 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Heidi Myers] Brands that stand the test of time have very particular behaviours and characteristics that make them timeless. They evolve as their audience does and build on their success. They have also stared failure in the face and overcome some not-so-proud moments...
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 | TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
[Brian Berkman] One of the many great things about a holiday in Thailand is starting your day with a Massamum Curry and knowing that the greatest risk to your person is... |
 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[Tom Jackson] Tech-enabled medical service Technovera walked away with R1m ($64,000) in prize money after winning the 2016 #Hack.Jozi Challenge, aimed at identifying digital solutions to problems in Johannesburg... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] Not your typical South African travel journalist story of local girl transplanted somewhere fancy, New Yorker Sarah Khan fell so in love with our landscape that she made the permanent transition a few years ago. She shares her love story with our land below and the key to her peripatetic work/life balance... |
 | CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING
[Sindy Peters] The R14bn Blue Rock Village development will comprise 1000 luxury residential apartments built on 40 hectares of land... |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  Screengrab from the ad The marketing gurus tell us that, as consumers drown in a tsunami of commercial messaging, they are going to want to connect (and therefore possibly do business with) those brands which genuinely try to make a difference to a community, a city or a country... |
 | AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE & FORESTRY  Simon Andys It's necessary for smallholder farmers in Africa to innovate and form partnerships with organisations that can help them do so. In this, the farmers of Nakuru county has... |
 | AUTOMOTIVE
[Lauren Hartzenberg] Michael Frans, head of business operations: automotive at T-Systems South Africa... |
 | FINANCE & INSURANCE  Jacques du Bruyn The problem nowadays is that technology has created a netherworld, where the clearly defined borders between industries have become irreparably blurred... In a good way... |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Ruth Cooper] After the release of recent album 'AfroBoer & The Golden Goose' Gerald Clark packed his tent and his 'Golden Goose' (his gf) and hit the road, embracing the nomadic life while touring the new album all over the country. We sent him a few questions to find out more. |
 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
[Jed Hewson] Technology, when implemented effectively in a contact centre, is a powerful tool. But, what is often overlooked is that call centres are about the people first, and the technology is simply... |
| TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
[Nicci Botha] For us mere mortals boarding a plane means endless waiting, long queues and uncomfortable plastic seats. But for Emirates' top-end clients... |
| Last night fashion insiders, media and celebrities, converged at Arcade Café to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the iconic G-Star Elwood 5620 jeans.    
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| ENERGY & MINING  South Africa's only existing nuclear power station, Koeberg, north of Cape Town. © Peter Titmuss 123RF.com A while back, South Africa reeled in shock when a rand figure of trillions was mentioned in the same breath as nuclear power... |
| ESG & SUSTAINABILITY  Joanne Yawitch, CEO, National Business Initiative According to Joanne Yawitch, CEO of the National Business Initiative (NBI), the first step in the path to sustainable development is to acknowledge that there is only one economy... |
 | ENTREPRENEURSHIP  [Zubair Timol] According to World Wide Worx and Fuseware's South African Social Media Landscape 2016 study, a quarter of all South Africans - 13 million people - now use Facebook...
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| TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY  Ryan Wallace with Anthea Myburgh (Fleewinter) and Charlotte April Harris (Charlotte Travel Limited). We spoke to Ryan Wallace, event director for We Are Africa, about the importance of telling authentic African stories and how this will influence tourism and growth in Africa... |
 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Anna-Bet Stemmet] It was quite an eventful week in the world of wine and we are happy to bring you some good news from around the globe. |
| MARKETING & MEDIA
[Leigh Andrews] The digital independent publisher, having endured most of the disruption of recent years, has emerged into the sunlight with its true worth being recognised and a champion in the form of the ACME network by its side... |
