Tag: ArtificialIntelligence

At the start of 2024, a finance worker in Hong Kong at a multinational firm joined what appeared to be a routine video call with senior leadership. The call included people who looked and sounded like the company’s UK-based CFO and other executives. However, AI-generated deepfakes had created these individuals. As a result, the employee authorised several transfers to different bank accounts worth around $25 million.

We have released our March Job Market Trends Report. The report includes an analysis of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills are evolving locally. It draws on data from the company’s recruitment platforms. The findings show that AI exposure among professionals has shifted from niche to mainstream. This shift signals the rise of the growing AI skills economy.

For decades, businesses assumed that information in the public domain was harmless. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has ended that assumption. By aggregating thousands of public data points, AI can reconstruct strategy, pricing and expansion plans. Under the King V Report on Corporate Governance for South Africa, protecting confidential value in this environment has become a board-level governance responsibility.

The South African Revenue Service (SARS) recently surpassed R2 trillion in net revenue collection for the 2025/26 fiscal year. This milestone marks the highest revenue collected in the country’s democratic era. It also highlights SARS’s commitment to effective tax administration. In particular, SARS continues to enforce sanctions for non-compliance through SARS’ targeted compliance programmes. Despite several challenges, SARS has maintained strong performance.

South African organisations are moving quickly from Artificial Intelligence (AI) experimentation to deployment. The latest South African Generative AI Roadmap 2025 highlights this shift. It found that 67% of respondents reported current GenAI adoption. This figure is up from 45% in 2024. Therefore, organisations are moving from planning to active use.

There's a peculiar kind of blindness that sets in when a constraint disappears. You keep solving for it anyway. You build institutions around it, develop disciplines to manage it, hire people whose entire expertise is navigating it. The constraint becomes invisible and not because it's gone, but because it's been so thoroughly baked into how you operate that questioning it feels like questioning gravity.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming how businesses operate, make decisions, and engage with consumers. From predictive analytics to automated customer support, AI is now embedded in daily operations. AI also supports intelligent process automation. As a result, the rise of AI in business continues to reshape industries. However, one critical factor is often overlooked. Businesses frequently ignore the people behind the technology.

Our philosophy has not changed; the environment in which we execute it has. For over two decades, our investment philosophy has been grounded in a simple principle. High-quality companies that can reliably grow dividends tend to deliver more predictable long-term outcomes. This principle remains the foundation of how we invest. However, the environment in which we apply this philosophy has changed.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved quickly from pilot projects to boardroom discussions across South Africa. For mid-market businesses, the pressure is very real. Costs are rising. Teams are stretched. Operational efficiency is no longer optional. What is becoming clear is that most organisations do not need ambitious AI programmes to see value. Instead, they need practical applications that reduce friction in existing work.