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LEIGH ANDREWS You may have noticed lots of purple on your newsfeed today, as International Women's Day is celebrated on 8 March. Here's why this is known as the colour for equality and justice - just what International Women's Day stands for... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | WERNER LINDEMANN With other sectors such as accounting, IT and science looking to recruit the brightest and most ambitious young women, the media and marketing industry should also be looking at ways to change its profile and create a pipeline of future leaders... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS M&C Saatchi Abel's founding partner and ECD Gordon Ray shares the power of work "rich with local insight and executed with heart," while founding partner and chief executive Jacques Burger explains how M&C Saatchi Abel is motoring ahead in 2018... Read |
 | Discovery Communications has rebranded to Discovery Inc after completing its acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive... Read |
 | A successful business in Africa, like MTN, has a number of key principles that underpin the success of businesses in Africa, including building a strong market position while maintaining a challenger mindset, a strong brand, modern technology and great people... Read |
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| Retail |
 | MPUMI NHLAPO Local retailers have an incredible opportunity to get a head-start on competition, by applying the science of digital platform thinking, to transform decades-old practices... Read |
 | While South Africa has made progress in reducing the gender bias for women engaging in early stage entrepreneurial activities, the number of women business owners remains constrained... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | The South African wine industry has prioritised transformation and the development of people as key imperatives to ensure a strong and sustainable future... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | TOM JACKSON Rwanda-based ride hailing startup SafeMotos is marking International Women's Day by adding the first three female moto-drivers to its network... Read |
 | ANÉ THERON Fancy driving a R1.6m Lexus LX, but 1) you're only good for one-million bucks and 2) you need to seat seven behinds on a regular basis? Well, Lexus has come up with a solution: The Lexus RX 350L... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | MAXWELL ROELAND The City of Cape Town has installed about 250,000 water management devices designed to curb household water use. But most of them - at least 64% - have been installed in poor communities... Read |
 | JORDAN LACEY Biophilic design is beginning to boom. Witness its recent incorporation into the Melbourne Metro project and Sydney's award-winning One Central Park, Chippendale... Read |
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| Education |
 | The High School Career Expo, in association with SABC Education, is a national public exhibition designed to provide guidance to students, with the Cape Town leg taking place at Cavendish Centre from 23-24 March 2018... Read |
 | The Department of Education in Mpumalanga has received the biggest portion of the provincial budget with over R20.97 million, which equates to 43.6% of the total provincial budget for the 2018/19 financial year. Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Up from its position at number 22 in last year's rankings, the School of Mining Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand is now in 15th place in the 2018 QS World University Rankings... Read |
 | Kumba Iron Ore is on the verge of advancing a year-long final study of technology that will unlock valuable ore from millions of tonnes of low-grade waste it generates every year... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | BEATRICE ALBA People often argue that most Western societies have achieved gender equality... Read |
 | DEIRDRE VENTER On 22 January 2018, at the ripe old age of 90, Minnie Mouse received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame... Read |
 | Project partners of the Gender into Urban Climate Change Initiative, this International Women's Day, are urging policymakers to fully integrate gender into their climate change policies... Read |
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| Finance |
 | PIETER ZYLSTRA Africa is no stranger to financial innovation. Mobile financial wallets have been rapidly adopted by the younger population, with partnerships between telcos and banks set to dominate the future of the mobile payment industry... Read |
 | The Guptas say they have every right to fly their Bombardier jet around the world as the Canadian bank that financed it refuses to take their money... Read |
 | NICCI BOTHA In Kenya, fintech is a currently distraction not a disruption given the runaway success story of the country's mobile payment system, M-Pesa, since 2007... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | JEREMY SCHWARTZ AND MARI ARMSTRONG-HOUGH When the World Health Organisation created an essential medicines list in the early 2000s, the aim was to provide a list of medicines that should be made available and accessible to country's entire population... Read |
 | Annual medical scheme claims expenditure rose on average by 11.3% a year over the past decade, far faster than consumer price inflation, which increased on average by just 6.1%... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Canadian telecommunications firm BlackBerry sued Facebook on Tuesday, accusing the American social media company of infringing on its patents for messaging apps... Read |
 | LINDA ENSOR Former Eskom chairman Ben Ngubane appeared before the parliamentary inquiry into state capture of Eskom on Wednesday to answer questions, ranging from the employment contract of former CEO Brian Molefe to the prepayment made to Gupta-owned Tegeta Exploration and Resources for coal supplies... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | American rock band Bowling for Soup will be touring South Africa with shows in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Clarens (at the Lush Festival) over Easter weekend. Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | A recent report by IFC, a sister organisation of the World Bank and member of the World Bank Group, shows that ride-hailing apps boost women's income and ease their entry into the transportation industry... Read |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG Airports Company South Africa's George Airport and King Shaka International, as well as another African airport, Nairobi Airport, were honoured at the ACI Airport Service Quality Awards... Read |
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| Property |
 | Speaking at the PayProp PropTech event in Cape Town last week, Adriaan Grove from Entregral Technologies said that in 2018, the property industry will have to adapt to cater for the new 'on-demand' environment... Read |
 | The traditionally robust Southern Suburbs rental market in Cape Town was beset by a number of unprecedented challenges last year... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH Despite last year's global and local turmoil, tourism continues to be an economic driving force with the United Nations World Tourism Organisation estimating that international tourist arrivals to Africa grew by 8% in 2017... Read |
 | While growth in youth travel globally seems a sure thing, a critical factor remains for attracting more millennial and Gen Z travellers - and it's not avocado toast or free Wi-Fi... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | LAUREN SALT AND JJ VAN DER WALT Are you a designated employer seeking to prepare your Employment Equity Plan (EE Plan) for the first time or renew an existing EE Plan...? Read |
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