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By: Liesel Kassier - Senior Business Developer – Lyra Energy South Africa’s energy transition has entered a decisive phase. The question is no longer whether new capacity will be built, but how...
By: Tebogo Maphothoma - Executive: Operations and Enablement Absa Vehicle Asset Finance and Zinzile Gcaleka, Executive: Strategy and Customer, Absa Insurance While still a relatively nascent...
By: Maame Tutua Dadson - Managing Partner at Stafford Law; and Amma A. Gyampo, Chief Executive Officer at Ghana Venture Capital & Private Equity Association With over US$700 billion in domestic...
By: Logiscool Ruimsig - director Semone Peacock Every parent has been there: you turn your back for five minutes and suddenly the TV is on, the tablet is glowing, and your child is scrolling...
In the global discourse on climate change, the transition to sustainable power is often reduced to a simple formula: “replace fossil fuels with renewables.” However, for those responsible for the...
By: Avinash Gupta - Head of COE (Centre of Excellence) at In2IT Technologies The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transformed industries from healthcare to finance, but one area where its...
By : Gerhard Britz - Managing Director at WACO Modular Long construction timelines are becoming increasingly untenable. As a result, modular building solutions, which are prefabricated off-site and...
By Naseema Ephraim, Employee Benefits Operations Director at financial consultancy ASI Financial Services Before the shift siren sounds, many miners have already been awake for hours. Long...
By: Boland Lithebe - Security lead for Accenture, South Africa Cybersecurity has shifted decisively from an IT concern to a core business risk, and South African organisations are feeling this...
By: Irma Pienaar - Chief Operations Officer at Mulilo South Africa’s renewable energy industry is rapidly emerging as a key driver of economic growth and job creation, offering a wide range of...
By : Aslam Tajbhai - Head of Solutions at DMP SA Today, organisations rely heavily on data as the backbone of their operations. Every business decision, customer interaction, and innovation...
By : Zanele Lazzari - Head of Enterprise Sales at Altron FinTech The way South Africans pay for goods is changing fast. Bank cards remain dominant, but QR codes, Buy Now Pay Later options, digital...
By: Reo Botes - Managing Executive at Essential Employee Benefits Many South African employees, particularly those in lower income brackets, are excluded from benefits like critical illness cover...
By: Cohen Appanah Artificial intelligence has moved from “interesting” to “inevitable”. For South African industry, the question is no longer whether AI will matter, but how quickly it will reshape...
By: Vignesh Subramani - Interim Managing Executive of SME Business at Absa Business Banking South Africa heads into 2026 on firmer economic footing than in recent years, with a steadier macro...
By: Varaidzo Mureriwa - Managing Director within the Health & Public Service business at Accenture, Africa Artificial intelligence has rapidly shifted from a distant technological aspiration to a...
By: David McDonald - CEO at SolarAfrica If you ever find yourself sitting around a C-suite industry dinner table, you’ll soon notice that since the recent-ish abolition of loadshedding (long may...
By: Nishandra Baijnath - Systems Architect, Digital Automation at Schneider Electric Utilities and municipalities are facing a pivotal challenge as the country’s legacy power grid – engineered for...
By: Jan Venter, CEO - Southern African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers Association (SAPPMA) As South Africa prepares for Water Month taking place in March, the national conversation rightly focuses on...
By Kobus Vermeulen, Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric In the world of industrial automation, the spotlight has recently shifted from traditional turbomachinery to the...
By: Nelson Teixeira - MD Operations Sub-Saharan Africa 20 January 2026: South Africa and the African continent are standing at a defining moment, as global trade patterns shift and digital commerce...
By Elijah Daniel, Country Sales Director, Process Automation & Software, English-speaking Africa at Schneider Electric Today, just over 60% of Nigerians have access to grid-connected electricity,...
By: Roelof van den Berg - CEO of the Gap Infrastructure Corporation (GIC) The difference between short-lived entrepreneurs and those who build institutions that last is simplicity – applying their...
By: Rhys Evans - Managing Director at ALCO-Safe (Virtual Showroom) South Africa has one of the highest levels of alcohol consumption per capita in the world, and our government has long used sin...
By Glenn Kerkhoff Data has become the backbone of modern industrial performance because it enables continuous optimisation, advanced automation and resilient decision-making. In mining, the growth...
The year 2025 proved to be a challenging year for the logistics and supply chain sector, where resilience and agility became essential for business survival. As we enter a new year against the...
Introducing NowNow, the ultimate AI assistant for South African business owners. The first AI trained on local South Africa data and information that can answer questions about the South African...
By: Kobus van Niekerk The Insurance Industry stands on the brink of substantial growth in the Electronic Equipment Insurance market.
By: Clement Kgatla - Responsible Pharmacist, Bidvest International Logistics Across Africa, I have seen how the ability to deliver safe and effective medicines depends on one critical factor:...
By: Adesina Gbadebo - Power & Grid Segment, West Africa and Funmi Adepegba, Key Account Manager, Property Developers & Contractors: Buildings at Schneider Electric For decades, the modernisation of...
By: Mervyn Naidoo - CEO of ACTOM South Africa’s procurement mindset must urgently evolve from transactional buying to strategic, long-term procurement if we are to achieve meaningful...
By: Nishandra Baijnath - Systems Architect, Digital Automation at Schneider Electric Digital twins’ reputation precedes, and with good reason. It is a highly effective tool that offers real-world...
By:Nelson Teixeira - managing director of operations for Sub-Saharan Africa at FedEx Businesses that rely on the movement of goods are preparing for yet another year of transformative change....
By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric For decades, Distributed Control Systems (DCS) have been the backbone of industrial automation, integral to...
By: Ifeanyi Odoh - Country President: East Africa at Schneider Electric Kenya’s industrial and building sectors are entering an exciting phase, undoubtedly driven, in part, of the advent of digital...
By: Johan Potgieter - Cluster Industrial Software Lead at Schneider Electric Life sciences, which include pharmaceutical and biotech companies, today operate under intense scrutiny. Regulatory...
By: Peter Marumong - Cluster WWW Segment Leader at Schneider Electric In a time when the country faces a persistent water provision crisis, remote monitoring has emerged as an indispensable cog in...
By: Mukwandi Chibesakunda - Chief Executive Officer, Zanaco Plc. Across the African continent, one topic increasingly dominates conversations in boardrooms, parliaments and everyday households:...
By: Alicia Dean - Head of People and Group Services at SOLA Group The renewable energy sector stepped up when legacy infrastructure was struggling to keep up. Now, this sector is changing the...
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