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| Marketing & Media |
 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM While all things Cannes are still fresh on our minds, Bizcommunity and Cinemark look forward to welcoming you to our post-Cannes sessions for the third year in a row... Read |
 | ANDRE FOURIE Thanks to the unprecedented success of on-demand services such as Uber and Airbnb, more companies are looking at ways of controlling costs and ensuring quality using the on-demand model... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON Senegalese startup Weebi, which operates a digital solution helping shopkeepers with bookkeeping, has expanded to Burkina Faso, Guinea, Gabon, Angola and Ethiopia, since launching last October... Read |
 | Kenyan mobile operator, Safaricom is expected to undergo the third upgrade in 10 years of M-Pesa... Read |
 | Despite worldwide changes, multinationals focus on mobile workforces to support career growth and ensure global competitiveness... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT This week is Holly Meadows' first as editor of Cosmopolitan South Africa. She succeeds Kerrie Simon-Lawrence, who is returning to Australia. Read |
 | African publications featured among the winners of the 400 global publications which entered the 2017 Tabbie awards for business magazine excellence... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS This week, we go behind the selfie with Nicole Solarsh Glickman, creative group head at House of Brave... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY ...but you do need one if your attitude is “let them eat cake.” It's winter time and in winter many a young man's fancy (and that of slightly more mature ones like me) turns not to love, but to food... Read |
 | The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) today made an urgent announcement that the 2017 Apex events will be hosted at the Sandton Convention Centre and not at The Galleria as initially communicated... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS SA's craft and production industry proved itself at the annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity. Here, Sunu Gonera of Egg Films shares his views from behind the scenes... Read |
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| Retail |
 | South African franchisee, Siyaghopa Trading Group, will be opening its first Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen quick service restaurant in Johannesburg... Read |
 | FUNDISIWE MASEKO With mobile penetration reaching close to 70% on the continent, technology will continue to open doors and provide new opportunities for e-commerce in Africa... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Diageo SA and Johnnie Walker has partnered with the DAFF, to sponsor one of the Special Awards categories in the annual #YAFF Awards which saw an entrepreneur at Sivulamasango Co-operative winning R50,000 in prize money... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Autonomous Urban Drive is prototype technology engineered in Britain as part of the £20m UK Autodrive research and development project... Read |
 | NEW YORK, US: Tesla's first lower-priced Model 3 will come off the assembly line Friday, two weeks early, CEO Elon Musk announced Monday... Read |
 | New-vehicle sales showed welcome resilience in June, with a total industry sales figure of 45,369 vehicles -
representing year-on-year growth of 0.9%... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | ROBERT LAING Sephaku, which owns 36% of the South African operations of Nigerian cement maker Dangote and 100% concrete supplier Metier, managed to grow its profit on lower revenue in the year to end-March... Read |
 | LUCY RODINA Cape Town is facing one of its worst droughts in over a century... Read |
 | While there has been an increase in the number of people registering their own construction companies in the hope of accessing procurement opportunities, most of the newly registered companies are yet to tender for such opportunities... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | EDWIN OKOTH Kenya's energy and petroleum secretary Charles Keter announced that the government had suspended the early oil export plan that was to start this month... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | The City of Cape Town has implemented Level 4b water restrictions with effect from July 2017 as dam levels remain critically low and reserves need to be built up during winter for the expected harsh summer months ahead... Read |
 | Since 2015, the number of hungry people in the world has increased... Read |
 | NIKLAS HÖHNE, ANDREW MARQUARD, WILLIAM WILLS On July 7, G20 leaders will gather in Hamburg for their annual meeting. One likely outcome: another clash over climate change between the host government, Germany, and United States president Donald Trump... Read |
 | “Each urban development affects not only those that invest in it or occupy the buildings and places within it, but the wider community... Read |
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| Finance |
 | ISSUED BY UCT GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS The recent resignation of Eskom board chairperson and non-executive director, Ben Ngubane, has once again shone a spotlight, not only on governance at the embattled power utility, but also on the role board members and directors play in their respective positions... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Sixteen essential cancer treatment medications, including chemotherapies, are now available in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania, thanks to a new market access agreement... Read |
 | MIKE SETTAS The two fundamental issues with the new white paper on NHI are a single payer fund and the nationalisation of private healthcare without compensation... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Another round of negotiations is expected to get underway on Monday between the Department of Home Affairs and labour unions... Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR The legal and forensic investigations of allegations against former Eskom interim CE Matshela Koko have been completed and the board is considering the report... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | MARTIN MYERS Maya Elizabeth Spector is a rising talent in the South African music and theatre world. Coming from a culturally diverse, musical family, she grew up in Japan, Swaziland, America and South Africa. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Ride-hailing company Careem has joined forces with Orange Business Services to provide network and contact centre services as it continues expansion into other regions... Read |
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| Property |
 | ADRIAN GOSLETT At first glance, the question seems to be simple to answer - of course, property is an asset. However, there is more to it than initially meets the eye... Read |
 | It is important to know your rights and understand the conditions around use in sectional title property, says Paul French, commercial director for Coastal Property Management Services... Read |
 | In a R1.45bn vendor-funded transaction, Redefine Properties has sold its 22.8% stake in Delta Properties to a women-led BEE consortium... Read |
 | Standard Bank recently launched two house price indices in order to provide key insights into regional and provincial market trends across South Africa... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Vukile Property Fund (Vukile) has fulfilled the promise it made to the market that it would diversify when it announced earlier this week that it had acquired a portfolio of retail properties in Spain... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | CARI COETZEE It was only a matter of time before an online booking platform dedicated to business travel saw the light of day in SA. We got word of the new business-ready accommodation booking platform, WorkTripper and decided to put it to the test... Read |
 | With the launch of a new wine tourism portal, a one-stop searchable wine tourism gateway to the Winelands, the area and its tourism offering are now just a click away... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA The acceleration of digital technology is forcing companies in every market sector to adapt to change in a hundred different ways. There is not a single job type unnaffected... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Startupbootcamp Cape Town is issuing a final call to startups in Africa to apply to participate in the first ever Africa-based programme. The deadline for online applications is 9 July 2017... Read |
 | TAIPEI, Taiwan: Apple opened its first store in Taiwan on Saturday with more than a thousand shoppers flocking to the site located in the island's landmark skyscraper and tallest building, Taipei 101... Read |
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