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PETRU SAAL Gauteng residents were urged on Thursday, 1 February, not to jeopardise their own water supply by sending truckloads of donated water to the drought-stricken Western Cape... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Social media netizens celebrated Cosmopolitan South Africa's decision to place Laverne Cox on the cover, with their logo suitably rainbow-hued to show support of the LGBTQI+ community... Read |
 | JUANITA PIENAAR Danish designer and CEO and creative director of the design company, Johannes Torpe Studios has been announced as one of the speakers at this year's Design Indaba Conference 2018... Read |
 | Last week, 100% black-owned investment firm FastGro Investment Holdings acquire a 25.1% share of independent agency House of Brave and the appointment of new group CEO Karabo Songo and chief future officer Musa Kalenga... Read |
 | Africanews has partnered with the L'Obs television network to strengthen its position in Senegal... Read |
 | The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has released the remaining names of the 2018 jury presidents... Read |
 | eNitiate partners with Social Media Week Lagos - the only African city to host the event... Read |
 | The Committee to Protect Journalists called on the Kenyan government to obey a court order suspending a broadcasting ban on four privately owned television stations... Read |
 | Turner has appointed new leadership for Africa and French-speaking territories... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Food and consumer products giant Unilever on Thursday posted soaring 2017 profits of €6.5 billion ($8.05 billion), after a year of "major change" when it spurned a Kraft Heinz takeover bid... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | PROF CHARLIE REINHARDT Many leading South African farming entities share the common sentiment that agricultural colleges are no longer delivering well-rounded, technically skilled professionals... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | South Africa's new vehicle sales dropped 8.9% year-on-year according to Naamsa's latest figures. A total of 45,888 new vehicles were sold in January 2018, compared with 50,386 units in the same period last year... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG I recently had the chance to take the sixth generation Volkswagen Polo for a spin along the stunning Eastern Cape coastline... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | TAMAR KAHN Private hospitals are not taking any chances with Western Cape Premier Helen Zille's promise that water supplies to their facilities will be maintained in the event of Day Zero... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING The volume of cement PPC sold in the nine months to end-December fell about 2% - half the overall South African cement industry's 4% decline, the group said in an operating update on Friday, 2 January... Read |
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| Education |
 | JASON SNYMAN Nine South African schools recorded a shocking 0% matric pass rate at the end of last year. That's nine schools in which not a single matric student passed. Let's allow that to sink in a little bit. Read |
 | iTversity Belgium Campus, a private tertiary education provider specialising in ICT diplomas and degrees, is offering 125 free bursaries to students in 2018, to the value of R8.5 million... Read |
 | SUTHENTIRA GOVENDER An ongoing staff strike at the beleaguered Durban University of Technology has forced the institution to delay the start of the academic year by a week... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | After a delay of two years, Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown, has finally given Eskom the green light to sign the outstanding power purchase agreements (PPAs) with renewable power producers... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | BONANI MADIKIZELA Annually, on 2 February, the world over remembers the establishment of the Ramsar Convention which happened in 1971 - the same year that the Water Research Commission was established... Read |
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| Finance |
 | TOKYO - A hacking theft that netted $530 million, a ban on Facebook advertising, regulation even in Russia and more wild price swings: despite another stomach-churning week for cryptocurrencies, analysts say they are here to stay. Read |
 | Embattled international auditing firm KPMG SA says it has paid back the R23m it received as payment from the South African Revenue Service for the report on the so-called rogue unit. Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Advertisements on social media offering employment at Mediclinic are likely a hoax, the private hospital group says... Read |
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| Legal |
 | The People's Tribunal on Economic Crime in South Africa will open its first hearings at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg on Saturday, 3 February 2018... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN "The Wound was born out of a desire to push back against clichéd stereotypes of black masculinity perpetuated inside and outside of African cinema," says writer-director John Trengrove... Read |
 | The second annual South African International Tattoo Convention will play host to 80 of the world's respected and reputable tattoo artist at new venue, The Lookout, V&A Waterfront in Cape Town from 23-25 March 2018. Read |
 | Southern Wild, Hellcats, BCUC, Dan Patlansky, Cortina Whiplash, BRYNN and Retro Dizzy have been announced at the support acts for the Incubus SA tour taking place in Pretoria on 24 February and Cape Town on 28 February. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Cape Town International Airport has received the green light from the Department of Environmental Affairs for the construction of the airport's new realigned runway... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Hyprop Investments has taken steps to regain its status as one of the most reliable dividend-paying and capital growth-generating listed real estate investments in 2018... Read |
 | ROBERT LAING Some light may be shed as to what caused renewed panic selling of real estate investment trusts (Reits) when Fortress releases its results on Friday, 2 February... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | With the acquisition of the Inn on the Square in Cape Town, the Signature Lux Hotel and brand in Sandton, and a newly constructed Onomo Hotel in Durban due to open in March this year, Onomo Hotels has officially entered the South African hotel market... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | LIZ SEGAL Manufacturers across the world are embarking on radical transformation in all areas of their business and automotive companies looking to develop a competitive advantage would do well to embrace diversity, taking advantage of the opportunity to foster disruption and innovation... Read |
 | CAMERON BEVERIDGE As the Fourth Industrial Revolution disrupts every facet of our lives, business leaders and HR practitioners face a challenging but exciting time... Read |
 | There was a time when job hoppers were perceived as less reliable and a flight risk, as they jumped from job to job, raising their salaries and expectations from organisation to organisation. However, the millennial generation sees job hopping as leaping towards new opportunities... Read |
 | Financial data should not be the only information used to determine pay and rewards - corporate communications like emails or instant messages, social media posts and many other data sources should be used to provide deeper insights... Read |
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| ICT |
 | CHARL UECKERMANN Although most companies have invested in IT security solutions focussing on mitigating threats like viruses and malware, many fall short of addressing more sinister risks such as fraud, identity theft and espionage... Read |
 | Startupbootcamp (SBC) Cape Town and RCS Group are hosting a water-saving hackathon from 9-10 February 2018 to commission technology from the wider Cape community in a bid to #DefeatDayZero... Read |
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