopharmaceutical company Minapharm Group, headquartered in Egypt with subsidiaries in Berlin, will receive up to $16,5-million from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) to advance the development of a Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine...

Claudeforce merges Salesforce and Claude capabilities

Salesforce and Anthropic are announcing Claudeforce, an expanded strategic partnership bringing Claude’s intelligence and reasoning together with Salesforce’s enterprise harness to make its data, workflows, business logic, actions and governance securely accessible to...

Have a Heart this September

Next month is International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and CHOC is asking South Africans to learn the SILUAN early warnings signs of childhood cancer, listen to the stories behind every diagnosis, and take action to support children and teenagers on their cancer...

Nvidia’s quarter was bigger than TSMC’s entire year

Nvidia generated more revenue in a single quarter than the company that manufactures its chips generated in the whole of last year. This comparison puts the scale of the result into sharp focus, says deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Nvidia reported quarterly revenue of...

Samsung widens lead in declining MEA smartphone market

Smartphone shipments in Middle East and Africa (MEA) declined 10% YoY in Q2 2026, a quarter with no sales-driving occasion to support demand. The contraction was not evenly distributed among brands, however: several brands saw their shares decline steeply, while...

South Africans being forced into debt for daily essentials

South Africa’s cost-of-living crisis continues to deepen, with rising reliance on credit driving nearly a third of South Africans to borrow from informal lenders - often just for household essentials – according to Wonga’s annual credit utilisation survey. Surveying 4...

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Get your data ready for AI

AI is only as good as the data that feeds it – businesses who don’t have that in place will never reap the full benefits of an investment in AI. This is according to Peter Clarke, CEO LanDynamix, who says: “Bad data and poor prompts produce bad AI results....

Companies brace for the token economy’s surprise hidden bill 

In most boardrooms AI is still sold as a magic elixir, promising smarter decisions, happier customers, and fewer staff. However, as companies move from AI experiments to AI‑everywhere, a token economy is taking shape, and its hidden bill is about to land. AI token...

DocTalk launches next-gen platform

Digital health platform DocTalk has rolled out an enhanced mobile solution designed to make healthcare fast, efficient and convenient. The platform directly connects doctors and patients, cutting out long queues, phone tag, and admin delays that slow down care in both...

Ricoh introduces A3 colour MFP series

Ricoh South Africa has launched its new A3 colour multifunction printer series in the local market. The devices print at speeds of around 20 to 60 pages per minute and support both printed and digital document workflows across corporate, public-sector, healthcare,...

Nutanix lets enterprises run production agentic AI their way

Nutanix has announced the general availability of Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) 2.8, and the upcoming general availability of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.19, along with new incentives, programmes, and resources designed to help partners accelerate growth on...

Integrity360 acquires IAM specialist CyberIAM

Integrity360 has acquired leading Identity specialist CyberIAM, a cybersecurity Identity services company operating from the UK and South Africa. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. CyberIAM, founded in 2016, is a cybersecurity services and solutions...

realme launches P4  Power in SA

realme has launched the realme P4 Power smartphone in South Africa. The launch comes as South Africa's smartphone base continues to expand. The number of smartphone users in the country is forecast to grow from 18,65-million in 2026 to an estimated 25,8-million by...

Smart money: Defining the role of enterprise PCs in financial services

The amount of money that South Africa’s financial services sector spends on technology every year is nothing short of impressive. By Werner Joubert, commercial SYS business director (South Africa and SADC) at ASUS In 2025, South African businesses invested tens of...

Intron brings natural African language mixing to voice AI

Intron, an Africa-centric voice technology platform, has launched Sahara v2.5, African voice AI that enables computers to understand one of the continent's most common ways of communicating: mixing languages within the same sentence and conversation. Across Africa,...

IT Auditor (JHB) – Gauteng Randburg

ENVIRONMENT:BE responsible for the successful design and implementation of specialised IT audits, aligned with the IT Audit Plan as the next IT Auditor sought by a dynamic Security Solutions provider in Centurion. You will focus on evaluating the adequacy and...

ITSA: Senior Associate Information Security Analyst – Remote Remote

The purpose of this role is to provide enterprise security assurance, support client security governance, and ensure ongoing compliance with relevant standards while identifying and mitigating risks to safeguard the organisations and clients' information assets,...

Senior BI / Power BI Developer – Contract – Onsite – Sandton

ENVIRONMENT:Own the end-to-end design and development of sophisticated Power BI dashboards and management information solutions for the Licence to Operate programme. This is not simply a dashboard-building role. The individual must be sufficiently senior to engage...

Integration Architect – Administrative Applications

Our client is seeking an experienced Integration Architect to play a pivotal role in designing and governing enterprise integration solutions across a diverse portfolio of administrative and business-critical applications. This opportunity is ideal for a strategic...

Senior Software Engineer – Embedded & Industrial Systems

An excellent opportunity has become available for a highly skilled Software Engineer with a passion for legacy system transformation and embedded software development. Our client is looking for a technically strong professional who can bridge the gap between existing...

Mid to Senior Java Developer at MSP

Our client is seeking a skilled Mid to Senior Java Developer to join their Pretoria-based team. This hybrid opportunity is ideal for experienced developers who combine strong Java development expertise with solid Angular capabilities. Key Responsibilities Develop,...

Mid to Senior Java Developer at MSP – Gauteng Johannesburg

Our client is seeking a skilled Mid to Senior Java Developer to join their Pretoria-based team. This hybrid opportunity is ideal for experienced developers who combine strong Java development expertise with solid Angular capabilities. Key Responsibilities Develop,...

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