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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The Radisson Blu La Vendome in Sea Point was buzzing on Thursday, 23 March 2017 with marketers and agency creatives excited for the launch of Mediamark's In the Know Now... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Kansai Plascon, better known as Plascon to most, sponsored a duo for the Absa Cape Epic. Their corporate and digital communication specialist Zurita Moore explains why and how this ties into the brand's new positioning: ‘designed for life'... Read |
 | MARILYN DUTLOW MUNGA Here's why social watching is so important and a handful of health and wellness brands using Instagram to become part of the new cultural conversations... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY The best advertising is always based on a fundamental understanding of human nature - what the people in the marketing business call “basic human truth”. If you can tap into that, you don't have to waste any time explaining or repeating - everybody gets it first time around... Read |
 | Goodbye Malaria recently sold its one millionth Goodbye Malaria bracelet, raising $1million for malaria elimination programmes in Africa... Read |
 | A new Tigo call centre has been launched in Tanzania, complete with embedded data security measures to protect customer information and identity, to offer Tigo customers dedicated worldclass service... Read |
 | French sport equipment and sportswear company, Decathlon, has opened its first shop in Ghana, now the largest store in West Africa... Read |
 | BRETT PARKER Between East and West: Africa's economic transformation will create a third centre of global power, according to a new ‘Afro-Optimism' series... Read |
 | CHRIS BREWER What does this mean? Well, lots of things, but it's certainly not the catastrophe many would have you believe... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Taking over the front shops in Netcare hospitals helped Clicks grow its flagship brand to 600 stores at the end of February, the retail group said in its interim results statement on Friday morning... Read |
 | Pioneer's expansion plans have been thwarted by the downgrades by ratings agencies of SA's sovereign debt... Read |
 | The owners of Kenilworth Racecourse in Cape Town, home of the Met and the Queen's Plate, want to build up to 500 homes, a hotel and a restaurant on about 8ha of the property... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | With FAO's new tool, the WaPOR open-access database going live, measuring how efficiently water is used in agriculture, particularly in water-scarce countries, is going high-tech... Read |
 | RUNYARARO MUZAVAZI MLN is a destructive disease capable of causing overwhelming damage to maize crops and has already caused significant damage in Central Africa and Western Africa... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | HENRIE GEYSER Renault South Africa has enhanced its award-winning Clio five-door hatchback range with a stepped-up GT-Line model and it is a real show-stealer, both in looks and performance... Read |
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| Education |
 | SIYAMTANDA CAPA Dozens of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University students could be forced to drop out of their studies and leave the university should the institution find them guilty of #FeesMustFall-related crimes... Read |
 | Durban Girls High School have earned a place in the 2017 BDO Inter-School Quiz final after winning the fourth regional round of the competition... Read |
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| Finance |
 | FRANKFURT - Growth in Asian emerging economies will boost global insurance markets into next year... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | NICCI BOTHA South Africa's private healthcare sector is under severe pressure, particularly with rampant inflation tracking at rates higher than CPI... Read |
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| Legal |
 | MARYKE ZIETSMAN AND PAUL COETSER Exclusionary arrangements refer to those contractual provisions, which oblige a customer to obtain all its requirements for a particular product, from a particular supplier exclusively, such as school uniforms... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN It's not easy to fully understand what faith means, believing in your God, trusting that your moral compass is unshakable, devoting yourself to it with heart and soul, and having full confidence in your convictions. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Westlake View Logistics Park, recently opened in Modderfontein, Gauteng, is particularly suited to blue chip companies looking for a strategic position in a sought after location where land for development is limited. Read |
 | Sustainable Development Goals of Sustainable Transport and Peace conference held at United Nations, Geneva discussed sustainable transport in fostering social, economic and environmental development. Read |
 | Robin Kamark has been appointed as the new CEO of Etihad Airways, Airline Equity Partners. Kamark takes over from Bruno Matheu... Read |
 | ROME, Italy: Alitalia workers have rejected a restructuring deal from the company's management and unions to save the ailing carrier... Read |
 | DUBAI, UAE: Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE), the largest aircraft-leasing company in the Middle East, has announced its plans to buy Dublin-based AWAS Aviation Capital... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | RUTH COOPER What with accelerating technological developments and a mass of voices and content creators coming and going online, choosing who and what to pay attention to can feel a little overwhelming. Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown has pulled the plug on a move by Eskom to give its former chief executive, Brian Molefe, a R30.1-million pension payout... Read |
 | As South Africa faces an uphill battle out of junk status and faces the impact of the downgrade on business and budgets, employee engagement is at risk and businesses must find ways to address it. Read |
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| ICT |
 | GABRIELLA MULLIGAN Applications are open to the Telkom FutureMakers InnoTech programme, seeking Cape Town-based budding entrepreneurs in need of help to get their tech startup ideas off the ground... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON April began with ratings agencies Standard and Poor's (S&P) and Fitch downgrading South Africa's sovereign credit rating to “junk” status, meaning both existing and new funds borrowed by South Africa will become more expensive... Read |
 | SMEs in East Africa have seen encouraging growth in recent years, especially in the areas of IT, with ecosystems such as the Silicon Savannah forecast to be worth more than $1bn in the next three years... Read |
 | Internet access restored in anglophone Cameroon after three months, following a widely-criticised government shutdown... Read |
 | MTN and Huawei have partnered to bring the first LTE Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) network in Africa... Read |
 | LUKE MULLER ICT is at the heart of a modern economy. Personal computers, cell phones, the internet, and other mobile devices and systems have played an important role in reorganising work and personal lives... Read |
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