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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS We've heard from the advertisers, producers and other behind-the-scenes creatives responsible for SA's success at Cannes Lions 2017 - now it's time to hear the marketers' voice. First up is Melanie Campbell, head of marketing at Pernod Ricard SA... Read |
 | CHRIS BREWER So Prisa (the Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa) is calling for regulation of the PR industry following the Bell Pottinger fiasco... Read |
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| Retail |
 | GIULIETTA TALEVI Swedish fashion giant H&M is set to open a 4,600m, two-level temple to shopping in Canal Walk... Read |
 | Long4Life, the investment holding company owned by businessman Brian Joffe, has concluded a Share Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of the Sorbet Group... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | CARI COETZEE We chat to Eco-Logic Award winner, Reliance Compost's founder and director about organic compost, growing green minds and ensuring a healthy world for future generations... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | HENRIE GEYSER The latest Kia Picanto has moved up several notches from the previous model in terms of looks, cabin refinement, practicality, safety and ride quality... Read |
 | ABDULLATEEF ALIYU Uber on Friday sealed pact with Germaine Auto Centre - a Nigerian based auto service and maintenance company - to provide maintenance services to its driver partners... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | SINDY PETERS A core focus in the Corobrik CSI strategy is upskilling members of the communities in which it operates... Read |
 | MARK ALLIX The knives are out in SA's metals and engineering sector... Read |
 | DIAN SPEAR Populations in cities are growing, putting pressure on resources like water... Read |
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| Education |
 | With intimidating competition and an ever-evolving economy, it is important to refresh and update skills and knowledge to progress in one's career, which is often achieved through adding tertiary qualifications... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | AngloGold Ashanti's subsidiaries in Tanzania have initiated arbitration to protect their interests in case the government changes the terms of their longstanding agreement... Read |
 | The mining minister has agreed not to implement the new Mining Charter, pending the outcome of an urgent interdict... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SINDY PETERS The judges had a tough time of it in selecting the winning duo in this year's Relate Trust beading challenge, but DJ Sox and Mama Elphia Ngalo eventually came out tops... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Ramona Kasavan is the founder of social enterprise Mimi Women - an organisation that aims to help keep South African girls in school by providing sanitary pads in rural parts of South Africa. It also empowers unemployed women by equipping them with entrepreneurial skills via its Empower Me programme. Read |
 | SINDY PETERS The Tiger Brands Foundation recently served its 50-millionth meal... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS To end off its recent Winter Wish programme, the Smile 90.4FM team went to meet with the children of The Learning Vine Tutor Centre, delivering boxes of stationery and toys to the value of R10,000... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Over the six years since its inception, KFC's Add Hope initiative has managed to raise R387m, partnering with 137 beneficiary organisations to feed over 120,000 children across South Africa... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Nedbank recently launched a new Schools Healthy Lifestyle Programme, offered in partnership with Colgate, Futurelife, the ICRD Group Foundation and KwaZulu-Natal Departments of Education and Health... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Carmién Tea, through its social upliftment arm The Mouton Foundation, has contributed R17m towards community upliftment over the past decade... Read |
 | SELINA SUTTON You can't deny the popularity of emoji, especially as 17 July is World Emoji Day... Read |
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| Legal |
 | KHULEKANI MAGUBANE The government is looking for new ways to regulate the effects of mining activity on SA's scarce water resources.. Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | In support of the Vrede Foundation, ten of South Africa's local rock legends will unite as one to become Blood Brothers on 30 September 2017 in the battle against cancer at The Good Luck Bar in Johannesburg. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Transport makes up 57% of South Africa's logistics costs, while the global average is 40%. Part of the reason for this is the long distances between Durban and Johannesburg; and Cape Town and Johannesburg... Read |
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| Property |
 | Pam Golding Properties' International Division has partnered with global investment-migration firm Henley & Partners to provide buyers seeking international property assets with a view to acquiring dual residence or citizenship, an end-to-end service... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Euromonitor International has released a new travel report focused on Johannesburg as a travel hub for international tourists... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Although very common across all types of industries and jobs, several studies have demonstrated that low back disorder rates are particularly prevalent in certain types of industries and within certain occupations... Read |
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| ICT |
 | CHARLES MBURUGU It is a fact that WordPress is the world's most popular content management system. More than 70 million websites run on this platform, with the number increasing on a daily basis... Read |
 | The Western Province Blood Transfusion Service (WPBTS) has launched an app called WP Blood to increase participation in blood donation... Read |
 | Vox is calling all wireless internet service providers (WISPS) to partner with it in an aim to enhance connectivity in towns where broadband coverage is limited, or where ADSL is old... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG At the recent Amazon Web Services summit, I had the chance to chat to Kabelo Makwane, managing director for Cloud First business at Accenture in sub-Saharan Africa about the Accenture Cloud Platform... Read |
 | COLIN THORNTON It's hard to keep track of the cybercriminal world as it seems these dark web creatures are constantly trying to outwit, outlast, and outplay each other with their destructive viruses... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON Nigerian startup, techAboki, has launched an on-demand gadget repair service aimed at connecting people needing gadget repair services with trusted, reliable and professional technicians in their locality... Read |
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