Business & Economy

South Africans have saved R12.5 million on groceries while preventing 200,000 meals from ending up in landfill through Refreshi, a local startup that built a surplus-food marketplace that has expanded from just 35 partner stores to 700 nationwide in the space of a year. The startup has

The Value of Values – Part 1 Written by Camille Rabier, Consultant at 21st Century, this article forms part of a three-part series exploring the role of values in shaping organisational culture, how they create coherence, and how misalignment can gradually erode it. This first piece focuses on values as

Series: Rethinking Performance - Part 5 This final article in the Rethinking Performance series, written by Camille Rabier from 21st Century, moves from principle to application. While behavioural evaluation depends largely on judgement, the challenge is finding ways to harness differences in judgement and create shared approaches to evaluation that support

SOTRU Identity and Communications (Pty) Ltd, a South African verification and secure communication platform, launches in the market to tackle a fraud problem that traditional KYC and KYB checks were never built to solve: impersonation and payment fraud that happens after a supplier has been verified. Business email compromise hit

Reflections of a CEO: The Chair is not the Person Insights by Dr Chris Blair This article reflects on the idea of “observing yourself observing yourself” after stepping down as CEO of 21st Century after 28 years. There is a peculiar occupational hazard that comes with being a CEO. People

Rethinking Performance - Part 4 In Part 4 of the five-part Rethinking Performance series, written by Camille Rabier, Consultant at 21st Century, the focus shifts from design to real-world application. While the model provides a way of making behaviour evaluable, its effectiveness ultimately depends on how it is applied