Eugene Perumal, founder and principal of Valutivity. Some 95% of executives say their organisations have already experienced negative consequences from enterprise AI use, with direct financial loss as the most common outcome. Agentic AI compounds that risk dramatically. Agents that can read, write, trigger workflows and initiate transactions under a single broadly permissioned identity are…
The addition of renewable power to the national grid, the enablement of energy wheeling and a wholesale market in the future will move SA’s electricity market from coal reliance to consumer choice. SOLA Group’s MD Katherine Persson spoke to ITWeb about the country’s energy market – past, present and future. South Africa’s energy space has…
According to Stats SA, South Africa’s green and renewable energy transition remains heavily male-dominated. (Image source: 123RF, created via GenAI) South Africa’s renewable energy industry may still be dominated by men in technical and engineering roles, but women are increasingly taking on influential positions across the sector. Data from Statistics South Africa shows that women…
Nomzamo Xaba and James Hickman visited the ITWeb studio to introduce 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 South Africa has long been part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) story. The foundational technology behind…
Hercules Ragoleka visited the ITWeb studio to discuss how Telkom is a technology and infrastructure leader modernising South Africa’s mobile networks to be smarter, more energy efficient and more resilient, while expanding access and supporting the digital economy. #Telkom Connectivity sits at the centre of how South Africans work, build businesses and entertain themselves, and the opportunities riding…
The AI boom is squeezing the global supply of RAM and silicon, pushing up prices and disrupting what actually lands on South African shelves. At the same time, print revenue has been sliding year after year — and HP still calls print part of the edge computing ecosystem. Adrian Hinchcliffe puts both to Yesh Surjoodeen,…
Former ZADNA CEO Molehe Wesi. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) The board of the .ZA Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) has confirmed that Michael Molehe Wesi no longer serves as the organisation’s chief executive officer, effective 8 June. This, after Wesi was suspended in October 2025, amid allegations of misconduct and governance failures. The CEO was placed on…
AI agents are moving from assistants that fetch data to co-workers that run tasks end to end. SAP says that shift — the autonomous enterprise — rests on two things most companies underestimate: context and governance. And with mainstream ECC support ending in 2027, South African businesses are running out of room to decide. Chris…
Cyber security experts engaged with ITWeb TV at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, discussing Africa’s evolving threats, innovations, resilience and the future. (Image source: 123RF) The cyber security ecosystem is remarkably diverse. At the 2026 ITWeb Security Summit, ITWeb TV interviewed a range of experts – including a cyber security comedian – to shed light…
Mark Walker, director & co-founder of Transformation for Innovation (T4i). Several tech industry experts will present at the ITWeb Cloud Summit 2026, including Mark Walker, director and co-founder of Transformation for Innovation (T4i), who will focus on the inevitable impact of agentic AI on the evolution of the cloud ecosystem. Walker is among several industry…
