Author: Chris Anu

How recruitment agencies help businesses find top talent. (Image: Supplied) Talent isn’t just an asset, it’s your biggest competitive advantage. Whether you’re a growing SME or an established enterprise, the pressure to attract and retain top-tier professionals has intensified. But sourcing the right people in a saturated, skills-short market can drain time, resources and internal capacity.Enter the modern recruitment agency: no longer just CV matchmakers, but full-scale talent acquisition partners equipped with the latest technology, industry insights and agile strategies. These agencies are reshaping how companies build high-performing teams in 2025. Faster, smarter and more effectively than ever before. If…

Nasdaq- and JSE-listed Lesaka Technologies’ subsidiaries Kazang and Connect were recognised as fintech innovators in South Africa’s bustling fintech universe at the recent Absa Commercial Payments Awards 2025. Cash Connect won the “Most Progressive Device Cash Solutions Provider” category, with Kazang winning the “Most Disruptive Fintech Shaping Financial Inclusion Vision”. Steven Heilbron, head of M&A and corporate development at Lesaka, said: “We have always seen ourselves as innovators and disruptors with our holistic merchant solutions in both cash and digital, and to be recognised as such in both formal and informal market offerings is extremely encouraging.” Lesaka offers Southern Africa’s…

Gemini AI is available in Google Workspace bundles. (Image: Supplied) With the recent inclusion of Gemini AI in Google Workspace bundles, Digicloud Africa partner Zila Tech is stepping up its efforts to lower barriers to entry and drive adoption of Google Workspace and Google Education solutions in English-speaking African countries, helping customers to achieve the productivity gains AI offers.Gemini, described as an ‘always-on AI assistant’, was previously available as an add-on product. It has now been incorporated into the various Google Workspace products, giving users AI assistants in apps such as Gmail, Docs, Meet, Sheets and Chat.Gemini also powers Project…

The Democratic Republic of Congo will allow Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service to operate in the country, a change in policy amid talks with the US about a minerals-for-security partnership. Starlink DRC will begin providing services to the nation of 115 million people “in the coming days”, the Congolese Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, or ARPTC, said in a post on X on Friday. Congo, which is fighting a Rwanda-backed rebel insurgency in its eastern region, has previously blocked the company from providing internet services. Somalia and Lesotho granted licences to Starlink in April. Congo’s mobile internet penetration rate…

British journalist and author Jamie Bartlett. Globally renowned British author and tech guru Jamie Bartlett is scheduled to deliver a keynote presentation at the 20th annual ITWeb Security Summit 2025 on 4 June at the Sandton Convention Centre, in Johannesburg.Bartlett has widespread acclaim as an expert on the dark net, crypto-currencies, cyber security and data privacy. At the Security Summit, Bartlett will elaborate on his five-year exposé of the multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme ‘OneCoin’ (as heard in The Missing Cryptoqueen podcast series) and his book about the dark net. He will offer an ‘inside view’ into how online crime really works…

The British government will this week warn all UK companies to treat cybersecurity as an “absolute priority” in the wake of attacks on retailers Marks & Spencer, the Co-op Group and Harrods. Cabinet office minister Pat McFadden on Friday led a briefing with national security officials and Richard Horne, the CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre, about support being provided to the affected retailers, his office said. It also said he will use a speech at next week’s CyberUK conference in Manchester to say the recent attacks are a “wake up call” for all businesses. British companies, public bodies…

Callan Abrahams, principal AI consultant, iOCO. The advent of generative artificial intelligence marked one of the most profound technological inflection points of the 21st century, according to the World Economic Forum.However, it is widely reported that regardless of sector, companies appear to be reluctant to go beyond the early phases of AI adoption.We are on a precipice, standing at the edge of a shift but not quite ready to take the full leap from experimental AI to enterprise-grade AI.Even though AI is increasingly an essential part of modern business operations, many companies remain uncertain about the path forward. One issue…

BYD posted its best month of sales yet for 2025, a further sign the Chinese car-making juggernaut is on track to hit its full-year target of 5.5 million deliveries. New-energy vehicle sales for April were 380 089 units, up more than 20% year on year, according to a statement Thursday. Of those, passenger cars were 372 615. Notably, BYD’s battery passenger electric vehicle sales of 195 740 last month topped its plug-in hybrid sales of 176 875, the first time pure EV sales have been in front since early 2024. BYD has managed to shrug off the risk of tariffs,…

SA is in a potentially strong position to become a key player in regional and international renewable energy supply chains, says ITAC. The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) is proposing tariff hikes on various imported goods in the renewable energy sector, to boost local manufacturing.Published for public comment by the International Trade Administration Commission (ITAC), the proposed measures would increase customs duties on components used in solar, wind and battery storage technologies.In a Government Gazette, DTCI entity ITAC says the domestic demand trajectory, raw materials resource base, technological capacity and manufacturing experience places South Africa in a potentially…

Consciousness is at the centre of human existence, the ability to see, hear, dream, imagine, feel pain or pleasure, dread, love, and more. But where precisely does this reside in the brain? That is a question that has long confounded scientists and clinicians. A new study is offering fresh insight. In a quest to identify the parts of the brain underpinning consciousness, neuroscientists measured electrical and magnetic activity as well as blood flow in the brains of 256 people in 12 laboratories across the US, Europe and China, while the participants viewed various images. The measurements tracked activation in various…