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Children at an exposition about robotics and artificial intelligence. Companies that don’t keep pace with change will have problems hiring millennials. (Philippe Clèment)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Millennials’ wants will change work

The new generation will be looking at speed, agility and user-friendly tools — and the option to work from a coffee shop

  • Nafisa Akabor
6 min read
(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)
ENTREPRENEUR

A company of one and it’s run, run, run

When Simbongile Ndlangisa ditched her nine-to-five job to start her own PR business, she thought, great, now I can sit and watch series all day

  • Gus Silber
9 min read
Postgraduates, the future researchers, leaders and innovators, face an uphill battle for funding and support. Graphic: John McCann/M&G
BLACK GRADUATES

Cape Town must make itself more attractive to black graduates

‘Black professionals in Cape Town experience pervasive challenges, the biggest being the difficulty in building social capital’

  • Ryan Ravens
  • Ryan Ravens Guest Author
5 min read
‘But culture is not fixed or uniform. It is often contested from within. My mother never forced my sister or me to conform to norms presented to us by some as a fixed part of our culture.’
BLACK MIDDLE CLASS

Class divisions multiply, but don’t add up

We like putting people into their little boxes, but South Africans are way too tricksy to stay put, writes Rebecca Davis.

  • Rebecca Davis
5 min read