4IR demands a reskilled workforce

While automation and digital technologies are disrupting the workplace as we traditionally know it, it has become imperative for organisations to start reskilling their workforce. By Garsen Naidu, country manager of Cisco South Africa Automation and artificial...
Sourcing executives in a Covid-stricken Africa

Sourcing executives in a Covid-stricken Africa

In South Africa, we use the term “ubuntu”. It doesn’t just apply to business but every aspect of life. It is a social contract based on the philosophy that if my community thrives, I thrive. By Bafana Kubheka, an executive search consultant at Signium Africa Other...
Lessons from the lockdown …

Lessons from the lockdown …

With most companies in South Africa now permitted to operate under the alert level 3 of the lockdown, many of us are feeling less anxious, with a sense that life is returning to a new type of normal. By Johan Botes, partner and head of the employment &...

The disconnected continent …

 The world has been caught off guard. The pandemic is in every conversation, sits at every board room table (video conference), and defines how continent and country look to an uncertain future. According to Sabelo Dlamini, senior research and Consulting Manager at...