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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Retroviral's Mike Sharman explains the new Russell Hobbs ‘Art of Living' campaign as a long-term win for Boardmans and a first in SA's luxury appliance category... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT In an exclusive interview between sessions, Bowen and I discussed why creativity and effectiveness go hand in hand and why radio is still very much an effective medium for advertising when done well... Read |
 | ISSUED BY LEVERGY M&C Saatchi PLC has announced a majority stake acquisition of South African sports and entertainment agency Levergy... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Cyber award ceremony on 20 June 2017... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Direct award ceremony on 20 June 2017... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Mobile award ceremony on 20 June 2017, where Native VML secured two Bronze Lions for Huffington Post's Stop the Cycle 360o mobile video... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Creative Data award ceremony on 20 June 2017... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Innovation award ceremony on 20 June 2017... Read |
 | The Cannes Lions Entertainment shortlist has been released, with SA creativity making the cut in three categories... Read |
 | The Cannes Lions Entertainment for Music shortlist has been released, with a single SA campaign making the cut in two categories... Read |
 | The Cannes Lions Design shortlist has been released, with five SA campaigns making the cut... Read |
 | The Cannes Lions Media shortlist has been released, with a single SA campaign making the cut... Read |
 | MainOne launches plan to become largest internet hub in West Africa with Open-Connect Service... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Publicis Groupe's newly appointed CEO, Arthur Sadoun, has forbidden all of its agencies from participating in award shows for the next year, which means it will sit out of the 2018 Cannes Lions Festival... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON Uganda's BarefootLaw, Ghana's Farmerline and Kenya's Kytabu have been named winners of the King Baudouin African Development Prize... Read |
 | Locals are turning to crowdsourced mapping applications adapted for use in Africa that are challenging Google Maps for dominance on the continent... Read |
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| Retail |
 | LINDSAY SAMSON If you're currently in Shanghai, China, you might spot an odd-looking, unstaffed and driverless vehicle roaming the streets... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | The Royal Livingstone Victoria Falls Zambia Hotel team's agricultural and entrepreneurship projects have had far-reaching impacts in terms of sustainability and socio-economic development... Read |
 | The programme is expected to create business opportunities and decent employment for 1,000 young women and men along priority agricultural value chains of various enterprises... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG In light of #YouthMonth, we had a chat with Engen's Paul Leask and Savtec's Hennie Richter about the Engen Engine Restoration Challenge 2017 and how it impacts the youth of South Africa... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | SINDY PETERS Situated in Germiston, Sun Silicates is currently the only company in South Africa that supplies both vermiculite and perlite-based insulating media used in the construction industry... Read |
 | In this TED Talk, architecture critic Justin Davidson laments the overwhelming use of glass that now dominates the world's cities... Read |
 | DRAGAN SAVIC In 1900, just 15% of the world's population lived in cities. Now that proportion is over 50%... Read |
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| Education |
 | The Next Einstein Forum, an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in partnership with Robert Bosch Stiftung, will be launching NEF Africa Science Week, to be held in Pretoria and Limpopo from 26 - 29 June 2017... Read |
 | The English Department at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) has named the nominees for the The University of Johannesburg Prize for South African Writing in English published in 2016... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | The DoE and Eskom again did not provide any clarity to investors in the renewable energy sector as to when the power utility will sign PPAs... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | South Africa and Rwanda share a common concern and responsibility to enhance cooperation in the fields of environmental protection and sustainable development... Read |
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| Finance |
 | Insurer Hollard planned "significant acquisitions" on the continent in the next few years... Read |
 | The Financial Planning Institute of Southern Africa (FPI) has recently been approved by the South Africa Revenue Services (Sars) as a recognised controlling body (RCB)... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING Credit rating agency Fitch says the new Mining Charter showed that its decision to cut SA's sovereign credit rating to junk in April was correct... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | ROLAND BUYS The demarcation regulations clearly distinguish between medical insurance products and medical aid schemes... Read |
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| Legal |
 | GENEVIEVE QUINTAL A lawyer for SAA chairwoman Dudu Myeni, who stood accused of misrepresenting a board decision about the purchase of 10 aircraft from Airbus in 2013, said on Monday she had "innocently made a mistake" in communications with then public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba... Read |
 | The Reserve Bank has been advised to bring urgent review proceedings to court to have the remedial action announced by Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane set aside... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | RUTH COOPER Winter really is the best time to visit our myriad of amazing wine farms in my opinion, cashing in on some great winter specials is an added bonus. The acclaimed Terroir at Kleine Zalze in Stellenbosch just launched their new winter menu and it's a goodie. Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS Belinda Davids is the lead singer in The Greatest Love of All - The Whitney Houston Show, which starts today, 21 June at Artscape Theatre in Cape Town and runs until Sunday, 16 July 2017. We caught up with her during rehearsals last week. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | EMMANUEL AINEBYOONA In the next two years, the fuel pump prices will substantially come down if the $94m (Shs338b) water transport project launched by president Museveni last week becomes a reality... Read |
 | Boeing announced on Monday what it claims will be the most efficient jet yet in the highly competitive civil aviation market as it tries to claw back market share from rival Airbus... Read |
 | Fastjet has been awarded the 'Best African Low-Cost Airline' title at the World Airline Awards, presented by Skytrax, at the Paris Air Show in France... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Hyprop Investments, the blue chip R30bn specialist shopping centre owner is facing pressure following the tenant failure of department store chain Stuttafords at three of its malls and the possible closure of some of Edcon's retail outlets. Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Cape Town Tourism team member Roxanne Lombard has been named as one of the 30 Future Leaders of Destination Marketing globally - the first honoree in Africa to receive this prestigious accolade... Read |
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| ICT |
 | SMS+ is a next-generation SMS (short message service) which, reportedly, has the potential to replace the two-decade-old USSD (unstructured supplementary data service)... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG NEWSWATCH: Today, Wednesday, 21 June 2017, South Africans were encouraged to join the #SocialMediaBlackout campaign... Read |
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