Risk Management / General

Premature mine closure as the real rehabilitation risk

Mining rehabilitation is often discussed as a technical exercise carried out at the end of the mining lifecycle. The checklist is familiar: reshape landforms, stabilise waste facilities, re-vegetate disturbed areas and manage water resources long after extraction stops. All of this matters. But in practice, the biggest reason rehabilitation fails has far less to do with engineering than with timing.

South African businesses urged to prepare now for Gulf conflict supply shocks

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. That warning comes from Volker von Widdern, Head of Strategic Risk at Riskonet Africa, who says companies cannot afford to treat the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz as a distant geopolitical event.

Middle East escalation: Energy at the center, risks far beyond

Brokers face AI-driven cyber risk shift

The efficiency and scalability gains from artificial intelligence (AI) adoption cut both ways. As financial services firms embrace the technology to perform a range of administrative and operational functions, cyber threat actors are using it to identify new vulnerabilities and launch widescale attacks at speed. As humankind spirals into the 21st Century, AI is being unleashed in both traditional computer fraud and the ever-evolving cybercrime realm.