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Data auditing – the auditing of data, IT and analytics – is the way the profession is evolving, and with…

South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, has not been able to provide a steady electricity supply for several years now. At…

The first of July 2022 marks the one-year anniversary of the compliance deadline of the Protection of Personal Information Act…

Website cookies are online surveillance tools, and the commercial and government entities that use them would prefer people not read…

Just over two years ago the world was upended by the Covid-19 pandemic, an unprecedented global health crisis. Earlier this…

When one of our students told us they were going to drop out of college in August 2021, it wasn’t…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and founder of Tesla and SpaceX, recently made an offer to buy the social…

The recent spectrum made available by ICASA was long overdue and is needed to unleash the promise of 5G. While…

READER QUESTION: I am 59 years old, and in reasonably good health. Is it possible that I will live long…

Super apps, banking-as-a-service, behavioural banking and cyber security. These are just a few of the trends that promise to make…

Narrative frames are fundamental to unifying ideologies. They frame what is possible and impossible, which ideas can be accepted and…

Ransomware attacks are on the rise, and the pay-out for a successful breach is growing as data becomes more and…

South Africa is a beautiful country with diverse cultures, wildlife, and some breathtaking landscapes. However beautiful, South Africa is today…

Crypto assets have revolutionised the FinTech market due to the cryptography technology of blockchain. Cryptocurrencies are becoming more mainstream and…

The 2019 Future of Payments in South Africa report by Deloitte and Mastercard stated that “although 80% of South Africans…

Charging taxes on profits made from trading or investing in cryptocurrencies has become a trend. It came into full force…

Reading like Shakespeare’s ‘The Comedy of Errors’, a recent Labour Court judgment wades through muddied water to reiterate the crystal-clear…

How often do brands find a balance between the obvious benefits of personalisation and customer’s privacy concerns? The most effective…

Telecommunications requires significant capital outlay to build networks, that also need to be managed and maintained. Telcos in South Africa,…

The modern world is very much numerate, William G Gray asserted in the book, Qabalistic Concepts. Gray writes that ‘our…

It may seem strange to look to the discipline of quantum physics for lessons that will help to create future-fit…

Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now…

Twitter reports that fewer than 5% of accounts are fakes or spammers, commonly referred to as “bots.” Since his offer…

As a physicist, I am trained to look for patterns in data. For example, the motion of the tiniest particles…

Traditional computer programming has a steep learning curve that requires learning a programming language, for example C/C++, Java or Python,…