#BizTrends2022: Pharma - innovating in medicine and boosting the economy

[Bada Pharasi] Bada Pharasi, CEO of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association South Africa (IPASA), drills down to the fundamentals of how the organisation and its member companies benefit South Africa in meaningful ways...

#BizTrends2022: Intellectual property - is AI sufficiently central to Africa's agenda?

[Marco Vatta] The interplay of artificial Intelligence (AI) and intellectual property (IP) is hot on the agenda of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which has published a draft paper on IP Policy and AI for comments by member states and other interested parties...

#BizTrends2022: The year ahead for employers

[Johan Botes] Three big issues that employers are considering as they prepare for 2022 include those relating to working from home; mandatory vaccine policies; and increased scrutiny of the gender and ethnicity pay gap...

#BizTrends2022: Finance consumer trends and predictions

[Giles Maynard] It's a time to establish goals, draw up budgets, and devise necessary strategies to help get you where you want to be in the coming months...

Covid-19 will bring about a retail apocalypse

[Howard Saunders] No one can truly know what the outcome of this pandemic will be, nor when the virus will pass or if it will ever be defeated. We will forever mark this moment as one of seismic significance...

#BizTrends2022: Dear Retail. Let me cheer you up.

[Howard Saunders] Dear Retail, let's not dwell on the last couple of years, because here's the truth: the future is ours to shape and we are at the beginning of a retail revolution...

#BizTrends2022: Forecasts for freight and logistics in 2022

[Gavin Kelly] The final days of 2021 - the traditional "ending off of the year" - is accompanied by some extra experiential baggage to rummage through, in terms of planning a business strategy for 2022 or the immediate short term...

#BizTrends2022: Tourism tribe, let's be more intentional in 2022

[Natalia Rosa] Like a toddler on a sweetie binge, 2021 served up an unending frenzy of opportunity and devastation. Sometimes the only thing separating these have been a few blissful hours of ignorance, particularly if you work in the travel, tourism and hospitality sector...

#BizTrends2022: 6 tech trends that will shake up the aviation sector

[Avsharn Bachoo] The pandemic has triggered a surge of technological advancements that will influence the aviation and travel industry into 2022 and beyond...

#BizTrends2022: SA's logistics sector is weathering the storm despite myriad challenges

[Maria du Preez] There is no doubt that Covid-19 has caused all kinds of havoc in the logistics sector...

#BizTrends2022: Culture shock in the imaging industry

[Mohammed Vachiat] As we look into the future, we see a number of digital transformation trends that will influence the world of imaging for many years to come...

#BizTrends2022: SA's auto industry to go increasingly digital...and electric

[George Mienie] In 2022, car buyers will need to spend increasingly less time in physical car showrooms completing reams of mind-numbing paperwork...

#BizTrends2022: Access to mobility on the precipice of a seismic shift in SA

[Ghana Msibi] There are some seismic shifts afoot in the way motorists access mobility...

Creating great digital experiences in 2022

[Greg Gatherer] We're now long past the point where a customer experience stands out simply because it's digital...

World joins SA in bidding emotional farewell to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

[Katja Hamilton] South Africa holds state funeral for Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a powerful voice in fight against HIV/Aids...

Covid-positive cases hits record daily high as Western Cape countdown to New Year begins

[Katja Hamilton] With curfew lifted, alcohol sales permitted and 1000 people now permitted to gather indoors, government could unwittingly be giving green light to another resurgence of positive Covid-19 cases. Here's why...

#BizTrends2022: A breakdown of the semigration trend in South Africa

[Hayley Ivins-Downes] Middle-class homeowners are leaving Gauteng in increasing numbers with the Western Cape as their preferred semigration destination...

#BizTrends2022: Regulators and bigtech tame the digital Wild West

[Grant Lapping] Over the past five years, governments, regulators and bigtech companies have brought greater levels of control and regulation...

#BizTrends2022: Covid-19 and the true power of communication

[Carina Smith-Allin] The brutality of the Covid-19 global pandemic brought about some 'contagious' inspiration in the community of communication experts...

#OnTheBigScreen: Parallel Mothers

[Daniel Dercksen] Now in his fifth decade making movies, Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar's latest film explores the melodramatic and psychologically...