Tag: infrastructure

Across South Africa, public service teams work tirelessly to meet citizens' needs. They often operate under immense pressure and in difficult conditions. While meaningful progress has been made in modernising service delivery, many citizens still face long waits and paperwork when applying for essential services like Smart IDs or clinic-based healthcare. These moments present an opportunity to do more.

Cyber attacks on African organisations have surged past global averages. This has placed the continent firmly in the crosshairs of the world’s most dangerous threat actors. In the first quarter of 2025 alone, Africa experienced 3,286 attacks per organisation per week. This was the highest average of any region globally, according to cybersecurity platform provider Check Point Software.

With cyber threats rising and compliance standards tightening, organisations face growing pressure to revisit their data protection strategies. The era of treating backups as a box-ticking exercise is over. Backups only matter if you can recover fast and reliably. Resilience today must include both backup and recovery. Whether you are a bank, retailer or healthcare provider, you must assume that one day your systems will fail.

The modern workplace is failing to keep pace with transformative shifts in how people work, reveals Gensler’s 2025 Global Workplace Survey. Gensler is a global architecture and design firm with 53 offices worldwide. Picking the ideal work environment is a complex, time-consuming process that demands intentional design and flexible office planning.

In South Africa, the traditional one-size-fits-all approach to public sanitation has proven inadequate in addressing the unique needs of informal settlements. Informal settlements continue to grow, and residents are increasingly seeking in-house sanitation solutions that provide privacy and dignity.

Conventional wisdom has it that the story of Africa’s digital economy is one of catch-up. But that narrative is giving way to a more dynamic truth: in Sub-Saharan Africa, mobile phones have become the front door to digital life, shaped by mobile content, mobile payments and local innovation.

South Africa’s revamped carbon tax policy, coming into effect in 2026, signals a decisive shift in the country’s climate and energy landscape. With stricter emissions thresholds and an expanded scope for carbon offsets, the carbon tax overhaul is set to drive major investment in renewable energy. It will also reshape how businesses source electricity. This policy evolution opens new doors, even though some hurdles remain.

On 4 April 2025, the South Africa Transmission Infrastructure Investment Forum brought together key decision-makers. These included the Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, as well as industry leaders, financiers and developers.

Despite ongoing challenges such as inconsistent power supply and economic instability, an impressive 83% of small businesses have grown their revenue in the past year, and 90% are optimistic about their future growth. These findings from our 2025 State of Small Business Report may be surprising to most, but they prompt the question: What is driving this optimism? The answer lies in SMEs' bold embrace of technology.

South Africa’s unemployment figures are not abstract statistics. They are the lived reality of millions of parents unable to provide, of young people whose talents lie dormant, and of communities yearning for hope. We must move beyond analysis to action.