Pandelani Munyai, group CIO at Transnet, and Jochem Melis, CIO of cloud, infrastructure and core platforms at Absa, have won the public and private sector categories respectively at the ITWeb Brainstorm CIO Awards 2026. Pandelani Munyai, group CIO of Transnet, and Jochem Melis, CIO of cloud, infrastructure and core platforms at Absa, have won the…
According to Gartner, more than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled before the end of next year. One of the main reasons, says the research house, is unclear business value. Organisations are deploying autonomous systems because of FOMO and without defining measurable outcomes. If anything, agents get pointed at whatever is loudest in…
Company GM Tony Shi details Vivo’s local strategy, operating in a highly competitive market and the role of memory costs in rolling out its foldables locally. Chinese smartphone vendor Vivo wants to be listed among the top three smartphone brands in South Africa, targeting a sweet spot position in an extremely competitive market. Tony Shi,…
AI-driven fraud is rising across Africa, with criminals exploiting human behaviour and trust rather than system vulnerabilities, says Thalia Pillay, CEO of Orca Fraud. In an interview with ITWeb Africa editor Samuel Mungadze, Pillay says criminals are deploying increasingly sophisticated AI-powered tactics to circumvent security controls. Artificial intelligence (AI)-driven fraud is on the rise across…
BulkSMS has unveiled its refreshed brand identity, marking a new chapter for a business that has been helping organisations deliver business-critical SMS messages reliably for 26 years. Today, its gateway seamlessly integrates into business processes and software applications, reaches across borders and connects to over 800 mobile network operators worldwide. Richard Simpson, Managing Director of the…
In this episode of ITWeb TV, Simo Kalajdzic, senior operations manager at Bolt South Africa, discusses how a fatal profile-rental incident prompted the e-hailer to strengthen safety controls against driver profile sharing. #Bolt #E-hailing safety #SouthAfrica Bolt says it has paid more than R42.3 billion to driver operators in South Africa since launching in the…
Vivo’s new global headquarters. (Photograph by Simnikiwe Mzekandaba) Nestled within the leafy suburbs of China’s Shenzhen is the newly-opened global headquarters and campus of smartphone manufacturer Vivo. Shenzhen is considered China’s trading city and is home to some of the country’s major IT firms and brands, including Huawei, Honor, Oppo and now Vivo. See also…
On this episode of ITWeb TV, Dane Liebenberg, AI executive for FNB Retail and Business Banking, unpacks how the bank is assessing the value of its artificial intelligence investments through four key pillars. #AI #Banking #Fintech #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalBanking As financial institutions move beyond artificial intelligence (AI) experimentation and begin scaling deployments, First National Bank (FNB)…
One Linkage stopped by the ITWeb studio as part of the AWS Equity Equivalent Investment Program – a business acceleration initiative designed to support the growth of black-owned technology businesses within the AWS Partner Network. #aws #awseeip #onelinkage South Africa’s small and medium enterprises (SMEs) collectively form one of the country’s biggest economic foundations. Enterprises…
In this episode of ITWeb TV, Tracker CEO Dillan Fernando provides an overview of how the company has evolved from a vehicle recovery service into a holistic tech company offering personal safety and pet tracking, fleet telemetry and processes 200 million data points daily. After 30 years in operation, Tracker is synonymous with vehicle recovery,…
