All industry news in South Africa

CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING

[African Utility Week] Africa is open for business...

[Nicci Botha] Africa has the potential of becoming the energy powerhouse of the future and thereby going a long way to alleviating the poverty on the continent...

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CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING

[African Utility Week] Eskom hopes to keep the lights on this winter

[Nicci Botha] Eskom hopes to maintain its unbroken record over the years of not having to implement loadshedding during the winter months...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Back to their roots

[Danette Breitenbach] Family is what the youth cannot live without. This is one of the key findings of the Sunday Times Generation Next Study. This was in response to the question about what things respondents cannot live without...

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

Mad Max returns with absolute fury!

[Daniel Dercksen] Absolutely awesome and totally sensational, Mad Max: Fury Road is an ultimate hard core apocalyptic epic with heart! This is what filmmaking is all about - a visceral experience that relentlessly grabs hold of you from the first frame until the climatic ending.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

[Gartner Digital Business] Digital disruption: from virtual customers to real-world results

[Leigh Andrews] Crowdsourcing ideas and detailed journey mapping are essential in leveraging digital disruption to the best possible outcomes for your business - here's how...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Progressing the podcast bubble with the basics on Binary.fm

[Leigh Andrews] Tech genius Simon Dingle started podcasting in 2004 when the global community was small and there was barely even a word for what they were doing. Over a decade later, things are on a whole new level with the launch of Binary...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

It's the age of customers - time to rethink marketing

[Quinton Pienaar] The growing complexity of the marketing role places a huge burden on marketing leaders and it is clear that the marketing role will continue to grow in complexity within the next two years...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

[Behind the Selfie] with... Fred Roed

[Leigh Andrews] This week, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Fred Roed, CEO at World Wide Creative...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

[NewsMaker] Lou Boxall-Davies

[Louise Burgers] Lou Boxall-Davies has been appointed as chief strategy officer (CSO) of Havas Village South Africa. She will be responsible for strategy for Havas brands in South Africa...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Insider insights on the African Blogger Awards

[Leigh Andrews] African Blogger Awards co-founder Murray Legg shares the secrets of doing well and how aspiring entrants can best prepare - starting right now...

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HUMAN RESOURCES & MANAGEMENT

When the road to your promotion seems unending...

[Khuthalani Khumalo] Agencies around the country are structured in different ways...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

[Orchids & Onions] Coming up smelling of roses

[Brendan Seery] Mother's Day is, in reality, nothing more than a cynical marketing con to get people to buy gifts...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Mmusi Maimane - Master of communication

[Marion Scher] When in early 2011 Mmusi Maimane emerged on the South African political landscape as the DA's mayoral candidate, most people's reaction was Mmu who?...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Disrupting recruitment with creative advertising

[Leigh Andrews] While surfers are easy to find in Durban, art directors are not. That's why the end of April saw Greatstock and TBWA Hunt Lascaris Durban collaborate for inspired recruitment, using the stock image platform in an innovative way...

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

Solving The Hard Problem

[Daniel Dercksen] Discerning theatre-goers can challenge their perceptions with Tom Stoppard's intriguing new play The Hard Problem, which will be screened exclusively at Cinema Nouveau Cinemas from 16 May.

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IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

The dangers of a connected world

[Lutz Blaeser] The problem is that the IoT is connecting places that were never originally designed to be connected to the internet...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Change is occurring at an accelerating rate in marketing

[Brian Tebogo Mashego] For the past few weeks, my colleagues have been rigorously asking questions about the future of marketing. To get a clear perspective on the rise of this question we need to grasp the dynamics around traditional marketing...

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

Tokara Deli-cious

[Eugene Yiga] The first time I went to Tokara, a wine estate somewhere between Stellenbosch and Franschhoek, was for an outdoor wedding overlooking the mountains, vineyards, and olive groves.

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