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| Marketing & Media |
 | 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 |
 | WALTER PIKE A few Mother's Days ago Bic insulted women, then there was Helen Zille, Rivers Church, Spur Steakranches, Chris Hart and Penny Sparrow. Last week it was Outsurance's Father's Day ad. The list of social media disasters goes on and on... Read |
 | Today saw the launch of Jacaranda FM's new breakfast show with Martin Bester and Tumi Morake, which will hit the airwaves on 3 July 2017 between 6 and 9am. Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Nunu Ntshingila, the regional director of Facebook Africa, recently gave some members of the media a tour of its new office in Johannesburg... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Entertainment Lions award ceremony on 21 June 2017, resulting in accolades for SA... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Cannes Entertainment for Music Lions award ceremony on 21 June 2017, and SA can hold its head high... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Product Design Lions award ceremony on 21 June 2017... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Design Lions award ceremony on 21 June 2017, with three SA-associated campaigns bringing home Bronze Lions... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Allan Gray today announced its appointment of King James the Second (II) shortly after leaving its current agency, Ogilvy & Mather Cape Town... Read |
 | The 64th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity hosted the Media Lions award ceremony on 21 June 2017, with a South African campaign shining bright... Read |
 | The Cannes Lions Radio shortlist has been released, with many SA campaigns making the cut... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Forty-two South African designers are currently exhibiting their artisanal goods at the renowned BHV/Marais in Paris... Read |
 | There is still time to enter the Retail, Design and Development Awards (RDDA), hosted by the South African Council of Shopping Centres... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | YOUNOUSS YOUN According to the UNCCD, two-thirds of the African continent is desert or drylands. This land is vital for agriculture and food production, but nearly 75 percent is estimated to be degraded to varying degrees... Read |
 | HOWARD BLIGHT The shortage of skilled people in the sector is growing, while the number of students enrolling in agriculture-related training continues to decrease... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | CHICAGO, US: Ford will import its next-generation Focus sedans into the US market from China, after a highly-publicised move to cancel plans to build the car in Mexico... Read |
 | Polestar, Volvo Cars' performance arm, is to become a new, global, separately-branded, high-performance electric car company... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | DOMINIC PREUSS SA's steel production fell by 3.5% year-on-year in May to 561,000 tonnes, according to the World Steel Association... Read |
 | As part of its focus on Youth Month, the South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP) is participating in career expos to promote architecture as a viable and meaningful career choice for high school learners... Read |
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| Education |
 | Africa Code Week 2017 was officially launched in Mauritius this week. Now in its third year, the event aims to spread coding literacy among African youth, with a target of 500,000 across 35 African countries... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | The 2017 edition of The Sustainability, Enterprise, and Responsibility Awards (SERAS CSR Awards) Africa is now open for entries... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | NICCI BOTHA It seems cruel that drugs that can save the lives of thousands of cancer sufferers are so prohibitively expensive... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Rooibos Limited, which controls 70% of the global rooibos tea market, could face class action by other local processors if it is found guilty of abusing its market dominance, says Nick Altini, a competition lawyer with Baker McKenzie. Read |
 | FREDDIE TERBLANCHE The imposition of anti-dumping duties is the equivalent of building a wall around local industries, to protect jobs and industries against unfair competitive practices from abroad... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | CHARLES SIBOTO We've been through a lot lately, right? Madness seems to reign: numerous terrorist attacks, Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord and the Brexit sequel that is the recent UK snap election... Read |
 | MEAGAN DUCKITT Craig Lucas became an absolute star with his rendition of The Animals' House of the Rising Sun and received four chair turns during his audition for The Voice SA. I chatted to the Cape Town heartthrob, singer and songwriter about his roots, what inspires him and what generally makes him tick. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | RHYS EVANS Transport and logistics companies often find themselves coming under fire when their drivers are involved in reckless driving incidents - particularly when substance abuse is involved... Read |
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| Property |
 | COLLEEN GOKO Sisa Ngebulana will be stepping down as CEO... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | While many see it as a space for tour guides or front-of-house hotel workers, it now encompasses a variety of career options including opportunities for advertising, marketing and design, financial management, IT and tech and more... Read |
 | The first Stellenbosch Business Tourism Indaba recently took place and the fully booked event has been hailed a success... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | A new report, ‘Unicorns, Gazelles & Leapfrogs: Fast-tracking the South African startup ecosystem' identifies some ways that South Africa's hotshot startups can catapult themselves forward... Read |
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| ICT |
 | In total, .africa recorded 981 registrations by trademark owners over the 60 days from 4 April 2017, placing it within the top ten globally... Read |
 | STEVE TZIKAKIS 25 years ago, I went to work for the first time with a hand-held device in my hand: a Casio calculator. I thought I was the man. Today, the new generation of workers often have a better grasp of technology than senior management... Read |
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