Jul 20, 2026
Capital is not the constraint; project readiness is, writes Anusha Naidu, CEO of SAVCA In his keynote address at the recent BlackRock South Africa Infrastructure Investment Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa positioned South Africa’s ongoing reform agenda as a credible...
Jul 17, 2026
Buildings may be getting smarter, but too many control rooms are still anchored to yesterday’s technology, such as on‑site servers, rigid architectures and a patchwork of interfaces that are expensive to run and painfully slow to evolve. By Charles Coetzee, buildings...
Jul 16, 2026
The recently launched Evident Insights 2026 AI Index for Banks, which assessed 25 institutions across the Middle East and Africa, suggests that artificial intelligence in banking has reached the point where it can be usefully benchmarked and compared. By Dr Mark...
Jul 14, 2026
The public internet is transitioning from being known as a core business enabler to – in many ways – an increasingly worrisome liability. Historically viewed as the great connector – open, accessible, and essential – the public digital environment is becoming...
Jul 14, 2026
Across the world’s most technologically advanced economies, a significant proportion of desk workers describe themselves as AI skeptics, while the number in emerging markets is dramatically lower. By Linda Saunders, country manager and senior director solution...
Jul 9, 2026
South Africa’s mining industry has long been defined by what lies beneath the surface – vast mineral wealth that has shaped the country’s economy for more than a century. By Ntsako Baloyi, data and AI lead for Accenture, South Africa But as ore bodies become deeper,...
