Category: Thought Leadership

South Africans unite as powerful home-grown movements reverberate online and on the streets While very different, #AmINext and #ImStaying demonstrate the bravery and patriotism of ordinary South Africans in the face of gloomy headlines and near constant negativity. In September, South Africans learned that first-year UCT film student, Uyinene Mrwetyana was murdered by a Post […]

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Alongside anti-fraud professionals from over 20 countries, our CEO Stephen van Coller and XTND CEO Servaas du Plessis addressed a packed hall at the 12th ACFE African and 21st Annual Fraud Conference, hosted by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). The conference, held over three days in September at the Sandton Convention Centre, is […]

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We are in the business of connections. Every day we make connections that help us understand and drive the bigger picture. You don’t get to be Africa’s largest service technology provider without connecting people with ideas, skills with knowledge and ICT with Africa. When we started out, we promised to make a critical connection between […]

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Blockchain is a distributed encrypted ledger that ensures the validity of transactions and is virtually impossible to hack. But what does this mean? What it means is trust. At its core, blockchain technology is potentially transformative thanks to its ability to programmatically validate transactions and embed information into the ledger – thus building trust directly […]

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Chronic medication distributed to rural areas – ARVs, tuberculosis treatments and the like – often arrives in bulk consignments. Pills are disbursed by medical staff in individual doses, without the package inserts that describe directions for use, contraindications and side effects. Clinic staff provide this information when the medicine is collected, but what if there […]

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It was as a junior detective in the South African Police Service (SAPS) that Servaas du Plessis, best known these days as CEO of EOH subsidiary XTND, the developers of the ground-breaking ExposeIT App, got his first big breakthrough. The case involved a stray bullet shot from an old unlicensed Martini-Henry rifle into the air on […]

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The world is increasingly moving with technology, so it was only fitting that the One Young World Summit came to a close with discussions around Artificial Intelligence. The AI Foundation believes that Artificial Intelligence can be used to change global thinking towards a better future for all. According to the foundation, AI can be used […]

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The second day of the One Young World Summit focused the sustainability of our planet. OYW ensured delegates absolute comfort while enabling a truly sustainable by banning plastics, and only catering vegetarian meals for example. An effort to offset participants’ carbon footprints was also made by partnering up with manufacturers of electric cars and encouraging […]

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One of our own, Matthew Rosenberg, represented EOH at the OYW summit in London last month. His experience of the sense of community the summit brought left him feeling inspired: “What stuck out for me throughout the first day at OYW was the ease in which I could move across the London and the feeling […]

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“Leadership is not hoping for the world you want, it is delivering that world” – Kate Robertson, One Young World Founder We have taken another step in our Courageous Leadership journey by becoming involved in One Young World. Widely known as the “The World’s biggest and most impactful youth leadership summit”, this year was no […]

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