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In the final RAPT BizTrendsTV episode of the year, we turn the tables on trends, as host (Left) Bronwyn Williams moves from host to guest, interviewed by Bizcommunity editor, (Right) Danette Breitenbach (Image composite by Ruth Cooper © Bizcommunity)

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IAB SA Transformation Council open for nominations

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Communications leader, Perri King, crowned at Forty Under 40 South Africa

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Sixty (60) young women in advertising and marketing connected with industry leaders in the sky on the iconic Cape Wheel at the V&A Waterfront during Loeries Creative Week 2025 as part of Open Chair’s Friends in High Places in partnership with KFC Africa (Image supplied)

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Vaseline won Heritage Day this year with a campaign that captured our culture beautifully, says Unati Moalusi, chief people officer at VML South Africa
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Unati Moalusi 7 Oct 2025

Katlego Mahura, MD at Idea Engineers, gives six lessons she has learnt as a woman leading an agency (Image supplied)

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Katlego Mahura 18 Sep 2025

Her Collective, a platform to inspire and elevate women in South Africa’s media and advertising sector, launched recently in Bryanston. At the event were (left to right:) Kirsten Dugmore - Independent: Kirelley, Celia Collins, Lerina Bierman - Dentsu, and Michelle Sharnock - Heed (Image supplied)

Her Collective: “When women get together with collective intention, magic happens"

11 Sep 2025

In Women’s Month, South African Breweries (SAB), in partnership with Open Chair, proudly hosted The Unspoken Alliance, which brought together senior women in the advertising and marketing industry (Image supplied)

Open Chair: Stepping beyond the isolation of women in leadership

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27 Aug 2025

This year, Women’s Month feels especially important to Michelle Lourens, art director / multimedia designer at IMA. This she says is because of the spaces she has been privileged to step into, like Cannes Lions, through the Open Chair programme (Image supplied)

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Danette Breitenbach 27 Aug 2025

Source: © LinkedIn Chuma Maqanda, content & community manager at McCann Joburg’s love for the creative started with her love for South African hip hop, culture, and content creation

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Danette Breitenbach 26 Aug 2025

Chantelle dos Santos, a freelance creative director, advises women who want to enter the industry to trust their gut and keep showing up (Image supplied)

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Danette Breitenbach 19 Aug 2025

Halo, art director, Mariam Mohamed is reminded that storytelling is one of the most human things we do (Image supplied)

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Danette Breitenbach 18 Aug 2025

Open Chair lioness Abi Dracopoulos is the creative group head of social at Accenture Song (Image supplied)

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Danette Breitenbach 15 Aug 2025

One of the Open Chair Lionesses, Carla Ehlers, a digital designer at Ogilvy Social.Lab, says the Cannes experience showed her the value of being bold (Image supplied)

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Danette Breitenbach 12 Aug 2025

Source: © Facebook Open Chats podcast owners have issued an unconditional apology for derogatory remarks made on its show about coloured people in an episode that the episode where the hosts described coloured people as “incestuous” and “crazy” who sleeping with their cousins”

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8 Aug 2025

McCann Joburg has appointed (left) Thandeka Gilbert as creative director and (right) Toni Hughes as executive creative director (Images supplied. Image composite by Lesley Svenson © Bizcommunity)

McCann Joburg appoints diverse leadership

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Sam Gqomo says PR is shaping society, and it’s about time (Photo Credit: Khanya Mpahlwa)

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