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| Marketing & Media |
 | Reserve Bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, Dr Patrice Motsepe, and Finbond Group take the accolades at 2017 Sunday Times Top 100 Company Awards... Read |
 | The 20th AfricaCom event, described as the biggest Africa focused technology, media and telecoms event in the world, kicked off on 7 November 2017 in Cape Town and this year welcomes over 13,000 delegates... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA Given the proliferation of mobile devices in Africa, it makes sense that digital tools would alleviate many of the healthcare issues in the out-of-the-way places... Read |
 | LOUISE MARSLAND Bring African content to the world and produce more homegrown African content for content-hungry African audiences... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The Adams & Adams 'Crammer' session, recently held in Cape Town and Sandton, was aptly named as they crammed as much content as possible into the morning session in intense, 20-minute increments on the balancing act of copyright and freedom of speech as well as who really owns that IP... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Those little presticked notices of 'if you break this, consider it sold' or the 'seven-day return policy' that you are so kindly informed of when you return the toy that broke on day one, have no basis... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Drawing attention to the impact that climate change is having on rural communities in developing countries, British artist Silas Birtwistle unveiled his Biomimic Tree... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Waymo said that its self-driving cars are hitting the road without anyone behind the wheel as the Alphabet subsidiary steers toward launching an automated ride service... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | ESTELLE ELLIS After more than a decade of deliberations and red tape, a second highly hazardous landfill for Nelson Mandela Bay has been approved by the Department of Environmental Affairs... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Sibanye-Stillwater has locked the three unions at its Kroondal PGM operations into a three-year wage agreement. Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | Industry heavyweights such as ABInbev, Coca-Cola Southern Africa, Nampak Bevcan and Hulamin, have invested more than $94m (R1.258bn) since 2013 in converting the beverage can industry from steel to aluminium... Read |
 | TARIRO WASHINYIRA Residents abandoned by landlord. Now Public Works wants to evict them... Read |
 | The V&A Waterfront recently announced the launch of its annual Ocean Life Festival - a new endeavour focused on fostering an appreciation and understanding of South Africa's ocean assets... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Snake oil salesmen, charlatans and con-artists have long been known to prey on vulnerable people with health problems... Read |
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| Legal |
 | The Bheki Mlangeni District Hospital has confirmed the arrest of a suspect for the alleged sale of jobs... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | RUTH COOPER Solo musician Damian Malgas has first-hand experience of the challenges faced when it comes to having your music heard as a new artist, often the main issue for up and coming independent artists is distribution... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Key appointments have been made in the lead up to the dry runs of Nelson Mandela Bay's long-awaited Integrated Public Transport System (IPTS)... Read |
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| Property |
 | A new type of property buyer, the 'rentvestor', is emerging in the South African marketplace, according to Gerhard Kotzé, MD of the RealNet estate agency group... Read |
 | CT-based property developer Blok has selected its Forty on L development to unveil its new Blok Raw product and to pilot an 80:20 inclusionary housing model... Read |
 | Indluplace‚ the first focused residential real estate investment trust to be listed on the JSE‚ reported on Wednesday, 8 November, that its full-year dividend rose 5.6% to 97.75c... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Industrial property was the top performing real estate type in the first half of 2017... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Quarter 1 Tourism Figures showed that 472,156 foreign tourist arrivals were recorded during this period, a 6% increase from the same time last year and resulting in a foreign direct spend of R5.7bn... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | FATIMA MOOSA As the South African legal industry seems to be making some headway in understanding and adapting to the needs of Generation Y (those born between 1984 and 2004), another generation is entering university and will be taking the workplace by storm in only a few years... Read |
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| ICT |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG Toby Shapshak, editor-in-chief of Stuff Magazine, shared some thoughts on how innovation is better in Africa at AfricaCom 2017. He highlighted some specific innovations to illustrate how the continent is leapfrogging into the future... (video) Read |
 | The first AfricArena took place this week and welcomed over 450 delegates, 100 entrepreneurs, 80 startups, 22 exhibitors, 42 speakers, 67 investors It also witnessed more than 40 live startup pitch battles. Read |
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