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South Africa’s engineering shortage
Cape Town start-up wins global
has a blind spot
green-business prize
South Africa’s engineering deficit is well-documented —
A Cape Town team has won the world’s largest green
but the country continues to overlook the most obvious
business ideas competition, placing South Africa firmly on
source of growth: women. The piece argues that the lack
the global innovation map. The win highlights the strength
of structural support, mentoring, and retention practices is
of local entrepreneurship and the country’s ability to lead
costing the sector talent it can’t afford to lose. Read more
in clean-tech innovation. Read more

Kaspersky warns: check your New AI data-sharing rules mark a
website protection major escalation

A spike in malicious search-engine manipulation Upcoming AI-related data-sharing policies signal a
schemes has triggered a warning from Kaspersky. significant shift in how user information, chat logs,
The advisory urges organisations to review their web and behavioural data may be collected and used. The
protection, strengthen defensive layers, and ensure that article outlines the increased governance burden, new
compromised search results don’t open the door to compliance expectations, and the risk of mishandling
wider attacks. Read more sensitive information. Read more

Industrialisation: SA’s lowest-cost path
to net zero

A new study from the DBSA and partners finds that South
Africa’s most affordable route to net zero is also the most
climate-aligned. Green industrialisation, the report argues,
reduces long-term system costs while strengthening
resilience — and delaying action will ultimately cost more.
Read more

Corporate SA: pretend it’s 1986
This column takes aim at the organisations still treating
data storage like a filing cabinet. With rising breaches
and outdated processes, corporate SA is urged to
modernise urgently, or remain stuck in a mindset better
suited to the late 1980s than the digital era. Read more

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