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Tech, skills mismatch debilitates SA’s public service

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Simnikiwe Mzekandaba

South Africa’s public service workforce lacks some of the technology skills essential for the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). Additionally, even though most government officials are aware of these technologies, they struggle to apply them to enhance public administration and recognise how these can be used to optimise the efficiency of the state.
KasiD looks to go international as business grows

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Simnikiwe Mzekandaba

Local food delivery service KasiD is targeting exponential growth this year, aiming to be in more than 60% of the 532 townships in South Africa. So says founder and CEO Freddy Mahhumane, telling ITWeb about the platform’s short- to long-term goals. “We’re nearly there,” he said about reaching more townships. “When we started KasiD, we only had nine employees, but we now have 210 employees – directly employed by KasiD.
Mind the gap: Where incident response falls flat

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Tracy Burrows

While most large organisations have incident response plans in place, few have covered all aspects of incident response, or tested their plans thoroughly enough. And these gaps in planning tend to become apparent only in a crisis situation. This is according to Yunus Scheepers, director of cyber security operations at BUI, who was speaking ahead of the ITWeb Security Summit 2025.
TikTok insists African creators are ‘coining it’ on the platform

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Sibahle Malinga

Despite controversy over TikTok’s monetisation approach for African creators, the short-form video social media network maintains that African content creators have been “coining it” on the platform. In a statement, TikTok says it has a suite of reward features designed to empower creators to monetise their work and engage with their communities on the platform.
VIDEO: SA’s cyber criminals gaining notoriety

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe

South Africa is one of the largest perpetrators of online confidence scams, according to a leading cyber expert.
Data exfiltration overtakes ransomware attacks in SA

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Adrian Hinchcliffe Johannesburg |Adrian Hinchcliffe

Ransomware attacks are on the decline, and are being replaced by data exfiltration, says an expert local digital forensics auditor. Professor Danny Myburgh, MD of Cyanre, speaking to ITWeb TV, said his company is called to handle 40 to 60 major breaches of large South African companies every year and has noted a decrease in ransomware in recent months. This, he surmised, is due to companies adopting better backup and recovery strategies, including air-gapping.
Africa falls behind as globe navigates geopolitics of AI

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Sibahle Malinga

As countries worldwide navigate the geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) by leveraging the emerging tech for security and economic development, Africa is falling behind. This was the sentiment shared during a webinar held this week by BCG X that focused on how the geopolitics of AI is shaping the future of global power, the global economy and international relations.
Google accelerates AI, cloud services with upgrades | ITWeb

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Sibahle Malinga

New products debut at Google Cloud Next 2025, with enhancements across its AI Hypercomputer stack and an upgrade to Gemini.
Bridging the sustainability gap to support power, cooling for AI era

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Tracy Burrows

The AI era comes with massive data centre power and cooling requirements, but constrained utilities and sustainability concerns could hamper the growth of data centres to support exponential adoption in AI. Collaboration and innovation will be key to AI progress, according to Vertiv, an expert in power and thermal systems for data centres.
CISOs under pressure: Security leaders' retreat unpacks trends, threats in SA today

1 week ago | itweb.co.za | Tracy Burrows

Evolving technology, increasingly stringent regulations and a lack of understanding at board level are among the myriad challenges facing South Africa’s CISOs, CROs, CCOs and CTOs as they battle to maintain organisational cyber resilience. This emerged during an exclusive two-day CISO retreat hosted by Veeam in Magaliesburg. Themed: ‘The CISO’s strategic shift – from IT security to business enabler’, the event discussed the changing environment and pressures CISOs work under.