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Openserve SASMA Awards Spotlight Tech and South Africa’s Creator Economy

As technology continues to reshape how South Africans create, communicate and build businesses online, the country’s digital creator community will gather in Rosebank on Saturday, 22 August, for the...

Pnet Job market trends report for August 2026: how South African women are embracing AI in the workplace

Pnet, South Africa’s leading online recruitment platform, has released its Pnet Job Market Trends Report for August 2026. Based on analysis of 1.5 million South African jobseeker profiles, the Women’s...

South Africa doesn’t have an AI problem. It has a data problem, and that Is only half the story

Artificial intelligence has become the boardroom conversation of the decade. Across South Africa, organisations are investing in generative AI, copilots, predictive analytics and intelligent automation, driven by the promise...

Obsidian becomes Africa’s only Red Hat Specialized Partner for Server/Cloud OS

Obsidian Systems has achieved Red Hat Specialized Partner status for Server/Cloud OS, becoming the only partner in Africa to hold this specialisation to date. The designation reflects advanced technical expertise...

The human rhythm: the pattern communicators keep ignoring

Every communicator today is fighting for attention. We build messages, shape narratives, and push content into a world that feels increasingly crowded and impatient. Yet beneath all this effort...

Healthy IT habits strengthen cyber resilience, says Kaspersky

At the recent Cyber Security Weekend 2026 conference, Kaspersky shared the findings from its survey titled “Cybersecurity in the workplace: Employee knowledge and behaviour” which was conducted among employees from the Middle East,...

Sandisk showcases NAND innovation for the era of AI inference at FMS 2026

At Future of Memory and Storage 2026 (FMS 26), Sandisk will showcase how NAND innovation is powering the next phase of AI infrastructure. As larger models, longer context windows, and agentic...

Red Hat launches asago Community to Automate AI Safety and Governance from policy to production

New collaborative open source project brings together Red Hat, Alquimia AI, Brave Software, EvalEval coalition, IBM Research, Interdisciplinary Transformation University Austria, Microsoft, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, North Carolina State University,...

Beyond human error: Lessons from South Africa’s cybersecurity reality

Every time an organisation traces a breach back to a single click, a rushed approval, or a document shared through the wrong app, it reaches for the same explanation:...

Nielsen Sports SA launches AI-powered platform, putting 150 million sports fan data points at users’ fingertips

Nielsen Sports South Africa used its Annual Sports Trends Breakfast, held on 23 July 2026 at The Forum, Bryanston, to unveil SIYA (Sponsorship Intelligence Yielding Answers), an AI-powered platform...

Your access to AI models is not a competitive advantag

Artificial intelligence models are becoming more powerful, more accessible and less expensive to use. While this is good news for businesses seeking to adopt the technology, it also creates...

Kaspersky uncovers new Mirage Kitten malware used in cyber-espionage campaign across the Middle East and Africa

Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered a previously undocumented malware set used by Mirage Kitten APT. The findings were revealed at its annual Kaspersky Cyber Security...
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Workforce Holdings launches new AI-Zone – turning paperwork chaos into instant, usable data

Workforce Holdings has introduced a customisable, cloud-based workforce AI processing platform to bridge the gap between traditional paper workflows and modern digital enterprise systems....

The bionic enterprise still depends on human judgement

Not long ago, I watched an experienced executive use generative AI (GenAI) to prepare for an important customer conversation. Within minutes, the system had...

Pilot launches Navigator, a home-grown AI intelligence layer for South Africa’s restaurants

Pilot, the point-of-sale platform and control centre behind South Africa’s leading restaurant and hospitality brands, has launched Navigator, its new AI intelligence layer built...

Cybersecurity is now part of managed IT, not a separate conversation

I still see businesses drawing a neat line between IT operations and cybersecurity. One team looks after Microsoft 365, user access, endpoints, backups, patches...

The more we automate, the more we need human judgement

AI is changing how media monitoring companies track, process, and analyse coverage. I do not believe the choice is between technology and people. AI...
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