Deafcon 5 at Madiba memorial

[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: The interpreter for the deaf at the memorial service for Madiba is a fake, and produced gibberish, it is claimed, reports Singapore's Straits Times, and you won't hear Zuma being booed... well, not on the SABC, anyway, reports City Press.

Colour trademarks and Cadbury's case

[Christophe van Zyl] After a four-year battle with its competitor Nestle, the UK Appeals Court has refused the registration of Cadbury's trademark application for the specific colour purple that Cadbury has used for over 150 years in relation to its chocolate wrapping.

Creative Destruction and the Schumpeterian Gale

[Sid Peimer] In the early 1900s, the economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term Creative Destruction (also known as Schumpeter's Gale).

Put your start-up company on the road to success

[Linda Botha] You're the proud owner of a brand-spanking new business. You're all geared up with a killer idea and a sheaf of registration papers hot off the press. So what's next?

Formula for plain (bland) packaging

[Lize Mills] As of 6 December this year you will no longer see a nurturing mother feeding her happy baby a bottle of formula milk as an advertisement in any newspaper, magazine, on a website or on television.

Roam Rhulani

[Brian Berkman] When Rolf Steiner and Marisa Silva, two Swiss Re executives working out of Sao Paulo, Brazil purchased Rhulani Safari Lodge in the Madikwe Reserve, near the South African border of Botswana, passion, not profit, was their motivation.

Raising an empowered financial savvy consumer

[Tralone Khoza] Since the global recession, spending behaviour has gone through various transitions, the consumer has become more and more budget savvy. Could it be that desperate times do indeed call for desperate measures?

Communication etiquette at your year-end office party

[John French] The annual office year-end party is usually where some of the craziest communication of the year takes place. Colleagues are usually beyond drained and exhausted at this time of the year and yet over-jubilant and excited at the same time.

CT editor fired for 'not meeting targets'?

[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Independent group chair Iqbal Survé has denied that former Cape Times editor Alide Dasnois was removed because of an editorial stance and implied...

[BizCareers] Do's and don'ts on your CV

[Juliette Attwell] Not sure whether or not to include a photo of yourself on your CV? What's the minimum amount of time you should stay at a company to avoid looking like a job-hopper? We answer both these questions this week.

Brand Hate: Why aren't we measuring it?

[Sid Peimer] You either love Miracle Whip or you hate it. You either love Marmite or you hate it...

2013 - a Connection Telecom retrospective

[Rob Lith] The major trends and events that shaped the communications landscape in 2013.

Mobile: The store of the future

[Danette Breitenbach] '2D is the opportunity to use data to communicate with the consumer on their smart phone. It is now viewed as part of our lives, mobility.'

Korean barbeque gets African twist

[Eugene Yiga] My first visit to Galbi almost didn't happen. Even though the restaurant is visible from Long Street, actually getting inside it required navigating through a back alley and past some shops in an obscure Cape Town mall.

The biggest P in the music business

[Tim Hill] Often musicians, bands, managers, booking agents, publicists and the like sit on their backsides and wait for opportunities to present themselves.

Will POPI become a dirty word for marketers?

[Steve Ferguson] The Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 of 2013 (POPI) was signed into law in November. It comes at a time when marketing has just entered the promised land of customer profiling, behavioural advertising, big data, and multiple marketing channels.

Cape Times editor fired

[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Cape Times' editor Alide Dasnois has been fired, reports Mail & Guardian. Dasnois' removal appears to coincide with the publication of an article on Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's finding on fisheries minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson, reports IOL.

Coconut headsets and other management delusions

[Sid Peimer] The difference between an illusion and a delusion is this: when Usain Bolt broke the 100m and 200m world record, it looked as if he was jogging. That's an illusion. If you think you can beat his time, that's a delusion.