Tag: COVID-19

There are two recent matters that were investigated by our office where two private banking customers fell victim to the same scam under the exact same circumstances. The story behind convincing the victims to disclose their confidential banking information was new. However, the basic scam remained the same, as did the results.

Ever since the shift from stone to metal tools, the world has steadily been moving towards an increasingly digital age. However, the rate at which technological developments take place today is expanding exponentially and over the last two years digital adoption and transformation has been accelerated at a rapid pace.

South Africa’s headline unemployment rate hit a record high of 34.4% in the second quarter of 2021, up from 32.6% in the first three months of the year as businesses shed staff resulting from the devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 lockdown.

Following President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address (SONA), we have released an analysis of the speech. SA has registered 3.6 million cases of COVID-19 and just over 96,000 deaths to date.

After a wobbly 2021 and lingering uncertainties for the year ahead, we are confident energy transition equities can deliver. After achieving remarkable gains in 2020, energy transition equities endured a more turbulent and challenging time in 2021.

Businesses and consumers alike have had to weather several shocks over the past two years. In this article, I advise how businesses can make 2022 a year for rebuilding and taking advantage of new opportunities. During 2020, 42% of small businesses closed during lockdown, according to financier FinFind.

Even prior to the pandemic, organisations had begun putting in place elements to manage distributed employees whether that be through corporate remote desktop or virtual private networking (VPN) capabilities. However, this was not done at the scale and at a rate required to manage the disruption caused by COVID-19.

There have been a lot of useful opinions doing the rounds as the global working- world tackles the ‘back to the office’ conundrum. As a leader of a very open, convivial team, I most definitely thought that phasing our squad back to the office would be a seamless, stress-free exercise.

President Ramaphosa delivered the Nation Address on Thursday evening from the Cape Town City Hall, as the country struggles with an ailing economy, civil unrest, corona virus, state capture and a promise-weary public.

The next generation of mobile networks, combined with technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud, and edge, will be exponentially different. Advanced networks such as 5G have the potential to unlock unprecedented opportunities for business transformation and growth.