Business Email Compromise (BEC) has rapidly become one of the most financially destructive forms of commercial fraud affecting South African businesses today. Unlike traditional cybercrime attacks that rely on malware or large-scale system breaches, BEC attacks are built around manipulation, deception, and human vulnerability. Our team continues to see companies lose substantial amounts of money […]
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Procurement Fraud in South Africa: The Hidden Threat Costing Businesses Millions
Procurement fraud has become one of the most serious financial and operational threats facing South African businesses. While many companies invest heavily in physical security, access control, and traditional auditing, procurement environments remain highly vulnerable to manipulation, collusion, and organised internal fraud. Our team at D&K Management Consultants continues to see a significant increase in […]
Forensic Risk in Post-Pandemic South African Companies
Forensic risk in post-pandemic South African companies is rising — not because organisations have become more dishonest, but because most corporate control environments were never designed for the risk realities they now face. The pandemic did not merely disrupt operations. It exposed a structural gap that many organisations remain uncomfortable confronting. Across South Africa, businesses […]
Forensic Investigators in Corporate South Africa: When to Engage Them
Forensic Investigators in Corporate South Africa play an increasingly critical role in stabilising organisations facing financial irregularities, governance failures, and internal misconduct. In the modern South African corporate environment, risk rarely announces itself loudly. Financial leakage, procurement irregularities, internal theft, regulatory breaches, and reputational threats often develop quietly, concealed within ordinary business operations. Independent forensic […]
Retail Shrinkage Investigations: Why Boards Miss the Real Cause
Boards approve budgets, review margins, and interrogate forecasts with discipline and rigour. Yet year after year, across retail, hospitality, logistics, and manufacturing, shrinkage quietly erodes value, and boards are rarely given a clear and complete explanation of why it persists. This is seldom because management is intentionally withholding information. More often, the reality is that […]
The Strategic Value Of Aligning With Professional Business Investigators In South Africa
As one of the greatest threats to business success comes from within, there is a growing need for professional business investigation in South Africa. Companies are facing rising risks from internal theft, data breaches, fraud, and employee misconduct. These challenges are not isolated incidents — they are frequent, sophisticated, and often devastating. Traditional security systems […]
Polygraphs in action: A tool for truth or a test of trust?
By Lee-Anne Du Plooy, Head of the Polygraph Division at D&K Management Consultants In today’s competitive job market, honesty isn’t just a virtue — it’s a business necessity. Employers across South Africa are turning to polygraph testing to safeguard their workplaces from dishonesty, fraud, and reputational risk. But while these tests can help reveal deception, […]
Help!! We Have a Strike but No Strike Contingency Plan
It starts with the rhythmic stomping of boots and tekkies pounding to the beat of 1, 1 2, 1, 1 2… sticks, golf clubs and rocks are waved above the heads of the strikers. The crowd chants softly, but slowly builds the crescendo, getting louder and louder. Each beat rises like a rolling thunder, becoming […]