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| Marketing & Media |
 | New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has announced the 2018 grand jury... Read |
 | The One Club for Creativity has announced the global creative leaders selected to serve as judges for The One Show 2018 of which seven is from South Africa... Read |
 | Time magazine named as Person of the Year "the silence breakers" who triggered a national reckoning by revealing the pervasiveness of sexual harassment, assault and abuse in US life... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Demographica CEO Warren Moss explains why your 2018/2019/2020 strategy sessions need to go beyond the generic inside-out design thinking filter and truly focus on the customer journey... Read |
 | Sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's fastest-growing TV market over the next five years... Read |
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| Retail |
 | ROBERT LAING Steinhoff International CEO Marcus Jooste resigned on Tuesday night, ahead of the furniture retailer's results scheduled for release on Wednesday... Read |
 | Amazon's Australia launch was the company's biggest-ever opening day for orders, the US giant said on Wednesday, but some shoppers were underwhelmed... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | The heads of the Ghanaian and South African poultry industries were among the signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding opposing the "pernicious trade practice of dumping and predatory pricing." Read |
 | SIMON CARPENTER To manage the coming swell, robots that harvest crops and digital farming are joining green revolution and time-held traditional farming techniques. Digital farming is garnering lots of interest... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | London's first electric-powered black cabs hit the streets on Tuesday, the British capital's iconic taxis getting a facelift for the modern age that should help cut pollution in the city... Read |
 | HEIN KOEN Installing or self-managing a vehicle tracking solution sounds like such a simple thing to do, but like most things, there is much more to it, with many aspects to consider... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | DAVE CHAMBERS Liquid gold has been discovered at the University of Cape Town... Read |
 | Along with the inaugural Greenovate Engineering Award, environmental game-changers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) took first place in this year's Greenovate Awards... Read |
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| Education |
 | UCT postgraduate law student, Lindokuhle Ntuli, has been chosen among the 142 Schwartzman Scholars from all over the world... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Finding cost-effective, affordable methods of dealing with wastewater is the bane of any mining operation. Enter Dr Vhahangwele Masindi... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SINDY PETERS Professor Adipala Ekwamu, executive secretary of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RuForum), gave an inspiring keynote presentation at the third International Conference on Global Food Security held in Cape Town this week. Read |
 | During the 2016/2017 financial year, South African companies are estimated to have invested over R9bn in corporate social investment, compared to R1.5bn 20 years ago... Read |
 | DR BIPASHA BARUAH AND DR KATE GRANTHAM In contemporary global development circles, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are now performing many more roles and activities than they did a few decades ago... Read |
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| Finance |
 | WINDHOEK - Namibia has criticised its listing on a new European Union blacklist of tax havens as unjust and biased, blaming the status on missing a deadline to comply... Read |
 | LESEGO MAFADZA, DEREK VICE, FINN ELLIOT AND NICKY The days of silo regulators within the financial services sector are soon ending. Twin Peaks will see the establishment of a dedicated prudential regulatory authority in the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) and a new Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA). Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | According to an Econex survey commissioned by the Hospital Association of South Africa (Hasa) in 2015, there were just 60 doctors per 100,000 people in 2013; whereas the world average is 152... Read |
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| Legal |
 | ANN CROTTY Naspers's hopes of a speedy resolution to the high-profile controversy around payments its 80% subsidiary MultiChoice made to SABC and ANN7 were dealt a hefty blow on Tuesday, 5 Decemeber 2017, when a US law firm, specialising in class actions, announced it was investigating the company... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Welcoming one of the world's most renowned underground producers to the Resistance stage, Eats Everything is the latest international addition to the fifth anniversary of Ultra South Africa 2018 line-up. Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Echo Polska Properties (EPP), the Polish invested and JSE-listed company, will acquire a portfolio of 12 major shopping centres and retail parks in a deal worth €692m (R11.2bn)... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON UK property owner Capital & Regional's management says it expects to achieve dividend growth of nearly 8% in its financial year to December, as the group benefits from a strengthening consumer... Read |
 | ANDRIES MAHLANGU Property group Hammerson said on Wednesday, 6 December, it had offered to acquire Intu Properties, in a £3.4bn deal... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | THERESA PRINS Revenue management, although a well-established discipline in the industry for more than a decade, is a misunderstood, if not entirely absent concept in many hotels... Read |
 | Tink Labs Limited officially launched the Handy smartphone, a suite of tools and call-to-action functions that reshapes the way hotels engage, communicate and cater to guests and their modern travel needs... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Africa Code Week this year empowered 1.3 million youth across 35 countries with basic coding skills... Read |
 | ISSUED BY CORINIUM GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE Organisations want to invest in cutting-edge technologies but need to focus on the data analytics fundamentals first... Read |
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