Game, set,
Global.
Birthdays, milestones, memes and a brand-new puzzle — served fresh off the court. This is your August inside track across the Global group.
Birthdays 🎂🎾
Raise a coffee (or a racket) to these Globers celebrating in August and September. Psst — click a card to smash some confetti. 🎉
New Globers 🎾
A warm welcome to Molatelo Nakeng, joining ICTGlobe as Creditors Controller — bubbly, positive, and ready to keep things running smoothly. Welcome to the squad, Molatelo!
In the spotlight: Favour Chiweyu ⭐
Getting to know the players who make the Global squad tick.
Favour Chiweyu
- 🎬 If your life was a movie, what would the title be?"The Next Chapter" — my life has been a journey of growth, learning and discovering what I'm capable of. I've faced challenges, learned from them, and I'm always looking forward to what comes next.
- ✈️ If you could travel anywhere in the world tomorrow, where would you go and why?Japan — I'd love to experience the culture, food, scenery and technology. I'm also passionate about photography, so Japan would be an amazing place to explore, take pictures and create memories.
- 🍗 One food you could eat every day and never get tired of?Chicken and Malawian rice. It's a simple meal, but there's something about the combination that I never get tired of. It always feels like home. 😂
Work anniversaries 🏆
Congratulations to our team members marking another season on the Global squad this September — from first-year rookies to Candice's incredible 21 years. Thank you for your dedication, hard work and commitment.
Life at Global 📸 ICTGlobe Centurion team building
The ICTGlobe Centurion crew got out of the office for a day of team building. Swipe through the gallery below.
Guess the Glober 🕵️
Three clues, one colleague. Unlock them one at a time — can you call the winner before match point?
Poll of the month 🗳️
Last month: slippers won in a landslide (obviously). This month, the only question that matters.
Padel: where do you stand? 🎾
Padel, by the numbers 🎾
The sport taking over every parking lot and rooftop in sight — here's just how big it's gotten.
Source: Playtomic Global Padel Report 2026
Meme corner 😂
Scratch to reveal 🎾
There's something hidden under the court surface. Scratch it with your mouse or finger.
🎾 The Global BCP Padel League is launching!
Play. Connect. Compete. Pair up with a teammate and battle it out across North and South regional leagues, August to November — open to all staff, all companies. One ultimate champion will be crowned.
Rules of padel 🎾
New to the sport? Sixty seconds and you'll know everything you need for your first match.
Teams entered 🏆
26 teams, 52 players, one league. Scroll (or search) to find your name — and start scouting the competition.
The Insider crossword 🧩
Fifteen managed-services words — the language we speak every day. The purple letters are freebies. Complete the grid between rallies, hit Check answers, then screenshot your masterpiece and mail it to HR.
Across
- 3. What backups exist for — bringing everything back
- 4. The percentage we love to brag about
- 6. A small fix applied before it becomes a big problem
- 8. When remote won't cut it and we come to you
- 11. What happens to a ticket that outgrows first line
- 13. Fancy word for every laptop, phone and PC we look after
- 14. What we do to your systems 24/7 — also the thing you're staring at
Down
- 1. Fixing it before you even knew it was broken
- 2. First line of defence when "nothing is working"
- 5. Every IT problem starts life as one of these
- 7. The family name we all share — solve it with your sound ON 🔊
- 8. The word nobody wants to hear on a Monday
- 9. The third party we phone when hardware misbehaves
- 10. How we fix your PC without leaving ours
- 12. Three letters that promise how fast we'll respond (abbr.)
🏁 July's sharpest solvers — the top ten
- 🥇Melissa Marais
- 🥈Ronel Louw
- 🥉Steven Swanepoel
- 4Chantelle Linford
- 5Jolene Geyser
- 6Selby Mafitshe
- 7Adriaan Smith
- 8Rosa Goosen
- 9Logan de Bruin
- 10Ilze Blom
Want the podium in September? First correct entries mailed to HR take it. On your marks…
Done? Screenshot your completed grid and email it to the HR team — first five correct entries make next month's leaderboard. 📸
Mail my screenshot →Made it to match point? Sign the scoresheet ✍️
Let HR know you read this issue — it takes five seconds and keeps the newsletter alive. (First names on the register get bragging rights.)