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Technology – Decades of Disruption
Howard Plaatjes, CEO of technology investment group, AYO, takes a look at some of the key technologies that are set to change our future, today and provides an insight into where South Africa’s largest listed ICT investment group is headed. It’s safe to say that the past 10 years of technology have been stratospheric in […]
On the tools of colonial conquest
In his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel (GGS), Jared Diamond notes that conquest instruments are guns, germs, and steel. Guns were used in the Anglo-Zulu war in 1879, where King Cetshwayo faced the British army. Even though the Zulu Nation won the Isandlwana battle, it lost the war because of guns. Cetshwayo was deposed and […]
Covid-19 pandemic forced South Africa’s insurance industry to adapt to digital trends
Since the lockdown was implemented at the end of March to tackle the spread of Covid-19 a lot has changed in the work environment in South Africa and the insurance industry has had to adapt to ensuing digital trends. Looking back, it is easy to see how the Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to increasingly rely […]
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Howard Plaatjes, CEO of technology investment group, AYO, takes a look at some of the key technologies that are set to change our future, today and provides an insight into where South Africa’s largest listed ICT investment group is headed. It’s safe to say that the past 10 years of technology have been stratospheric in […]
On the tools of colonial conquest
In his book, Guns, Germs, and Steel (GGS), Jared Diamond notes that conquest instruments are guns, germs, and steel. Guns were used in the Anglo-Zulu war in 1879, where King Cetshwayo faced the British army. Even though the Zulu Nation won the Isandlwana battle, it lost the war because of guns. Cetshwayo was deposed and […]
Covid-19 pandemic forced South Africa’s insurance industry to adapt to digital trends
Since the lockdown was implemented at the end of March to tackle the spread of Covid-19 a lot has changed in the work environment in South Africa and the insurance industry has had to adapt to ensuing digital trends. Looking back, it is easy to see how the Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to increasingly rely […]
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