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If your exco is still treating routine AI automation with the same friction as a core-platform replacement, former Sasol group CIO Lungile Mginqi outlines how to fix your decision design.

Gauteng’s top IT executives have revealed that their leadership roles in the Fifth Industrial Revolution demand significantly more agility than it did three years ago.

Development Bank of Southern Africa CTO Kholeka Tsotsotso has been nominated for the 2026 CIO Awards.

Dr Eugene Wessels turned a school floppy disc into a prosperous career. Today, as group chief technology officer of King Price Insurance, he is navigating the most disruptive technological moment of his career, while still making Sunday-night toasted sandwiches for his family.

Following the grand opening of the Nutun AI Operations Centre on 18 June in Sandton, group CTIO Hans Zachar unpacks the gruelling two-year backend modernisation journey required to bring an agentic AI debt collector to life.

As AI-native firms build around automation from day one, established companies may be forced to revisit the much-criticised idea of business process reengineering.

JobJack chief technology officer Gerhard De Wet has been nominated for the 2026 CIO Awards.

For Youth Day, CIO South Africa posed two questions to IT executives. In response, technology executive Vinoliah Martin, Multichoice / Canal Plus group executive for information and digital technology Maggie Matsie and W&R SETA CIO Barnabas Masekwameng look back at their younger selves and share their advice for the post-digital generation.

CIO South Africa recently caught up with Multichoice Africa / Canal Plus group executive for information and digital technology Maggie Matsie, who unpacks mum guilt, Enneagram 8 leadership, and why you should never delegate what you haven’t mastered.

Turning sustainability talk into action requires practical measurement. Volkswagen Financial Services South Africa CIO Wilma Crosson, PetroSA acting CIO Zanele Hala, Cassava Technologies South Africa and Botswana CEO Ziaad Suleman and Wits School of Business Sciences IS professor Rennie Naidoo explore how maturity models help African organisations execute their Green IT strategies.

Digital resilience has shifted from a technical safeguard to a strategic imperative as enterprises confront rising cyber threats, power instability and increasingly complex hybrid environments. Organisations that fail to embed resilience into their infrastructure risk not only operational disruption, but lasting damage to revenue, reputation and customer trust.

Dr Bongani Andy Mabaso has been nominated for the 2026 CIO Awards for his role as group CTO at Altron.

The SABC has announced the permanent appointment of Dr Vuyo Nyembezi as group executive for technology.

Simon Fishley uses the word squiggly to describe his career path, a term he and his team often use at Luno to explain things aren’t in a straight line. And if he had to live life over, he says he wouldn’t change much.

CIOs still approach cybersecurity as if attackers are trying to “break in”. That thinking is outdated. Modern cybercriminals are not smashing through firewalls wearing hoodies in dark rooms. They are logging in through the front door using stolen credentials, hijacked Microsoft 365 accounts and employees who unknowingly hand over access every single day.

Sahann Van der Vyver, CIO at Two Mountains Group, is a leader whose faith and values extend well beyond the boardroom. His charitable work is anchored in a conviction that every person carries inherent worth – and that leadership is ultimately an act of service.

Dr Wynand Beukes has been nominated for the 2026 CIO Awards for his role as CDO at WeBuyCars.

Sne Dlamini has stepped into the role of group chief information and digital officer at Sasol, bringing a 20-year track record of leading large-scale transformations to the organisation.

Philip Morris International CIO for sub-Saharan Africa Mary Mahuma is leading digital transformation with a focus on purpose, access and impact. She reflects on the values shaping her approach to leadership and technology.

The conversation around artificial intelligence has fundamentally shifted. We have moved past the hype of 2024/25. Leadership is no longer claimed by those with the most ambitious vision, but by those who have mastered industrialisation: scaling AI enterprise-wide as a core, repeatable capability.