By: Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Hegazy - Business Development Leader, Energy and Chemicals, Schneider Electric East Africa Tanzania’s energy and chemicals segment is projected to show tremendous growth in... 

By: Charles Coetzee - Buildings & C&SP Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa at Schneider Electric Buildings may be getting smarter, but too many control rooms are still anchored to yesterday’s technology,... 

By: Visagen Naidoo - Mindworx Consulting South Africa has a youth unemployment crisis. Everyone knows that. What few people are talking about is that we also have a programme design crisis. For... 

By: Steven Santini, Secure Power Vice President, Schneider Electric Sub-Saharan Africa The data centre industry has evolved through successive waves of innovation, from virtualisation to cloud... 

By: Wayne Cowie - CEO at Energy Exchange South Africa (EXSA), writes that grid expansion and battery storage technology are crucial to securing South Africa's energy future South Africa stands at a... 

By: Dr Mark Nasila - Chief Data and Analytics Officer, FNB AI Strategy The recently launched Evident Insights 2026 AI Index for Banks, which assessed 25 institutions across the Middle East and... 

By: Bradley Elliott - CEO at RelyComply When South Africa was grey-listed by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in 2023, financial institutions had their work cut out. Policies were rapidly... 

By: Rohit Chashta - Sustainability Business Lead, Africa, SE Advisory Services at Schneider Electric        South African organisations’ broad environmental obligations have evolved into a number... 

By: Zelda van de Linde - HR Director, AWS This Youth Month, we have reason to be optimistic - but also reason to accelerate. South Africa has one of the world's largest youth populations, and with... 

By Tapiwa Samanga Every June, South Africa observes Youth Month, a time to honour the courage and sacrifice of the generation of 1976. Five decades later, the struggle facing young people has... 

By: Matthew George - Head of Corporate at Hamtern Financial Services Project delays in renewable energy tend to get written off as timing issues. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Renewables... 

By: Moses Mashisane In the modern global economy, the strength of a nation’s infrastructure is not only measured by its roads, ports, railways, and water supply systems, but also by the invisible... 

By: Ntsako Baloyi - Data & AI lead for Accenture, South Africa South Africa’s mining industry has long been defined by what lies beneath the surface – vast mineral wealth that has shaped the... 

By: Cecil Maartens - Account Manager, MMM Segment for SSA at Schneider Electric  Like the swing of a pendulum, mining organisations find themselves caught in a familiar rhythm: chasing higher... 

South Africa’s renewable energy sector is expanding at a rapid pace, but the speed of delivery is often slowed by the familiar and avoidable challenge of fragmented secondary plant integration.... 

By: H.E. Mohammad Ali Rashed Lootah - President and CEO of Dubai Chambers Africa is entering a new era of economic growth. Across the continent, businesses are scaling faster, innovating more... 

As South Africa marks Youth Month, the construction sector finds itself at a critical inflection point: infrastructure investment is accelerating, but the skilled professionals needed to deliver it... 

By: Kobus Vermeulen - Direct Sales Executive, Process Automation at Schneider Electric For decades, industrial automation was built around a simple principle: install robust control hardware, keep... 

By: Faith Madoda - Founder, TSS Petroleum Group, Kuruman South Africa’s cost-of-living crisis is often discussed in broad national terms, but in the Northern Cape it is something far more... 

By:Chris Riley - Regional President Bosch Rexroth Africa and Chief Executive Officer of Bosch Rexroth South Africa According to the African Development Bank, Africa's manufacturing sector generated... 

By:Neil van Wyngaard - Solutions Architect According to iOCO Automation & Cybersecurity, AI agents are fast being deployed across organisations and within business units, often with unchecked... 

By: Vuyo Mafrika - Head, Global Markets, Client Solutions –  Africa Regional Offices; Chewe Chumanya, Bank  Manager, Absa Zambia; and Opy Ramaremisa, Head, Client Solutions, Absa CIB The El... 

By: Charles Coetzee - Buildings & C&SP Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa at Schneider Electric Buildings may be getting smarter, but too many control rooms are still anchored to yesterday’s technology,... 

By: Morag Evans - CEO of Databuild In construction, instinct is still important. People who have worked in this sector for years develop a feel for where activity is moving, which regions are... 

Most business owners preparing for an exit ask the same question: what is my business worth? That is the wrong question. Or rather, it is incomplete. The more powerful — and more profitable —... 

By: Rohit Chashta - Sustainability Business Lead, Africa, SE Advisory Services at Schneider Electric South African organisations’ broad environmental obligations have evolved into a number of... 

By: Nnadozie Ogbuehi - Vice President for Services, SSA at Schneider Electric Across West Africa, organisations are increasingly rethinking how they manage critical assets and operational... 

By: Johan Potgieter - Cluster Industrial Software Lead at Schneider Electric Large infrastructure projects have a stubborn reputation. Globally, major capital works such as transport corridors,... 

By: Helgaard Müller, CEO of Credeq Africa As South Africa marks Youth Month this June, the country's most urgent economic challenge is becoming an increasingly important business issue. Youth... 

By: Rentia van Tonder - Head of Power and Renewables, Standard Bank Corporate and Investment Banking Ahead of the Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town, the central question for the continent is no... 

The limits of storage-only thinking in balancing Africa’s renewable grids: Why a hybrid approach to flexibility will deliver better outcomes than batteries alone Africa’s energy transition is... 

By: Heather Dugmore South Africa's largest insurers say claims for weather-related damage to solar assets have exponentially increased. As insurers tighten cover and claim conditions, the burden of... 

By: Shirley Webber - Coverage Head, Resources & Energy at Absa CIB and Nikhil Kasiram, Resource and Project Finance: Power and Infrastructure at Absa CIB British power developer Gridworks recently... 

By: Anoop Hariparsad - Offer Marketing Manager, Microgrids, MEA at Schneider Electric It might sound almost too simplistic, but for many organisations and their finance teams, monthly electricity... 

By: Richard Hoal - Partner: Construction, Engineering and Insurance Law, Cox Yeats Residents across South Africa face chronic infrastructure failures. Flooding, exposed sewer lines, collapsing... 

By: Junaid Kleinschmidt – Intelligence lead and Ntsako Baloyi – Data & AI lead for Accenture, South Africa Within the South African business community, cloud adoption has moved well beyond early... 

By: Roelof van den Berg - CEO of the Gap Infrastructure Corporation (GIC) 04 June 2026: Clean water saves lives, sustains public health, enables businesses to operate, and keeps South Africa’s... 

By: Chris Yelland - managing director, EE Business Intelligence Zambia has launched one of the most innovative sovereign finance transactions seen on the continent in years, and its real...