Standard Bank’s Bill Blackie Standard Bank has rolled out a substantially upgraded business banking platform that shifts greater control to customers, allowing businesses to manage their own electronic payment limits, user entitlements and fraud protections without calling a relationship manager. The R1-billion re-platforming project, built in collaboration with vendor Backbase, represents the bank’s bid to…
Javvad Malik, lead CISO advisor at KnowBe4. We have entered the age of the human-AI hybrid, where trust becomes the primary attack surface, says Javvad Malik, lead CISO advisor at cyber security firm KnowBe4. Malik is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at ITWeb Security Summit Cape Town 2026 on 26 May at the Century City Conference…
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana Finance minister Enoch Godongwana has been urged to reduce taxes on electric cars in Wednesday’s budget speech and to deliver the policy clarity the sector has waited two years for. The taxes make electric cars more expensive than petrol vehicles, while a lack of policy around new energy vehicles is slowing…
Chee Tan, Vice President of Ecosystem & Alliances at Vasion, leads Vasion’s global strategic ecosystem partnerships. He drives the integration of AI-powered output management and document workflows with leading enterprise solutions such as SAP S/4HANA, enabling organizations to modernize print infrastructure, consolidate environments, and automate enterprise document workflows. Vasion, a leader in serverless printing and…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Steve Marcus/Reuters As Nvidia heads into quarterly earnings on Wednesday, AI investors are seeking evidence that the chip maker’s profits are growing apace on the back of a US$630-billion capital spending budget from Big Tech. But signs of risk to Nvidia’s long-held dominance are also emerging from hyperscalers’ plans to design…
Gauteng province zeroes in on an artificial intelligence office. (Image created using GenAI via ChatGPT) The accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has the Gauteng government mulling the creation of a provincial AI office. This was revealed by premier Panyaza Lesufi during the 2026 State of the Province Address (SOPA) at the Nasrec Expo Centre….
Netstar, a subsidiary of Altron and leading provider of vehicle tracking and telematics solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with the Sunshine Tour to develop enhanced golf performance analytics and tracking capabilities together. The strategic partnership aims to support South African golfers by providing insights to help refine skills, define strategies and improve consistency. The…
AWS has set up 20 IT graduates in home affairs offices across Gauteng. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has placed 20 unemployed IT graduates within home affairs offices across Gauteng through the Youth Employment Services (YES) programme. This forms part of efforts to bridge the gap between skills and workplace experience − a challenge often cited…
Image: Mark Ahsmann Shares in IBM recorded their steepest daily drop in more than 25 years on Monday, after AI start-up Anthropic said its Claude Code tool could be used to modernise a programming language run on IBM systems. IBM shares sank 13.2%, their biggest drop since 18 October 2000. Cobol is a programming language…
Ookla®, a global leader in connectivity intelligence, and Ericsson, a world leader in communications technology, demonstrate an innovative solution allowing users to measure and validate 5G network slicing performance. This collaboration marks a major milestone in the 5G-Advanced era, providing a way to validate the Quality of Experience (QoE) essential for the next generation of…
