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- August 28, 2026ComplianceCIPC is deregistering CCs, and what else quietly expiresA section 82 deregistration is the extreme case of a general problem, which is that things expire on dates nobody in the business owns.
- August 28, 2026Software & systemsAI in your CRM needs a customer record you may not haveSalesforce has put live CRM data inside Claude, and the entry requirement is a structured customer record rather than a mailbox and a spreadsheet.
- August 27, 2026Cost & decisionsAI vs automation, and which one you are paying forA seat licenses a person and a bot licenses an unattended process, and the second one costs ten to sixteen times the first.
- August 27, 2026OperationsThe compliance file lives outside your CRMFICA documents emailed back and forth are not a filing habit, they are the reason your best salesperson spends a day a week on admin.
- August 25, 2026AIAI made your people faster, not your businessThe delay in most South African businesses lives in the handoff between two systems, and a faster typist does not touch it.
- August 25, 2026AIAI project costs after the rand broke through R16The rand strengthened through R16 on the same Monday Nvidia told its biggest customers AI server prices rise more than 15%.
- August 24, 2026ComplianceEmployment equity 2026 asks you to prove it, not plan itThe measurement period closes on 31 August. Where a target is missed the Department now asks for the evidence behind the reason, not the reason.
- August 24, 2026ComplianceAI governance is a records problem before a policy oneCourts have ordered the production of AI prompts and held public platforms unprivileged, so staff prompts are now part of a record you must produce.
- August 24, 2026ComplianceEEA2 and EEA4 ask two systems for the same peopleThe 2026 employment equity period is fixed at 1 September to 31 August, which is not the year your payroll system reports on.
- August 23, 2026Software & systemsServer storage costs are 6.5 times higher than last yearEnterprise SSD prices rose another 5% in July and sit about 6.5 times above Q3 2025. Your next hardware quote has not caught up yet.
- August 23, 2026Software & systemsCard-linked loyalty, and who ends up holding your dataYoco has switched on loyalty with no app and no integration, and the customer history it builds accumulates inside your payment processor.
- August 23, 2026AIAI watermarks cannot tell writing from editingClaude's text now carries a hidden watermark that survives light editing, and Anthropic says it cannot tell a document it wrote from one it merely tidied.
- August 23, 2026Cost & decisionsFuel cost per job, before diesel rises on 2 SeptemberCEF snapshots put diesel up roughly R2.75 to R3.10 a litre on 2 September, and repricing needs litres attached to jobs that almost nobody joins up.
- August 21, 2026OperationsGoods received notes and the R1bn Eskom never gotEskom recorded diesel as received and paid for it. R1 billion of it has not arrived. Receipt is a database field, and somebody has to type it.
- August 21, 2026Cost & decisionsSARS record keeping when an old assessment reopensA High Court ruling has confirmed SARS can reopen an assessment older than three years where it can show non-disclosure. The exposure is not the tax. It is how long it takes you to find the paperwork.
- August 20, 2026Software & systemsWhatsApp API replies stop being free on 1 OctoberMeta starts charging per delivered message for replies sent through the WhatsApp Business Platform. Your bill is set by how many messages one job takes.
- August 20, 2026OperationsYou paid for the software. You may not own it.If your developer disappeared tomorrow, what you own is what the contract says and what you can log in to. Those are two different lists.
- August 20, 2026ComplianceAutomated decisions fail on data, not on the algorithmA South African court struck down an automated eligibility system in January 2025. It fell on the inputs, which is a problem your business already has.
- August 19, 2026Software & systemsQuote to cash is where your working capital goesThe days between finishing work and issuing the invoice are an admin gap, not a funding gap, and financing them is the expensive way to fix it.
- August 19, 2026Cost & decisionsElectricity costs get a 10-year forecast you cannot useNERSA would have to publish a decade of price certainty. Almost no operator can say what power costs them per site, so the forecast lands nowhere.
- August 18, 2026Cost & decisionsAbsa's R8.8bn tech spend and its R200m software write-offA bank spending R8.8 billion on technology still wrote software down to zero. The gap between those two numbers is where the money actually goes.
- August 18, 2026ComplianceEmployment equity reporting fails on data, not intentReporting opens 1 September and this is the first cycle measured against sectoral targets. Most employers will struggle on data, not intent.
- October 10, 2025AIThe Geography of Intelligence: AI and Global InequalityModern artificial intelligence is not just code; it is an economy built on three critical inputs: data, compute and capital.
- September 26, 2025AISouth Africa's Uneven Journey Into the AI AgeArtificial Intelligence may dominate global headlines, but in South Africa, most people remain only dimly aware of what it is or how it works.
- September 19, 2025AIAI for Real Estate Agents in South AfricaLeveraging agentic AI to handle administrative overhead, accelerate contract processing, and maintain responsiveness in competitive markets.
- September 26, 2025AIWhat Generative AI Actually Does for Your Bottom LineExamining practical applications and tangible business impacts of generative AI across operations and revenue growth.
- September 26, 2025AIYour First AI Project: A Framework for Business LeadersThe potential of AI is clear. But for every success story, there's a project that fails to deliver. The difference often comes down to choosing the right first project.
- September 26, 2025AIPrompt Engineering: Turning Ideas into Reliable ResultsYou've seen what Generative AI can do. The next question is: "How do I get it to actually do what I want?"
- September 26, 2025AIKnowledge Bases: Teaching AI Your BusinessTeaching AI systems company-specific knowledge through centralised data repositories to improve accuracy and business-ready responses.
- September 26, 2025AIValidating AI Outputs: A Practical Workplace SkillEstablishing systematic verification processes for AI-generated content to build organisational trust and mitigate accuracy risks.
- September 9, 2025AnnouncementsProud Sponsor: Group 1 Auto Golf DayZorah's sponsorship of charity golf event supporting Drakenstein Hospice's palliative care services.
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