Write for us

As the workplace changes, employers are placing greater emphasis on digital skills, artisan training and entrepreneurship. Those priorities matter, but they are easier to build on when employees already have the necessary foundational skills.

“An empty return journey is one of the biggest inefficiencies a transporter can face,” says Chante Venter, CEO of Wise Move South Africa. “The vehicle still has to get home or move on to its next job, and those kilometres still cost money.”

Insurance underwriting has historically relied on data to understand and price risk. The difference today is the level of detail that insurers are able to bring into those decisions.

South African businesses that measure the success of artificial intelligence primarily through a smaller payroll risk losing the people they need to make the technology work, according to Francois van der Merwe

A study of more than 600 CRM users, cited in Spona's guide to what data enrichment is, found that 76% of organisations believe less than half of their customer data is accurate and complete.

There's a quiet disaster unfolding across Kenyan finance departments right now. It started on 1st January 2026, when KRA quietly switched on a validation system that cross-checks every income tax return against three data sources: TIMS/eTIMS invoices, withholding tax records, and customs import data.

Kenya has spent years pushing businesses onto eTIMS. The logic was sound. Real-time invoice data means less underreporting, faster validation, and a cleaner tax base. On paper, it's the right move.

Across Africa, cities are changing rapidly. New residential developments are emerging, public and private housing programmes are being delivered, and companies, financial institutions, investors and public bodies are expanding their real estate portfolios.

Entrepreneurs are often told which sales channel is "working right now". That advice is rarely useful, because the right channel mix depends on your market, your buyers and where you are as a business. There is no universal answer. There is, however, a simple framework for working it out.

The soft life is a philosophy that has been spreading across Nigerian social media and culture over the past few years. At its heart it is a simple idea: you deserve comfort, quality, and care. You deserve things that work well and feel good. You deserve to stop tolerating less than you are worth. The soft life is not about extravagance.

Large companies can spend heavily on advertising, promotions and customer-retention campaigns. Small businesses often cannot. But customer loyalty does not always require a large marketing budget.

The businesses that build these digital assets intentionally are better positioned to attract attention, establish credibility and convert visitors into customers.