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| Marketing & Media |
 | LOUISE MARSLAND How an organisation can define, refine and design a company culture that attracts the best talent and creates the best work... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The second part of this year's Loeries young creative award winning duo, Thabang ‘TipiDang' Manyelo shares his plans to 'Netflix the ad industry' and why winning this much-longed-for award is just the starter's gun, not the finish line... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Ogilvy Johannesburg did particularly well at the Loeries this year, as runner up (in second place) to the Agency of the Year with 17 awards, the highlight being a Grand Prix in the Radio Station Commercials category for its KFC Double Down Sad Man Meal campaign... Read |
 | GENEVIEVE QUINTAL UK PR Firm Bell Pottinger's account team working for the Gupta-owned Oakbay was primarily responsible for devising the strategy behind the economic emancipation campaign, known in SA as the "white monopoly capital" campaign... Read |
 | KYLE COWAN In a unanimous decision by a British PR regulatory body, the controversial UK public relations firm Bell Pottinger has been struck a fatal blow... Read |
 | Google Australia's creative development team hosted Damon Stapleton, chief creative officer at DDB New Zealand in a special "take away" addition of Hot Heads from Cannes... Read |
 | REBECCA DAVIS Monday's reveal of the results of an independent review commissioned by Bell Pottinger into its work on the Gupta account was quickly overshadowed by the announcement that the PR industry regulator has handed down the harshest possible sanction to the firm... Read |
 | PETER VIEIRA Can your business thrive in Africa in 2017? Here's what to bear in mind when planning to expand into the continent... Read |
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| Retail |
 | KARL GERNETZKY Pioneer Foods Group's share price plummeted almost 7% on Friday, after the company announced CEO Phil Roux will step down... Read |
 | Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa (CCBSA) has added 50 community entrepreneurs to its network of local distribution partners since the beginning of the year... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | THAPELO MOLELEKI Agriculture and youth are a compatible pair, particularly in the African context. It has the remarkable potential to empower what will be the youngest and biggest workforce in the world by 2040... Read |
 | Beautiful News has released a short-film on Robert Richards who is turning kraalbos, a plant that is poisonous to unsuspecting animals when eaten, into soap. Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Aggregated sales data from the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa) reflect a continuing recovery in South Africa's new vehicle market... Read |
 | HENRIE GEYSER Renault has face-lifted its popular compact cross-over Captur range with extra dabs of cosmetics, fancy techno-wizardry and the introduction of a R20,000-cheaper entry level Blaze model... Read |
 | MELISSA COHEN Ford SA is treading hot water as it recalls one of its luxury vehicles for the third time. For all Ford Kuga owners, the car seems to not be as safe as one would think... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | MARK ALLIX AfriSam says it has submitted a revised merger proposal to PPC while Canada's Fairfax Africa Investments has a firm intention to buy R2bn of ordinary shares in PPC... Read |
 | DHL Express recently unveiled its first green facility in sub-Saharan Africa, located in Bryanston, Johannesburg. The company also announced the roll-out of further green upgrades to additional sites... Read |
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| Education |
 | JON FOSTER-PEDLEY Some South African businesses have made design thinking a cornerstone of their success, such as banks and corporates, which by using these techniques, are able to develop prototypes of their best-known products in just a few days... Read |
 | Boys are no better at math than girls are, according to Smartick, an online math learning methodology and practice app, that is used to solve between 300,000 and 400,000 mathematical problems each day, in 70 different countries... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Featuring a high-level line-up of women in power, Future Energy Uganda opens at the Serena Hotel in Kampala on 13 September 2017... Read |
 | South Africa and Russia on Monday signed an agreement that will see about $400m invested in oil and gas development... Read |
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| Entrepreneurship |
 | VIRESH HARDUTH Entrepreneurship is a difficult, yet rewarding path to follow. Some challenges you might face as a small business owner include cash flow problems, difficulty in attracting top talent and finding time to innovate... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | Non-profit Cupcakes of HOPE, taking on the Guinness World Record, is preparing to build the tallest stack of cupcakes the world has ever seen... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | SUSAN WILLIAMS, MICHÈLE RAMSAY The fact that the condition is common in some populations and uncommon in others suggests that it's inherited and comes about as a result of a variation in the genes. If these were identified... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | This year, the Cape Town Fringe, which takes place on 21 September introduces a revised format with a fresh new focus. Read |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN When filmmakers searched for locations to shoot the highly anticipated film of Stephen King's celebrated The Dark Tower book series, they found a perfect home in South Africa. Read |
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| Property |
 | According to the latest Home Buyers and Sellers Generational Trends report released by the National Association of Realtors, millennials are going back to the suburbs... Read |
 | Texton Property Fund has reported a 10% rise in net property income to R440.8m in the year to end-June from a year-ago... Read |
 | HUGO MACHIN The decline of malls in the US has caused concern among real estate investors and raises the question of what this might mean for shopping centres in the UK and Europe... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | The demise of the travel agent has been a favourite topic in media articles over the past decade. Today's headlines, however, prompts for survival and adaptation... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | DONNA RACHELSON If the country is to meet the National Development Plan's (NDP) target of creating 11 million jobs by 2030, then it needs to encourage entrepreneurship amongst women... Read |
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| ICT |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG IFA 2017, with its 1,805 technology exhibitors, is in full swing until Thursday, 6 September 2017 at the Berlin Expo Center. This year's tech trade show introduced some pretty cool inventions and technologies to the public... Read |
 | AppsAfrica has announced the last call for nominations to this year's AppsAfrica Innovation Awards, which recognise the best mobile and tech innovations from across Africa... Read |
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