Author: Chris Anu

Understanding how labour law defines a workplace is more important than ever, especially in a world where working from home is becoming the norm and businesses are navigating complex retrenchment and union representation processes. The term “workplace” carries significant legal weight. Defined in section 213 of the Labour Relations Act (LRA) of 1995, it serves as the basis of many employment-related decisions that can impact both employers and employees. What does the law say about the workplace? The term “workplace” is defined in section 213 of the LRA as follows: “The place or places where the employees of an employer…

Tiyani Nghonyama, Geekulcha COO. (Photograph by Lesley Moyo) [CAPTION] The Northern Cape edition of the ITWeb Security Summit Hackathon will take place in Kimberley on 1 June at the Sol Plaatje University.Ahead of the 20th annual ITWeb Security Summit in Johannesburg on 3 and 4 June, the ITWeb Geekulcha hackathon will host a session in Kimberley on 1 June at the Sol Plaatje University.The Northern Cape edition of the ITWeb Security Summit Hackathon is hosted by the Northern Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT) and Sol Plaatje University (SPU) together with Geekulcha, CompTIA, Telspace Africa and Snode Technologies.Up…

Emile Burger Tarsus Distribution, one of South Africa’s largest technology distributors, has announced that its CEO, Gary Pickford, is stepping down. Pickford will be replaced by Emile Burger with effect from 1 June, though Pickford will stay on for a month to ensure a seamless handover. Burger had been serving as Tarsus chief financial and operating officer, and so he is intimately familiar with the Alviva-owned business. In this role, he spearheaded the diversification of the company’s offering and expanded relationships with key partners. It’s with a heavy heart that I resign from my role as CEO, but I’m excited…

The City of Johannesburg tabled a total budget of R89.4 billion for the 2025/26 financial year. The City of Johannesburg (COJ) has announced plans to transform South Africa’s economic hub into a “smart African city”.Presenting the 2025 budget speech this week, councillor Margaret Arnolds, COJ member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for finance, outlined several technology investments and interventions the city is making in order to realise the smart city dream and improve service delivery.The city tabled a total budget of R89.4 billion for the 2025/26 financial year. Revenue for 2025/26 reflects a 9.3% increase compared to the previous year.…

The Naspers head office in Cape Town South Africa’s benchmark stock index is heading for its best month in almost a year, with a helping hand from China’s most valuable company. The FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index is up more than 7% in dollar terms in May, on track for its biggest monthly gain since June last year and its best May performance since 2013. It has outperformed emerging market peers as well as the S&P 500 and the Stoxx Europe 600. The largest contributor to the rally has been tech investor Naspers, which soared after China’s Tencent Holdings in…

The Innovation Hub is looking to build Africa’s next unicorn start-up business, according to CEO Bangani Mpangalasane.Commonly used in the venture capital (VC) industry, the term ‘unicorn’ refers to a privately-held start-up company with a value of over $1 billion, according to Investopedia. Unicorn investors tend to be private investors or VC firms.While SA’s start-up ecosystem has made some gradual improvements over the years, with notable tech businesses like SweepSouth, Takealot and Yoco making waves, home-grown start-ups that fit the unicorn status are still mythological.Speaking to ITWeb TV recently during a wide-ranging interview about the local start-up space, Mpangalasane acknowledged…

Teraco’s JB5 is an imposing structure alongside the R24 highway east of Johannesburg – quite an achievement given its location alongside several other large buildings that make up the company’s sprawling and still-expanding Isando campus. JB5, which is located on the eastern end of the campus, is a 30MW data centre that will house Teraco’s first at-scale artificial intelligence workloads. It will house GPUs used by so-called “hyperscalers”, though Teraco can’t name the clients that use its facilities. Work began on JB5 in late 2022 and is now nearing completion. CEO Jan Hnizdo gave TechCentral a tour of the new…

Online applications for grade one and eight admissions will be open from 24 July to 29 August. The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has announced the dates for the 2026 online admissions for grades one and eight.Applications will open from Thursday, 24 July and are scheduled to close on Friday, 29 August 2025. Parents will not be able to access the system before it goes live.The GDE’s online admissions application system was introduced in 2015, with the aim to make the application process fair, transparent and efficient.Since its introduction in 2015, the GDE’s online system has successfully assisted hundreds of…

Anduril Industries’ Palmer Luckey, left, with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg I can’t think of any other deal that more encapsulates how Silicon Valley has changed in the past couple of years than this one, announced Thursday in a press release: Anduril and Meta are partnering to design, build and field a range of integrated XR products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception and enable intuitive control of autonomous platforms on the battlefield. For starters, Anduril Industries is a defence-tech company co-founded by Palmer Luckey, the man who created the Oculus VR headset that was acquired by Meta Platforms for US$2-billion in…

Louis De Gouveia, data competency manager at iOCO. In my previous article, I covered the principles crucial to getting data AI-ready; namely, data must be: diverse, timely, accurate, secure, discoverable and easily consumable by machines. Here I expand on the remaining principles and the all-important issue of security.Artificial intelligence (AI) systems often use sensitive data − including personally identifiable information, financial records, or proprietary business information − and use of this data requires responsibility.Criminals are very capable of stealing sensitive information, manipulating training data to bias outcomes, or even disrupting entire generative AI (GenAI) systems. Securing data is crucial to…