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The Ferrari/ Lewis Hamilton partnership: A branding success story

Jul 24, 2026

The 2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix delivered one of the most emotional moments of the 2026 Formula One season as Lewis Hamilton claimed his first victory for Ferrari. By Graham Duxbury But Hamilton’s victory was significant for much more than just the win or his...

Negotiating supplier prices means little if the rand has the final say

Jul 24, 2026

Business owners spend weeks negotiating with overseas suppliers, planning inventory and calculating margins down to the last cent. But all that preparation counts for nothing if profitability ultimately depends on where the rand is trading the day the invoice falls...

Security challenge comes down to talent

Jul 10, 2026

Cybersecurity has become a vital enabler of business resilience, digital growth and customer trust. By Boland Lithebe, cybersecurity lead and Shiksha Benimadho, talent and organisation lead for Accenture, South Africa Yet many organisations are discovering that their...

Why is youth unemployment still so high?

Jul 10, 2026

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...

SMEs need certainty – not compexity

Jul 10, 2026

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...

Resilience is the new innovation for SMEs

Jul 10, 2026

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?...

The role of AI PCs in the creative economy

Jul 10, 2026

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...

Africa may be blockchain’s most mispriced market

Jul 10, 2026

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...

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...

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