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By Stephen Rose – Director for Royal HaskoningDHV’s Mission Critical Facilities Africa unit. Africa's data centre market is booming, ringing in an era of hyperscale for the continent.
By Mbavhalelo Mabogo, Quickloc8 founder & CEO The taxi industry is not a profitable business anymore and needs technology to save it!
By Acrux Resources Executive Director’s Sean Browne and Geoff Linnell The metal-intensive transition to a low-carbon economy has cast a spotlight on the mining sector’s ability to supply the large...
By Kate Shead, HR Executive Telviva When asked how businesses build towards successful social impact the answer is easy - sustainability. How to build sustainable social impact is a somewhat more...
By Hennie Colyn, direct sales executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric The establishment of solar farms continue to grow in South Africa, with Eskom’s renewable statistics page...
By Mark Wells, Chief Customer Officer, Experian Africa The continual growth in online fraud has led to a shift in Financial Services and Telecommunications business priorities. Experian’s latest...
The importance of data for today’s business cannot be overstated, and when it comes to cybersecurity, complacency can be your worst enemy. Being vigilant to the threats in the cybercrime landscape,...
By Praveen Govender, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at DFA Fibre connectivity is solving some of South Africa’s most pressing challenges, playing a significant part in empowering and uplifting...
By Arjen de Bruin, Managing Director at OIM Consulting Over the past twenty years or so years, change has happened at a rapid pace, thanks to the advent of technology and a turbulent global economy...
By Shamilah Grimwood-Norley, Head of Banking and Finance, Bowmans The diversification of Africa’s power generation mix including renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuel power generation...
By John Molanda, Head: Transactional Banking Sales (Business Banking), Absa Corporate and investment Banking and Preshan Rambridge, Regional Segment Head: SME, Relationship Banking, Absa Group...
By Eloise Nolte, MD of Optimi College Worsening load shedding, record unemployment and a sluggish economy are all understandably dragging down the job prospects for the youth of our country right now.
By Mark Allewell of Sensor Networks In a bid to minimise South Africa’s ongoing loadshedding woes, Eskom has announced plans to install ‘smart’ meters in homes across the country. According to...
By ManpowerGroup South Africa Managing Director, Lyndy van den Barselaar The life cycle of work has shifted exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic – from the Great Resignation to the Great...
By Chetan Mistry, Strategy and Marketing Manager, Xylem Africa. Cholera used to be a killer of epidemic proportions. In 1817, a cholera outbreak in India continued for almost a decade, killing...
By Shirley Webber, Coverage Head: Resources and Energy, Absa CIB One of the most emotive subjects in Africa currently is the energy transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy, with the mining...
By Bhavtik Vallabhjee, Head: Power & Renewables, Absa CIB With the African minerals and energy sector flourishing with possibility, one can’t help but draw parallels with the late 1880’s when the...
By Wesley Govender, PQ Product Application Expert at Schneider Electric Electricity is the only mission-critical commodity that business depends on every second of every day, yet it can be the...
By Viren Sookhun, Managing Director at Oxyon People Solutions The Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Saldanha Bay, Richards Bay, and East London have massive potential to be turned into energy...
By Colin Timmis, Xero South Africa Country Manager Whether it’s to follow a lifelong passion or have greater flexibility and find some work-life balance, there are many reasons why small business...
By Arjen de Bruin, Managing Director at OIM Consulting Optimal productivity is not always easy to quantify, and the yardstick differs from industry to industry. In a mining environment,...
By Jan Fourie, Executive Vice President for Scatec in Sub-Saharan Africa South Africa's energy market is currently witnessing a remarkable transformation as it shifts towards renewable energy to...
By Daniel Orelowitz – MD at Training Force South Africa’s youth unemployment rate is staggeringly high with 66.5% of all unemployed people currently between the ages of 15 and 24. This figure...
By Chris Kruger – MD at enterprise solutions-focused Total Workspace Provider, Nashua Kopano South African enterprises should look at the load shedding crisis as an opportunity to accelerate their...
By Mark Freeman. Offer Manager Digital Buildings, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric The proverbial race is on; organisations are scrambling to get one step ahead of the country’s volatile...
By Kagiso Mahlangu - Partner: Director and Head of Real Estate and Conveyancing Practice at CMS South Africa South Africa is under growing internal and external pressure to rein in its carbon...
By George Jennings & Kobus van Niekerk Most short-term insurance policies covering material or property damage have an inception date, expiry date and/or renewal date, be it a monthly, annual, or a...
By Dr Mthandazo Ngwenya, MD: Bigen Development Advisory and Impact The growth of international human rights law in recent times, first targeting government actions and later corporations, are one...
By Zaynab Sadan – Regional Plastics Policy Coordinator for Africa at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Plastic pollution is an urgent crisis threatening our planet's and our communities'...
By Edward Makwana, Legacy Motor Group (LMG) General Manager of Public Relations, Marketing and Customer Experience The smooth, efficient movement of people and goods is vital to economic activity...
The powers of the new Minister of Energy, as promulgated by President Cyril Ramaphosa, appear to be limited and his areas of responsibility overlap with those of other ministers On 26 May 2023,...
By Kate Mollett, Regional Director at Commvault Africa Over the past year, the world has seen cyber-attacks increase at a concerning rate. So much so that the cost of cybercrime is estimated to...
By Bongani Mankewu – Associate of the Infrastructure Development & Engagement Unit at Nelson Mandela University. He writes in his personal capacity Traditionally, supply chain governance has been...
By Amritesh Anand, Associate Vice President at In2IT Technologies The metaverse, the hypothetical, fully immersive, three-dimensional, and interactive future state of the Internet, is creeping ever...
By Mark Freeman. Offer Manager Digital Buildings, Anglophone Africa and Nishandra Baijnath, Systems Architect, Power Systems, Anglophone Africa at Schneider Electric As the country struggles to...
By Robert Futter, Director at Cresco Group Renewable Energy (RE) has been touted as a solution for providing reliable and consistent energy supply, but this has often been met with scepticism. As...
By CEO of the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI), Dr Zwanani Titus Mathe The destruction wrought by Covid-19 has also opened up the opportunity to deliver economic...
By Leana Engelbrecht, Competition Law, international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills On Wednesday, 24 May 2023, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition (MTIC) published the Energy Users...
By Gareth Cremen, Partner at Cox Yeats Electricity supply shortages continue to depreciate South Africa’s economic growth, as it has for several years. Since 2007 load-shedding has intensified...
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