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Fibre key to unleashing township economic creativity

Jun 26, 2026

Fibre has the potential to produce Africa’s new generation of gamers, content creators and digital earners, writes Sandile Mkhwanazi, head of community relations at Frogfoot RISE. There’s a persistent assumption that township homes are analogue spaces. Small screens,...

The SA investor has changed. The industry serving them hasn’t.

Jun 26, 2026

Something has shifted in South Africa’s investor base, and most of the industry is pretending it hasn’t. By Pedri Reyneke, CEO and fund manager of Findotec The client who walks into an adviser’s office in 2026 is not the same client from five years...

Grid capacity is SA’s real energy crisis

Jun 26, 2026

Grid expansion and battery storage technology are crucial to securing South Africa’s energy future, writes Wayne Cowie, CEO ofEnergy Exchange South Africa (EXSA). South Africa stands at a critical juncture. We have 72 GW of renewable energy projects at advanced...

Best practices for managing the MRO supply chain in Africa

Jun 26, 2026

Accurate MRO data is becoming essential for operational resilience, cost control and supply chain visibility, especially as industrial operations across Africa modernise and expand. Erick Wessels, sales director at RS South Africa, explores how organisations can...

What banks look for in SMEs seeking growth finance

Jun 26, 2026

For many established small and medium enterprises (SMEs), growth is not limited by a lack of ambition or poor demand for their products or services; it’s usually limited by cash flow. By Marko Campher, executive for lending at Nedbank A business can gain new...

Drivers may be the key to turning the truck hijacking tide

Jun 26, 2026

Each of the 9 068 hijackings of trucks between January 2021 and December 2025 involved a living, breathing driver as much as the billions in cargo that were targeted. By Merel van der Lei, CEO of Wyzetalk Despite massive rollouts of innovative systems and tech to...

Integrated project delivery key for infrastructure success

Jun 12, 2026

As South Africa ramps up infrastructure investment and increases private sector participation, projects are becoming more complex, multi-stakeholder dependent and time sensitive. Despite this momentum, outcomes are too often undermined by fragmented processes,...

Resilience is the new innovation: A how to for SMEs

Jun 12, 2026

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, writes Leonie Stanley, operations director of Euphoria Telecom. The culprit? Both of...

Channel partnerships the smarter route to market in document technology

Jun 12, 2026

Hybrid work and digitisation have changed how offices function, making it harder to serve the document technology market through a single, centralised sales model. Customers still need reliable technology, but they increasingly want systems that help information move...

Agility is not speed but preparedness

Jun 12, 2026

Many businesses confuse agility with speed. They assume that if they can react quickly, change their priorities, or bring in additional capacity at short notice, they are agile. By Frik van der Westhuizen, CEO of EQPlus But true agility is not measured by how quickly...

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