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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Janine Basel, CEO of Akro Capital, shares how the phenomenon of very few female entrepreneurs approaching them for funding led to the formation of their Girl Boss Hustle events... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY I know this is going to sound like a self-indulgent “house ad” but I must say that, since I have been working here at The Citizen, I have come to respect the newspaper's independence and the fact that it really has not been “captured” by anyone politically... Read |
 | The top 20 shortlisted finalists for the AfricaCom 2017 Awards have been announced... Read |
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| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Little over a year ago, three friends with thriving creative careers embarked on a mission to combine their love of Africa with their passion for surfing... Read |
 | Online food delivery company, Jumia Food, has appointed Shreenal Ruparelia as its new managing director... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Planting more trees, farming more sustainably and conserving wetlands could significantly slash the amount of carbon emissions that humanity spews into the atmosphere... Read |
 | Agriculture can play a critical role in poverty eradication as the majority of the world's poor reside in rural areas and depend on agriculture Read |
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| Automotive |
 | By submitting their vehicle and license details, AA members can avoid fines for lapsed vehicle licences and penalties for late renewals... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | SIYABONGA MBANJWA The energy industry breathed a huge sigh of relief recently when energy minister Mmamoloko Kubayi announced that power purchase agreements (PPAs) for renewable energy from bid windows 3.5 and 4 will be signed by the end of October 2017... Read |
 | MARK ALLIX Group Five's share price surged as much as 42% on Monday, 16 October, after it received an unsolicited firm-intention cash offer for its European assets and businesses from Greenbay Properties for R1.6bn... Read |
 | Dutch officials toasted on Tuesday, 17 October, the opening of what is being called the world's first 3D-printed concrete bridge, which is primarily meant to be used by cyclists... Read |
 | CATHERINE HOWELL, JENNIFER DRAKE AND LIAT MARGOLIS One in three bites of food that we eat relies on bee pollination... Read |
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| Education |
 | ROBIN FREDERICKS The month-long exhibitions, titled Vanguard: A month where math meets art, was created with the aim to connect ideation, dialogue and collaboration between education and the arts and includes... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | COLIN LOGAN It is critical that the energy mix is carefully blended by policymakers to ensure a sustainable economy... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | The annual Green Star Leadership Awards winners were announced at the GBCSA 2017 Green Building Convention in Cape Town last week... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS The Flight Centre Foundation aims to break the cycle of poverty through education, running a number of relevant programmes... Read |
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| Finance |
 | Finance minister, Malusi Gigaba, is concerned that pension funds are being mismanaged and not adhering to the strict rules laid down by the regulator... Read |
 | Uber drivers in the United Kingdom are just one example of how the digitisation is changing the way we define employees... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | NELISIWE MSOMI & LAURA LOPEZ GONZALEZ A social worker from one of the three Cullinan care facilities responsible for the deaths of at least 25 mental health patients says their lives could have been saved.. Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | On Saturday, 4 November 2017, the inaugural Roots music festival, presented by Trace South Africa will take place at the Jozi burg Lane venue in central Johannesburg. Read |
 | RUTH COOPER South African Fashion Week (SAFW) will be showcasing 53 2018 autumn/winter collections at the Sandton City Rooftop in Johannesburg on 24 October 2017. Read |
 | The 2017 Eat Out Mercedes-Benz Best Everyday Eateries in the Western Cape list has been unveiled. The winners in other provinces will be announced... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | The bi-annual seminar on 'road tunnels in low and medium income countries' co-hosted by Sanral and PIARC will take place from 18-20 October 2017... Read |
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| Property |
 | Built by the Respublica Student Living Fund, a new purpose-designed student residence will be ready for occupation in January 2018... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | As part of Airbnb's vision to empower communities through home sharing and to promote people-to-people tourism that benefits local families and their communities, it will invest $1m to... Read |
 | The study shows that Airbnb has helped to spread tourism benefits beyond hotels and tourist attractions... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | President Jacob Zuma has appointed members to the Board of the SABC... Read |
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| ICT |
 | (IoT)E - IoT to the power E - is a new entrepreneurship programme launched by SqwidNet, the licensed Sigfox IoT network operator in South Africa... Read |
 | Accenture and partners - Transunion and The Da Vinci Institute - have announced winners of the Innovation Index 2017... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON Kenyan startup Lori Systems has been crowned the winner of the inaugural TechCrunch Battlefield Africa in Nairobi, winning $25,000 in equity-free funding... Read |
 | ALAN KNOTT-CRAIG Us humans have a heuristic bias to sell our winners and hold onto our losers. That's not the way to build wealth. Better to hang onto your winners and cut your losers loose... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG NEWSWATCH: A new cybersecurity attack, known as a ‘Krack' attack (key reinstallation attack) has revealed a flaw in Wi-Fi's WPA2's cryptographic protocols... (video) Read |
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