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| Marketing & Media |
 | Giving smallholder farmers the opportunity to become commercially viable vegetable farmers, Syngenta has partnered with the Feed the Future Partnering for Innovation to help farmers gain access to quality horticultural seedlings... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS This week we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with sometimes-skeptical technophile Masego Motsogi, MD at Ninety9cents' (99c) new Johannesburg agency, which opened its doors on 1 March 2017... Read |
 | WASHINGTON, US: Twitter is launching a 24-hour streaming news channel in partnership with the Bloomberg Media, in a major expansion of the social media firm's video operations, the two firms announced Monday... Read |
 | YANNICK LEFANG With the rise of a middle class and a consumer market estimated to reach $1.2 trillion in value by 2020, Africa is becoming a more commercially desirable location for businesses... Read |
 | TerraPay continues global expansion by launching mobile wallet based cross-border money transfer services in Tanzania... Read |
 | The West Africa Mobile Awards (WAMAS), the West African technology awards have announced the 2017 shortlisted finalists... Read |
 | US takes diversified export product basket to Sub-Saharan Africa at Food & Hospitality Africa Expo 2017... Read |
 | Forbes Woman Africa launches first television show, ‘Against the Odds with Peace Hyde'... Read |
 | Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa collectively attracted 58% of the continent's total FDI projects in 2016; as investment from the Asia-Pacific region into Africa hit an all-time high in 2016... Read |
 | DAMON STAPLETON Where do you find inspiration? As it happens, I found it on a windswept balcony overlooking Shoreditch... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky winners. FoxP2's creative founding partner and ECD Justin Gomes talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky winners. Ogilvy SA CCO Pete Case talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky winners. CEO and chief creative officer at Native VML Jason Xenopoulos talks about the colour and content of their first D&AD pencil box... Read |
 | NICHOLAS KITONYI Some suggest that by taking the industrial revolution of 1760-1840 as the first one, we are currently in the fourth industrial revolution... Read |
 | ANDY WALKER “Don't be evil” is a common phrase uttered by Google executives, but we can't help but think Facebook should perhaps adopt it too... Read |
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| Retail |
 | The National Consumer Tribunal handed down judgment against Edcon on Tuesday that the club fee charged by Edcon to its credit customers... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | JUNIOR SABENA MUTABAZI If the African continent has vast agricultural potential... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | The annual motorsport extravaganza, the 2017 Jaguar Simola Hillclimb, kicks into gear in Knysna this weekend from 5-7 May 2017... Read |
 | Auto giant General Motors is poised to become the first manufacturer to make a profit from electric vehicles, a GM executive predicted on Monday... Read |
 | JEAN D'AMOUR MBONYINSHUTI A new factory is set to start assembling motorcycles at Kigali Special Economic Zone, a move expected to reduce the cost of motorcycles in the country... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | The Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS) and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoU) earlier this year in order to further professional development and information sharing for members of both institutions... Read |
 | Katherine Dewar will represent Wits in the 30th Corobrik Architectural Student of the Year Awards, set to take place on 10 May in Gauteng... Read |
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| Education |
 | SHENAAZ JAMAL A 23-year-old North West University student has become one of the youngest on the continent to obtain a doctorate... Read |
 | The Cape Craft and Design Institute has partnered with the Western Cape government's After-School Game Changer programme to pilot a year-long visual arts project in primary schools... Read |
 | Lisof, Fashion and Retail Academy is again collaborating with The Sunday Times to offer six fashion diploma or degree bursaries in the 2017 My Fashion Career competition... Read |
 | The focus at the WEF Africa summit in Durban this week is on inclusive growth and governments need to embrace digitalisation to ensure Africa evolves and provides education and employment opportunities for its citizens and remain globally competitive... Read |
