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| Marketing & Media |
 | Konnect Africa brings Wi-Fi to rural African communities. Company unveils SmartWIFI service offering at AfricaCom 2017... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Nick Goldman, one of the highly anticipated speakers at last week's BCX Disrupt Summit, shares the importance of conferences like BCX Disrupt, as well as the crux of his talk on the importance of long-lasting digital archives... Read |
 | LOUISE MARSLAND Anatoly Roytman, managing director of Accenture Interactive and Global lead for EALA (Europe, Africa, Middle East and Latin America), is our #MeettheMarketer this month on Bizcommunity.africa. He believes Accenture Interactive is building the "agency of the future"... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Nedbank has been doing some very appealing advertising of late, and the bank and its agency, Joe Public, have already got a few Orchids from me... Read |
 | Cannes Lions has launched the 2018 Festival of Creativity, with important changes to the delegate experience and awards structure... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS This extended #EntrepreneurMonth, we go behind the selfie with technophile Tumi Voster - she's marketing manager for Universal Music, a 5FM radio DJ, and a Tropika Island of Treasure Maldives celebrity... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Melville's 27 Boxes, a mall made from shipping containers, only built in 2014, is already undergoing a a revamp in order to remain relevant as a family and entertainment destination. The relaunch takes place on Friday evening, 17 November... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Poultry farmers participating in the Poultry Show in Abeokuta were excited at the exhibition of water resistance paper egg trays which the manufacturer says is purely made of paper instead of plastic... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Increased congestion and pollution in urban areas has been a key driver for transformational mobility solutions such as carsharing, e-hailing, ridesharing, and bike sharing... Read |
 | Finalising the code of conduct for the motor industry is not going to be an easy process, given the strong opposition from the OEMs to the draft... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | Construction has begun on Asrin Property Developers' 98-unit Cedar Place development in Grassy Park in Cape Town. Handovers are expected to begin on 31 October 2018... Read |
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| Education |
 | CAROL PATON The medium-term budget policy statement, presented a mere two weeks ago, has been thrown into question as a joint team from the Treasury and the Office of the President comb through it, looking for R40bn in expenditure cuts to fund free higher education... Read |
 | President Jacob Zuma has released the Report of the Commission into the Feasibility of Fee-Free Higher Education and Training in South Africa... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | LINDA ENSOR The Davis Tax Committee has recommended that the special tax regime for the mining sector be abolished... Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR No major changes to the existing fiscal regime for the oil and gas industry have been proposed by the Davis Tax Committee... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SIMON WILDE Banking giant HSBC has pledged $100bn (£76bn) to "fight climate change", to be spent on sustainable finance and investment over the next eight years... Read |
 | Global healthcare company GSK's longstanding commitment to its partnership with local non-profit organisation The Just Footprints Foundation has resulted in 3662 children having benefited so far by attending camps hosted in different venues in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape... Read |
 | Speaking at the Inyathelo Philanthropy Forum in Cape Town on Thursday, 9 November, Professor William Gumede, noted that we need to focus on resilience in order to survive and prosper in the current context of state failure and lack of trust in democratic institutions... Read |
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| Finance |
 | PETER ALKEMA New customer preferences threaten the traditional business models of financial services companies and large banks... Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR The Davis Tax Committee has recommended SA adopt a taxpayer bill of rights... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | We are heading for a post-antibiotic era, in which common infections and minor injuries will become untreatable, according World Health Organisation (WHO)... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has welcomed the Constitutional Court's directives to Sassa to deliver a comprehensive plan to the court by 8 December 2017, detailing how it will pay more than 17 million grant recipients... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Celebrating the 20th anniversary of their first major label album S.C.I.E.N.C.E with a world tour, Incubus has announced its first South African tour in Cape Town and Pretoria in February 2018... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Ride-sharing platform uGoMyWay has received the inaugural AfricaCom 20/20 Innovation Award 2017 at the 20th AfricaCom conference and exhibition... Read |
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| Property |
 | South African property developer Atterbury opened its new European headquarters in Leiden, Netherlands on Friday, 10 November... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | DUANE STACEY In a similar vein to Uber and Airbnb, we plan to transform the travel writing industry by changing the way role players interact... Read |
 | ANDREA FREIDUS Volunteer tourism, or voluntourism, is an emerging trend of travel linked to "doing good". Yet these efforts to help people and the environment have come under heavy criticism... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | RHYS EVANS Although alcohol and substance testing forms part of the health and safety policies and procedures in many industries, there are still a great number of organisations that do not employ the same cautionary practice, potentially resulting in significant loss to the business... Read |
 | MIKE VACY-LYLE There are no rules in entrepreneurship. People often wax lyrical around following certain formulae for success and globally, millions of books are sold on the promise of riches. Sure, we can all learn from others, and it is true that successful entrepreneurs are open to learning, but there is no magic formula here. Read |
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| ICT |
 | ANTON CABRAL More feared than JK Rowling's Dementors, disruptors are proving to be the nightmare of established brick-and-mortar (B&M) businesses around the world... Read |
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