For two decades, GovTech has been the room where South Africa’s digital government story gets written. This year, that story reaches a milestone worth pausing on. GovTech 2026 runs from 21 to 23 September in Durban, marking the platform’s 20th anniversary. Organised by the State Information Technology Agency, it remains the country’s largest gathering of…
Pieter Nel, regional head for SADC at Sophos in South Africa. (Image: Supplied) South African organisations continue to fall victim to ransomware, with compromised credentials the most common technical root cause of attacks, a lack of protection the leading operational cause and user devices the most common entry point. This is according to the latest…
For most of the last decade, Microsoft made it inexpensive to wait. Each time a SQL Server version reached the end of its extended support – 2008, 2012, 2014 – the same escape hatch was available. Move the workload onto an Azure virtual machine and the Extended Security Updates came free. SQL Server 2014 still…
Waymo has announced plans to expand its autonomous ride-hailing footprint into Singapore, marking its second major market deployment in Asia outside the United States. Over the coming months, the company will deploy an initial fleet of Jaguar I-PACE electric vehicles across the island nation to begin preliminary operational setup. Read: Sony expands audio lineup with…
Complete the 2026 CIO Survey and submit your nominations for the CIO of the Year Awards. If you are a CIO or the most senior IT executive in a sizeable South African organisation, share your perspective by completing The ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Survey 2026. Conducted in partnership with MTN Business, this research project is now…
South Africans paid R26.92/l for 95 unleaded inland when prices rose on 2 September. Average Brent crude climbed to US$87.88 from $82.37 in the review period, on US-Iran tensions and renewed fears over the Strait of Hormuz. That was the cheap month. Brent has since pushed above $100 for the first time since July, and…
Apple has officially introduced the iPhone Duo, entering the foldable smartphone market with a dual-screen device that expands the traditional mobile form factor. Designed with the compact footprint of a passport when closed, the handset opens to reveal the largest display ever featured on an iPhone. To deliver a seamless folding mechanism, Apple engineered a…
Cyber criminals are accessing number plates. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson | Pexels & GenAI) The Road Traffic Infringement Agency (RTIA) is investigating a possible hack of the eNatis system, as scams using propaganda tactics of fear and reward are being distributed under ‘Fines SA’ branding and listing the motorists’ correct number plates. The RTIA has…
Capitec Connect and FNB Connect are sometimes set against each other as competing theories of what a bank should do with a mobile network. But the closer you look at the two businesses, the more alike they look. Both run on Cell C. Both sell only to their own banking clients. Both tier their rewards…
Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei has proposed a standardized framework of measurement metrics to quantify the pace of artificial intelligence development and establish empirical safety benchmarks. Detailed in a research publication following recent security disclosures regarding autonomous agents, the report highlights the growing role of AI in building successor models. Read: Bandwidth Blog &…
