Ways of working that go back decades were dismantled overnight in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic took hold of the world. South Africa was no exception...
Nunu Ntshingila 13 Apr 2021
Now is an important time for the print industry. It's a time of change and where new and emerging technologies are influencing its future. The print industry is unique...
Jimmy De Waal 9 Mar 2021
Mercer's Global Talent Trends 2020-2021 report has revealed four trends that will assist companies during the post-pandemic recovery...
Shan Radcliffe 8 Mar 2021
Modern societies are at a turning point where powerful lifestyle shifts are reshaping the ways in which we move, consume, work, learn, socialise and protect ourselves...
Willie Schoeman 25 Jan 2021
The Covid-19 pandemic not only placed tremendous strain on South Africa's already bleak fiscal stance, it also highlighted gaps in an overburdened medical care system...
Brands have experienced several marketing blunders over the years, even midst a global pandemic...
Cheryl Reddy 13 Nov 2020
The fourth industrial revolution is well underway and it is shaping up some of the most significant opportunities and challenges of our lifetime...
Earle Holmes, Issued by AFDA 16 Oct 2020
Gender imbalance isn't just another challenge that companies need to overcome, it's arguably the greatest threat facing the global tech sector today...
Natasha Reuben 8 Oct 2020
The paradigm in the 'war for talent' has changed. Employers are no longer in the driver's seat when it comes to seeking talent. Today's employees want jobs that are meaningful, have a purpose, and are rewarding...
Africa faces many challenges on its path to becoming a global economic competitor. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Africa's development can either be a massive barrier to advancement - or, the spark that lights the fire...
Amrote Abdella 27 Aug 2020
In South Africa, millennials represent the largest generation to enter the workforce - more than 50% in 2020, and 75% by 2030...
Lebo Thubisi 20 Jul 2020
As the world anxiously waits for the lockdown to end, a new generation of workers is evolving and getting ready take on the new world of work...
Rob Bothma 2 Jul 2020
If the World Economic Forum (WEF) is to be believed, then business across the globe could be facing a reskilling emergency. According to them, 42% of core skills required to perform existing jobs are going to change by 2022...
Data and analytics fuel digital business and play a vital role in the future survival of organisations worldwide...
Adriaan Hubinger 18 May 2020
There is considerable uncertainty that plagues the global economy going into 2020, but times are looking better for the mining sector this year and next...
Joe Keenan 26 Feb 2020
As the oldest of millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) are well into adulthood, a new generation of workers is now entering and shaping today's workforce. Born between 1995 and 2009, iGen (or Gen Z) is the first global generation of digital natives...
Lyndy van den Barselaar 19 Feb 2020
Amid positive job creation news, it is now especially vital for the construction industry to adapt to advancing standards and adequately train the emerging workforce...
Anthony Keal 14 Feb 2020
In today's society, the youth are ageing at a faster rate than ever before. But are our educational facilitators ready for this, or are they in need of a reboot?
Nicola Cooper 13 Dec 2019
If you consider how 4IR has disrupted education, business and industry sectors worldwide, we can safely assume that South Africa will also need to make provisions to do the same, but what will the future employment landscape look like...?
AFDA has identified the possibilities of growing the AFDA School of Business Innovation & Technology...
Earle Holmes, Issued by AFDA 5 Dec 2019
If you've purchased a Foundation product sold near the till point of a Cotton On Group store, you've contributed to raising the equivalent of R1bn for educational projects...
Lauren Hartzenberg 14 Nov 2019
With the rise of robots, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), the employees of today are in panic mode about the state of their future career prospects. Will they have a job in 20 years' time... 10 years' time... or even next year?..
Issued by Ole!Connect 1 Nov 2019
The Western Cape Government has announced that the new national agriculture diploma, which will be offered at the Elsenburg Agricultural Training Institute, has received South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) accreditation.
With International Day of the Girl recently marked in celebrating the achievement of girls worldwide, we're putting the spotlight on the local PowerGirls seven-year programme, which aims to transform vulnerable South African girls into outspoken and powerful young women, capable of becoming change agents within their communities...
Leigh Andrews 18 Oct 2019
SAP Africa Code Week has collaborated with Nigeria's Niger and Taraba State Governments to bring digital skills training to teachers in the country's northern provinces for the first time...
The significance and importance of keeping up technological advances is highly evident, particularly within the realm of tertiary education...
Issued by Perfect Word 3 Sep 2019
As the industry increasingly embraces technological innovation and data analytics, many exciting high-tech jobs have emerged, which are a perfect fit for Generation Z, set to become the biggest consumer market by 2020 and our future workforce...
Dr Nomvuselelo Songelwa 1 Jul 2019
Artificial Intelligence can potentially transform the fundamentals of education and how people think in the future...
The co-working space in South Africa has seen tremendous growth over the years since its inception in early 2000...
Andrew Utterson 21 May 2019
According to The Future of Jobs and Skills report, the most in-demand occupations found today did not exist 10 or even five years ago, while an estimated 65% of children entering primary school today will end up working in completely new job types that don't yet exist...
Esben Stærk Jørgensen 9 Apr 2019
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...
Ronald Ravel 8 Jan 2019
PwC and Universitas 21 (U21) have come together to offer exclusive professional development opportunities for U21's graduate students through the Innovation Challenge competition...
Hellocomputer Joburg MD Joey Khuvutlu has issued a challenge to leaders of SA's digital agencies: he wants them to join him in an initiative to fund 100 programming learnerships by August 2019...
Issued by Hellocomputer 5 Sep 2018
Government is considering introducing coding in South African schools...
Some experts believe that more than a third of jobs in South Africa are at risk of being lost because humans are going to be replaced by digitisation and computer technology...
Linda Ronnie 3 Jul 2018
Aviation is a key part of the economic lifeblood of Africa. It supports 6.9 million jobs and $80bn in GDP. It carries people and goods across and outside the continent and brings in economic investment, tourism, trade, and aid...
Alexandre de Juniac 14 Dec 2017
Business environments are undergoing major change as disruption remains one of the only constants. Innovators and those embracing change are succeeding, whilst those that don't continue to struggle. This is were intrapreneurship plays a critical role...
Intrapreneurship is key to Africa's future, according to speakers at a recent Thomson Reuters summit on Africa...
A new report by Accenture, Getting to Equal 2017, reveals that digitally fluent women can close the ever-increasing talent, skills and equal pay gaps in the workplace...
According to Kamendran Govender of Accenture Consulting, advances in automation are transforming the supply chain workforce of the future...
As chatbots, cognitive technologies, and natural language understanding (NLU) take centre stage, having a workforce that can write these in the applicable language is essential...
Suné Stassen, festival director for the Open Design Festival, is heavily involved in the country's design education movement. Here, she shares how your business can pick up the baton to take the movement forward...
Leigh Andrews 27 Feb 2017
On the first day of the fourth edition of the biennial trade fair, ACA 2017, organised by STAT Media Group at the Emperors Palace last week, Air Cargo Africa 2017...
IBM has announced a US$70 million initiative to provide free digital skills training for 25 million African youth over five years...
Gabriella Mulligan 14 Feb 2017
IBM has launched its $70 million (approximately R945 million) digital education initiative, “IBM Digital - Nation Africa”, aimed at building much-needed digital, cloud, and cognitive IT skills on the continent...
The rise of the digital economy is developing at pace globally and is now probably the single most important driver of innovation and prosperity...
Yusof Seedat 13 Jan 2017
In her recent enlightening address at the IABC's Innovating Business Communication Conference, professional speaker and coach Saffron Baggallay emphasised the need to understand, value and work with millennials...
Pasqua Heard 22 Nov 2016