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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS This month's New Generation Awards saw G&G Digital named winner of nine awards for clients, including overall agency of the year. Here, executive creative director, Desiree Gullan explains the importance of digital interaction in the current climate of constant community engagement... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS It was a dark and stormy night... wait, let's dampen that down to just a grey and gloomy day, which cleared as soon as we arrived at the Youngblood Africa studio in the Beautifull Life building in Cape Town's CBD for the 27th annual Galliova Awards in Food Eggcellence on Friday, 21 October 2016... Read |
 | Deloitte invests further in Internet of Things with new digital transformation capacity... Read |
 | Africa's economic growth is expected to dip this year before rebounding in 2017 to remain the world's second fastest growing region after East Asia... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON CoLab has opened in Kaduna, the state capital of Kaduna State in north-western Nigeria, offering working space, mentorship and training to local startups... Read |
 | A tech innovation bootcamp is being held in South Sudan aimed at building two mobile apps to educate South Sudanese youth on the process of peace... Read |
 | COLLINS MWAI The first medical supply of remotely piloted aircraft, popularly known as drones, have been launched in Rwanda... Read |
 | Why we are championing the crusade for the Nigerian Media Monitoring and Measurement Association (NIMMA)... Read |
 | JIMMY TEMBO The fact that it took Samsung about 40 days to start recalling their product left a void difficult to fill, the millennial market cannot afford and does not like ambiguity... Read |
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| Retail |
 | ROBERT LAING Famous Brands, whose franchises include Debonairs Pizza, Wimpy and Steers, reported a 62% jump in interim aftertax profit to R411m on 23% growth in revenue to R2.45bn for the six months to end-August... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Farmer-owned South African agribusiness, GWK has announced the winners of its annual GWK Icons which celebrates leaders in the agriculture industry... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG To celebrate the launch of the new Kia Sportage, a fleet of them traversed the roads of six South African provinces with an aim to set an official record... Read |
 | ANÉ THERON Manufacturers are pulling out all the stops to ensure that people keep on buying cars, because the customer wants a car that can do it all... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | Plans are underway to manufacture more forklifts powered by hydrogen following the successful launch of South Africa's first prototype hydrogen fuel cell forklift earlier this year... Read |
 | The Motheo Construction Group's newly-formed civils division is cutting its teeth on a R100m project to build a 14,000 m2 factory in Germiston, Johannesburg... Read |
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| Education |
 | BOBBY JORDAN University students have been hogging news headlines recently... Read |
 | The #FeesMustFall protests are costing universities dearly - from damage to property to cancellations of events... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | ANTOINE DECHEZLEPRÊTRE The Paris Agreement goal to limit global warming to less than 2°C at the end of the 21st century demands that we sharply reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, reaching near zero in less than 100 years... Read |
 | LINDSAY SAMSON Would you drive a car powered by poo? Read |
 | Yolandi Schoeman of Baoberry took the top prize at the 2016 awards ceremony of the Global Cleantech Innovation Programme for SMEs in South Africa (GCIP-SA) for her innovation aWetbox... Read |
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| Finance |
 | GARY ALLEMANN You would think that thanks to the amount of big data banks have access to, they would be milking it. Yet they seem afraid to take the plunge... Read |
 | Every business requires people with both the skills and practical work experience to look after its finances confidently and competently... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | The NHI process and the #FeesMustFall campaign are the same side of the coin rather than diametrically opposed initiatives. .. Read |
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| Legal |
 | SARS has instituted court action to terminate a contract with a service provider due to the company's failure to disclose its familial relationship... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING Computicket's attempt to have anti-competitive behaviour complaints against it dismissed have in turn been dismissed by the Competition Tribunal... Read |
 | SHENAAZ JAMAL The Right2Know advocacy group says it forced the government to speed up appointing an intelligence inspector-general by threatening to take it to the Constitutional Court... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | NINA TIMM Smoothie Bowls are such a breakfast trend at the moment and the health nuts are going crazy for them. Sites like Instagram, Buzzfeed and Pinterest are bursting with recipes and flavour combinations for smoothies. Read |
 | Hosted by Amphitheatre Backpackers Lodge, the seventh annual Smoking Dragon Festival will bring in 2017 over three days in the Drakensberg with an event that's promised to be both bigger and better. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Comair has announced that customers with a Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphone may not board aircraft operated by Comair Limited in Southern Africa, including British Airways and kulula.com... Read |
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| Property |
 | BEKEZELA PHAKATHI VFS Global, which manages visa application centres on behalf of the Department of Home Affairs, could soon be kicked out of its offices in the Absa Building in Cape Town for allegedly breaching its lease agreement... Read |
 | Somerset Lakes lifestyle estate, located in Somerset West, Cape Town, plans to offer free private schooling at Reddam House Somerset with each property purchased from the developer from October 2016... Read |
 | According to Robert Shaff of Nexus Property Group (NPG), investing in the right industrial property is an ideal way to diversify an investment portfolio, while ensuring a relatively safe source of steady income... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | TripAdvisor will no longer allow users to book activities that involve contact with endangered species or captive wild animals... Read |
 | Group travel curator, WorldVentures has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa - their first on the African continent... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | REGINE LE ROUX Investing in the right people means that you are investing in the quality of your output... Read |
 | JILL ARMSTRONG It is still true that far more men than women have leading roles in many organisations... Read |
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| ICT |
 | BRETT PARKER In March 2016, IBM opened its first Cloud Data Centre in South Africa, providing cloud services to enterprise clients... Read |
 | The locally developed ttrumpet mobile application has introduced a new Ward feature that empowers citizens by giving them a direct link... Read |
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