by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Thought Leadership
South Africa graduated 220,758 students from its public universities last year, and more than a million are enrolled in higher education – more graduates than at any point in the country’s history. By Leon Smalberger, CEO of the Academic Institute of Excellence...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Thought Leadership
By now, much has been written about the lack of certainty that characterises the current business environment. By John Mlangeni, FNB Merchant Services CEO But, while many businesses are left reeling by currency fluctuations, unexpected geopolitical developments or...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
AI will not simply automate tasks, it will fundamentally reshape the architecture of management itself, forcing SME leaders to develop entirely new capabilities to govern hybrid human-AI workforces. THis is one of the finding from a new thought leadership white paper...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Thought Leadership
November 2025: A single fibre break in Elsies River severed the link between two Cape Town data centres, pulling Discord, OpenAI, and YouTube offline for South African users for an entire morning. By Leonie Stanley, operations director of Euphoria Telecom The culprit?...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Thought Leadership
South Africa’s creative economy is entering a new phase of transformation, shaped by digital acceleration, more distributed ways of working and the rapid rise of AI-enabled tools. By Raghav Koorichh, director, CSG category and product for CEEMETA at Dell Technologies...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
When the South African Revenue Service (SARS) delays your VAT refund, interest may be payable, but you should not assume that they will calculate and pay that interest automatically. Nico Theron, founder of Unicus Tax Specialists SA, says that in a recent case...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
Global public procurement spending is estimated to account for around 12% of GDP in OECD economies, underscoring the scale and strategic importance of how governments and organisations spend money (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). As fiscal...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Trends and Analysis
As trade routes shift and intra-African commerce grows, businesses are confronting new currency risks across borders. Global trade is entering a new era of uncertainty. From shifting tariff regimes and geopolitical fragmentation to supply chain diversification and...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Thought Leadership
Last year, Kredete, a startup founded by Nigerian entrepreneur Adeola Adedewe that enables Africans in the diaspora to build credit profiles through their remittance activity, raised a $22-million Series A funding round, the largest disclosed blockchain transaction...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | news
Acer Africa has announced outstanding performance metrics for its service operations, delivering after-sales support across the African continent. Over the past four years, the company maintains industry-leading response times and customer satisfaction scores that...
