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| Marketing & Media |
 | The Jupiter Drawing Room (Johannesburg) has founded a 100% black-owned agency, named Black Powder (as in gunpowder) led by shareholders Gugu Madlala, CEO, and Sizwe Kumalo who is the executive director... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS This #InnovationMonth, we go behind the selfie with Jaco Lintvelt, now managing director for iProspect SA and Amnet sub-Saharan Africa, part of the Dentsu Aegis Network South Africa... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY It's surprising how things coincide, isn't it? I was struck a few days ago by a powerful and poignant commercial for eNCA for its TV news... Read |
 | DAMON STAPLETON A couple of days ago I was walking down a windy Queen Street, the main street in Auckland. It is a street every port city has... Read |
 | TONDERAYI MUKEREDZI Between January and June 2017, nine countries globally experienced internet blockades, including three in Africa - Cameroon, Egypt and Ethiopia... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Following the recent launch of Special Effects Media SA, I interviewed CEO Danilo Acquisto who was appointed by the network's global partners to head up the new South African studio, effective 1 August 2017... Read |
 | End of road for low-commitment investments in Africa: South Africa no longer automatic country of choice... Read |
 | The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg is hosting a seminal exhibition of powerful images by renowned African photojournalist, Priya Ramrakha... Read |
 | DAMON STAPLETON Saturday night. My wife, Minky, had informed me we were going to a cabaret with some friends. The cabaret was called The Sound of Falling Stars... Read |
 | ANDY WALKER Twitter's 140-character limit may soon be a thing of the past. The microblogging network announced plans to extend its arbitrary but now-familiar 140-character limit to 280 characters... Read |
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| Retail |
 | ROD SALMON Retail businesses that are not meeting their customers' needs as and when they require, can quickly find themselves sidelined... Read |
 | NICO GOUS Companies that tamper with sell-by labels can be criminally prosecuted and fined... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Castle Lager's Homegrown campaign is geared to paying homage to the beer's locally-produced ingredients as well as farmers who make it possible for Castle Lager to be brewed... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Earlier this year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that the company would reveal its Tesla Semi truck this month. Musk has since announced that the reveal date has tentatively moved to 26 October 2017... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | ROBERT LAING Construction group Aveng narrowly managed to remain solvent in the year to end-June, with current assets of R9.7bn covering current liabilities of R8.9bn... Read |
 | The South African Government and Cuba have extended the SA-Cuba cooperation agreement in the field of water resource management and water supply to 2023... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Aveng is a company on life support, with the group reporting a crippling R6.7bn headline loss for the year to June, as well as the exit of its CEO... Read |
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| Education |
 | SHAN RADCLIFFE Bathabile Mpofu, co-founder and MD of Nkazimulo Applied Sciences, believes that true innovation comes from the access of existing knowledge... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | The rising copper price will see renewed mining interest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | JATIN NATHWANI Recent reports that solar capacity will soon exceed nuclear capacity reveal an important fact... Read |
 | Chivas Venture entails a global search for the next generation of business trailblazers that want to change the world for the better, with $1m up for grabs. The 2018 edition is now open for entries... Read |
 | EMILE UYS This compact green wall cleanses the air of pollutants and acts as a sound barrier for congested urban areas... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS More than 20 years since its inception, the low-tech Hippo Roller continues to have a profound impact on communities facing water insecurity... Read |
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| Finance |
 | South African Revenue Service (Sars) commissioner Tom Moyane seems to be embarking on a fishing expedition... Read |
 | France has assigned magistrates to investigate allegations that banking giant BNP Paribas was complicit in the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | There's been a sharp rise in medical negligence claims against provincial health departments increasing by around 25% per year between 2011 and 2016... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA South Africa can't wait for the final NHI system in 2026 to start delivering on universal health coverage... Read |
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| Legal |
 | LINDA ENSOR DA leader Mmusi Maimane is to ask the UK Serious Fraud Office to investigate the allegedly corrupt dealings of global consultancy firm McKinsey in terms of the country's Bribery Act... Read |
 | GRAEME PALMER SARS has provided further guidance on when pre-trade expenditure may be deducted for the purpose of determining taxable income... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | CrashCarBurn, Sweet Resistance, The Parlotones, Prime Circle, Dirty Moonshine, The Narrow, and the Newtown Knife Gang will perform at The Rocktober Rumble at Carnival City on 28 October 2017. Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS Dan Shout is a respected jazz musician based in Cape Town. His professional career spans almost 20 years. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Wolfgang Mayrhuber has resigned as the chairman of Lufthansa's supervisory board. Consequently, Karl-Ludwig Kley has been selected as the new chairman... Read |
 | Both Japan Airlines (JAL) and Qatar Airways have announced that they are expanding their fleets - the first with four 787-8 Dreamliners and the latter with two Boeing 747-8 Freighters and four 777-300ERs... Read |
 | The first Maritime Education and Training (MET) conference, hosted by the South African International Maritime Institute (SAIMI), will take place from 14-17 November 2017 in Cape Town... Read |
 | According to John Lucas, country manager of DHL Express South Africa, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) need to make supply chain management part of their business plan if they want to succeed... Read |
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| Property |
 | JLL South Africa, has released its Q2 2017 research reports of the industrial markets in Johannesburg and Durban, the office markets in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town and a synopsis of the South African retail market... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS OnShowThisWeek.com is one of the latest entrants to the South African proptech scene. The platform allows home buyers, property investors and tenants to search for on show properties from around the country, removing some of the frustration from the home-buying/home-selling process... Read |
 | PETER LUHANGA Other sites should be prioritised, says Brett Herron... Read |
 | LEE-ANNE BAC Real estate firms are no strangers to cyclical disruption, especially the likes of which the local market is experiencing at the moment, but to prosper in the future, the industry must enhance their capabilities to manage new types of disruptions... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | BRETT TOLLMAN The United Nations has designated this year as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | President Jacob Zuma is still considering the recommendation received from the National Assembly of the names of persons recommended for appointment to the board of the SABC... Read |
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| ICT |
 | South African social media users are at particular risk of being hacked because of their poor digital literacy... Read |
 | The Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa 2017 (FIFAfrica2017) is set for 27-29 September 2017. The event convenes various stakeholders from the internet governance and online rights arenas in Africa... Read |
 | Mauritius Telecom has signed an agreement as an anchor tenant for ultra high-speed internet connectivity on the new IOX Submarine Cable System scheduled to go live in 2019... Read |
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