Virtual priority court has processed 80 deportation orders in Durban. (Image source: 123RF) The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJCD) is seeing gains in its newly-established virtual priority court, with 80 deportation orders processed in Durban so far. This, as the South African government seeks to enforce immigration laws and ensure the orderly deportation…
A typical migration environment looks manageable on paper. An established organisation, a predominantly on-premises setup, a directive to move to the cloud. What the scoping work usually reveals is something more layered: servers provisioned years ago and never decommissioned, data that was never classified, access controls set up once and never reviewed. Not unusual individually…
South African Elon Musk is the first person to be worth more than $1 trillion. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson, with images from Daniel Oberhaus and SpaceX) Pretoria-born Elon Musk has become the first person in the world to be worth more than $1 trillion after SpaceX’s share price gained 25.38% almost overnight to hit a…
Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create visibility gaps and alert fatigue. To build resilience, organisations should consolidate platforms, automate responses and embed AI-driven detection, shifting from reactive firefighting to intelligence-led protection at scale. In the space of a few short years,…
Despite growing enforcement actions, most Gen Z consumers still trust finfluencers more than official financial guidance. (Image created via Gemini) While a growing number of young people are turning to social media for financial guidance, new research suggests much of the advice they consume may be inaccurate, misleading or potentially harmful. A global report by…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Abdul Saboor/Reuters Artificial intelligence will lead to labour shortages, not the replacement of humans, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted in a highly optimistic appearance at the VivaTech technology conference in Paris on Wednesday. Bezos put forward a rosy vision of how technology will help humanity, speaking about projects including his space…
Standard Bank Connect aims for eSIM to be a meaningful share of its subscriber base by the end of 2026. Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) Standard Bank Connect has introduced its eSIM offering. An eSIM is a digital SIM embedded directly into compatible smartphones and devices. It allows customers to activate mobile services digitally and…
Bot traffic has overtaken human traffic online – and South African operators warn that automated traffic, from relentless scrapers to targeted attacks, is straining what local infrastructure can absorb, while a subtler threat from AI hollows out the local content economy. Automated bot traffic recently surpassed human traffic on the internet for the first time in history…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. On Monday, I found myself looking for the enterprise-technology angle to the United Kingdom’s planned social media ban for children under 16. There isn’t really one. Beyond better age verification (a problem the porn industry solved long ago, but not well), almost nothing will change directly in the world of…
Episode 6 of Watts & Wheels – TechCentral’s electric motoring show – sees hosts William Kelly and Duncan McLeod wade into the most opaque corner of the South African car market: tariffs, subsidies and what they really cost the people buying the cars. William opens with a deep dive into why locally sold vehicles are…
