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...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | news
Duxbury Networking has introduced Cambium Networks’ NSE 4000 to its channel portfolio, providing partners with a cloud-managed security and SD-WAN platform for customers operating in increasingly distributed network environments. The NSE 4000 extends Cambium’s Network...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | news
Liquid C2 has achieved gold-level status in Google’s Verified Peering Provider (VPP) programme. For customers, this means easier access to Google services via Liquid’s network. The impact is significant because it eliminates delays and congestion from shared internet...
by Kathy Gibson | Jul 10, 2026 | Features
Helen Constantinides, former CIO at AVBOB and board member of Wired4Women, shares her insights on the evolving role of tech leaders in the digital age. Helen discusses the importance of digital sovereignty, ethical leadership in AI adoption, and the critical soft...
