The level of R&D expenditure compared to the level of gross domestic product went down to 0.60% in 2024/25 from the 0.62% recorded in 2023/24. (Image source: iStock) While South Africa’s overall expenditure on research and development (R&D)continues to stagnate, the ICT sector recorded the largest increase in R&D expenditure in 2024/25. This is according…
The national Department of Land Reform and Rural Development seeks a new enterprise engineered infrastructure for SA’s deeds registration environment. (Image source: iStock) Municipal ICT tenders take a sharp downturn this week, as attention turns to the Local Government Elections taking place on Wednesday. Despite the lower activity on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, the industry…
Ntsiki Woco, chief human resources officer at MetroFibre. A group of 17 young South Africans, almost all of whom live with disabilities, have graduated from MetroFibre’s annual unemployed youth development initiative with an NQF Level 3 qualification in contact centre and business process outsourcing (BPO) support. The initiative focuses on developing skills in ICT-related disciplines,…
The Department of Human Settlements tenders for the analysis, design and development of a National Digital Human Settlements Management System. (Image source: iStock) The ICT industry will be pleased to see national government departments returning to National Treasury’s eTenders Portal with technology requirements. This follows weeks of having to depend on municipal requests for opportunities….
A reporting mechanism will allow the Department of Local Government to make timely, evidence-based decisions, it says. (Image source: iStock) It’s another municipal-focused week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with the top echelons of government and large state-owned entities continuing to show little interest in technology. The Western Cape Department of Local Government continues this…
The Technology Innovation Agency aims to review, clean up, capture, expedite and organise funding applications data. (Image source: iStock) National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers another slow week for the ICT industry, as even municipalities and districts start to slow down on publishing requests. It is against this backdrop that the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) takes…
Service providers are sought for the supply of cloud services for the South African School Administration and Management System. (Image source: iStock) It’s another quiet week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, requiring the ICT industry to turn to local government, as a wide range of metro, district and local municipalities come to the party with…
The Department of Social Development seeks to appoint a service provider to render a hosted call centre service for its Gender-Based Violence Command Centre. (Image source: iStock) With school holidays and Heritage Day providing interruptions to the working week, National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a quiet week. Despite the low volume of tenders, the hardware…
SASSA seeks a cloud-based omni-channel contact centre as a service solution. (Image source: iStock) National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a mixed bag for the ICT industry this week, with a rush of new advertisements favouring those companies that are eager to engage in lower value, quick turnaround quotation requests. A new tender from the South…
Henry Myburgh, senior regional account manager southern Africa at Vertiv (l) with Richard Lace, business unit manager at Pinnacle ICT (r). Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), which positions itself as a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, has announced a distribution partnership with Pinnacle ICT, which positions itself as Africa’s leading ICT company, extending the availability of…
