The South African National Energy Development Institute and Eskom seek tech solutions to improve financial recovery. It’s a particularly busy week for public sector procurement officers, with almost 850 notices posted on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal. The ICT industry benefits from this rush, with the State IT Agency (SITA) standing out with five new tenders…
MTN Ghana looks poised soon to overtake MTN Group’s home market of South Africa as the second largest by service revenue behind Nigeria, further shifting the group’s centre of gravity to West Africa. In the group’s quarterly update for the three months to end September, published on Monday, it said MTN South Africa generated R32.7-billion…
In an effort to localise and streamline its recruitment process, the Shoprite Group – in partnership with South African SMME, the OTB Group (OTB) – has created a centralised platform that simplifies applications and prioritises nearby jobs for applicants. This new platform aims to reduce hiring time, improve matching, and bring recruitment closer to home….
Michael Langeveld, HPE. Modern retailers must move faster, think smarter and put customer experience at the centre of everything they do. And in an industry that runs on data, this means bringing information closer to retail operations. Speaking at an HPE and Microsoft retail executive event at Chefs Warehouse in Cape Town yesterday, Stephan Steyn,…
Shoprite Group has developed and deployed a centralised digital recruitment platform that is already changing how South Africa’s largest private employer sources employees. Built in partnership with local technology SME, OTB Group, and supported through Shoprite’s enterprise and supplier development arm, Next Capital, the system matches job applicants to vacancies in stores closest to their…
Diopoint delivers integrated ICT solutions that simplify complexity. In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, businesses need more than just technology – they need a trusted partner who understands their goals. Diopoint, a 100% Black women-owned ICT service provider with a 14-year track record, continues to help organisations across South Africa modernise, secure and scale their IT environments…
Valve’s new Linux-powered gaming console Valve on Wednesday laid out its most ambitious hardware push ever: a living-room “Steam Machine” console, a new Steam controller and a “Steam Frame” VR headset – all running SteamOS, Valve’s Linux-based platform. Crucially, Valve isn’t naming a price yet, but it did reveal the launch window: early 2026. At…
Sunitha Chalam. Contrasting the growth of international cyber breaches with the sharpening of local regulations, Sunitha Chalam will deliver an informative and thought-provoking presentation on this topic as her keynote address at the Cape Town leg of the 2026 ITWeb Security Summit. A specialist in crisis communications and management, Chalam’s presentation: ‘Global breaches, local rules:…
A dispute between WhatsApp and the Information Regulator of South Africa has been settled out of court. Speaking at a media briefing on Thursday, the chair of the Information Regulator, Pansy Tlakula, said the matter – which stemmed from the Meta Platforms-owned WhatsApp’s amended privacy policy in 2021 being in violation of the Protection of…
Martin May, business development: networks at Duxbury Networking. I have been in networking long enough to see technologies come and go. Firewalls, MPLS and VPN concentrators have all had their place. But the way we work today has outgrown the idea of a neat perimeter that can be protected with a single box at the…
