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…
President Donald Trump talked up the benefits of data centers and called for artificial intelligence self-regulation following a luncheon with major tech leaders at the White House on Tuesday, as calls for a slowdown reach a fever pitch. “There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department…
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…
Ugandan scientist Dr Matthias Magoola, the founder of Dei BioPharma, has been named among the 100 most influential people in Africa. He received the honour at a ceremony in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Friday. His company is building one of the region’s largest medicine and vaccine plants. The organisers said he was recognised for…
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…
Nigeria’s nine scheduled airlines failed to make Africa’s top 10 in the 2026 Skytrax World Airline Awards, as high operating costs and weak passenger demand continue to strain the ability of domestic carriers to sustain operations and expand their networks. Aviation sector experts who spoke with LEADERSHIP said Nigerian airlines are grappling with rising operating…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the keynote address at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference at the Moscone Center on Sept. 15, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Benjamin Fanjoy | Getty Images With the debate about regulating artificial intelligence raging in Washington this week, President Donald Trump picked up the phone to call his top ally on…
The iPhone 18 Pro South Africans buying the entry-level iPhone 18 Pro will pay R200 more than the iPhone 17 Pro cost at launch a year ago, even though Apple has raised the price of the same phone by 9% in the US. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at R28 799 for the 256GB model, an…
SAPS, via SITA, seeks a service provider to supply, deliver, support and maintain body-worn and vehicle dashboard cameras. (Image source: iStock) It’s another busy week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with around 800 new requests placed on the platform over the past week. The ICT industry fares well with municipalities, in particular, offering a range…
Global stock markets have been volatile as investors assess high bond yields and continued tensions between the U.S. and Iran. There are concerns about the impact of uncertainty in the Middle East on oil prices and consequently on inflation. Investors who prefer to look beyond short-term noise and buy stocks with attractive long-term growth potential…
