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Why Every HR Leader Should Be Paying Attention to AI in 2026
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future trend in Human Resources—it is rapidly becoming the engine behind modern recruitment, learning, employee engagement and workforce planning. Across South Africa, HR leaders are under pressure to hire faster, retain top talent, improve…
Engineering resilience into Africa’s energy future
Africa’s energy transition is often discussed in terms of generation capacity, investment pipelines, and megawatts added to the grid. While these metrics matter, they only tell part of the story. The real challenge facing the continent is not simply producing…
Payments are costing online businesses more than they think
Nobody builds an online store hoping customers will give up at the last click. Yet that is exactly where too many businesses still lose sales: the customer was ready to buy and the business had already done the hard part,…
Cyber resilience moves from IT issue to board risk
Cybersecurity has shifted decisively from an IT concern to a core business risk, and South African organisations are feeling this change acutely. The World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2026 in collaboration with Accenture, highlights a global environment where cyber…
Visa Outlines AI, Token, and Stablecoin Capabilities Shaping the Future of Commerce
Visa today outlined a series of AI, stablecoin, and token capabilities designed to help clients across the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) region participate in the next generation of commerce. Ahead of the Visa Payments Forum,…
Why Is Finding IT Talent Becoming One of the Business’s Toughest Challenges
As Africa’s digital economy continues to expand, the demand for technology talent is growing. A report from SAP has found that, across the continent, this sector’s contribution is expected to increase from 5.2% of GDP in 2025 to 8.5% by…
What IT Leaders Are Saying About Storage that Grows with the Business
IT leaders rate Dell PowerStore on beating cloud storage costs, modern infrastructure integration and consolidating backend storage into just 2U. Key Takeaways: When IT decision-makers evaluate all-flash storage for growing organisations, cost-effective scalability and operational efficiency matter as much as performance.…
South Africa’s Youth Unemployment Crisis Demands an AI Skills Revolution
This Youth Month, we have reason to be optimistic – but also reason to accelerate. South Africa has one of the world’s largest youth populations, and with it, one of the greatest opportunities to build a generation of AI innovators.…
”Smart Cities Are Moving Beyond Pilot Projects”
Smart cities are no longer being judged by exhibition halls, glossy renders or isolated pilot schemes in one carefully chosen district. The real test is whether everyday urban systems now work better across whole neighbourhoods, towns and regions. A connected…
How Can Corporate Travel Management Shift
For many businesses, managing corporate travel is no longer just about booking trips. It is increasingly about coordinating a growing number of moving parts. Travel now cuts across multiple teams, suppliers and systems from flights and accommodation to approvals, payments…
How do Cyber Cartels Target South African Businesses
The enduring cultural image of the cybercriminal is an unexpectedly persistent myth. For a long time now, pop culture has depicted the threat adversary as a lone, anti-social hacker operating from a dark bedroom, driven by mischief or vague ideological…
Infrastructure Development at Speed
Large infrastructure projects have a stubborn reputation. Globally, major capital works such as transport corridors, water treatment facilities, smart city backbone systems routinely exceed budget and fall behind schedule. In fact, the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that large infrastructure projects…
How African Industries Benefit from Open Source, Domain-Specific Models & Platforms
Enterprise leaders and developers can end up talking about AI in a very abstract way, using phrases like “unlock our true potential” or “give us valuable insights into our business”. It’s true, AI can do those things. But when it…
Can Young Kids Still Think?
In 1976, South Africa’s youth took to the streets to claim educational agency and the hard-won right to self-determination. Fifty years later, our young digital natives face a quieter, subtler crisis: the gradual surrender of that very critical reasoning and…
Healthcare systems cannot fund what they cannot measure
Every day, healthcare funders make decisions based on data. They know how many patients were admitted to the hospital. They know how many procedures were performed. They know how many days a hospital bed was occupied. These activities are measured,…
Shadow AI is The New Shadow IT & Financial Institutes are Sleepwalking Into It
By Bradley Elliott, CEO at RelyComply Someone at your institution is running a critical risk calculation from a laptop under a desk. You just don’t know which one. That’s not a hypothetical. At a major bank, compliance teams discovered approximately 36,000 systems…
