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To be more precise: a wafel. A stroopwafel. The inspired Humansdorp-based social entrepreneurship project Soete Swaan is spreading the sweet taste of sustainability across South Africa with this irresistible Dutch delicacy. With the implementation of an innovative marketing strategy and fully-fledged business phone system from Voys, Soete Swaan is taking the country by sweet, syrupy...

The Word is the Bird So, whilst this chapter’s predecessor attempted to render the elusively simple concept of reading as snackable as possible without disappearing down the deconstructivist rabbithole in which the notion of what even constitutes ‘text’ – and thus the act of reading itself – plunges into the multiverse of madness, this illustrious...

We spend plenty of time time telling you how we work, where we work and why we work. Now it’s time for you to put us to the test by coming to work at Mzansi’s finest digital business telecoms provider! Step Right Up As the only company in the country that practices the progressive management...

Originally published on ITWeb Global Leadership For the tenth year running Voys has taken home a coveted FD Gazellen trophy, the pre-eminent Dutch award for the country’s fastest-growing companies. This is an emphatic endorsement of the company’s position at the forefront of the VoIP industry. The auspicious annual award is the initiative of Het Financieele...

“AI will replace humans” is a popular headline you have probably seen regularly in recent months. Is that really the case and should you fear for your job? The short answer to those questions is: no. In this piece I explain why. 1. Most types of work don’t get a productivity boost from AI In...

The Need to Read While the previous installation of this seven-part series was something of a love-letter to language, words and writing, it was ultimately making a simple, powerful point: everyone reads. Not only in the literal sense of reading books, newspapers and exquisitely crafted blog posts but, equally importantly, in the figurative sense. This...

Since the end of 2022 we have seen AI boom. And, whenever something new comes along, hype sets in. I’ve been diving deep into AI over the last few months: reading research papers; talking to people who have worked with various AI tools and listening to way too many interviews and podcasts with the people...

In March 2023, the entire Voys South Africa crew decamped to the coolest tech city you’ve never heard of, aka Groningen in the Netherlands, to spend a week with our Dutch colleagues at the global Voys HQ.  It was a tremendously rewarding experience in every respect: professionally, socially, culturally and technologically, we all returned with...