Games could be critical in the fight to protect our oceans

South Africa’s oceans, like others around the world, are under grave threat from overfishing, poaching, and other illicit marine activities. By Glenn Gillis, CEO of Sea Monster  That threat isn’t just to the fish caught up on lines and trawler nets either. Rather, it...

No wealth tax, but trustees beware …

Despite speculations that Government has revived plans to introduce a wealth tax, SARS’ focus has instead shifted to compliance of wealthy taxpayers with complex financial structures as well as trusts. By Elzahne Henn, director and head of private clients at Mazars in...

The rising cost of education …

Back to school in 2023 dealt many parents a hard financial blow as governing bodies at South African schools estimated fee hikes between 4% and 6% for 2023. With the current state of the economy, many parents were faced with the conundrum of whether or not they will...

Women in leadership pipeline has hollowed out in the middle

The leadership pipeline for women has hollowed out in the middle, according to a new global study “Women in leadership: Why perception outpaces the pipeline – and what to do about it” from the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) and Chief. The...

SA among world leaders … in money lost to data breaches

South Africa features in the top 10 countries when it comes to money lost in data breaches, coming in at ninth place with an average data breach cost of $3 210 000. Experts at Proxyrack have looked into the countries and industries losing the most money to data...

Top data breaches, privacy abuses exposed 1bn records

Last year 1,2-billion customer or citizen records were exposed in just the top 35 global breaches. According to Forrester’s new research, “Lessons Learned From The World’s Biggest Data Breaches And Privacy Abuses, 2022”, more than $2,7-billion...