Tag: exploitation
Connection over clicks – why depth still wins on social media
From TikTok to Instagram, South Africans are increasingly exposed to posts claiming to offer financial tips. However, many blur the line between education and exploitation. As misinformation spreads, financial advisers have a clear opportunity: step in with the credibility, structure and ethics that the public is missing.
VIP to IP – protecting the power of personal branding
In the world of social media influencers and content creators, a face can sometimes be more valuable than gold. Through strategic commercialisation, public figures now build empires based on their identity. This is possible because of one powerful tool: image rights. To understand image rights, we must first understand the right to identity.
90% off is 100% fake!
Con artists and scammers are becoming more skilled at manipulating bank details and private information from consumers. It is important to understand the risks and recognise the warning signs. Fraud and scam statistics in South Africa are alarming.
Cybersecurity predictions for 2025 – trends and threats
Our 2025 cybersecurity predictions, developed by a team of global industry experts, highlight critical trends shaping the cyber threat landscape. In 2024, cyber threats escalated at an unprecedented pace, driven largely by the rapid adoption and evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools.
Hiring unregistered contractors – quality and compliance dangers
Hiring registered businesses is more than just cost-and-time savings, it’s for the greater good of the country. As much as addressing South Africa’s dire unemployment rate is critical, building industry role players recommend that businesses and members of the public tread carefully when securing the services of unregistered contractors.
The significance of FICA compliance – why it matters to all...
Despite being viewed as an administrative and burdensome expense with excessive paperwork sometimes causing potential delays to establishing business relationships and concluding transactions, Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA) compliance is more crucial than ever.
Sustainability – a key driver of development & economic freedom
The concept of sustainability is considered differently for developing countries versus developed countries. Developed economies tend to look at sustainability with a significant focus towards environmental impact and preservation. In contrast, developing countries consider sustainability from a socio-economic perspective, which includes infrastructure-related challenges, for example.
BOOK REVIEW | These Potatoes Look Like Humans
These Potatoes Look Like Humans critiques the narrow materialist and legalistic arguments about the land question to recognise that, for most black South Africans, the meanings of land and dispossession are linked with spirituality and being.
Protecting your identity online
When engaging in online activities, one cannot ignore the inherent risks involved. Whether you’re accessing information, interacting with a company or buying a product or service, your data is being stored and then possibly shared with others.
BOOK REVIEW | Business As Usual After Marikana
The mining industry has always been the backbone of the South African economy, and it still is. A healthy and sustainable mining sector should accordingly form part of the focus of our efforts to heal this country and its people. Nevertheless, the history of mining in South Africa has been and continues to be characterised by the oppression and exploitation of workers under the policy of the migratory system.