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Risk management has always demanded the ability to see around corners. Yet for most organisations, risk frameworks have historically been retrospective, built on past events, updated annually, and dependent on the bandwidth of a small team to maintain. Artificial intelligence is dismantling those constraints, enabling risk professionals to work with greater speed, breadth, and precision than was ...

South Africa’s risks are deeply interconnected and understanding them is critical to building a more resilient future. In a recent eNCA interview, Yvonne Mothibi unpacked key risks facing the country, from governance and infrastructure to economic uncertainty, energy security and leadership capacity.

In most organisations, whistleblowing is still treated as a compliance requirement - a policy to be drafted, a hotline to be procured, and a regulatory box to be ticked.
This approach is not only outdated; it is actively dangerous.

The commissioning of large‑scale refining capacity Africa represents a structural shift in regional energy supply. As domestic refining expands, reliance on long‑haul imports is expected to decline, supply chains may shorten, and intra‑African fuel trade is likely to accelerate.

This guide is for executives who want to lead with clarity, protect delivery confidence, and build organisations that respond to uncertainty instead of being surprised by it.
Risk maturity doesn’t grow because we add more templates or dashboards.
It grows when leaders change how they think, ask, decide, and behave every day.

South African businesses should urgently stress test their supply chains and logistics dependencies as the escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf threatens to disrupt global oil flows, shipping capacity, and insurance cover.

As Johannesburg prepares to host the historic G20 Leaders' Summit* on the 22 & 23 November 2025, the first ever held on African soil, it is an opportunity to raise the profile of disaster risk reduction and climate resilience during this global economic discourse. Leveraging the summit's theme of "Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability," the nation should be championing a crucial message of how ...

When you read the title, what came through your mind? Stakeholders? Triple bottom line? Share price? Or did you think, our people. Our staff.

On 25 July 2025 the Institute of Risk Management South Africa (IRMSA) announced that it has convened a meeting of its Social and Ethics Committee to thoroughly debate the professional body’s response to the censure by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) of Ms Anushka Bogdanov, a director of Risk Insights with which IRMSA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). 

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