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Becoming a frontier firm starts with redesigning work, not buying AI

There is a productivity crisis in many organisations. Leaders are under pressure to move faster, improve service, and do more with teams that are already stretched. By Bernard Vertenten, Microsoft solutions business development at DAC Systems Microsoft’s 2025 Work...

How AI and young tech talent are rewriting the small business playbook

For years, digitisation was largely the domain of large organisations. By Nyari Samushonga, executive chairperson of WeThinkCode_ Enterprise software was expensive, implementation-heavy, and often designed for operational complexity that small businesses simply did...

Under the radar: Formula One’s sweeping stewarding reforms

In tandem with Formula One’s much-discussed 2026 technical rules package and the pre-Miami GP upgrades focusing on energy deployment and safety, has come a raft of changes to F1’s stewarding system that have largely flown under the radar. By Graham Duxbury F1’s...

Inclusive partner ecosystems are the future of digital growth

The digital economy presents one of the most significant economic opportunities, yet for many black-owned small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs) the barriers to entry remain stubbornly high. By Lebogang Luvuno, B-BBEE executive at Microsoft South Africa At...

Great leaders learn to lead themselves first

Leadership is often spoken about as if it is a set of techniques – how to motivate, how to delegate, how to manage change, and how to hold people accountable. According to Nokwanda Boarato, head: people and talent at 21st Century, these skills matter, but people do...

The Buck stops here: Conscious Internet Theory

By Barry Buck – Mark Zuckerberg bought a social network for AI bots. Just let that sentence sit for a moment. Meta’s acquisition of Moltbook – the Reddit-like platform where AI agents using OpenClaw gossip about their human owners, swap code, and apparently...

Editor’s Comment: Never forget where you came from

The cold fronts that have been pounding Cape Town and bringing some welcome relief to the region’s dams have finally made their way up to Joburg. Temperatures have plummeted and the dress code on The Local’s smoking balcony now demands a jacket on top of the autumn...

Deep Throat: Stop the press!

We all know in the channel that the proverbial often happens. And like all other channel players, when it does, we do our absolute best to rectify any problem. In this, our 30th anniversary issue, we wanted to include the memories of as many channel veterans as we...

30 years on: Technology changes … the business doesn’t

When I was asked to write something reflective for the 30th anniversary edition, my first thought was: has it really been that long? My second thought was that anyone who was running an IT business in South Africa in the late 1990s and early noughties earned a...

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