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| Marketing & Media |
 | Friends and classmates, Dr Providence Moyo and Dr Mukani Moyo, received their PhD degrees in agricultural sciences from SU. The newly capped doctors both researched diseases that are associated with grapevines... Read |
 | MARIAM ABDULLAHI The building blocks of a new mobile revolution: these are the strategic focus areas for Africa's telcos in 2017… Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH While 80% of people will not buy from a company with a damaged reputation, the good reputation of a company brings with it benefits such as allowing it to charge a premium for its products... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH A Prism Award is about the wow factor; not business as usual. This year the Awards, which recognise the public relations (PR) industry and its work, celebrate its 20th year. The aim is to get 300 entries - a far cry from the five in its inaugural year... Read |
 | JOHN LITTLE From the get go, one thing we can be certain of is that, like today, we will have multiple agency models going forward – some of which will not be agency-driven... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The scene is being set for an era where personalisation is back in customer service... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Ogilvy was recognised as the best agency, with the KFC brand, one of its clients, recognised as the brand of the year at the IAB Bookmark Awards 2017, held at The Galleria in Sandton... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Liquorice founder and CEO Miles Murphy… Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Darren Meltz, copywriting and digital strategy lecturer at Vega School of Brand Leadership… Read |
 | We interviewed a number of speakers at the IAB Digital Summit, as well as key organisers at the night's Bookmark Awards, both of which took place at The Galleria in Sandton… Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Local digirati shone at the recent IAB Bookmark Awards 2017. Here's some feedback from Brian Palmer, head of digital at Jolly Good Digital… Read |
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| Retail |
 | Italist.com CEO, Diego Abba, was one of the opening keynote speakers at the Seamless Africa conference (future of payments, e-commerce & retail) in Cape Town... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Millennials are known to be tech-savvy, socially engaged, have zero tolerance for delays and are always on the go... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | South African exporters can send plums to the Northern Hemisphere at a time when consumer appetite for stonefruit is rising, along with temperatures... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | PARIS, France: Renault shares skidded on Wednesday following a newspaper report that French investigators believe it had sought to dupe pollution tests... Read |
 | SHERRYN DE VOS It is an unfortunate fact that all cars depreciate in value annually. In fact, as soon as your brand new car has been driven off the showroom floor, the car is already worth less... Read |
 | WesBank has forecast that 2017 will see minor growth in the new vehicle sales industry. The past three years have seen sales decline, with 2016 sales falling 11.4%... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | Furniture designers are set to battle it out at the annual Furniture Design Competition hosted by the Department of Trade and Industry (dti)... Read |
 | Twenty third-year industrial design students from the the University of Johannesburg's Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture (FADA) were recently recognised at an exhibit at the Homemakers Expo Industrial Design Challenge... Read |
 | Fifty five finalists have been chosen from across South Africa as the PPC Imaginarium Awards reveals its 2016/2017 regional finalists... Read |
 | The aquifers in the greater Cape Town area could offer some relief if the current drought conditions endure... Read |
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| Education |
 | ANGELA SCHAERER Like the humble spreadsheet before it, the internet is one of the most transformative technologies in history. However, like any piece of technology, the internet can be used for bad as well as good... Read |
 | The Faculty of Management Sciences at Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT), held its annual excellence awards in honour and recognition of the top achieving staff and students within the faculty... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | A 706-carat diamond, possibly the 10th largest ever found, was unearthed by a pastor working the artisanal mines in Sierra Leone... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | LESLEY STONES When children are too hungry to concentrate on their school work, the chances of them getting anything out of their education are slim... Read |
 | JUDITH SCHLEICHER AND BHASKAR VIRA Without nature, humans could be neither healthy nor happy. And yet the natural world can be completely ransacked without causing even a tiny blip on our usual measures of economic progress or poverty... Read |
 | LINDSAY SAMSON These beautiful handmade objects are creating jobs for unemployed women... Read |
 | CHARLENE LACKAY If we truly want to create value from our corporate social investment (CSI) efforts - the question we should be asking is... Read |
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| Finance |
 | South African entrepreneurs have overcome slow GDP growth rate and Big Business competition to produce some of the most successful enterprises on the continent... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA Long the bastion of institutionalism and trust, and therefore fairly resilient to disruption, banks are now in a war of adapt or die... Read |
 | DUBE TSHIDI The switch from FSB to FSCA requires a different mind-set and approach both within and out of the body... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | MOSES HAVYARIMANA Burundi has declared a malaria epidemic after more than 9m cases were recorded since last year... Read |
 | The first-ever list of antibiotic-resistant pathogens has been drawn up by the WHO, in a bid to guide and promote the R&D of new antibiotics... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Intellectual property magazine, Managing Intellectual Property has named Rouse Africa the winner in the “Africa - Firm to Watch 2017” category of its annual global IP awards... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN If you are looking for a first-rate political thriller with bite that is savvy and shrewd, Miss Sloane will seduce your senses and twist your perception. Read |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN Two local films are released this week: a pacifist primary school teacher is hunted down in the taut thriller Jagveld, and a young professor consumed by alcoholism is saved from self-destruction in The Tribe... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | KERRY HOPE Companies invest in many systems to power the supply chain: warehouse management systems, transportation management systems, ERP platforms.... Read |
 | Kamogelo Mmutlana has been appointed as chief executive officer for supply chain solutions and logistics company, Barloworld Logistics... Read |
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| Property |
 | SINDY PETERS Deborah Aremband and Ricky Tomaselli are the marketing managers behind the Fieldspace Property Group brand... Read |
 | According to Savills' recent Tech Cities 2017 report, Cape Town, along with Santiago and Buenos Aires, is one of the world's rising global players... Read |
 | Commonly used in commercial rental agreements, fair wear and tear is a phrase essential to understand in the context of a commercial lease... Read |
 | MATTHEW STEVENS Property groups Greenbay and Resilient intend buying two Portuguese shopping centres for €219.25m. Each will pay half for a 50% stake, they announced on Thursday, 16 March... Read |
 | With the advent of a flexible work culture and urbanisation, commercial real estate investors are realising the need to adapt to the changing environment... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | The Angolan ambassador to South Africa will open the Stars of Sandstone 2017 Steam and Heritage Festival and officiate at a naming ceremony for one of the seven restored Angolan steam locomotives... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says an intensive advocacy campaign will soon be launched to help different sectors of the economy get a better understanding of the recently announced National Minimum Wage... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Results of an international study from Verint Systems have shown that concerns around data privacy and security remain at the top of the consumer agenda... Read |
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