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            <title>Electric Vehicles and Insurance</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa's electric vehicle (EV) market is surging in 2026, driven by a wave of affordable new models and buyer interest. According to data from the Automotive Business Council (Naamsa), South Africans are choosing new energy vehicles (NEVs) such as hybrids (HEVs), plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) and fully electric cars (BEVs) at pace, with 3,045 NEVs sold in June 2026 – a 104.2% increase compared to the 1,491 units sold in the same period in 2025.[1] As more motorists make the move from internal combustion engines to hybrid and fully electric mobility, it creates important new considerations for drivers, insurers, repairers and risk professionals.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 gold. The decision marked the beginning of the end for the Bretton Woods era and sent currencies into a period of adjustment that was uncomfortable enough for richer economies and considerably less forgiving for developing ones, whose import bills could change dramatically through decisions made far beyond their borders. Two years later, amid another devaluation of the dollar and the upheaval surrounding the Arab-Israeli war, the oil-producing countries pushed crude prices sharply higher, with the export price index rocketing from 196 to 641. Oil had become vastly more expensive in the space of a year, and its reach through the economy meant that very little dependent on energy escaped untouched for long.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 unpredictability of weather has plagued mankind since the dawn of time, and its effect is felt across all facets of life including the way our distribution network operates.]]></description>
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            <title>Leveraging land reform and the Expropriation Act to advance food security in South Africa</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 food and basic nutrition. Complementing this is South Africa's highly productive agricultural sector. Yet, despite these constitutional protections and high agricultural productivity, food insecurity remains a persistent reality for millions of South Africans.]]></description>
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            <title>Enterprise IT management, then and now: A look at how much has changed in 20 years</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 an office, using desktops connected to a corporate network, while applications and data largely sat on company infrastructure. When something went wrong, IT teams had a more defined environment to troubleshoot.]]></description>
            <author>Dimpho Madiba</author>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 the global economy.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 an economic one. We saw it with electricity, as unreliable supply disrupted businesses and eventually forced companies to build resilience for themselves. Water is now moving in the same direction, but the consequences are even more fundamental. There is no substitute for water in a factory, hospital, hotel, school or home. Once supply and sanitation systems begin to fail, the effects spread rapidly through communities and local economies.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 the losing party must comply with it promptly, regardless of whether it intends to challenge the decision in later proceedings. Without prompt compliance, the cash-flow preservation that adjudication exists to achieve is defeated, and the process becomes no more than an expensive advisory opinion.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 data point is a person, such as a crane operator, a long-haul truck driver, a miner, or a site supervisor. South Africa ranks among the highest countries globally for alcohol consumption. When this reality intersects with industries reliant on heavy manual labour, tough working conditions and cheap, easily accessible alcohol, substance abuse stops being just a personal or social issue. It becomes a major safety risk that walks through the front gate every single morning.]]></description>
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            <title>The human capacity gap in Africa’s energy transition</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 investment commitments, transmission infrastructure and carbon reductions. These are important indicators of progress, but they tell only half the story. The real question is no longer whether Africa can build renewable energy. It is whether Africa can develop the people who will sustain it. South Africa’s Just Energy Transition has always been about more than replacing one source of electricity with another. It is about creating an economy that is cleaner, more resilient and, importantly, more inclusive. That means recognising that human capacity – our technicians, artisans, operators, engineers and community leaders – is every bit as critical as physical infrastructure. ]]></description>
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            <title>When Good Oils Go Bad Part 6 Electrostatic Spark Discharge: When Static Strikes Back</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 Oils Go Bad” series.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <title>We Normalised Load Shedding - South Africa Cannot Normalise Water Shedding</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 routines, businesses and homes through load-shedding apps, generators, inverters, batteries and solar systems until infrastructure failure became woven into everyday life.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 data point is a person, such as a crane operator, a long-haul truck driver, a miner, or a site supervisor. South Africa ranks among the highest countries globally for alcohol consumption. When this reality intersects with industries reliant on heavy manual labour, tough working conditions and cheap, easily accessible alcohol, substance abuse stops being just a personal or social issue. It becomes a major safety risk that walks through the front gate every single morning.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 abandoned, rebranded, politicised or pressured to prove their value. But climate change has not disappeared because the terminology has become contested. Water scarcity, supply-chain disruption, biodiversity loss, energy insecurity and changing trade requirements remain. Sustainability is arguably becoming more relevant precisely because it is becoming less comfortable.]]></description>
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            <title>China Investment To Support South Africa's Irp 2025 Implementationchina Investment To Support ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 Electricity and Energy is turning its focus to implementation. A key part of that effort is the pursuit of strategic partnerships and investment, reflected in Energy Minister Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa's participation in the South Africa-China Electricity and Energy Investment Conference in Beijing earlier this month.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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, admitting that our country lacks a proper infrastructure plan, not money. He pointed out that there's more than R20 billion in water grants scattered across departments and still, in his words, "we've got a water crisis throughout the country, and we can't even build boreholes." That is not a funding problem. That is a delivery problem. And it lines up with the latest Auditor-General findings.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 systems, a key question arises: can a company be held responsible for misleading statements made by its AI chatbot to a customer?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 unavailable, the consequences are felt across the business. Customers may be unable to access services, employees may be unable to work and management may have to make difficult decisions with incomplete information.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 of electrification, industrial development and renewable energy deployment.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 (TCO) – a comprehensive, strategic metric that evaluates every expense across a truck’s entire lifecycle.]]></description>
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