IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS PoPI Act: neither friend nor foe - just good business sense©johnkwan via 123RF | |
FINANCE & INSURANCE Hyper-availability is the key to success for fintechsKate Mollett, regional manager, Veeam | |
Sindy Peters | [Health & Welfare] Charlie Jacobs was keeping silent. He’d discovered he was HIV positive by accident, and remained in denial for years, refusing treatment. When he found himself close to death, Jacobs realised he had to face reality if he wanted to live. He started taking ARVs – a major step towards accepting his status. But it wasn’t enough. Jacobs needed to speak out against stigma, and he found a way to do it with a T-shirt. Read Charlie Jacobs' full story here. |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE #BizTrends2019: 4 trends defining the commercial, retail property sectors in 2019[Rowland Gurnell] It's no longer about location, location, location. In the commercial and retail property spaces, the buzzword is now technology, technology, technology... | |
Sindy Peters | [Health & Welfare] Before the game ends, Nokulunga Mvandaba’s netball team already know they are winners. The coach has taught them to build up each other’s self-worth, not just how to score goals. She knows the difference support can have. While at university, someone Mvandaba trusted sexually assaulted her. Like many women who go through this, she was emotionally vulnerable and unable to deal with what had happened. “I felt like I had no one to speak to,” Mvandaba says. “It resulted in a lot of self-destructive behaviour.” Turning to alcohol and drugs to cope, her life spiraled downhill as she moved further away from her family. The experience had robbed Mvandaba of her sense of purpose. That changed when she picked up a netball, and her life. Read Nokulunga Mvandaba's full story here. |
TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY Keep abreast of the travel tech wave to realise tourism potentialSherry Zameer | |
HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT #RecruitmentFocus: What you need to know about the new National Minimum Wage Act[Jacques van Wyk] The National Minimum Wage Act came into effect on 1 January 2019, and provides for, amongst others, a national minimum wage; the establishment of a National Minimum Wage Commission... | |
LEGAL #BizTrends2019: 6 trends in fintech and its regulation[David Geral] The South African financial sector has been waiting with bated breath for South Africa's financial regulators to map the way forward and we expect this guidance to be forthcoming early in 2019... | |
RETAIL #BizTrends2019: 4 niche e-commerce stores driving innovation in online shopping[Graham van der Merwe] Service is the new selling. This dedication towards offering tailored service is what differentiates mass from niche online retailers. We're no longer selling things, but the experience of buying them... | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Prepare to be moved by Mooi Genoeg om Engels te Praat[Debbie Hathway] Growing up in the apartheid era my experience had been mainly classical ballet and modern dance and I had seldom seen dancers of colour performing anything other than traditional dance... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA #BizTrends2019: The humanising factorJainita Khatri, managing director, Prana Business Consulting. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT The magical, relaxed luxury of La Petite Ferme[Leigh Andrews] Any stay in historic Franschhoek is almost guaranteed to be a win - more so at La Petite Ferme, just three minutes from the main road but a world away on the curve on Oliphants' Pass leading to the Middagkrans mountain range, with a dazzling view of the verdant valley of vines and Mont Rochelle nature reserve below. The dazzling start was just the beginning... | |
HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT #BizTrends2019: More small businesses - because it will be better, easier...[Marnus Broodryk] Entrepreneurship across the world is on the rise as many factors are playing along, leaving both millennials and the older generation, with new opportunities or with no other option... | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS #BizTrends2019: What does 2019 have in store for us?[Simon Carpenter] Despite the undeniable power of modern predictive analytics, in some ways, we are no better off than the old crone with her crystal ball when it comes to predicting what the world holds in store for us in 2019... | |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE #BizTrends2019: Superfluous retail development the greatest risk to retailers, landlords alike[Andrew Thabo Russell] It is well known that South Africa has some of the highest levels of gross lettable retail area (GLA) per capita (adjusted for income per capita) in the world... | |
AUTOMOTIVE Mobility and exponential technologies[Simon Carpenter] It has been a long journey; one that started slowly and then accelerated at an exponential pace as we moved from the first wheel 5,000 years ago... | |
AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE & FORESTRY Smart data yields big harvests to feed the world©Igor Stevanovic via [[www.123RF.com 123RF] | |
AUTOMOTIVE Tech shifts the car insurance industry into top gear[Simon Carpenter] Complex and inconvenient processes built around inflexible and opaque products describe the experiences of many policyholders when dealing with insurers... | |
EDUCATION & TRAINING Unhappy with your matric results? Here's what you can do[Jackie Carroll] The final results of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations a critical time in learners' lives as a matric certificate has become a basic requirement for getting a job in South Africa... | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS Workforce of the future: What is driving it and where is it going?[Ronald Ravel] An increasingly rapid pace of innovation is driving forward technological advances in the enterprise at an unprecedented rate, meaning that workforce dynamics are set to change drastically... |