What happens when the bot does not report for duty? In the mid-1980s, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Terminator provided an extreme exploration of what happens when humans lose control of the intelligent machines that they themselves have developed. In a less extreme example, during the infancy of Google’s geolocation technology, Google Maps, it frequently navigated travellers…
Emotional regulation has been defined as ‘the process by which individuals influence which emotions they have, when they have them, and how they experience and express their feelings’ Let’s pick an emotion: fear. In some situations, fear is very useful. If you can’t swim well and you go to the beach on holiday but the…
Kevin Phillips considers the impact of remote working on South Africa’s now fully implemented Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act. Has legal lag made it unworkable in the modern distributed workplace? The ‘legal lag’ phenomenon is not new. Laws have long struggled to keep up with rapidly advancing technology, but this gap is widening in…
The stakes are high for small South African businesses following the challenges in the last 18 months, which now include the potential risk of a fourth wave of COVID-19 infections later this year. This is a time you want to avoid making unforced financial errors in order to rebuild cash reserves and restore levels of…
It is not about change anymore; it is about audit transformation. Relevant technologies are changing rapidly and therefore capability requirements cannot be set in stone. As such, we cannot focus on just the acquisition of the latest technologies, we must focus on the auditor having the right skill set to embrace the changing technologies. Amé…
A true example of resilience and integrity, former Trillian Financial Advisory CEO Mosilo Mothepu had to sacrifice not only her job, her security and her peace of mind, but also had to endure immense trauma to do the right thing and blow the whistle on state capture. ‘My story is one of conviction, resilience and…
The surge of mobile payments in Africa following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen the rise of financial technology unicorns on the continent. Using your mobile to pay for goods, services, send and receive money has become easier and more secure than ever Flutterwave, ChipperCash, Interswitch, Paga and OPay are five African financial…
Brokers and insurers across South Africa are mobilising to help their clients to register their Sasria claims as the country counts the cost of losses and damage due to the 9−19 July 2021 civil commotion The civil commotion that tore through areas of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng in July 2021 caused damage to business and individual…
With the grace period for compliance with the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act coming to an end, it is critical for organisations to ensure security measures are taken to protect and secure the integrity and confidentiality of clients’ personal information in its possession or under its control. This is especially true for accountants who…
This is custom heading element with Google Fonts We probably all know about (or have experienced) burn-out. It’s that state of mental, emotional and physical exhaustion. But what is brown-out? When you experience burn-out, you feel overwhelmed, battle sleeping, have not energy and just generally are unable to cope with things you used to cope…