Tag: capital expenditure (capex)

The discrete manufacturing sector includes industries such as automotive, electronics, rail and aerospace. These industries face mounting pressure from global competition, fragmented supply chains and outdated infrastructure.

With the outsourcing space becoming increasingly cutthroat, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies find themselves trapped in a relentless race to the bottom. Aggressive pricing demands from clients and undercutting by low-cost competitors leave local operators with no choice but to sacrifice margins just to stay in the game.

The 2025 Budget Speech outlines significant opportunities for South Africa’s private renewable energy sector. These opportunities include streamlined public-private partnership (PPP) regulations, expanded infrastructure investment and greater clarity around grid upgrades. However, it also raises important concerns for private developers and investors.

Organisations constantly seek ways to improve IT efficiency, reduce costs and scale operations quickly. Virtualisation benefits businesses by providing game-changing solutions with significant advantages.

At the end of January, the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) announced that Eskom can implement tariff increases of 12.7%, 5.36% and 6.19% over the next three financial years. This decision represents a significant downward adjustment from the 36.14%, 11.81% and 9.10% increases that Eskom originally requested.

Modernising power networks through digitisation and innovative technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), is essential. Utilities and municipalities must improve efficiency and manage the growing complexities of energy distribution.

Farming is a long game that requires patience, perseverance, and strategic planning across all aspects of the operation. While every farmer understands this when it comes to tending crops and raising livestock, the same can’t always be said for managing their finances; and taking a short-sighted approach to financial planning can be as devastating to a farmer’s livelihood as a flood or drought would be to his or her operations.

When you think of the cloud, don’t simply think of it as a technology concept. It’s much more than that. The cloud is an innovative business model that has rapidly reshaped our ways of working - and continues to do so. It’s a whole new way of buying and using IT infrastructure, platforms and applications that enables us to become faster, more flexible and efficient than we could be when we needed to own all of our hardware and software.

The aviation sector has pledged, like most, to reach Net Zero by 2050. From the International Air Transport Association (IATA) commitment to ‘Fly Net Zero’ to the declaration from the International Aviation Climate Ambition Coalition at COP 26, the air transport industry is not short of promises to dramatically reduce its carbon footprint.

As capital markets grapple with profound shifts in the macro-economic and geo-political landscapes, for investors, 2022 is turning into a year we’d rather forget. Following relative calm over the South African winter, volatility in bond, equity and currency markets recently returned with a vengeance.