Category: <span>Voices</span>

The future you create depends less on what you desire and more on what you repeatedly notice. Someone recently congratulated me on the success of my career and said, “You’ve manifested all your dreams.” My first response was simple: “Thank you.” But the more I reflected on it, the more I realized something important. We are...

Six ways your HR software can add strategy to upskilling and promoting employees. When LinkedIn Research asked HR professionals if their “executives are concerned that employees do not have the right skills to execute our business strategy,” 49% said yes. Companies need clear reskilling and learning pathways to match the company’s plans and keep staff, and...

Five installations delivered safely on schedule and within budget across a live, six-hotel portfolio, with phase 2 carport solar and battery energy storage now in construction at three sites for time-of-use tariff arbitrage South African solar EPC+M company Rhino Energy Solutions has completed five solar PV installations across the Capital Hotels & Apartments portfolio. This...

Every agency client relationship begins the same way: Endless optimism for groundbreaking work, swift ROI, and generous partnership. Sometimes it sustains, frequently it fades. Why? I’ve spent my career in marketing, at agencies and on the brand side. Now, leading a global production advisory, I help clients architect and implement content ecosystems. More often than...

When people think about digital transformation, they often picture new software, automation, artificial intelligence or cloud-based platforms. But from where I sit, leading business development in the legal and property sectors, technology is rarely the biggest obstacle. People’s uncertainty is. One of the most common misconceptions is that digital transformation is simply about replacing one...

Debt litigation is surging in SA and Hammond Pole warns consumers to know the difference between arrears and the total outstanding balance South Africa is seeing a marked rise in civil debt litigation, with new case data pointing to sharply higher volumes of default judgments, consent orders and summonses for consumer debt. Hammond Pole Attorneys,...

NBConsult’s Nicolas Blank argues that sovereignty is not a data-residency checkbox, but a test of who really controls identity, keys, operations and recovery – with AI now raising the stakes further. As South African organisations weigh up sovereign cloud offerings, many are still equating sovereignty with a single decision: choosing a local data centre region....

Every year, Cannes Lions provides a useful snapshot of where the marketing and advertising industry believes it is headed. The conversations taking place on the Croisette rarely predict the future perfectly, but they often reveal where priorities are shifting, where budgets are moving, and which ideas are gaining traction among brands, agencies, publishers, platforms, and...

A collective perspective from e4’s technology and business leaders The technology sector has inadvertently made its own talent pool smaller by defining “technology careers” too narrowly. Behind every successful digital product are people who understand the customer, manage the finances, shape the product, communicate its value and help people use it. For several of e4’s...

For many South Africans, local government elections rarely inspire the same excitement as national elections. There are no grand presidential races, no massive rallies dominating headlines, and often, very little belief that anything will meaningfully change. That growing frustration is real. A recent survey revealed increasing dissatisfaction with democracy itself, alongside a decline in the...