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| Marketing & Media |
 | GARIKAI NHONGO Bizcommunity.Africa columnist, Garikai Nhongo, on how to best use storytelling in advertising... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Key insights from the first sessions of Business of Design - Mduduzi Simelane shares how to enhance the continent's filmmakers, while Nicola Cooper shares a snapshot of today's African consumer. It's probably not who your brand is targeting... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Business of Design 2017 targeted the ultimate 21st century business dream - creating an engaging brand experience with Studio H and Thingking, with The Kiffness sharing how he goes viral on social media - not quite as easy as 1,2,3,4... Read |
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| Retail |
 | UberEats and Food Lover's Market have teamed up to get shoppers back into their kitchen by giving them convenient access to recipe ingredients on demand... Read |
 | NICO GOUS Food is getting cheaper - but you probably haven't noticed. Data released on Wednesday show prices of vegetables, oils, fats, bread, cereals, fruit and fuel have fallen... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Subject to obtaining the outstanding regulatory approvals, ownership of Sovereign Foods will pass to Bidco who will acquire 100% of the Sovereign shares in issue... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Volvo Trucks has introduced Euro 6-compliant heavy-duty trucks running on liquefied natural gas or biogas. Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | SINDY PETERS Founded in 2007 by Bruce Kerswill, the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) turns 10 this year... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Speaking at the GBCSA's 10th annual Green Building Convention, the executive mayor of Cape Town Patricia de Lille called on industry players to implement their projects while ensuring resilience and sustainability. Read |
 | ISHWAR K. PURI Engineers are good at solving problems. We make bridges safer, computers faster and engines more efficient. Today, the profession is working on an especially thorny problem: gender equity in higher education... Read |
 | MARK ALLIX The naysayers are starting to crawl out of the woodwork over a proposed pan-African merger between AfriSam, Fairfax Africa Investments and PPC... Read |
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| Education |
 | The South African Institute of Professional Accountants (SAIPA) named Juanè Cronje, from Die Hoërskool DF Malan in the Western Cape, the winner of the 2017 annual National Accounting Olympiad at a Gala Awards evening held in Johannesburg on 10 October... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | South Africa's debt could increase considerably because of the nuclear deal, even before it happens... Read |
 | It stands to reason that the next wave of growth within the mining sector will come from technology... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | Chad is to boost protection for a key haven for endangered wildlife in the south of the country under an agreement with a conservation group... Read |
 | Marking the fifth anniversary of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the European Union co-hosted a high-level event noting that more needs to be done in land tenure governance... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | The current method of HIV/ Aids detection has a 50% false positive detection rate... Read |
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| Legal |
 | South Africa is in the process of finalising a set of regulations that will introduce further restrictions and requirements to regulate the domestic trade in rhino horn... Read |
 | National Treasury and the Financial Services Board (FSB) is calling for public comments on the Schedules 1 and 3 of the Insurance Bill... Read |
 | A draft Gas Amendment Bill will be tabled in Cabinet as South Africa powers on to enter the global gas market, Energy Minister Mamoloko Kubayi said on Tuesday, 10 October 2017... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | The winners of the 2017 Veritas Awards were announced at a gala dinner held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town... Read |
 | MARTIN MYERS Craig Hinds is the singer and leader of the seminal acoustic rock band Watershed. When the band's debut single Indigo Girl surged up South Africa's charts back in 2000, it was hard to predict just how successful the group would be, but over a decade after the release of that first album, Watershed is striding ahead. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | As part of this year's Transport Month (OTM) campaign activities, the OR Tambo International Transport Indaba kicked off yesterday, Wednesday, 11 October 2017 and will run until Friday, 13 October 2017... Read |
 | Earlier this week, Councillor Brett Herron addressed the media about the City of Cape Town's intention to take over management of commuter rail in Cape Town... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Echo Polska Properties is doubling its retail assets with the €692.1m (R11.1bn) acquisition of a portfolio of 12 properties... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Emira Property Fund is confident that its first asset conversion of a property from office to residential will succeed and that this will prompt the company to complete more value-enhancing property conversions... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Lufthansa Group has partnered with Winding Tree which has dedicated itself to reorganising travel distribution. With a decentralised B2B marketplace system powering blockchain-based travel booking transactions... Read |
 | The World Travel Awards Africa Gala Ceremony 2017 saw Rwanda take top honours as Africa's leading destination... Read |
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| ICT |
 | AfricArena, described as the largest tech innovation conference for startups and investors hosted on African soil, will take place from 6-7 November 2017 at the Century City Conference Centre... Read |
 | Vodafone's fifth annual IoT Barometer Report reveals South Africans' optimism over possible business outcomes from IoT... Read |
 | RONALD RAVEL The case for introducing machine-to-machine (M2M) technology into the workplace is gaining in strength, with solutions providers continuing to innovate and push the boundaries of such technologies... Read |
 | GAYNOR MACARTHUR Business owners and decision makers wanting to improve efficiencies often consider switching from PC to Mac, but are sometimes deterred by (what they perceive to be) the schlep involved... Read |
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