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| Marketing & Media |
 | IDidTht's April SA Film Reel was judged by multi-award-winning Tim Beckerling, creative director at Network BBDO Johannesburg, who selected Jakkals 13 by Ari Kruger at Your Girlfriend for Best of Reel for Direction Craft... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS FCB Africa's creative director, Suhana Gordhan, shares exclusive insights into judging the One Show's direct marketing entries and how even this reflects the organisation's strong drive for better diversity across the industry... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS With the D&AD 2017 winners revealed, I chatted to SA's lucky lot. Lawrence Katz, creative director at DDB, 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 lot. FCB Africa's joint-CCO, Jonathan Deeb, talks about the colour and content of their D&AD pencil box... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The five South African creative educators selected for this year's One Show Young Ones jury let us in on how they were selected... Read |
 | Extension of Mastercard and Rwanda Government agreement will result in a stronger digital payment sector and a cashless society... Read |
 | Notwithstanding the current economic and socio-political uncertainty, numerous companies in Africa are still positive about the growth potential of the continent, said PwC at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Fast-food franchising company Gold Brands has announced the planned entry of UK casual-dining brand Café Rouge into the South African market... Read |
 | Philip Morris International has launched IQOS, a tobacco heating system designed to heat rather than burn tobacco in South Africa... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | DAWIE MAREE Apart from the Western Cape, the gripping drought that hung over the country has finally weathered away - the agricultural sector has more than recovered to a projected record harvest... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Over the past several years, Ford has worked with suppliers to evaluate the viability of using bamboo in vehicle interiors and to make extra strong parts by combining it with plastic... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Group Five's restructuring is progressing, says the group's board. The company is restructuring following its operating loss of R338m in the second six months of 2016... Read |
 | The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is still losing just more than a quarter of all its treated water to leaks but the losses are down from three months ago and rescue measures are starting to take good effect... Read |
 | FRED MCBAGONLURI Energy access remains a huge problem for most people living on the African continent... Read |
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| Education |
 | The Gauteng Provincial Government says it had successfully processed beyond 150,000 applications for the 2018 school year registration, by lunch time, on Wednesday, 3 May 2017... Read |
 | JESSE GREEN South Africa is one of few African countries that offer plenty of job opportunities in various industries. However, these jobs don't come easy, with over a quarter (27%) of these positions stating a degree as a requirement... Read |
 | SANRAL provides crucial training to engineering graduates at its Training Academy in Port Elizabeth, where it assists graduates to gain experience in key training areas... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | For the princely sum of R30bn, Sibanye is now the proud owner of Stillwater Mining Company... Read |
 | In the lush hills of eastern DRC, miners complain that recent US rules against "conflict minerals" have bitten into their meagre income... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | NOMPENDULO NGUBANE Beneficiaries of R2.1bn project believe construction has stopped because of poor quality structures... Read |
 | JAMIE MATROOS A new semiconductor developed by Stanford researchers is as flexible as skin and easily degradable... Read |
 | TONY CARNIE SA is throwing away about R148bn into a big hole every year by dumping almost 90% of its waste stream into municipal landfill dumps.... Read |
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| Finance |
 | Metropolitan has come out tops in the latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index for life insurance... Read |
 | Despite the existing economic doldrums and the undercurrent of political uncertainty, big business leaders are surprisingly confident about Africa's growth prospects... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Implementing and adopting alternative models of provider reimbursement are crucial to the sustainability of the healthcare sector... Read |
 | One out of 10 of patients gets an infection in hospital, and up to 32% of surgical patients get a post-operative infection, more than half of these are antibiotic resistant... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says Operation Corona has led to the reduction of rhino poaching and contraband worth millions of rands being seized... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Local producer and DJ, Sketchy Bongo has been announced as Justin Bieber's supporting act, when the global star performs in South Africa, as part of his World Tour in May 2017... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Auditor-general Kimi Makwetu's office has presented a damning picture of Department of Transport entities including the South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral)... Read |
 | Almost 90% of South African motorists believe compliance with the laws of the road has worsened over the past two years... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Redefine International is unlikely to be the only listed real estate group to pay smaller dividends relative to previous years in the current results season... Read |
 | ADRIAN GOSLETT What is a servitude and how can it impact the value of a property? Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | ROBIN FREDERICKS A panel of travel bloggers and influencers gathered at WTM Africa 2017, to chat about the do's and don'ts of influencer marketing and the use of social media as a destination marketing tool... Read |
 | CARI COETZEE We chat to Nick Sarnadas from Food & Hospitality Africa, the largest pan-African food, drink, and hospitality trade show, to find out what's on the menu this year... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | TAMAR KAHN The head of procurement at the National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS), Graham Motsepe, has been suspended pending the outcome of a disciplinary inquiry initiated by the organisation's board... Read |
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| ICT |
 | SAN FRANCISCO, US: Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday announced Apple is creating a fund to get more people in the US to do "advanced manufacturing," kicking it off with a billion dollars... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON Rolling out tech solutions for the African consumer is a marathon, not a sprint... Read |
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