by Dianne Bayley | Feb 23, 2022 | Security and Legal
When a new year comes around, M&A practitioners are often asked to discuss trends in the market, writes Dave Pinnock, Director in the Corporate & Commercial practice and Co-Head for the Private Equity sector at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH). Nowadays, this is...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 23, 2022 | Workplace 2020
We are at a crucial point in the future of our country, writes Colin Timmis, Xero South African Country Manager .There has been much negative attention on our economy – with the unemployment rate at a record rate. This shouldn’t be understated, especially since...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 23, 2022 | Sustainability
It should come as no surprise that there has been a massive spike in interest and uptake of solar installations of various sizes. Load shedding and unplanned outages have affected businesses and households alike. This has had a massive impact on businesses as well as...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 22, 2022 | Workplace 2020
When world-altering events like the current COVID pandemic occur, every level of society is forced to adapt in some way, writes Dr Allan Pamba, Africa Network Lead, EMEA-LATAM at Roche Diagnostics. This pandemic of our time has seen economies rise and fall,...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 22, 2022 | Sustainability
Email is dead. If I’d believed that phrase any of the countless times I’ve heard it since 2010, I probably wouldn’t have a job right now\, notes By Ross Sibbald, Commercial Director, Striata Africa. Everything from SMS to instant messaging, social media, and office...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 17, 2022 | Sustainability
Having a backup plan is a given not a nice-to-have, writes Dzingira Matenga, Managing Director, CFO & Enterprise Value for Accenture in Africa Whether you are automatically archiving historical client data or testing a new cybersecurity strategy, backup planning...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 17, 2022 | Sustainability
Businesses are shifting to greener, more environmentally efficient operations and printer manufacturers are no exception. This is why more Epson customers are switching from heat-based printers to more energy-efficient, heat-free business inkjet printers, to help...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 16, 2022 | Workplace 2020
The past two years have been incredibly hard. Many people have lost loved ones to COVID-19, or have had their personal lives turned upside down as a result of lockdowns, limited access to medical facilities and ongoing health problems. As a result, employees are...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 16, 2022 | Workplace 2020
The benefits of using advanced drone technology for inspecting boiler internals at a power station were on full display when rope access specialist Skyriders Access Specialists (Pty) Ltd. recently undertook a project in the Nkangala district of Mpumalanga. The Elios...
by Dianne Bayley | Feb 15, 2022 | Innovation
Over the course of the last two years, companies of all sizes have had to invest in the acceleration of their digital transformation as a result of the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, coupled with the need to respond to the demands of hybrid working thanks...