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Why SA needs its innovators now

Jul 24, 2026

By Seati Moloi – South Africa is currently engaged in an important national conversation about its future. Across government, industry, academia and civil society, leaders are gathering to debate how we stimulate economic growth, create jobs, accelerate...

Don’t talk to me until I’ve run my prompt

Don’t talk to me until I’ve run my prompt

Jul 24, 2026

By Barry Buck – You know the mug. White, slightly chipped, lives on every second desk on Earth: “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee.” A small, socially-sanctioned warning that the human is not yet operational and should not be approached with anything...

The tools got faster – the business didn’t

Jul 24, 2026

When I led Tarsus through the late nineties and into the noughties, we didn’t have many tools to choose from, and a distributor’s margins didn’t leave much room to buy what there was. By Guy Whitcroft What we did do was work our ERP system hard,...

Channel Chunder: You learn a new thing every day …

Jul 24, 2026

With the “Esteemed One” having recently achieved and celebrated an extremely proud track record of 30 years of dedicated journalistic service to the IT channel in South Africa, it came as a major shock when he provided the brief for this issue’s cover story. Labelled...

The Ferrari/ Lewis Hamilton partnership: A branding success story

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?

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

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

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?...

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