Public sector procurement preference this week turned to low-value, quick-win quotation requests. Activity on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal remains high this week; however, public sector procurement preference has now turned towards low-value, quick-win quotation requests. Nevertheless, the ICT sector will be pleased to see that national government departments are once again considering their technology requirements,…
The rate of banking sector-related contact crimes such as branch-before-deposit and ATM-after-withdrawal robberies are in sharp decline as criminals find higher rates of success through digital means to defraud people. According to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre’s (Sabric’s) Annual Crime Statistics 2024 report, robberies dropped 35% year on year in 2024, with associated…
Third-year students pursuing a degree in IT and computers are invited to apply for the Amazon (Software Development Engineer) Recruitment Bursary, for the 2026 academic year. Bursaries will be awarded for studies related to the following fields (Undergraduate and Honours): Artificial Intelligence Computer Engineering Computer Science Data Science Information Systems Information Technology Machine Learning Software…
WiTechnology officially launched its digital marketplace platform in Midrand last week, bringing together female entrepreneurs, corporates and government partners to strengthen gender equity and inclusivity in the technology sector. The digital platform was unveiled during the second WiTechnology Summit. It aims to enable women-led small and medium enterprises (SMMEs) to connect with corporates, access funding…
Most of South Africa’s five largest banks are increasing their spend on IT – excluding staff costs – in single-digit percentages, their most recent full-year financial results show. However, Capitec – although not the biggest spender in absolute terms – bucked the industry trend by increasing its spend by 32% year on year for the…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. As an enterprise buyer, there are occasional windows of opportunity to lay in some IT products and services ahead of drought, or price spikes. We mostly get to see those in retrospect, the way we now know that early 2022 would have been an excellent time to stock up on…
The author, Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso There is surely no greater sign of the urgent need for reform of the electricity sector than the way Eskom’s electricity tariffs are set. The whole system is far from the way prices should be set – through a competitive market in which firms aim to…
Saildrone Surveyor – Courtesy Saildrone Technologies ABS awarded Classification to the Saildrone Surveyor, a fully autonomous deepwater unmanned surface vehicle (USV). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250826434666/en/ At 20 meters long and capable of unmanned operations across all of the world’s oceans, the Surveyor breaks new ground. The Surveyor is…
PubNub, the leading platform for real-time interactive applications, announced its collaboration with DAZN, the leading global sports entertainment platform, to power a groundbreaking broadcast of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025™. This was the first men’s international club football tournament streamed live and free to fans worldwide. Leveraging PubNub’s real-time infrastructure, DAZN delivered an interactive…
US singer Taylor Swift. Daniel Cole/Reuters Meta Platforms has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found. While many were created by users with a Meta tool for building chatbots,…