 | STEPHEN TIMM A chance meeting with US listed company 2U's CEO Chip Paucek in October last year set Cape Town based SA edtech startup GetSmarter on the road to being acquired by the US firm in a $103-million deal signed on Monday evening. Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | The general sentiment is that a recovery is underway in the resources sector, and, for a sustainable future, smaller projects are the way forward... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | STEPHEN LABSON Set against the backdrop of low growth, dire unemployment figures, and a huge infrastructure deficit - the theme of this year's African World Economic Forum (WEF) is “inclusive and sustainable growth”... Read |
 | Pioneer Foods recently rolled out its schools breakfast nutrition programme in five disadvantaged schools in KwaZulu-Natal... Read |
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| Finance |
 | NEIL PATHER In 2016, economic growth in South Africa was virtually non-existent, making it a tough year for the short-term insurance industry... Read |
 | A new virtual currency aims to bitcoin by pegging its value to hard oil assets, a first in the rapidly growing digital money sector. Read |
 | Sluggish growth, leading to stagnant global trade, subdued investment and increasing policy uncertainty worldwide, are just a few of the challenges facing the global economy... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | The new multi-stakeholder Pharmacy Advisory Board believes that pharmacists and pharmacies have an increasingly important role in providing... Read |
 | KIM CLOETE Research conducted on a anti-malarial clinical drug candidate, MMV390048, and its efficacy against resistant strains of the malaria parasite, and across the entire parasite lifecycle... Read |
 | Additional investments in science, technology, and innovation in Africa will improve health, spur economic growth, and reduce poverty across the continent... Read |
 | Limited funding for intern posts has left nearly 100 medical graduates without jobs and the situation could worsen when about 1,000 graduates return from Cuba... Read |
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| Legal |
 | President Jacob Zuma has signed the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment (FICA) Act, which amends the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 2001... Read |
 | GERHARD PAPENFUS The Labour Court has set aside the extension of the 2014-2017 Metal and Engineering Industry Bargaining Council main agreement to non-parties... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | The fifth annual DStv Delicious International Food & Music Festival will kick off on Saturday, 7 October until Sunday, 8 October 2017 and will be held at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit... Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS Sybil Anita Lynch known simply as Sybil is the cousin of former En Vogue singer, Maxine Jones. She achieved worldwide crossover hits with her cover versions of Dionne Warwick's hits, Don't Make Me Over and Walk On By, which were released in 1989 and 1990, respectively. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | The Volvo Active Safety package has recently become available to the local market. The investment of R6.5 million into its Durban SKD manufacturing plant will allow the facility to install unique features... Read |
 | Emirates is on the lookout for experienced and technically proficient commercial pilots in South Africa to fly its growing network of international routes... Read |
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| Property |
 | ADRIAN GOSLETT You have been looking for the ideal property to purchase for months and finally find it, but there is a catch, there is a tenant who is currently renting the property. What now? Read |
 | JUANE SCHUTTE A topic on every citizen's mind is what the impact of the recent downgrade to junk status will have on the SA's economy... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | In a R16.7m head-to-toe makeover by the First Group, Midlands Saddle and Trout will see an extensive re-decorating of all 59 chalets to complement the natural surroundings... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | The 2017 SMME Opportunity Roadshow, which opened in Gauteng on 20 April and moves to Port Elizabeth (19 May), Durban (19 July) and Cape Town (6 September), offers entrepreneurs an opportunity to hear expert opinion on sustainable business growth... Read |
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| ICT |
 | The new TransUnion credit USSD service gives non-smartphone users in South Africa access to credit information. Users also needn't have airtime to be able to check their credit score... Read |
 | During the month of May, Women In Tech Cape Town will be highlighting the work females are doing in tech as well as how they are changing our country and economy... Read |
 | Following the successful inaugural conference held in Johannesburg in November 2016, this year's BotCon Africa event will take place in Cape Town on Thursday, 25 May 2017... Read |
 | WYNAND SMIT Millennials catch a lot of flak for expecting the world to be their proverbial oyster. Nowhere is this truer than in the workplace. But what if the problem isn't millennials? Read |
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