Penned by GrowZA ED - Craig Kensley Yesterday I found myself sitting in a room at the Mercedes‑Benz factory in East London, invited to speak to the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation . Just being in that room was an honour, not because of the brand names, but because it signalled something important about how GrowZA has been growing up. If you’re reading this next to the glossy photo of a tuxedoed champion holding two Laureus statuettes in front of a G‑Wagon: no, that’s not the event I...

Low-Earth-Orbit satellite networks are fast becoming a new frontier in Africa’s digital landscape. Starlink’s rapid expansion across more than twenty African markets has sharpened the debate: can countries unlock the benefits of frontier connectivity without diluting their own economic and regulatory sovereignty? What happens when a technology arrives faster than the policy frameworks designed to govern it? The recent Vodacom and Starlink partnership, covering enterprise and backhaul services...

(Notes from the field) I watched a video of a watch collector talking about the Omega x Swatch Mission to the Moon  series the other day. He called it a wealth signal, not a status symbol. That stuck with me. Because the thing most people miss is that Swatch owns Omega . So this wasn’t two brands meeting halfway, it was a quiet distortion inside one ecosystem. Luxury and accessibility were calibrating each other. Because good strategy bends the system just enough to stay alive without...