by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership
By Lungi Sangqu – South Africa’s unemployment crisis has reached a critical tipping point. More than 32% of adults are jobless, and youth unemployment sits above 60%. In this bleak landscape, small, micro, and medium enterprises (SMMEs), lately known as Micro,...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership
When taxpayers dispute an assessment, the expectation is straightforward: either the taxpayer wins and the assessment is reduced, or the South African Revenue Services (SARS) wins and the assessment remains unchanged. By Nina Keyser and Karen Miller from Webber...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership
In many small businesses, the owner often starts out as the bookkeeper, the customer-service desk, the IT technician and the person who steps in when a delivery goes wrong. By Linda Saunders, country manager and senior director: solution engineering, Africa at...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership
The South African renewamle energy sector is moving from momentum to maturity. By Bronwyn Timm, business development Manager at SOLA Group Across industries, clean power isn’t perceived as a hedge against loadshedding anymore. It has become a core business strategy...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership
Most organisations focus their efforts on celebrating their star performers or addressing the visibly disengaged. By Camille Rabier, consultant, and Lynne Derman, executive director at 21st Century But the real threat to organisational performance may be hiding in...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Thought Leadership
As we enter 2026, traders must understand that the big forces shaping markets have shifted gears. By Zihaad Israfil, CEO of CFI Financial Group South Africa If you want to trade with confidence, you need to anchor your decisions in three trends that stood out in 2025:...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Features
Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 99,3% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2024 (4Q24) to $67-billion. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Features
By John Roese – The world of computing is advancing at an extraordinary pace, and businesses everywhere are working to keep up. While quantum computing (QC) is on track to revolutionise technology, it isn’t poised to replace classical computing just yet....
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Features
By Adil El Youssefi – In May 2025, a brief yet wide-reaching internet outage in South Africa, caused by a single point of failure in a core internet exchange, revealed just how exposed even mature digital ecosystems can be. The interruption only lasted a few...
by Kathy Gibson | Jan 23, 2026 | Features
In South Africa, many conversations about data centre resilience have tended to centre on power, but today, backup power is a given – no credible data centre provider operates without it. The real differentiator lies elsewhere, in the efficiency and precision of the...
