Monthly Archives: October 2021

SA’s Digital Vaccination Certificate and what it means for us In exciting news, South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine certificate system has officially been launched by our Department of Health. Why is this important you may ask? Well, for those who have been vaccinated locally as part of the Covid-19 vaccination drive, you would have received a paper vaccination certificate that contains details of your vaccination, corresponding vaccination reference code and dates of the first and second vaccination if you have had the Pfizer vaccination which requires two doses, or the Johnson & Johnson vaccine which only requires a single shot. Having [...]

30 in-demand skills to prioritise in the workplace for the next 5 years In a world that continuously punts digital transformation and the fourth industrial revolution, its hard to imagine what the careers of the future are going to look like in order to successfully participate and accommodate these. Its also interesting to see how the demand for certain skills and professions will change and translate on a global level too. Luckily we have online course provider Coursera to provide some guidance in this space through their industry skills report for 2021, which in turn provides a breakdown of  some [...]

Should social media channels coming with a warning sign? We use social media daily and generally without question. Most of us have had these profiles since we were on the younger end of the teenager scale, so young that we had no understanding of what the terms and conditions that we were agreeing to by setting up these profiles actually mean. How little we thought about the potential long term of ramifications of all the personal information we so willingly share on these social sites with friends, family, acquaintances and for the most part, complete strangers. We feel comfortable in [...]