What China’s latest five-year plan means to the world
China’s 15th Five-Year Plan aims to help shape the country’s next phase of development, with priorities spanning innovation, domestic consumption, industrial upgrading, green energy and continued opening to the global economy. This is according to speakers at the...
Investec in SA first with Copilot rollout
Investec has rolled out Microsoft Copilot to its 8 000 colleagues across the group, becoming the first organisation in South Africa to publicly announce a full-workforce deployment of Microsoft Copilot. Spanning Investec's operations across South Africa, the UK and...
ECA Amendment Bill published for public comment
On Tuesday 23 June 2026, the Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies published an invitation to stakeholders and interested parties to make written submissions on the Electronic Communications Amendment Bill, 2026 (Amendment Bill). Submissions...
Steam users targeted via infected wallpaper
Kaspersky has uncovered an ongoing malware distribution campaign leveraging Steam Workshop and Wallpaper Engine - a popular Steam application used to create and share animated desktop wallpapers. Researchers identified multiple infected wallpaper packages which had...
Applications open for Global Cleantech Innovation Programme
outh Africa’s infrastructural challenges are well documented: The grid is overloaded; water scarcity is growing; and transport concerns are constant. What’s worse, though, is the 60% youth unemployment recently revealed by Stats SA. But where there is a lack of...
SA fans among the most colourful at 2026 World Cup
South African fans were named among the world’s most colourful supporter cultures ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, according to an international fan reputation study. The World Cup Reputation Index, commissioned by British entrepreneur and lifelong football fan Sam...
Property data reveals the spatial patterns of banking fraud
Financial criminals are adept at constructing convincing paper trails. Falsified identity documents, fabricated company registrations, AI-assisted forgeries, and ghost addresses can all fool a KYC process built entirely around records. What they cannot fake is...
The amnesia effect: stop treating customers like strangers
We live in an era of personalisation, where businesses seek to provide the best possible customer experience (CX) precisely because consumers have more options than ever before. Yet, many businesses are suffering from operational amnesia without even knowing it,...
When helpful AI tools become a corporate security blind spot
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has quickly evolved from a novelty to a regular tool in the workplace. It helps with tasks like drafting emails, summarising documents, coding, and data analysis. AI-powered platforms are changing how people work, writes...
SA has too many ways to pay. Will they make cards extinct?
South Africa has never had more ways to pay, writes Ntombenhle Annegbe-Enahoro, IPP product manager at Ecentric. At the point of sale in 2026, a consumer can tap or insert a card, open a banking app and make a PayShap transfer, scan a QR while deciding to split the...
How businesses can tackle burnout
Burnout has become one of the defining workplace challenges, particularly in knowledge-intensive industries where employees are expected to think critically, solve problems rapidly, and remain constantly connected. Global research indicates that between 55% and 66% of...
AI is redefining the contact centre as a conversational experience hub
In 2026, contact centre leaders are being pulled in two directions at once, writes Lauren Potgieter, country manager of Infobip South Africa. Executives are demanding AI‑driven efficiencies, while customers expect more human, empathetic support than ever. The only way...