On a road in Kenya’s Makueni County, a woman loads sacks of pigeon pea onto a motorbike. Her landscape is rehabilitated, soils restored, seeds climate-resilient, markets ready, and a weather alert on her phone shows when it will rain. Each element exists because financing, science, extension servicesand markets worked together. It shows what COP30 can…
Being placed on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) can feel like a punch to the gut. It’s feedback but it also comes loaded with fear, doubt, and worry: “Am I failing? Is my job at stake? Do they even want me here?” But here’s what you need to know: this isn’t the end of your…
The author, Change Logic’s Keenan Crouch Change leaders are accustomed to thinking in terms of people and process. These are the pillars of transformation, the levers that guide organisations through mergers, digital rollouts or shifts in operating models. Yet today, where technology is ingrained in the heartbeat of every business, process and engagement, a third…
Binance Pay hosted a treasure hunt event at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. Through its integration with Zapper, Binance Pay says it is opening new avenues for South Africans to use crypto-currencies to shop and pay. It showcased the possibilities during a treasure hunt hosted at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town recently. The…
For black people living in South Africa during apartheid, simply moving around the country was a fraught activity, let alone crossing its borders. This was especially the case for black women, who were “rock bottom of the racial pile”, as South African writer Lauretta Ngcobo expressed it. Coming to power in 1948 and ruling for…
Retail in South Africa is changing. As customers become more digitally empowered, the traditional, staff-led in-store experience is being replaced with self-service, smartphone-driven journeys. Tobie van Schalkwyk, Business Unit Lead at Duxbury Networking. Image supplied Shoppers want speed, independence, and seamless access to the same product information and services they have online. But while most…
The City of Cape Town kicks off the host of metropolitan advertisements in this week’s eTenders Portal. National Treasury’s eTenders Portal is busy this week, largely driven by a slew of municipal requests following the start of a new financial year in July. For the ICT industry, this means the majority of opportunities that appear…
Business Leadership South Africa CEO Busi Mavuso I was pleased to see the gazetting last week of new rules for how government departments are allowed to procure their IT services. I have written before about the critical role that IT must play in rebuilding a capable state. I warned that the ability of government to…
