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| Marketing & Media |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR Positive Dialogue Communications MD, Tracy Jones talks about PDC's PR strategy and what sets them apart from the rest, after successfully securing seven big clients in the first half of 2017... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Kgaugelo Maphai joined The MediaShop as MD a couple of months ago when the agency moved to its new Johannesburg office... Read |
 | MIKE BROOM In our previous two articles we referred to measurement, principally measurement of advertising. But, of course, we are talking about obtaining measures from consumers of advertising, namely human beings... Read |
 | MIKE SHARMAN It's an incredibly proud moment for me to clackety clack away at the keyboard and complete the sentence (and realisation) that Retroviral is seven (VII) years old... Read |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR For its June talk, CreativeMornings Cape Town invited personal mastery and leadership coach Madineyah Isaacs to share her journey with local creatives on the month's global theme, ‘Survival'... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS SA's Cinemark 48-hour Cannes Young Lions competition winners Carina Coetzee and Amri Botha, copywriter and post-production editor at 99C respectively, report back on the importance of harnessing the power of advertising to do good and warn future attendees not to forget the sunscreen... Read |
 | Seasoned investigative journalist Bongani Bingwa has acknowledged the "high heels" he now has to fill as Redi Tlhabi's replacement at 702... Read |
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| Retail |
 | BMi Research has released its reports on the ready to drink (RTD) energy and sports drinks market for 2016... Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR The National Credit Regulator has referred clothing retailer Foschini to the National Consumer Tribunal for charging consumers a club fee on credit agreements... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | A year after the second decade of commercialisation of biotech/GM crops in 2016, 26 countries grew 185.1m hectares of biotech crops - an increase of 5.4m hectares or 3% from 179.7m hectares in 2015... Read |
 | STEPHEN YEBOAH Farmers can't access reliable and usable weather data. Information is often unavailable and even if it does exist, the quality is poor or it's inaccessible to those who need it most... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | MARK ALLIX Calgro M3, a listed property developer, says it has significantly scaled down the construction of developments in Cape Town due to the city's water restrictions... Read |
 | With new entries being submitted daily, organisers of the Africa Architecture Awards have decided to extend the deadline to 14 July 2017... Read |
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| Education |
 | On 30 June 2017, the Central University of Technology (CUT) Free State inaugurated Professor Henk ‘Motsumi' de Jager as the newly appointed vice-chancellor and principal for the next five years... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Mineral resources minister, Mosebenzi Zwane is directly responsible for damaging investor confidence, and therefore the possible 8,500 job losses at AngloGold Ashanti... Read |
 | ACCRA - Rescuers are scrambling to locate survivors after an illegal goldmine collapsed in western Ghana, trapping at least 17 miners underground... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | UNESCO said on Tuesday, 4 July, that it had decided to remove Ivory Coast's Comoe National Park from its list of endangered world heritage sites after more than a decade of conservation efforts... Read |
 | LEAH OYAKE-OMBIS Kenya recently announced a ban on one of the most common materials used in the country's packaging sector - plastic bags... Read |
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| Finance |
 | PETER ALKEMA Technology continues to drive job creation in South Africa. Eight of the 11 finalists in FNB's Business Innovation Awards use innovative IT... Read |
 | KPMG auditors responsible for the audit of Gupta-owned Linkway Trading risk losing their designation as registered auditors... Read |
 | SHARON SNELL G20 task force issues new Climate-Related Financial Disclosure Framework... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Swiss pharmaceutical company, Acino, has bought Joburg-based Litha Healthcare, giving the former immediate access to the South African market... Read |
 | KINSHASA - The Congolese health minister has declared the end of an Ebola outbreak in a remote northeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo... Read |
 | LAURA LOPEZ GONZALEZ The days of medical aid schemes may be numbered as government says it will be the single funder of medical services... Read |
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| Legal |
 | EU member states can ban ride-hailing pioneer Uber without informing the European Commission because at heart it is an ordinary transport company under their jurisdiction, a top EU lawyer said... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Get up close and personal with some of South Africa's top winemakers and unlock a treasure trove of individually crafted wines of great diversity at the Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction Showcase in August... Read |
 | RUTH COOPER No need to travel to Paris or Bordeaux to experience quality French food, beautiful settings and award-winning wine. Grande Provence, a heritage wine estate, on the outskirts of Franschhoek is sure to get you into a joie de vivre frame of mind. Read |
 | Gallo Record Company is excited to announce the release of Kahn Morbee's second studio album, ‘A Noise In The Void'. Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Redefine Properties has acquired a second development site for student accommodation in Melbourne, Australia, expanding into this highly competitive property sector... Read |
 | While the thought of owning and letting out property is an appealing financial venture to many, there is more to being a landlord than collecting the rent each month... Read |
 | BIANCA ARNSMEYER When considering the purchase of a property, the buyer must be aware that they will spending a good deal more than the listed price of the property... Read |
 | NEIL CAMERON Today, modern commercially focused facilities - from corporate office buildings to retail environments - make use of global technology standards... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | People from around the world will celebrate the inaugural 7 Wonders Day on 7 July 2017. Table Mountain Cableway is calling on SA to come together to celebrate iconic mountain and other wondrous attractions... Read |
 | The electronic devices ban on flights between Abu Dhabi and the United States has been lifted following the successful validation of security measures at the US Preclearance facility at Abu Dhabi airport... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | TANYA TOSEN Many employers do not get the most out of employee package structuring, but there are ways to personally tailor employee remuneration packages to make them more attractive... Read |
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| ICT |
 | According to specialist drone firm Airborne Drones South Africa, we can expect to see drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), taking on an increasingly important role in firefighting and disaster management... Read |
 | Frogfoot Networks has secured funding to deploy fibre to the home (FTTH) to 15,000 homes in Gauteng and the Western Cape as part of a 24-month roll-out programme... Read |
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