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| Marketing & Media |
 | 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 |
 | TERRY LEVIN A full house last session saw Craig Edward Dykers founding partner of Norwegian architecture and landscape design firm Snøhetta share some of their project, including the reconstruction of The Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the Times Square reconstruction and the expansion of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art... Read |
 | LOUISE MARSLAND Designer and coder, Ekene Ijeoma, is one of the creative minds behind The Refugee Project, and advocates design with empathy… Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY If I could go back and do my life over, I'd spend more time with my children and be a little less harsh on them. The way I was brought up was definitely from the “cowboys don't cry” playbook, with displays of emotion as few and far between as thunderstorms in the desert... Read |
 | DAMON STAPLETON There is a saying in Hollywood that comedies never win at the Oscars. It would seem the stats back it up... Read |
 | For companies in Nigeria currently battling the recession, the challenges are slowing sales and reduced earnings due to spiralling costs from high inflation and forex rates… Read |
 | The humanitarian crisis in South Sudan is rapidly escalating, and hunger and malnutrition have reached new disturbing levels. By July 2017, 5.5 million will be severely food insecure… Read |
 | The MasterCard Foundation has committed a total of $38.3 million for programmes to improve productivity and market access for farmers in 11 African countries... Read |
 | Advertising agency, TBWA\ Khanga Rue has launched a free 12-class series on entrepreneurship for young people in Tanzania called “Noa Ubongo” or “Sharpen Your Brain” in Swahili… Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Joe Public has completed a new brand repositioning for Nedbank titled “See money differently”. It launched at Design Indaba last week, aired during Carte Blanche and was released onto social media platforms just 24 hours ago. Joe Public ECD Roanna Williams comments on how the general SA public is responding... Read |
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| Retail |
 | ROBERT LAING The US monster SABMiller created by acquiring Millers and then merging it with Molson Coors looks set to attack the former SAB in its home market... Read |
 | The latest Nielsen Global Premiumisation Survey indicates that 92% of South Africans are willing to pay an above-average price for products... Read |
 | As usual, the first day of EuroShop was a visual sweet party with a sugar overdose of note after two hours of visiting a single exhibition hall. With one hall done and seventeen to go, it is overwhelming. Read |
 | PAULINE BAX L'Oreal SA is trying to find out what African women want, and then make money from it... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | SIMON ALLISON South Africa's chicken industry is being destroyed by a flood of cut-price exports from the European Union, claim local chicken farmers. Except it's not quite as simple as that. Read |
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| Automotive |
 | HENRIE GEYSER There is something incongruous about a Fiat bakkie but then the same applies to Mercedes-Benz bakkie, Renault bakkie and even more so, Maserati bakkie... Read |
 | Mitsubishi Motors SA (MMSA) has issued a preventative recall on 7449 Pajeros for safety inspections and replacement of driver airbags... Read |
 | As a tribute to its Citi Golf model, Volkswagen is introducing the limited edition Citi Vivo. Citi Vivo is bringing back the three colours of red, yellow and blue... Read |
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| Education |
 | The provision of schools with modern facilities in townships will improve the quality of education in townships, says Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi.... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Global Witness has accused Swiss-based mining corporation Glencore of paying more than $75m to a scandal-hit Israeli businessman with close links to the DRC president... Read |
 | Judgment in South Africa's first climate change case around the impact of proposed Thabametsi coal-fired power station in Limpopo was reserved last week... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | In a wildlife sanctuary in southern Kenya the relentless sun has bleached savannah grasses and dried up rivers, turning water holes first into muddy pits and now, dust bowls... Read |
 | More than one in four deaths in children under five are linked to polluted environments, according to two new World Health Organization reports published on Monday, 6 March... Read |
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| Finance |
 | The Thomson Reuters Eikon Auctions app has been used successfully for the first time for live foreign exchange auctions in Ghana and Uganda... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Professor Justus Apffelstaedt is now offering a holistic service for thyroid and parathyroid health and the treatment of related diseases... Read |
 | Primary healthcare insurance products under threat from proposed regulations have been given a two-year exemption lifeline... Read |
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| Legal |
 | JOHAN BOTES Employers meddling in the private affairs of their employees have been the topic of many a discussion in the past. However, it appears that some employers take their right to interfere in the private conduct of employees a step too far... Read |
 | President Jacob Zuma has nominated Madam Justice Mandisa Maya as the president of the Supreme Court of Appeal, the Presidency announced on Monday... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | BRIAN BERKMAN If you want to stay in Africa's richest mile, and who wouldn't, The InterContinental Johannesburg, Sandton Towers is your go-to for high glamour allure in a hotel that oozes international affluence and elegance... Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS All-4-One are celebrating a two-decade career with the release of a new album titled ‘Twenty+' and a tour that includes South Africa. Martin Myers chats to band member Tony Borowiak prior to the band's tour. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Barloworld Logistics, Transnet Freight Rail (TFR), ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), Grindrod Terminals and Newlyn Properties opened the Elandsfontein Intermodal Terminal... Read |
 | Turkish Airlines has launched two new flight destinations in Russia, routes that further open up the country to South Africans... Read |
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| Property |
 | The 2017 Knight Frank Wealth Report has identified five of the best neighbourhoods around the world... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON The specialist shopping centre owner Hyprop Investments achieved double-digit dividend growth in the six months to December, with strong performances from its top malls being boosted by its recently acquired Eastern European portfolio... Read |
 | ADRIAN GOSLETT As many consumers feel the financial constraints of higher living costs, coupled with the rising property prices, more and more people have turned to hive living as means to get into the property market... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | According to the 2017 European Hotel Valuation Index, hotels in Eastern Europe are benefitting from tough times in Western Europe with room values in the region seeing an impressive 11% average growth Read |
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