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When fraud looks like a good customer

By Amritha Reddy – The most dangerous fraud today does not appear suspicious. It looks like your best customer. For decades, fraud detection has focused on identifying behaviour that falls outside expected patterns. A new category of fraud is now rewriting that...

Enterprises must prepare for digital conflict

By David C Howell – Geopolitical conflict is no longer confined to land, sea, or air, but unfolds silently across digital infrastructure too. Today, it unfolds silently across networks, servers, and endpoints. Governments, critical infrastructure operators, and...

AI is changing the rules of cybercrime

By Avinash Gupta – Cybersecurity has always been a constant race between attackers and defenders. As organisations strengthen their security tools, cybercriminals continually devise new ways to bypass them. Today, the rise of agentic artificial intelligence (AI)...

SA CISOs are flying blind on AI agents. But POPIA won’t care why

Ask any South African CISO how many AI agents are running in their environment right now and most will be hard pressed to answer. This is the uncomfortable truth behind the local rush to deploy agentic AI, and it is happening while many of the same organisations are...

What’s the current state of AI-ready data centre infastructure?

For artificial intelligence (AI) to thrive, we need a robust and sustainable data centre structure. Channelwise asked a panel of AI experts about the current state of AI-ready data centre capacity in South Africa and Africa, and what build-out we an expect.   Ziaad...

Winning the tender is when the real risk begins

Winning a tender tends to create a sense that things are under control. The project is secured, teams are briefed, and attention shifts quickly to getting work underway. What is less visible at that point is how quickly the risk profile changes, writes Morag Evans,...

Telco channel partners need more agility – not anchors

While connectivity has become the lifeblood of businesses and households, with a growing addressable market offering attractive opportunities for SMEs and innovative businesses to scale in the sector, there is a tension between South Africa’s need for job creation and...

AI makes traditional management obsolete

AI will not simply automate tasks, it will fundamentally reshape the architecture of management itself, forcing SME leaders to develop entirely new capabilities to govern hybrid human-AI workforces. THis is one of the finding from a new thought leadership white paper...

Your VAT refund may not be the full amount owed

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...

Value for money has become non-negotiable

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...

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