#Loeries2017: Design Army's Pum Lefebure on how to master the art of seduction

[Jessica Tennant] Pum Lefebure, co-founder and CCO of Design Army, based in Washington DC was the last speaker of the day at the DStv Seminar of Creativity, where she explained how marketing is a lot like dating, and how similarly falling in love with a brand goes from flirting to romance to seduction...

#Loeries2017: Marketing Leadership and Innovation Award 2017 goes to KFC's Mike Middleton

[Jessica Tennant] Mike Middleton, KFC Africa CMO, is the well-deserved recipient of this year's Marketing Leadership and Innovation Award for his contribution to the marketing and advertising industry over the duration of his career...

#Loeries2017: Be the popes, the geeks and the rock and rollers, says Creative Shop's Weera Saad

[Jessica Tennant] First up at today's DStv Seminar of Creativity was Facebook's head Creative Shop: MEA, Weera Saad, who spoke about how things have changed over time and how we need to change to ride this new wave that's arrived. “It's a brave new world, the big wave is here and it's perfect, and it's staring you in the face.” We need to surf it, she said...

La Petite Ferme's new chef impresses

[Brian Berkman] With the recent appointment of executive chef Sidwell Yarrow, La Petite Ferme is raising its head above the culinary parapets of Franschhoek, long feted as SA's gourmet capital.

SA e-commerce startup SnapnSave raises $1m

[Tom Jackson] South African online shopping community SnapnSave has raised R14 million ($1 million) from Kalon Venture Partners and Smollan Group...

#FreshConnections: The realities of trading in Africa

[Lauren Hartzenberg] It's often agreed that the trickiest part of the supply chain is not the sourcing, but getting the product to the consumer...

#SBTopWomen Awards: A celebration of women

[Danette Breitenbach] It's not often you attend an awards event where the recipient of the Lifetime Award breaks out into song...

[Standard Bank Top Women Conference] Passionate for science

[Danette Breitenbach] Science is an indication of a country's wealth, and the best indicator of a country's GDP and productivity is its scientific productivity. The investment of a country into science creates a healthy country and a healthy country is a wealthy country...

[Standard Bank Top Women Conference] Mastering digital to soar over the gender gap

[Danette Breitenbach] The Fourth Industrial Revolution could allow women to leapfrog the gender gap to create a future that is truly equal and inclusive. This is because this new world will require different talents and skills; ones that are inherent to women...

[Standard Bank Top Women Conference] Mastering digital to soar over the gender gap

[Danette Breitenbach] The Fourth Industrial Revolution could allow women to leapfrog the gender gap to create a future that is truly equal and inclusive. This is because this new world will require different talents and skills; ones that are inherent to women...

#SBTopWomen: Gender equality by 2030

[Danette Breitenbach] For gender equality to be achieved by 2030, women will have to overcome many challenges...

[Standard Bank Top Women Conference] Standing together for liberation

[Danette Breitenbach] “The power of women is that if you empower one, others will follow. If we work together, we will rise and lift others with us. This is the responsibility that the 20,000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 gave us...”

#Newsmaker: Tanja Lategan leads the way for women in digital leadership

[Jessica Tennant] Thursday, 17 August marked Tanja Lategan's first day on the job as new MD of Creative Spark. As it so happens to be Women's Month, we interviewed her to find out what it took to crack the so-called glass ceiling as a woman in leadership in the digital space and how she'd encourage other women to do the same...

#OnTheBigScreen: Hitmen, Head hunters and Angels in America

[Daniel Dercksen] Finders Keepers, Annabelle: Creation, The Hitman's Bodyguard, Detroit, A Family Man and Angels in America open at local cinemas this weekend.

#WomensMonth: Women need to stand together in driving the gender equality agenda

[Sindy Peters] Meet Nana Madikane, a qualified chartered accountant with over 15 years' experience and a partner at PwC South Africa...

#WomensMonth: How DDB's #PhyllisProject empowers female creative leaders

[Leigh Andrews] Here's why Nicola Wielopolski, creative director at DDB, is obsessed with turning great creatives into great creative leaders...

#WomensMonth: How WomEng is displacing the glass ceiling to make room for more women in engineering

[Sindy Peters] Why sit back and complain about life's challenges when you can actually do something about it?