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| Marketing & Media |
 | FARREN ROPER How companies can use collaboration tools as innovation hacks... Read |
 | JASON RAY The other day I attended a PR pitch where the client team numbered three (including me) and the PR agency marched in with 11 people. Only two people had a speaking role, the rest just nodded sagely. It reminded me of the bad old days... Read |
 | Focus on 'agripreneurs' for economic growth as Agribusiness Congress East Africa comes to Kampala in November... Read |
 | According to Discover Digital, a digital entertainment and video on demand (VOD) services company, traditional broadcasting is changing as more consumers turn to mobile... Read |
 | JOSEPH NEUSU Video has the capacity to produce exceptional results. It is a seductive format that has great pulling power on human beings. Why? We are visual beings and we rely on moving images to make sense of the world... Read |
 | BEVERLEY KLEIN Video, native advertising, mobile apps - these were some of the main talking points yesterday at the first day of the Media24 Lifestyle Summit... Read |
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 | Kenya pledges to support the 'Making Every Woman and Girl Count' Program, at UN General Assembly... Read |
 | A new EY report calls for G20 leaders to better support young entrepreneurs through policies that ensure digital disruption... Read |
 | Tanzania's Professor Anna Tibaijuka becomes first woman to receive the H.R.H Prince Khalifa Bin Salman AI Khalifa Sustainable Development Award... Read |
 | Ericsson, Grundfos have established a partnership to provide water ATMs that dispenses water and supports sustainable water management... Read |
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| Retail |
 | The Franchise Association of South Africa (FASA)'s fourth independent survey, sponsored by Sanlam, shows a business sector that continues to grow despite challenging economic conditions... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | During the Seed Potato Grower's forum in Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal, JP van den Berg from Northwest was named Seed Potato Grower for 2016... Read |
 | China is playing a significant role towards transformation of Africa's agriculture sector, which has contributed to food and nutrition security... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | KINGSLEY JEREMIAH Boulos Enterprises Ltd, authorised dealer of Suzuki products in Nigeria, said it will push a made-in-Nigeria Suzuki Super Carry... Read |
 | More than 100 disgruntled Tesla owners in Norway have sued the US automaker because the electric cars don't accelerate as quickly... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | HELMO PREUSS South African steel production fell 9.9% year on year (y/y) in August to an estimated 446,000 tons after an 11% drop in July and a 6.9% rise in June, according to the World Steel Association (worldsteel)... Read |
 | Research undertaken by the Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (sassda) and the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa has provided local stainless steel fabricators insight into growth opportunities in new export markets as well as import substitution within the South African market... Read |
 | CAROL PATON Eskom can pay for the nuclear build programme because it will have accumulated a R150bn cash pile in the next 10 years, according to its head of generation, Matshela Koko... Read |
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| Education |
 | AMIR CHETTY Eight Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) students were arrested in Port Elizabeth on Wednesday, 21 September 2016... Read |
 | PENELOPE MASHEGO AND KARL GERNTZKY The chairman of the fees commission has called for patience from students and urged them to accept fee hikes... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Modernisation, beneficiation and community development need to be addressed if regional mining is to be sustainable... Read |
 | Occupational Lung Disease Working Group members have leave to appeal against all aspects of the silicosis class action judgement delivered earlier this year... Read |
 | Conflict-hit Libya could run out of money next year without a swift resumption of oil exports... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | Information and communications technology (ICT) remains the key contributor to the development of advanced economies... Read |
 | STUART THOMPSON Can we really feed nine billion people? Read |
 | EMILE UYS WikiFoods aims to eliminate the overuse of plastic in food packaging... Read |
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| Finance |
 | WAYNE DE NOBREGA Some companies are closing their doors, while others are completely rethinking what they do. And it's not all because of poor economic conditions... Read |
 | South Africans have some relief with the Reserve Bank's (SARB) announcing that it will leave its repo rate unchanged at 7% per annum... Read |
 | ALEX FUNK Asking clients to pay an extra fee for discretionary fund management is not on. Nothing could be further from the truth... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Life Vincent Pallotti Hospital in Cape Town has opened a new unit - Life St Vincent's - offering services to mental health patients... Read |
 | Mark Zuckerberg and his wife pledged $3bn over the next decade to efforts to prevent, cure or manage disease... Read |
 | Two recent studies found that tension-type headaches are associated with negative mood and impaired cognition... Read |
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| Legal |
 | National Treasury has postponed to 2017 the implementation date of the environmental tyre levy that was meant to come into effect in October 2016... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Should you find yourself in Johannesburg, Durban or Cape Town on Heritage Day (24 September), have a look at some of the local restaurant options available to you. Read |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN 26 years after "Ab Fab" became a cultural phenomenon on television, the hedonistic "sweetie darling" duo invade the big screen with their Absolutely Fabulous larger-than-life movie... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Amsterdam's iconic canals may soon see the world's first driverless boats, doing everything from moving people and goods to providing "pop-up" bridges and cleaning up... Read |
 | Warehouses are changing at an unprecedented rate due to the growth in e-commerce. How are warehouses responding? Read |
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| Property |
 | DR ANDREW GOLDING The fact that interest rates have levelled off and remained stable following these last two MPC meetings sends a positive message to home buyers and the residential property market in general... Read |
 | SAMUEL SEEFF The decision by the Monetary Policy Committee of the South African Reserve Bank to leave the repo rate unchanged is most welcome in a climate where the economic and housing market outlook remains weak... Read |
 | Growthpoint Properties has debuted in 50th place in Brand Finance's list of South Africa's 50 Most Valuable Brands. In doing so, it has also become the only SA REIT to be included in the index... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | After a nine-month, R75 million refurbishment that began in April, Premier Hotel Sani Pass situated in the foothills of the Drakensberg, will reopen on 1 February 2017... Read |
 | ForwardKeys' analysis of international air travel to East Africa this year (January to August), revealed a strong growth of 11.2% compared with the same period last year... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | BEKEZELA PHAKATHI The Broadcasting, Electronic, Media and Allied Workers Union (Bemawu) has vowed to challenge any decision to keep Hlaudi Motsoeneng at the SABC as the board of the public broadcaster scrambles to keep him in his position. Read |
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| ICT |
 | With technology constantly evolving, your next disrupter or partner could be right around the corner. CIOs need to perceive opportunities... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG South African comparison website PriceCheck hosted its inaugural Tech & E-Commerce Awards on Thursday, 23 September 2016... Read |
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| International |
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 | PARIS - US online retailing giant Amazon rolled out across Europe on Thursday its section where it features hand-crafted products sold directly by artisans... Read |
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