THE PROBLEM A Degree Is No Longer Enough What South African Graduates Need To Succeed In Today's Job Market By Analita Gonçalves ✦ Skunkworks Academy ✦ South Africa  Higher education remains one of the most valuable investments a person can make. Increasingly, employers are looking beyond qualifications to practical skills, adaptability and continuous learning. A Tough Question Every Graduate Is Asking For many South Africans, the roadmap to success has always seemed straightforward. Study hard. Get a qualification. Find a job. Build a career. Yet today's job market tells a more complicated story. South Africa continues to face one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. At the ...

Using AI Isn’t the Same as Understanding AI — And That Skills Gap Is Growing Using AI Isn’t the Same as Understanding AI — And That Skills Gap Is Growing Artificial intelligence has moved remarkably quickly from something we talked about to something we simply use. Employees are drafting emails with AI, analysing documents, generating presentations, writing code, conducting research and automating everyday tasks. Students are using it to learn. Entrepreneurs are using it to build businesses. Organisations are incorporating AI into workflows that, only a few years ago, were entirely human-driven. But there is an important question hiding behind all this adoption: Do we actually understand the technology we are using? Because knowing how to type a prompt into an AI tool is not the same thing as being AI literate. And that distinction is beco...

  Artificial intelligence is advancing at extraordinary speed. In only a few years, AI has moved from generating simple text and images to writing software, conducting research, analysing complex information, assisting with cybersecurity and increasingly acting on behalf of users through autonomous agents. But in September 2026, the conversation around AI changed noticeably. Some of the people building the world's most powerful AI systems are now warning that the technology may be progressing faster than governments, companies and society can safely manage. The question is no longer simply: How powerful can AI become? It is increasingly: How quickly should we allow it to become that powerful? Why are AI leaders suddenly talking about slowing down? On 12 September 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on leading AI companies to slow the rate at which they increase the capabilities of their most advanced models . His argument was not that artificial intelligence should stop develop...