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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Just when you thought the Loeries buzz was over, the Loeries' rankings are in! I chatted to some of this year's top ranked creatives post-celebrations. Here M&C Saatchi Abel Cape Town ECD Gordon Ray and Gauteng ECD Bridget Johnson share their views... Read |
 | Africa Trade Week is a historic event, with the goal of encouraging fruitful and stimulating dialogue among all stakeholders... Read |
 | Sheraton Lagos unveils 107 freshly renovated club rooms and suites and an all new Sheraton Club Lounge... Read |
 | Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) Week 2016, calls for accelerated job creation through infrastructure development for Africa's transformation... Read |
 | Together with a team of cocoa and agriculture experts from Ghana and Denmark, research has improved fermenting techniques of raw cocoa beans... Read |
 | The agreement between Societe Generale and American Express in Africa involves both online sales and POS payments through electronic payment terminals... Read |
 | Millions of ABSA 'Prosper' film views cement branded content in the communications space... Read |
 | STHE SHABANGU Samsung Electronics has entered the next level of community engagement where research, relevance and shared value are key, says Sthe Shabangu, PR lead at Samsung Electronics Africa Office... Read |
 | JIMMY TEMBO Sitting with a group of friends over a bottle of Pinotage, an inevitable discussion of the 'Prophet of Doom' emerged. The majority of the guys in this discussion were of the opinion that Doom as a brand actually benefited by scoring free publicity... Read |
 | Breaking away from a traditional learn-memorise-test approach to education, design thinking is paving the way for inspiring 'out-of-the-box' thinking amongst youngsters... Read |
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| Retail |
 | ANN CROTTY Woolworths' shareholders voiced their opposition on using the same auditors and also executive pay increases at the retailer's AGM... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | For subsistence farmers, an elephant raid can be devastating. Elephants can consume up to 400kg of food a day... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | DAVID FURLONGER A "bloodbath" in the truck and bus market underlined another miserable month for local new vehicle sales in November... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | MIKE MULLER A lot of what is being presented as radical economic transformation initiatives in South Africa is simply state capture by a corrupt elite... Read |
 | Nigeria and Morocco are in talks over a huge project to extend a West African gas pipeline to stretch up towards Europe, officials say... Read |
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| Education |
 | SHAUN GILLHAM It is plain sailing into a maritime career for 81 students who graduated from freight and logistics parastatal Transnet's Maritime School of Excellence in Port Elizabeth... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | With South Africa's energy mix currently being decided, renewables experts believe it's time to convert a general awareness about green energy into tangible action... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | LINDSAY SAMSON Combatting air and noise pollution with Simply Grid... Read |
 | The United Nations recently handed out its highest environmental accolade the Champions of the Earth award during a global conference on biological diversity in Cancún, Mexico... Read |
 | The recently unveiled Ikamva Lethu black economic empowerment project in the citrus-rich Sundays River Valley in the Eastern Cape aims to radically transform how future empowerment deals in the agricultural sector are handled... Read |
 | The five megatrends that are widely believed to be shaping the future of our world are... Read |
 | With South Africa's energy mix currently being decided and debated, experts and leaders in this space believe the time to champion renewable energy is now... Read |
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| Finance |
 | SA's economic fate now lies in its own hands after S&P left the country's investment status largely unchanged... Read |
 | As an official sponsor of the Blockchain Africa Conference, SAP will be sharing its insights on the technology at the event... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Globally, cancer is the second leading cause of death, but the chances of getting the disease look different depending on where you live... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Advocates of the distribution of surplus food to the poor are calling for the Consumer Protection Act to be changed to allow donors to feed more of the 14-million people who go hungry every day in South Africa... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | MEAGAN DUCKITT Unknown Union has recently launched a fresh new African inspired street-ware collection as well as a new fashion store and gallery space in the heart of Cape Town's CBD. I attended the launch last Thursday night, 30 November. Read |
 | All-4-One will be making its first tour to South Africa next year. The Grammy Award winning group will perform at GrandWest in Cape Town on 10 March and Carnival City in Johannesburg on 11 March. Read |
 | NINA TIMM Cherry season is in full bloom and I simply cannot resist buying a punnet every time I set foot into a shop. Not only are they very photogenic, but there is something so extravagant in sitting with a bowl of chilled cherries. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | The Imperial Logistics group faced the challenge of establishing a pharmaceutical regulatory compliant, temperature controlled storage facility that would not require a consistent supply of electricity... Read |
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| Property |
 | Transcend Residential Property Fund would give investors exposure to a robust rental market following its listing, said CEO Rob Wesselo... Read |
 | Menlyn Park Shopping Centre in Pretoria celebrated the relaunch of the mall on Friday, 2 December, following a R2bn makeover... Read |
 | According to Stefan du Plessis, managing member at Rent Protect, there are certain best practice principles that help all parties avoid the typical risks associated with rental agreements... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Diversified property group Arrowhead Properties has ambitions to make sizable acquisitions in 2017... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Sanbona Wildlife Reserve is a 54,000 ha premier wildlife destination that lies at the foot of the Warmwaterberg Mountains in the heart of the Klein Karoo... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON As much as R1bn has been spent on upgrading the Sun City entertainment centre over the past five years, and owner Sun International believes the development remains a popular leisure destination... Read |
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| ICT |
 | A new study from Juniper Research has found that biometric authentication is now ready to move beyond fingerprints alone and use a range of identifiers... Read |
 | Malicious software designed to attack Android smartphones has breached the accounts of more than a million Google users... Read |
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