SA citizens have joined the rest of the world in resisting the harmful environmental impact of data centres, with communities in the Western Cape lodging a formal objection against a plan by US-listed Equinix to build two data centres in ... Read More
Investigators are probing how XET Solutions, the company that bankrolled former Ekurhuleni city manager Imogen Mashazi’s R3.35m private-jet junket to London, managed to extract R483m from the metro through alleged fraud, ghost employees and wildly inflated billing. The Sunday ... Read More
The SIU has been authorised to investigate allegations of maladministration and unlawful conduct linked to end-user computing training and other skills development programmes intended to benefit more than 7 000 learners across SA. An IT Web report notes that President ... Read More
SA has the highest rate of suspected digital fraud on the continent, with 3% of consumer transactions last year flagged for this, according to global information and insights company TransUnion. The country’s digital fraud landscape has become more complex, with ... Read More
The recent Gauteng High Court judgment in Mangundhla and Another v South African Reserve Bank and Others is contradictory to a previous decision in Standard Bank v SARB, creating conflicting High Court authorities on whether exchange controls apply to crypto assets. The situation ... Read More
In the ongoing impasse between Starlink and SA, and a push for regulatory change to allow the satellite service owned by Elon Musk to operate in the country, SA needs to critically assess whether it really needs the technology in ... Read More
* Amazon has launched its Prime subscription service in SA, intensifying competition with e-commerce rivals including Takealot, Walmart and Massmart, and fast-growing cross-border platforms like Shein and Temu. This introduces unlimited same-day and next-day delivery with no minimum spend in major ... Read More
* Nelson Mandela University (NMU) has launched a new initiative to equip Honours students with generative AI skills, positioning itself among the few South African computing departments to offer a specialised AI-focused Honours module. The programme is supported through a sponsorship ... Read More
* Last month, a graphic circulated on social media advertising an opportunity in the Department of Health. It invited people to enroll in a training programme to become an ambulance assistant. Under what appeared to be the SA coat of arms ... Read More
