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| Marketing & Media |
 | JESSICA TENNANT While the world was focusing on Millennials and Baby Boomers, Gen X were quietly reinventing what it means to be an adult today... Read |
 | JOHN LAURENCE You really have to be operating in the dark ages of marketing if you haven't cottoned on to the importance of emotion in marketing communication... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS I spoke to some of the people responsible for SA's recent One Show-winning work, behind the scenes. Next up is Ryan McManus of Native VML... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Based on Viacom's extensive research on Generation X, how should brands, advertisers, marketers and media companies alike re-evaluate the way they represent this group of consumers? Read |
 | NICHOLAS KÜHNE Whether you like it or not, the end is nigh for graphic designers... Read |
 | Empowering and preparing the youth in Africa for the future: we need to drive a youth-centred information society, says Nokia... Read |
 | Kwesé TV has signed distribution agreements with Africa's leading mobile network operators in a significant development for the broadcaster which seeks to disrupt the industry by giving more viewers access to premium content through its innovative multi-platform business model... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS I spoke to some of the people responsible for SA's recent One Show-winning work, behind the scenes. Next up is 7Films... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG We chat to Philip and Malan Joubert, founders of Offer Zen as well as a number of noteworthy apps such as Snap Scan, Pondering Panda, and Apps Against Ebola... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS I spoke to some of the people responsible for SA's recent One Show-winning work, behind the scenes. Next up is Myles McDonald of Hey Papa Legend... Read |
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| Retail |
 | The 2017 South African Council of Shopping Centres' (SACSC) Research Conference highlighted the state of the South African economy, the evolution of technology... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING Acquisitive food producer Rhodes appears to have survived the drought better than its larger rivals, reporting both turnover and profit growth... Read |
 | To raise awareness of World Hunger Day on Sunday 28 May 2017, the Shoprite Group will give community projects it supports access to local markets... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | RIAAN MARAIS Sundays River Valley citrus farmers are set to lose up to R600m as half of their navel production has been lost due to abnormal weather patterns... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | HENRIE GEYSER Volkswagen has rejuvenated its popular Golf range with some sporty makeup and fancy technology and a tot of extra vooma under the bonnet of the flagship GTI. Read |
 | Ford Motor Company has appointed Jim Hackett as president and CEO, succeeding Mark Fields who has elected to retire from Ford after a 28-year career with the company... Read |
 | MIKE WHITFIELD Autonomous driving technology is developing at a rapid pace. Business Insider's research platform has forecast that there will be around 10 million cars with various self-driving features on the road in the UK by 2020... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | The PPC Imaginarium Awards announced its overall winner, category winners and runners-up at a gala event hosted in May at the UJ Art Gallery in Johannesburg. Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan - an MP and a member of the public enterprises committee - said on Tuesday, 23 May, members of the Eskom board "have let SA down more often than not", and the time might have arrived for them to resign or be dismissed... Read |
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| Education |
 | Earlier this week, the Zenex Foundation and the Western Cape Dept of Education launched a high school project focused on improving maths, science and English at 10 disadvantaged schools... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | WAYNE LINDECKE With six of the top 10 global oil and gas discoveries in 2013 made in Africa, it would seem logical that this would be the answer to the continent's power crisis... Read |
 | NATASHA MARRIAN The ANC has described presentations by Eskom and by Public Enterprise Minister Lynne Brown to Parliament on Tuesday as "incoherent", disingenuous and amounting "to perjury"... Read |
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| Finance |
 | LINDA ENSOR Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba says the two most important interventions the government can use to re-ignite growth are providing policy certainty and stabilising SOCs... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Sama has called on the department of education to act swiftly in allegations of fraud and corruption at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine at UKZN... Read |
 | Ethiopia's Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has become the first African to take up the role of director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO)... Read |
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| Legal |
 | PATRICIA WILLIAMS At the 2016 Tax Indaba, Sars Commissioner Tom Moyane called for ‘tax morality'... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR After launching about six months ago, carving out a niche in the premium gin market, Pienaar & Son are diversifying their offering with Waskis - their take on typical vodka. Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS The 23rd installment of the South African Music Awards (SAMA) will be held at the Sun City Superbowl this weekend 26th (non TV broadcast event) and Saturday, 27 May 2017, when the event will be televised on SABC1 from 20:00. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Minister of transport, Joe Maswanganyi made a statement at the announcement of the ICAO 2017 preliminary audit results, held at OR Tambo International Airport... Read |
 | MATHIAS RINGA A passenger train scheduled to operate on the standard gauge railway has the capacity to ferry 1,200 passengers per trip, according to Kenya Railways... Read |
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| Property |
 | By capitalising on its local retail property portfolio, Rebosis Property Fund is gearing up for growth in the Centurion retail market... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON More residential tenants are failing to pay their rent on time, highlighting the economic pressure on the South African consumer, say experts... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | The hotel will be part of the Amber Resort complex expected to be the largest mixed-use development in Africa occupying approximately 1,750 hectares of pristine Indian Ocean coastline in the northeast of the island... Read |
 | FEDHASA CEO, Tshifhiwa Tshivhengwa, expressed concern regarding Airbnb's "non-compliance" and called on the government to intervene in order to ensure the online platform becomes industry compliant... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | The Gauteng Health Department has once more warned community members of bogus job adverts that uses the department's name and fraudulently invite people to apply for vacancies at different health facilities... Read |
 | CLAUDI MAILOVICH Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba's chief of staff's salary has been increased by R500,000 per annum... Read |
 | Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown says she will abide by the court's decision on the reappointment of Brian Molefe as the Group Chief Executive of Eskom... Read |
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| ICT |
 | JAMES STANBRIDGE By 2020, nine out of ten organisations will utilise hybrid cloud infrastructure, according to Gartner[1]. 2017 is set to be a tipping point for IaaS adoption... Read |
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