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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Suné Stassen, festival director for the Open Design Festival, is heavily involved in the country's design education movement. Here, she shares how your business can pick up the baton to take the movement forward... Read |
 | The Happy Film, Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, Ants on a Shrimp, Design that Heals, Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw the Future, and William Kentridge: The Collaborative Artist are to be premiered at Design Indaba's FilmFest from Wednesday, 1 March to Friday, 3 March at the Artscape's Arena... Read |
 | Beauty is subjective. Something beautiful is not merely visually pleasing to the eye, but when design attributes such as social significance, economic impact, usability, sustainability and even humour are taken into consideration, this meaning is often what makes that thing truly beautiful... Read |
 | Flagship African energy events, EAPIC and WAPIC, transition to ‘Future Energy' to address continent's power potential… Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS FCB's leaders from across the globe are in Cape Town for their Global Leadership Conference, currently unfolding at the Belmond Mount Nelson. I sat down with FCB's global CCO, Susan Credle... Read |
 | Africa's banks have facilitated many positive changes - providing customers with new and better products and services, observing more advanced regulatory and accounting standards… Read |
 | The January 2017 Red Hat survey conducted around Internet of Things (IoT) shows that while interest in IoT is picking up, actual roll-outs are being approached with the common enterprise IT theme of “steady deliberation”... Read |
 | Samsung Corporate Citizenship improves access to education through digital transformation… Read |
 | Angola Cables, a leading telecoms operator is expanding its network reach and peering capabilities across the globe… Read |
 | The number of mobile phone users globally will surpass five billion by the middle of this year, according to a study released on Monday by GSMA, the association of mobile operators… Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Animator Farnaz Esnaashari-Charmatz attended the Cape Town International Animation Festival this past weekend. She shares what it's like working at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank, California and offers advice to aspiring animators hoping to draw their own creative future... Read |
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| Retail |
 | COLLEEN GOKO The food and drug retailers index rallied just under 9% last week following the release of better-than-expected results from grocery giant Shoprite... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Stacy Beukes is the curly-haired designer, manufacturer and owner of local jewellery brand A Ring To It. Raised on the Cape Flats... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | NICOLAS MOUNARD African farmers face one of the greatest balancing acts of the 21st century - feeding a rapidly expanding population without causing irreparable damage to the environment they rely on... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | PARIS, FRANCE: The Renault-Nissan Alliance and Transdev are partnering to explore the development of mobility services with fleets of electric driverless vehicles... Read |
 | NEWSWATCH: Tesla's CFO, Jason Wheeler, resigned quite abruptly "to pursue opportunities in public policy". According to reports on Forbes and Seeking Alpha, Wheeler's resignation story seems suspicious... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | AVUYILE MNGXITAMA-DIKO Nelson Mandela Bay is on the brink of being declared a disaster area, with the city's overall dam levels sitting at a combined capacity of 49%, despite strict water restrictions being in place... Read |
 | ACSA plans to boost its efforts in supporting air cargo traffic growth with initiatives that aim to ease congestion and expand warehouse space... Read |
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| Education |
 | This year's QS Best Student Cities survey saw Johannesburg ranked 84th of 100 top cities to study in, with Cairo being the only other African country to make it onto the list at 88... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Besides the inherent risks of blasting at opencast mines and quarries to life and productivity, lightning also poses a danger to personnel and equipment... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | Gumtree South Africa has taken the decision to prohibit all advertisements for live donkeys and donkey hides on the site... Read |
 | PETER HORTON What does a staple food such as bread have to do with global warming? Read |
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| Legal |
 | Minister of Environmental Affairs Edna Molewa has invited any interested parties to submit written comments on the draft regulations on the reclamation of land from coastal waters... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | RUTH COOPER Lauren Dixon-Paver is a plush toy crafter, rising Youtube personality and one of Design Indaba's Emerging Creatives. We chat to her about her handmade plush creatures, video tutorials and being proud of your craft for #DesignMonth. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | TPT head strategist, Willie Coetsee, addressed the audience of small, medium and large business executives at the first of the 2017 trade and investment forums... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Fortress Income Fund continues to be one of the darlings of the listed property sector and is expected to once more deliver double-digit, sector-beating returns for owners of its B shares... Read |
 | Tony Clarke, MD of the Rawson Property Group, provides his top five hard and fast factors that are guaranteed to influence the value of any home... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Morocco's key tourism sector barely grew last year amid security challenges, but operators are hoping Chinese and Russian visitors will boost their fortunes in the coming years... Read |
 | Wesgro has partnered by dnata, which will conduct marketing and sales activities and actions on the Cape's behalf in Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE for the next year... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa's Board of Control has unanimously agreed to terminate the secondment of acting group CEO Collins Letsoalo with immediate effect... Read |
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| ICT |
 | MARK GESCHKE My year started on an absolute high as I had the privilege of joining Peter Diamandis' Abundance 360 Summit via video-streaming... Read |
 | The following statement was issued yesterday, 27 February 2017, on behalf of Mohammed Hariri, chairman of Cell C and Oger Telecom... Read |
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