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| Marketing & Media |
 | Agencies shine at African Cristal Festival 2017, held over the weekend, with Ogilvy Africa named Best Agency on the continent... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The 38th Samra conference got underway with a strong focus on the value of marketing research and whether we should perhaps reframe it as an insights industry... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Elna Pretorius, co-founder of Columinate touched on the topics of memes and how to make marketing research sexy again... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The research industry was 'the man' over the last 70 years. Now, it is lying on its death bed. Do you have the courage to resuscitate it? Bérengère Parouty and Heather Tluczek of Kantar TNS unpacked this topic in a research paper presentation at Samra 2017 on how market research agencies will remain relevant in the future: Through symbiosis, evolution or extinction... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS In the second punch presentation of the day, Kate Niemöller of IQ Business spoke eloquently on the topic of fact-phobia vs credible data: The war between truth and propaganda in one of the most interesting sessions of the first day of Samra's 2017 conference... Read |
 | Tanzanian-based agency, Aggrey & Clifford, has been recognised as one of the world's leading independent agencies... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS, ISSUED BY HOWARD AUDIO I spoke to some of the people responsible for SA's recent One Show-winning work, behind the scenes. Next up is Adam Howard, owner of Howard Audio... Read |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR The 2017 Prism Awards took place at a ceremony at The Park House of Events on 6 May 2017 and I chatted to some of the gold winners... Read |
 | A new video streaming service has launched in South Africa, with intentions to roll out throughout the African continent... Read |
 | Malawi will become the first country in the world to use the Open Trial smartphone and tablet application to promote justice... Read |
 | ANNA BRUCE-LOCKHART According to the Africa Competitiveness Report 2017, African leaders have a choice to effect structural reforms that improve people's livelihoods... Read |
 | STHE SHABANGU The dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is here. Sthe Shabangu asks whether we are doing enough to ensure Africa is ready... Read |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR Speakers at the CMO2020 event debated the role and relevance of marketers in a data-driven, technological world, leading up to 2020... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Following on its 2015 Tastemakers campaign, Weylandts has launched its new 2017 advertising campaign - 'Taste never goes out of style'... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING South African retail sales rebounded in March, but not enough to save a quarterly decline that may contribute to the country falling into a technical recession... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | MasterCard Foundation is partnering with MSU for the AgriFood Youth Opportunity Lab which will support 15,000 young people in Nigeria and Tanzania to access employment and entrepreneurship opportunities... Read |
 | SA's respected agri-talk show, Nation in Conversation, once again took centre stage at the Nampo Harvest Day, where Carte Blanche host, Derek Watts, hosted a roundtable discussion on the subject of Agriculture - A Positive Outlook... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG Nampo is not a word unfamiliar to me. As a student at NWU, my friends and I used to frequent this (then not-so-big) agri festival almost every year, funnily enough.... Read |
 | HENRIE GEYSER The top-selling Mazda CX-5 range has been richly spruced up with sportier looks, upgraded safety features, a much smoother ride, richly refurbished living quarters... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG General Motors has announced that it is transforming its business globally. For SA, this means the phasing out of the manufacturing and sales of Chevrolet vehicles... [video] Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | SEÁN MFUNDZA The return of Brian Molefe as CEO of South Africa's largest state owned enterprise, the power utility Eskom, has caused outrage... Read |
 | ALICESTINE OCTOBER Amidst what has been labelled the worst drought in Cape Town in 100 years, a city official told delegates at the 2017 African Utility Week conference that there was no way they could reasonably have anticipated the severity of it... Read |
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| Education |
 | Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has disputed rumours that he is planning to privatise or hand over the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) to the bank... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | NICCI BOTHA Regional collaboration is key to securing energy supply and minimising costs, but regional integration in a mutually beneficial manner remains a challenge, said Ben Martins, deputy minister of state enterprises. Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SINDY PETERS Justin Friedman, founder of For the Love of Water (FLOW), chaired and opened the keynote session on the second day of the 2017 African Utility Week... Read |
 | Businesses that contribute to socioeconomic development can dramatically outperform... Read |
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| Finance |
 | GRAEME PALMER The Davis Tax Committee (DTC) has called for written submissions by 31 May 2017 on the desirability and feasibility of wealth taxes for South Africa... Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR Treasury has finalised its interviews of candidates for the position of director-general and hopes to finalise the appointment process by end of June... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Many maternal deaths in low-resource areas of Africa are caused by severe bleeding during childbirth... Read |
 | Mylan SA and Meridian Medical Technologies have issued an urgent recall of their EpiPen injector saying there was a defect with the device... Read |
 | Accident and emergency units in England were nearly back to normal after the last restrictions put in place following the global cyberattack were lifted... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | MARTIN MYERS Monark are hot right now with a new self-titled album on the way and a great 1st single called, Broken busy charting nationwide. Read |
 | 947 and Trace Urban welcomes the 6th annual Parklife Gourmet Food and Music Festival in Johannesburg on Saturday, 10 June as Joburg's favourite festival returns to Marks Park in Emmarentia... Read |
 | The fourteenth annual Wacky Wine Weekend is happening from 1-4 June 2017 and you can create your own unique festival experience with this list of ten things you can do at the event... Read |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN Alien: Covenant, The Founder, The Resurrection Of Gavin Stone, Ozzy and Eugene Onegin open on the big screen this weekend. Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Recently listed Gemgrow Properties, a specialist high-yielding, high-growth real estate investment trust, is set to make its maiden transaction by buying a retail portfolio in Makhado... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Industrial property may have a reputation of being the ugly cousin in the real estate sector, but for more than a year it has outperformed retail and offices... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Festival and event organisers will be able to track the economic impact of their events... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The annual Travel Indaba has rebranded to Africa's Travel Indaba, reflecting its evolution from a locally-orientated event to one that is representative of the African continent... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | ARLENE LEGGAT There has been payroll confusion, since the Minister of Labour announced on 17 March an amendment to the ‘scale of benefits' described in the Unemployment Insurance Act 2001, which had to be implemented from 1 April 2017... Read |
 | IZA GREK No doubt, technology has changed the way we work and its capacity to take over the function of the human being is starkly felt, with many deeply concerned about their future in the workplace... Read |
 | Gauteng Premier David Makhura says the Tshepo 500,000 programme will now be known as Tshepo One Million, as the provincial government has doubled its target set for 2019... Read |
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| ICT |
 | In what is the largest transaction Vodacom has done to date, the mobile telecoms group will buy most of its parent, Vodafone's, interest in Kenya's Safaricom in a share-swap deal valued at R35bn... Read |
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