 | AUTOMOTIVE
[Henrie Geyser] Local new vehicle sales lost some momentum in February with a gain of only 1.6% over February last year but exports rocketed 22.4% higher than the previous year. While local sales were only up 832 vehicles to 53,220, exports increased by 5,057 to 27,611. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Douglas Kruger] For millennia, we've used ostentatious outward displays of wealth to indicate to the village that 'I am a heap big important cheese'. The S-Class Merc and Gucci shoes of today are really just an extension in trajectory from the feathers and beads of our forebears; a way of saying, 'Behold in awe the very amazingness of me!' |
 | EDUCATION & TRAINING  [Will Smith] It is a dream of millions of students worldwide to study abroad to give a new shape to their career. Getting a degree from a renowned international university is recognised throughout the world. The foreign universities have the first-class infrastructure and offer a wide range of courses to the students. The universities provide an international exposure to the students, which enable them to get high paid jobs in multinational companies.
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 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Angie Lawrence] Forget "up-and-coming", this venue has arrived - with full trendy force too. Set on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Cape Town, from the kitchen of celebrated culinary master, Seelan Sundoo, Shimmy Beach Club's menu presents a stellar array of gastronomic offerings set to delight the most discerning of pallets. Shimmy Beach, as it is affectionately known, is Cape Town's newest 'it' place to be, a tucked away gem of style and sophistication for sure. |
 | RETAIL
[Adrian Botha] The imposition of higher taxes on alcohol and legislation, such as the proposed ad ban and the Gauteng Liquor Act, focuses on the regulated industry, but not much is being done to address issues that stem from the non-regulated industry. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Athar Naser] People are attracted to content marketing for a number of reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that digital distribution channels such as social networks, blogs and even their own sites have made it possible for brands to become content creators themselves rather than needing to sponsor traditional media channels.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Mark Corke] How quickly can this situation turn for anybody - absolutely anybody? How can it affect your business? How tenuous is the position of a small or medium-size business? You go to bed, and in the morning you wake up to news that your most important employee has been arrested for shooting somebody.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Francis Gregory Library Back on the Design Indaba stage after seven years, David Adjaye shared his story ... born in Dar es Salaam to a diplomat father, he was brought up to be a professional in the world. |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Debbie Hathway] What I've learned about choreographic dance platforms is to expect the unexpected, where mastery may be juxtaposed with absurdity, artistry with self-indulgence, technical excellence with raw potential. There will always be pieces; artists and choreographers as unforgettable as there are those that are forgettable and Dance Umbrella's special 25-year anniversary season programme was no exception. |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Eugene Yiga] The Magnet Theatre has been creating a unique type of physical theatre for the past 25 years. To celebrate this anniversary, the company is staging Voices Made Night, a production adapted from short stories by Mia Couto, widely regarded as one of Mozambique's leading literary figures and the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Daryl Bartkunsky] Today, campus radio presents an entirely different picture than ten years ago - modelled on their commercial counterparts, they are professionally run and advertisers can expect effective results.
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| LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Eugene Yiga] Noël Coward was a playwright, composer, and director. Gertrude Lawrence was an actress, singer, and dancer. Together, these two icons epitomised an era of elegance and style. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Terry Levin] Stuck away at the far end of Africa, Design Indaba provides some much-needed perspective on our craft. Nothing replenishes a jaded inspiration better than an annual shot of pure cultural energy from New York's design elite. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Quentin Joubert] Marketers around the world are expected to start tapping into the power of location-based services (LBS) over the course of the next year as a means of delivering more targeted and engaging advertising to consumers.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Chantel Botha] In mass media the conversation has mostly been one-sided, loud, condescending and sometimes even quite dictatorial... of marketers and brands telling consumers what they need and why and what would be a reasonable price to pay to satisfy the need. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: According to The New Age, Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who was acting COO of the SABC, and then wasn't, is now again back in the position... So there's the SABC again, making the news instead of reporting it. And on a quieter note, there's a new editor for Afrikaans Sunday newspaper Rapport, reports IOL. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Veli Dlamini] When people love a brand's personality, price becomes the last thing they focus on when buying a product. A typical example is Apple, most of its customers buy into the brand's personality first, company second, products/services third and price last.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Thamsanqa Malinga] I have not been a fan of 'paid' for brand ambassadors or any form of paid for endorsements. Worse if the 'ambassador' contracted is a celebrity of some sort. I am sure that many marketers will frown at my stance when it comes to this form of marketing, considering that it's one of the tried and tested marketing gimmicks. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Terry Levin] Context could be said to have emerged as an underlying theme of day two of Design Indaba 2013, which took place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). |
| AUTOMOTIVE
[Henrie Geyser] Ford has refreshed and reshuffled its impressive pack of Fiestas, dropping the 1.6 Ambiente and 1.6 Titanium and introducing three new engines with a baby 1.0-litre turning out to be the star of the show. |
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