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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The power woman behind Mando SA lets us in on how their fixed fee or promo risk management model is revolutionising local brands' sales promotions... Read |
 | ISSUED BY TOPCO MEDIA The awards attracted a flood of entries for this year's 14th annual ceremony, which will take place at Emperors Palace on 17 August, before a host of business and government leaders, along with celebrities... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Mike Stopforth of Cerebra, began the Red & Yellow School's Executive Education workshop on social media by explaining what's happened in the realm in the last ten years to help us understand what might happen in the next ten... Read |
 | DR HISCHAM EL-AGAMY Four key skills that business leaders need that will drive growth across the African continent... Read |
 | Nigeria's postal service will now use the innovative ‘what3words' digital address system to increase the number of homes it can deliver to... Read |
 | The Federal Government of Somalia has successfully restored internet and data services to South and Central Somalia... Read |
 | Over 95% of Burundi's 11 million people lack access to electricity - this week solar-powered ‘light islands' began appearing in dense pedestrian areas and in streets... Read |
 | Heads of State and business leaders to gather once again in Sharm El Sheikh for ‘Africa 2017' to talk African trade and investment... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Mike Stopforth's focus on the second day of Red & Yellow School's executive education social media workshop was on community management and crisis communication in the social space. Here's how customer care fits in... Read |
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| Retail |
 | WENDY KNOWLER People are going mad for loyalty programmes whose cash-back and discount benefits are helping reduce the sting of hard times... Read |
 | John Sanei, global speaker, author, entrepreneur and trend specialist shared his thought-provoking presentation on how businesses can be forever profitable... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | UMBERTO BACCHI A new technique using artificial intelligence to predict where deforestation is most likely to occur could help the DRC preserve its shrinking rainforest and cut carbon emissions, researchers have said... Read |
 | Astral Foods says a second outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian flu virus has been confirmed and isolated at its poultry-breeding facility at the Grootdraai dam near Standerton in Mpumalanga... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | The City of Cape Town will start knocking on doors this week to install devices that restrict supply to water guzzlers... Read |
 | The City of Cape Town has issued a draft revised Municipal Spatial Development Framework which outlines how it intends to transform the city's spatial form... Read |
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| Education |
 | At the second Education Conversations event of 2017, held at the University of Johannesburg Soweto Campus on 25 July, Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Enver Surty, said every South African school would be digitally connected by 2018... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | AngloGold Ashanti has warned that it would post a loss for the interim period due to substantial impairments and a provision for silicosis payments... Read |
 | VANESA CASTÁN BROTO One of the things that has made the biggest difference to Agostinho and his family's life has been improvements in the energy system in Mozambique's capital, Maputo... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | As the country wrapped up its Mandela Month activities in July, the Nelson Mandela Foundation has revealed that the initiative reached 146 countries this year... Read |
 | Dr Mamphela Ramphele believes the Gupta email leaks raise very worrying questions of corporate complicity with corruption... Read |
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| Finance |
 | MICHELLE GUMEDE An estimated 17,000 employees at one financial services firm owe the National Students Financial Aids Scheme (NSFAS) more than R500m... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING Nedbank's impressive growth in interest and fee income was marred by a R1.2bn loss contributed by its pan-African banking associate Ecobank Transnational Incorporated... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Kenya is experiencing an upsurge of cholera cases since the beginning of the year... Read |
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| Legal |
 | President Jacob Zuma signed the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment Act into law on 26 April 2017, avoiding expulsion from the Financial Action Task Force... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | MARTIN MYERS Muriel Marco, a Cape Town resident born in Beunos Aires has a new EP out called Muri. Read |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN This week you can set your imagination free with new film releases; Krotoa; Baby Driver, Girls Trip; Brimstone and Hokusai: beyond the Great Wave. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) recently received the last of the 20 new Metrorail trains which were manufactured in Brazil. It is now preparing to manufacture the remaining 580 trains locally... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON The listing of the first student accommodation group Inkunzi should encourage more companies focusing on student housing to go public... Read |
 | RIAAN GRAHAM In today's crazy technology age, we are seeing many new developments being incorporated into the home... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Cape Town Tourism has embarked on an ongoing engagement project dubbed the eKasi Sessions, framed around engaging communities to explore tourism opportunities... Read |
 | CEMS is collaborating with Africa Tourism Partners to facilitate the participation of African travel and tourism sectors in the CEMS China Tourism Series to take place in November... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | ISSUED BY PROGRESSION The focus of the 2017 Disability Conference, taking place on 19 September at the Southern Sun OR Tambo International Airport, is on mental health and aims to explore its dynamics in the workplace... Read |
 | The issue of power is the main driving force behind the structural inequality of women both at work and at home. This new research comes from the 2017 SABPP report Fairness in Relation to Women at Work published this week... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Marking its 60th anniversary, the Institute of Information Technology Professionals SA (IITPSA) is calling for nominations for its Annual IT Personality and Visionary CIO of the Year Awards... Read |
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