When fuel prices rise, most businesses look first at transport contracts, route planning and supplier costs. Very few look closely enough at packaging. They should. Every unnecessary gram on a pack becomes weight in the supply chain. Every oversized carton […]
The conversation around AI is often dominated by speculation about job losses. Yet this focus distracts from a more immediate and measurable challenge: South African businesses are investing in advanced technologies, but they do not have the critical digital skills,
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Rising unemployment, growing labour underutilisation and deepening skills mismatches are exposing a widening disconnect between available jobs and available workplace-ready talent in South Africa. Statistics South Africa’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS), released last week, sparked significant discussion across
Africa Automation Indaba (AAI) 2026 has concluded with a clear signal that Africa’s automation conversation is moving beyond technology showcases and into the more complex questions of implementation, skills, policy, ethics, and industrial competitiveness. Held at the Radisson Collection Hotel,
The Lobito Corridor project, the multibillion-dollar, 1 300km railway development connecting Angola’s Atlantic port of Lobito to the mineral-rich DRC and Zambia, has highlighted the urgent need for South Africa to ramp up its status as a value-added industrial hub.
Lobito Corridor further weakens South Africa’s logistics value. Read More »
