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Today the spotlight will fall on the minister of finance, Malusi Gigaba when he delivers the 2018 Annual Budget Speech... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | SES's strategy to bolster its video growth strategy across Africa and continue to support video and media customers in the region received a boost with the appointment of a new VP... Read |
 | BEN LEO Rural areas are arguably the most overlooked spaces in Africa, in terms of government services as well as corporate attention. It's a mistake to rule out rural spaces and consumers, especially in Africa. Global commerce is fiercely competitive, with business leaders and investors still waking to the vast potential of Africa's burgeoning consumer market. The continent, now home to more than 1.1 billion people, will account for one-fifth of the world's population by 2025... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The recent State of the Nation Address, given just a day after coming to power by newly minted president Cyril Ramaphosa, left many SA netizens satisfied and optimistic about the future as he promised one where hard work would triumph over past inequalities... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Dutch trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort presented her latest trend books for 2019, namely Goddesses (trends S/S 2019), On Safari (activewear S/S 2019) and Spiritual House (home and lifestyle 2019), as part of Design Indaba 2018 at Lisof in Johannesburg yesterday... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Independent music company Robroy Music's founder, Rob Schroder, lets us in on their successes on the award track and the intricacies of composing music and sound design for all formats of advertising... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Advertising has sometimes been described as the art of enticing people into buying things they don't need and they can't afford. In the car business, especially, it is often dreams which are being sold... sadly, those sort of dreams which can get people into big financial trouble eventually... Read |
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| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Newly appointed as head of customer interaction and marketing at Spree, Esther Hoogstad will be taking charge of the online retailer's end to end customer experience... Read |
 | The Retail Loyalty Programmes in the UK 2018 survey has found that UK retail loyalty programme operators are struggling to bring fresh ideas to the programme benefit mix... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | NICK HEDLEY The internet of things could breathe new life into SA's agriculture sector. Like their global peers, SA technology companies are trialling different IoT applications... Read |
 | Enterprises involved in the agricultural sector are critical for the fulfilment of the SDGs - playing a key role in generating much-needed investment, decent employment, developing productivity and supply chains that benefit producers and consumers... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | HENRIE GEYSER South African roads are densely populated by family-hauling SUVs, cross-overs, station wagons and MPVS which is hardly surprising, considering that there are about 650 variants on the market... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | Good news for Cape Town, Day Zero has been shifted to 9 July, the city's deputy mayor Ian Neilson confirmed today... Read |
 | NEIL CAMERON Buildings have become so much more than brick, mortar and glass... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | President Cyril Ramaphosa has reassured the mining affected communities networks that they will not be excluded from the consultation processes around the Mining Charter in the future... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | About 224-million people are undernourished in Africa as climate change and conflicts heighten food insecurity across the continent, a top UN food agency official said on Monday, 19 February... Read |
 | ROXANNE JOSEPH AND RAYMOND JOSEPH The National Lottery Commission (NLC) has been granting non-profit organisations, non-government organisations, public benefit trusts, schools and communities funding since 2002... Read |
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| Finance |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Despite growth picking up and a prediction that the medium-term budget policy statement (MTBPS) forecast will be revised downwards by nearly R70bn, the country still faces some serious fiscal issues... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | LYNNE DU TOIT The patient is often the loser in the race between original, clone and generic oncology medication producers... Read |
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| Legal |
 | GRAEME HOSKEN South African air charter company Execujet has been accused of flouting international aviation regulations when it failed to declare the identity of five "secret" passengers it flew to Bloemfontein last week... Read |
 | The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has welcomed President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of an inquiry into tax administration and governance at the revenue service... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | After her mesmerising performance of I Will Always Love You on Showtime, The Apollo-South African singing sensation, Belinda Davids will be performing The Greatest Love of All: The Whitney Houston Show for local audiences in Johannesburg at Theatre of Marcellus at Emperors Palace Casino for a three-week run in June and July 2018. Read |
 | Garden State, a brand-new festival will host its launch party in Cape Town on 7 April 2018. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | ROY ALVES Securing South Africa's airports is going to involve a lot more than more vigilant travellers and more visible policing... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG NEWSWATCH: Imperial Holdings' plans to unbundle Motus, its automotive arm, and Imperial Logistics
- which entails transport, warehousing, and distribution management - is still unconfirmed... Read |
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| Property |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON Resilient's board said on Monday, 19 February, it was supporting the company's executive management regardless of allegations in recent reports about how they run assets and regardless of the recent sell-off in its shares... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON The listing of Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) promised investors exposure to some of the best shopping centres in Africa for the first time, but its maiden year was disappointing... Read |
 | CHRIS RENECLE Whether you own a property in a sectional title complex or are looking to invest in one, the financial standing of the body corporate is the single most important thing that can affect your investment or your buying decision... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | JOHN SINCLAIR Some may have cringed at the ad reinforcing stereotypes about Australians as hospitable bush-dwellers, but this is actually a good strategy... Read |
 | It is predicted that by 2020, society will harness the idea of robots and programmes taking over the duties of hospitality staff... As scary as that sounds, guests, starting from millennials and up, will still crave a true, honest and genuine exchange... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | The five judges presiding over the selection process to determine the 2018 winner of FNB Business Innovation Awards (BIA) have been named. The awards are supported by Endeavor South Africa (EndeavorSA)... Read |
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| ICT |
 | TOM JACKSON Which African country has the best conditions for launching, or investing in, a tech startup? Disrupt Africa has been talking to the great and the good from various African tech ecosystems to find out what it is that makes them so great... Read |
 | To comply with the Icasa Number Plan Regulations, Vodacom has announced that it will be changing its customer care numbers... Read |
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