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| Marketing & Media |
 | EY has announced the 2016 Southern Africa World Entrepreneur Award finalists in the Master, Emerging and Exceptional categories... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY The best advertising really does have the power to change lives. Many, many years ago, it was some powerful TV commercials which changed my life and that of family Seery... Read |
 | MIKE TABERNER One of the age-old sayings is that "Perception is reality" and while many brands would like to think that they are immune to this, they are not... Read |
 | ANTOINETTE POMBO If you're over the age of 25, you'll be able to reminisce how easy it must have been to be the brand manager for Citi Golf. That's because every adolescent who passed their driver's licence drove a Citi Golf... Read |
 | MARELI SMIT In celebration of Global CX Day today, 5 October 2016, it is perhaps time to look at customer experience with a different lens on... Read |
 | JOHAN BOTHA Some might reason I am a bit of an "appsoholic" as I just cannot help myself when new apps are released. I have little self-control and just have to experience them! So the download begins... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS US consumers in particular are very discerning when shopping online, so much of the global ecommerce research stems from there, but it's more than just a 'Western concern'. Here's why African business should take online shopping cart abandonment into account locally and when selling to an international market... Read |
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| Retail |
 | PARIS, FRANCE: Shoppers in a dozen European countries can make online payments using a selfie from Tuesday, under a rollout by Mastercard of new payment technology... Read |
 | COLLEEN GOKO Shoprite's top man, Whitey Basson, took home a little more than R100m in the year to June 30 2016 - an amount double his earnings in 2015 - after delivering what the group called excellent results during the period... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Aisha Pandor, co-founder and CEO of SweepSouth, swept up two titles at the 2016 PriceCheck Tech & E-Commerce Awards, where she was named both Best Female Tech/E-Commerce Entrepreneur and Best Black Tech/E-Commerce Entrepreneur... Read |
 | Country Road Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Woolworths Holdings Limited, has agreed to acquire Politix, an Australian menswear brand with 75 stores, including 31 concessions across Australia and FY2016 sales of $56m... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Low food prices reduce the incomes of farmers, especially poor family farmers who produce staple food in the developing countries. This cut in the flow of cash into rural communities also reduces... Read |
 | Ceres growers are embracing land reform as a positive step towards social harmony... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | HENRIE GEYSER Kia has enhanced its funky cross-over status by arming its flagship Soul 1.6 CRDI SMART with a new seven-speed dual-clutch transmission... Read |
 | Mercedes-Benz Vans has announced that it is expanding the product range of its Sprinter to include a new variant... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | The Gauteng Department for Roads and Transport will repair the D904 road, which is also known as the old Evaton road, at a cost of R24m... Read |
 | LARRY FEINBERG For those in the construction industry the term quantity surveyor is commonly known... Read |
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| Education |
 | Byron Christou of King Edward VII School in Gauteng has been named the national winner of the 2016 National Accounting Olympiad... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | South Africa's top miners need to implement innovative technology, alternative sources of capital, as well as standardised processes and systems to improve project delivery... Read |
 | A cooperation initiative between the heads of South Africa's four university mining schools has resulted in Mining Engineering Education South Africa... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH "Zuma must go" was the call from Sipho Pityana, AngloGold Ashanti chairman... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SARDA in Cape Town, together with African Bank, will be hosting its inaugural Countryside Challenge in Africa this year from 17-22 October at the SARDA Centre in Brommersvlei Road, Constantia... Read |
 | The world's biggest wildlife trade conference, CITES CoP17, wrapped up in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 4 October, with many significant votes in favour of more stringent conservation... Read |
 | YOLANDI GROENEWALD General Electric's Africa Innovation Centre near Rosebank, Johannesburg, taps into African artistry to activate creativity and enterprise development on the continent... Read |
 | FRANCINI VAN STADEN The City of Johannesburg's water management company, Johannesburg Water (JW), has proven the business case for alternative energy solutions with the commissioning of a second municipal wastewater biogas-to-energy plant in Diepsloot... Read |
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| Finance |
 | DAVID LIU Europe's PSD2 is referred to the biggest development in banking history, one wonders why South Africa hasn't already followed suit... Read |
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| Legal |
 | LINDA ENSOR The government is proposing to raise the legal minimum age of drinking from 18 to 21 years and to prohibit liquor advertising which targets youth in a bid to curb alcohol abuse... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | LATAM's inaugural flight marked the start of the only direct flight service between Latin America and Africa operated by a Latin American commercial carrier... Read |
 | The "AtoB Challenge" builds on WWF's concept of a low-carbon challenge previously run in Tshwane and Joburg and entails teams competing to travel from the central city to Langa using any form of low-carbon transport... Read |
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| Property |
 | Throughout its life-cycle every growing business is confronted with the important decision whether to continue leasing or own the premises in which it operates... Read |
 | When prospective buyers view houses, sellers often think it makes them appear more friendly or credible if they accompany their "visitors" and keep up a running commentary... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Hilton Worldwide announced new properties and extensions at AHIF. Among the new hotels agreed is Africa's first modular build hotel, Africa's tallest hotel in Nairobi, and... Read |
 | From 21 November 2016, all South African travellers visiting New Zealand will need a visitor visa... Read |
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| ICT |
 | IBM has announced a $200 million investment into the new global headquarters for its Watson Internet of Things (IoT) business in Munich... Read |
 | Local data package experts, Tariffic, released information comparing the price that South Africans pay for 'data only' packages to comparative countries... Read |
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