Category: <span>Voices</span>

Dear Changemakers, There is a lot of conversation about entrepreneurship in Africa. We tell young people to start businesses. We encourage them to innovate. We celebrate founders, side hustles and startups. But I think we need to push the conversation further. What exactly are we building and who are we building it for? I recently...

As South Africa marks Mental Health Awareness Month, businesses are being encouraged to look beyond traditional workplace wellness initiatives and consider a less visible but increasingly important factor in employee wellbeing: psychological safety. Psychological safety refers to an environment where employees feel comfortable speaking up, asking questions, admitting mistakes, challenging ideas and asking for help...

Businesses are spending months choosing models, copilots and platforms. Dariel’s Sasha Slankamenac says the bigger risk sits in the data underneath, which was never built to be read by a machine that asks its own questions. Walk into most AI steering committees and the same questions come up. Which model, which vendor, which copilot licence,...

South African politicians seem obsessed with ideology while ordinary people on the ground are crying out for jobs, opportunities, and a better economy. America is willing to do business with South Africa, but political disagreements and policy choices are making that relationship more difficult. South Africa needs leadership that puts economic growth, investment, job creation,...

In 1971, at Xerox PARC, someone asked Alan Kay to forecast where computing was heading. His answer has outlived almost every forecast made that decade: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” He wasn’t being clever. He was describing how he and his colleagues worked. While others were writing reports about...

As businesses become increasingly reliant on external technology providers, outsourced services and interconnected supply chains, managing risk can no longer stop at the organisation’s own boundaries. For many years, third-party risk was largely viewed as a procurement responsibility, focused on supplier selection, contractual agreements and pricing. Today, however, the conversation has shifted considerably. As businesses...

Search has changed. The way people find information, products, and ideas has evolved faster in the past year than it has in the last decade. And the brands that don’t adapt are about to disappear from the conversation entirely. Search marketing is intent-based; it’s vital to grow any business, and it’s often overlooked, well, the...

The latest regulatory action against a major financial institution, resulting in a R28 million administrative penalty for shortcomings under the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA), is a timely reminder that compliance cannot be treated as a once-off exercise. What stands out to me is not the size of the penalty, or even the institution involved,...

Enterprises love to call themselves API-first. Almost none of them are ready for what’s about to start calling those APIs. Eighty-two percent of organisations now describe themselves as API-first, according to Postman’s 2025 State of the API Report. It’s a comfortable number to cite in a strategy deck but, according to Jurgen Roos, Team Lead in the...

I fly a lot, and I’ve been watching something fascinating unfold in airport lounges. What used to feel like a quiet perk now feels like a battlefield: • credit cards fighting for access • airlines slicing entry into finer and finer categories • new lounges opening inside other lounges. On the surface it looks like...