Category: <span>Voices</span>

Why the biggest opportunity in gaming is not simply being seen, but giving players something they actually want to engage with. There is a big difference between putting advertising inside a game and actually creating something for the people playing it. That difference is where I think a lot of marketers are still getting gaming...

There is far more to planning for death than simply signing a will, from the little-known three-month rule after divorce to debt, retirement funds and UIF benefits. September marks Wills Month, and while most South Africans know they should have a will, many do not understand what happens to their assets, debts and financial benefits...

The hype has earned every eye-roll it gets. The evidence has earned a good second look. There is a particular silence I have learned to recognise. It arrives about four slides into a pitch, just after the word “AI” has appeared for the third time. It also appears when someone promises to reinvent an industry...

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....