Paystack adds onsite Shopify card checkout

Paystack has introduced what it says is South Africa’s first onsite card checkout for Shopify, allowing shoppers to pay directly within a business’s online checkout without being redirected to a separate payment page. For businesses preparing for Black Friday, the...

AI could reduce call centre job churn

Frontline voice work has some of the highest churn of any job globally, but South Africa’s growing pipeline of young, first-time workers don’t need to face that reality the same way – or with the same mental health burdens. By Bruce Von Maltitz, CEO of 1Stream South...

Scholarship opens 20 fully funded pathways to in-demand careers

HyperionDev has announced the Moola Motlomelo & Muslim Hands Scholarship 2026, offering 20 young people full tuition funding, mentorship and career support, with applications open from 21 September to 9 October 2026. The scholarship will award 20 full-tuition...

Agentic AI is becoming a new architectural layer in business

Agentic AI is becoming a new architectural layer within the business because it can sit between people, data, applications, and workflows. It can operate inside processes, reason across information, use approved tools, interact with enterprise systems, and take action...

Rethinking risk in an unpredictable yet interconnected world

The past several years has demonstrated just how quickly separate risks can combine and amplify one another. In relatively close succession, South African businesses have had to contend with a global health pandemic, periods of widespread socio-political unrest,...

The role of AI in democratising access to justice

The South African Constitution recognises access to justice as a fundamental human right. But in reality, most South Africans lack access to the legal advice they need to protect themselves and their loved ones, writes Michael Visser, head of services at My AI Lawyer....