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SINDY PETERS Food Forward South Africa has over the last two years developed a virtual platform that allows it to streamline how it carries out its mission... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | The second edition of the Sabre Awards Africa PR competition is now open for entries... Read |
 | Last year, the Pantone colour of the year was greenery, the year before was the Rose quartz and Serenity blend, and for 2018 it's a deep, dreamy shade - Ultra Violet. Here's what it stands for... Read |
 | Nielsen Sports has expanded its global sports business by acquiring Repucom Africa from TransAfrica Media to offer solutions to rights holders and brands across Africa... Read |
 | Namibian advertising agency, Weathermen & Co is ending off the year on a high with three new client wins... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Steinhoff International's share price continued to plummet in heavy trade on Wednesday as fears mounted of long drawnout investigations by regulatory authorities in Europe... Read |
 | GABRIELLA MULLIGAN Less than 30% of African e-commerce startups are profitable, as ventures tackle issues such as lack of funding, shortage of trust and logistical difficulties... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Due to the avian influenza outbreak that hit the poultry industry as it was starting to recover from drought, the price of eggs is set to increase further. This after a significant jump in the past few months... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Cape Town-based space-age software company ZaiLab, which specialises in a new take on staid contact centre software, tasked its industrial design team to design a space truck that can travel from Cape Town to Cairo in 300 days... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | ROBERT LAING PPC's share price fell 3.5% to R6.65 on Thursday morning, 7 December, after it informed shareholders it had been jilted on Monday by one of its three suitors, Dublin-based CRH... Read |
 | SWAPAN KUMAR PATRA Africa's vast land mass and rich natural and mineral resources make it strategically important and an increasingly significant global player... Read |
 | ROYCE TURNER AND ANDREA WIGFIELD The fire at Grenfell Tower has catapulted high-rise social housing into the public consciousness, in a way not seen since the 1960s... Read |
 | LEON BREYTENBACH The development of shipping containers in the 1950s transformed the face of the transport industry... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON In one of the major unlisted real-estate transactions of 2017, Barloworld, Atterbury and African Rainbow Capital have partnered as co-investors in the redevelopment of the prime Barlow Park Campus, located at 180 Katherine Street, Sandton... Read |
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| Education |
 | CHARLOTTE MATHEWS Student leaders say there is no justification for retaining the name Rhodes University and students will protest against it. Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | TANYA FARBER in the middle of nowhere covered in a collection of heliostats, the solar panels that form a "farm" on which energy is harvested... Read |
 | For the better part of the last decade, West Africa has been identified as a region with unparalleled potential for renewable energy... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | 150 Jaguar Land Rover employees recently participated in the company's first 'Mapathon' event, plotting roads, rivers and buildings across a sprawling area in the Kurigram District of Bangladesh using satellite imagery... Read |
 | WILLIAM MZIMBA We are living in an era of abundance - we have all the resources required to solve humanity's biggest challenges. The activating ingredient is the ability to innovate... Read |
 | Open to anyone with an adventure or goal they'd like to kick-start, the Afrika Tikkun #AdventureFundraising campaign is off to a daring start... Read |
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| Finance |
 | LONDON - Bitcoin ploughed past $15,000 to a fresh record on Thursday, triggering a warning the cryptocurrency was "like a charging train with no brakes" and prompting fresh concern about its looming launch on mainstream markets... Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR A total of 506 employees left the South African Revenue Service (Sars) this year, according to Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba. Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Gone are the days when patients blindly accepted medical professionals' decisions about their care without participating in the process... Read |
 | Life Healthcare's new treatment option for multiple brain tumours precisely shapes the radiation beam to the pattern of the patient's cancer... Read |
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| Legal |
 | CLAIRE GAUL AND GANEEFAH DAWOOD The new Labour Laws Amendment Bill seeks to provide for minimum periods of leave entitlement to adoptive and commissioning parents... Read |
 | Cabinet has approved the Public Service Graduate Recruitment Scheme Framework... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN Vuil Wasgoed, Kidnap, Beauty And The Dogs, Wonder, The Fall and Barbie: Dolphin Magic open at local cinemas this week. Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Redefine Properties has advanced its geographic diversification strategy by buying a strategic 25% stake in a €1bn retail portfolio of 28 assets across Poland... Read |
 | MAARTEN MITTNER Local real estate investment trust (Reit) Vukile Property Fund closed weaker on Wednesday, 6 December, following an announcement that it was acquiring two more shopping centres in Spain... Read |
 | JACQUES FOUCHÉ The recent disaster that befell the Steinhoff share price is a prime example of the risks of investing your hard-earned money in shares... Read |
 | RICHARD ANDREWS South Africa is facing severe economic headwinds and many companies are hesitant to move into bigger spaces even if they need them... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | CARI COETZEE Minor Hotels has been going from strength to strength in establishing its hotels and brands across Africa. We chat with the regional marketing manager for Minor Hotels in Africa, Ivana Naidoo, about the brands, the industry and what it takes to market Minor Hotels... Read |
 | The overwhelming public response to the call for nominations continues to show that South Africans are deeply concerned about the state of their cultural heritage... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Last month, 129 people were employed on-the-spot at a speed interviewing session arranged by entry level recruitment company, Lulaway... Read |
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