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| Marketing & Media |
 | LOUISE MARSLAND Designer Yinka Ilori has turned the chairs he designs into memorabilia from his life and the lives of the people he encounters… Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Before the second morning of Design Indaba kicked off, the tiny yet functional, open-plan IKEA house built at the Artscape's entrance saw the typically tall, blonde, blue-eyed Scandinavian representatives you'd expect shake hands and sit down with a handful of media representatives for a non-typical press conference... Read |
 | ANN NUROCK I had the pleasure of attending Nedbank's official launch of its new brand repositioning during the first day of Design Indaba. The bank's new tagline challenges clients and society to ‘see money differently'. And this it does... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG It is the bushmen and their paintings as well as the community's reliance on storytelling in the form of colourful murals that has become Robin Rhode's motivation and inspiration for his art... Read |
 | The first Africa Shared Value Summit will raise awareness and advocate for the strategic implementation of the Shared Value business model, which brings about social change... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Global design students Bo-Won Keum of the Rhode Island School of Design affectionately known as ‘Risdee' (RISD) and Rhys Jones of Canada's Carleton University of Industrial Design, enthralled attendees at the second day of Design Indaba 2017 with their use of design to make the world a better place... Read |
 | Dutch trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort is back at Design Indaba to present her annual trend seminar on fashion, textiles, bio-engineering, home and interior and design empathy. The seminar will take place on Saturday at the Artscape from 10-3pm... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Sydney Mbhele, chief marketing officer of Liberty, used his Design Indaba 2017 opening address to welcome the creative juggernauts, dreamers and doers, in his rich voice calling the 22nd rendition of Design Indaba the global zeitgeist from the frontlines of design, creativity and innovation across the globe... Read |
 | TERRY LEVIN Having attended over a decade of Design Indaba conferences, I can attest to the fact that the standard of speakers and the relevance of topics hardly ever wavers from excellent, however, the second day of the 21st Design Indaba might be remembered for having showcased one of the coolest speaker lineups ever... Read |
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| Retail |
 | The Competition Commission has charged Unilever SA for cartel conduct, referring a cartel case against the group and Malaysian firm Sime Darby Hudson Knight... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG If your business does not have digital intelligence at its core by 2020 you may as well go home. This is according to James McCormick... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | A quick and user-friendly method for producers and distributors of honey to detect whether the products they are selling are the real thing or not has been developed by food scientists and analysts from... Read |
 | FAO also released its first forecast for global wheat production in 2017, projecting 744.5 million tonnes, which would signal a 1.8 percent decline from its record 2016 level... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | The Western Cape government could be the first to build a water desalination plant... Read |
 | During 2016 there were 889 accidents on construction sites in the Western Cape... Read |
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| Education |
 | ISSUED BY SPINTELLIGENT Now brought to you by MultiChoice, Career Indaba is the leading event in South Africa empowering parents, teachers and students with the necessary knowledge to practically apply their passion after school and studying... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Sibanye Gold's aggressive growth strategy since its listing in February 2013 has set it apart from its South African peers.. Read |
 | SANDRA GORE AND ALECIA PIENAAR The practical consequences of the Paris Agreementmay soon be better understood as an application regarding climate change is being heard in the Pretoria High Court... Read |
 | Several factors have contributed to Nigeria overtaking Angola as the continent's biggest producer last year... Read |
 | Gahcho Kué mine, which is expected to produce 54m carats of rough diamonds over its lifetime, officially began commercial production on 2 March... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SINDY PETERS Since its start in 2013 Tekkie Tax has raised R22m, but it's much more than just a fundraising campaign... Read |
 | MICHAEL SAMWAYS Humans like to think that they rule the planet and are hard wired to do so. But our stewardship has been anything but successful... Read |
 | QUANDA ZHANG AND ALBERTO POSSO An increase in the proportion of women accessing microfinance services by just 15% could potentially reduce gender inequality, as measured by the Gender Inequality Index, by half in the average developing nation... Read |
 | Created by safe2choose, Fem is a new initiative designed to give South Africans access to immediate and locally relevant sexual health services and information, via an SMS platform... Read |
 | SEAN MOLLOY While the maintenance and development of infrastructure is an important element of addressing South Africa's water scarcity issues, changing peoples' attitude to water usage and effectively managing the demand for water are equally critical... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | ASHLEIGH FURLONG Some Aids patients, also with TB, start taking antiretrovirals hoping to get better. But they get sicker, temporarily at least... Read |
 | RUSSELL RENSBURG AND MARIJE VERSTEEG-MOJANAGA Once slices of the healthcare funding pie are dished out to provinces, there is little control over how this money is spent to benefit the rural poor... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan plans to amend tax laws to compel South African Revenue Service commissioner Tom Moyane to improve his tax collection accountability... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN There are seven new films released this week: Jackie, Keeping Up With The Kandasamys, Logan: The Wolverine, The Disappointments Room, The Hollars, Rock Dog and Amadeus. Read |
 | BRIAN BERKMAN Not ever did I imagine I'd use the words Pretoria and Hipster in the same sentence and yet the Summit Precinct, next door to Menlyn Mall, the largest in Africa with the recent addition of 500 new stores, is just such a place. Read |
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| Property |
 | According to the annual Knight Frank Wealth Report, London has beaten New York as the most important global city for ultra-high net worth individuals (UHNWIs)... Read |
 | With 27% of global transaction volumes attributed to private buyers in 2016, commercial real estate remains an important asset class for private investors... Read |
 | Since being declared an Urban Development Zone (UDZ), a number of disused buildings in Woodstock and Salt River have undergone major refurbishment resulting in an improved perception of the area... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Chef Luke Dale-Roberts and head chef Candice Philip are taking their collaborative energy to new gourmet heights in the newly introduced Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | ARNOUX MARÉ In a survey published in the New York Times, American workers admitted that only about 35% of their day was productive work time. The rest is lost to distractions - instant messages, chatting, the internet, and primarily meetings... Read |
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| ICT |
 | ANTON MOULDER In part I of this series, I touched on how consumer expectations have changed and how it has fundamentally shifted what people want when they engage with brands... Read |
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