South Africa

The Economist recently declared 2019 'The Year of the Vegan'. There can no longer be any doubt that veganism, and the embracing of a greater plant-based diet, is going mainstream...

Launching the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) pilot project in Egypt, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), under the framework of the Egyptian Cotton Project, is supporting Cotton Egypt Association's Egyptian Cotton branding...

The RapidLion Awards are set to make a return at this year's instalment of the RapidLion South African International Film Festival...

The RapidLion Awards are set to make a return at this year's instalment of the RapidLion South African International Film Festival...

Ten years after the global banking crisis, 2019 looks like it could be a year of tipping points in the evolution of the industry globally...

This year, climate change topped off the agenda at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland...

The Economist recently declared 2019 'The Year of the Vegan'. There can no longer be any doubt that veganism, and the embracing of a greater plant-based diet, is going mainstream...

While companies compete for headspace in a noisy and crowded environment, thought leadership as a tried and trusted PR tactic is coming into its own in the South African media space...

Legal claims against the department now amount to more than half of some provincial health budgets. Less money now will only mean more claims later...

As IT and business strategy align, cloud architects will become integral to growth...

If South Africa doesn't change its ways and back up the Budget Speech with concrete actions the country will reach the fiscal cliff by 2042...

Serving the connected individual requires a different approach; one that focuses on creating connected brands. These connected brands will be created by The Connected Marketer...

Cancer remains a frightening and largely incurable disease. The toxic side effects of chemotherapy and radiation make the cure often seem as bad as the ailment, and there is also the threat of recurrence and tumour spread...

The world of business is changing quickly, and with trends like the gig economy, global employment and cross-border collaboration on the rise, you can imagine the scale of regulatory and legislative changes taking place...

Luxury train operator, Rovos Rail is introducing a 15-day expedition through Tanzania, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola in July...

Equatorial Guinea has received the official backing of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) International Secretariat, which seeks to address key governance issues of transparency and accountability...

In Finance Minister Tito Mboweni's first Budget Speech since his appointment, he announced that sin taxes on alcohol and tobacco will rise by the above-inflation rate of between 7.4% and 9%...

Work is afoot on reconfiguring the South African electricity sector by addressing challenges faced by Eskom, with the board of the first subsidiary of the power utility to be appointed by mid-2019, Treasury said...

Calling for sowing seeds of renewal and growth, finance minister Tito Mboweni noted with great emphasis during his maiden Budget Speech the need for pruning and plucking at the rot that has attacked the country's green shoots...

Nadia Boersch is director of the Global Woman Club Vienna, and CEO of Brandalytical, having successfully launched and relaunched more than 15 global brands over the span of her career. Little wonder that she's since come up with her own 'brandalytical' formula. Read on for her keys to success when big bang branding and relaunching a brand...