By: Abrie Rautenbach - Managing Executive for Agriculture at Absa CIB Richard Nixon went on American television and announced to the world that the United States would stop converting dollars into... 

By: Nishandra Bajinath - Digital Grid, Head of Sales in Sub-Saharan Africa at Schneider Electric Mark Twain famously said: "If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change.” The... 

By: Ayanda Khumalo - Partner, Nkosinathi Thema, Senior Associate & Kopano Ledwaba, Candidate Attorney at Webber Wentzel The Constitution guarantees everyone the right to have access to sufficient... 

By: David C Howell - Regional Sales Director at ManageEngine South Africa Twenty years ago, managing enterprise IT in South Africa was a considerably more contained job. Most employees worked from... 

By: Andy Pfaff - Coherent Commodities Diesel rarely attracts the same attention as interest rates, stock markets or headline inflation. Yet it remains one of the most important operating inputs in... 

By: Murray Crow - Managing Director, Kwikot Powered by Haier South Africa has spent the past decade learning how quickly infrastructure failure can move from being a government problem to becoming... 

By Richard Hoal, partner The principle of “pay now, argue later” is the cornerstone of construction adjudication. An adjudicator’s decision is binding unless and until revised by a tribunal, and... 

By: Rhys Evans - Managing Director at ALCO-Safe When looking at the statistics around alcohol and drug use in South African workplaces, it is easy to get lost in the percentages. But behind every... 

For much of the last decade, the success of Africa’s energy transition has been measured in megawatts. We celebrate the commissioning of solar plants, wind farms, and battery projects. We track... 

By: Steven Lumley - technical manager, WearCheck Electrostatic spark discharge plays a significant role in compromising oil condition. It is the focus of the next article in WearCheck’s “When Good... 

By: Murray Crow - Managing Director, Kwikot For more than a decade, South Africans have learnt to live around an electricity system that could not always deliver consistently, adapting our... 

By: Rhys Evans - Managing Director at ALCO-Safe When looking at the statistics around alcohol and drug use in South African workplaces, it is easy to get lost in the percentages. But behind every... 

For the past few years, a question has circulated through boardrooms and media: are sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) dead? Depending on who you ask, they are being... 

By: Jason Smit - Partner & Iman Damons, Associate at Pinsent Masons Johannesburg Less than a year after gazetting the Integrated Resource Plan 2025 (IRP 2025), South Africa's Department of... 

By: Bani Kgosana - Public Sector Lead at Pragma Wednesday, 16 September 2026: Enoch Godongwana, South Africa’s finance minister, spoke this week about the country's infrastructure backlog,... 

Erwyn Durman, partner; Manno Manavhela, associate; and Precious Maphupha, candidate attorney at Webber Wentzel With the growing use of artificial intelligence and its integration into corporate... 

By: Boland Lithebe - Cybersecurity lead for Accenture, South Africa A cyber incident rarely stays in the IT department. When a critical system goes down, a supplier is compromised or data becomes... 

By: Ifeanyi Odoh - Country President, Schneider Electric East Africa In a time when the global spotlight is firmly set on Africa, countries have the opportunity to truly accelerate their adoption... 

By: Marius Barnard, Managing Director – Babcock’s Transport Business In transport economics, there is no denying that local transport operators now understand the concept of Total Cost of Ownership... 

By Uhabia Ojike, Lead Energy & Infrastructure, Forvis Mazars, Africa and Country Leader, Forvis Mazars in Nigeria Africa’s energy challenge is not a shortage of resources; it is our inability to... 

By Oliver Niemandt, general manager and head of sales, Cloud On Demand Fragmentation is expensive. It is also unowned and unmeasured, which is why it never has to justify itself. 

By Leigh-Ann Revill, CEO at Chartall Business College South Africa’s unemployment crisis has reached a point where incremental solutions are no longer enough. With the official unemployment rate... 

By Chris Yelland, energy advisor to OUTA, and managing director at EE Business Intelligence Eskom has extended its rooftop solar registration deadline, dropped its threats of fines and cutoff for... 

By chief commercial officer at Momentum Insure Dipesh Radia An emergency usually strikes without warning. Whether it’s a sudden flash flood, an extended power outage, a home maintenance crisis, or... 

By: Nishandra Bajinath - Digital Grid, Head of Sales in Sub-Saharan Africa at Schneider Electric South Africa’s power grid is entering a new era, and it is remarkable. In just a few short years,... 

By: Rhys Evans - Managing Director at ALCO-Safe For many South African businesses, workplace alcohol policies are designed with the best intentions: to protect safety, maintain productivity, and... 

By:Lungisa Fuzile - Standard Bank Chief Executive for Africa Regions Rising savings, increasing cross-border payment activity and growing participation in formal financial systems are emerging as... 

When the automatic intervention requirements of South Africa’s Mine Health and Safety Act Regulations came into force in December 2022, many expected a relatively rapid shift to full Level 9... 

By Stefan Lauber, CEO, iFundi Ask any engineering manager what keeps them up at night, and the answer hasn't changed in years: where is the next generation of engineers coming from? The Engineering... 

By: Eric Wang, General Manager Shenzhen Yuexin Precious Metals Co., Ltd. (Yuexin) was founded in October 2011 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, China, with operations in key markets across the... 

By: Bill Blackie - Chief Executive of Business and Commercial Banking at Standard Bank Group African exporters are using lower import duties and improved market access to diversify into additional... 

By: Steven Lumley - technical manager, WearCheck This edition of WearCheck’s “When Good Oils Go Bad” series gives insight into microdieseling. 

By: Sydney Higgo - Industrial Automation Business Developer & Engineer at Schneider Electric Traditionally, automation partnerships centred on clear deliverables, identifying requirements,... 

By: Iretomiwa Odusote - Regional Segment Leader - Energies & Chemicals at Schneider Electric West Africa West Africa stands at an important moment in its energy journey. Across the region,... 

By: Junaid Kleinschmidt - Intelligence lead for Accenture, South Africa For many organisations, AI adoption started small, through proof of concepts and small-scale trials, rather than full-scale... 

By : Rudolph Lungile Mabece AARTO has a long history that started with the Administrative Adjudication of Road Offences Act No. 46 of 1998. It gained prominence with the introduction of the AARTO... 

By Richard Roberts, Editorial Director, Beacon Events IMARC’s Innovation & Investment Alley is back in 2026 and so is the industry’s most impressive line-up of mining technology leaders and... 

By Steven Carlini is the Vice President of Innovation and Data Center for Schneider Electric The AI factory era has arrived