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What banks look for in SMEs seeking growth finance

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Inclusive omnichannel communication key to financial inclusion

Across Africa, financial inclusion is no longer limited by the availability of financial services – it is limited by whether people can reliably access and use them. The real battleground is the communication layer. By George Muhia, head of enterprise business: East...

‘Pre-business rescue’ can avert drift towards insolvency

Year-on-year, liquidations are up a worrying 15% from March 2025, while the year-to-date figures (January-March 2026) have steadily climbed throughout the first quarter, according to the latest liquidation statistics from Stats SA. Cumulatively, South Africa recorded...

Becoming a frontier firm starts with redesigning work, not buying AI

There is a productivity crisis in many organisations. Leaders are under pressure to move faster, improve service, and do more with teams that are already stretched. By Bernard Vertenten, Microsoft solutions business development at DAC Systems Microsoft’s 2025 Work...

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