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ILSE VAN DEN BERG Following revelations that Cambridge Analytica exploited the personal data of millions of Facebook users, the social network is finding itself in a remarkably anti-social predicament... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | LUNICE JOHNSTON Failing to plan for a reputational crisis happens more often than it is comfortable to think about. Lunice Johnston writes about what steps are crucial to successfully handling a reputational crisis... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS There's no denying those who work in the public relations and media industry work hard. But in 2018, it's all about working smarter, not harder. So if there's a way to streamline and simplify the process of both generating content and ensuring media coverage, both sides benefit. That's where Jana Leonard's PR Hustle fills a gap... Read |
 | New York Festivals AME Awards announced the 2018 award-winners... Read |
 | Nigeria's Publiseer becomes the first African publisher to join the International Publishing Distribution Association... Read |
 | Africapractice establishes regional headquarters in Gaborone, Botswana, consolidating group operations... Read |
 | Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg took out full-page ads in nine major British and US newspapers on Sunday to apologise for a huge data privacy scandal... Read |
 | CAROLINE KENDE-ROBB It is in Africa where the rays of prosperity are shining brightest. 2018 will be a breakout year for many - though not all - African economies, owing to gains in eight key areas... Read |
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| Retail |
 | GARY MORTIMER AND LOUISE GRIMMER On 26 January 2011, Coles fired the first shot in what would soon be dubbed the "supermarket price wars" by reducing the price of its own-brand milk to A$1 per litre... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG As store closures continue across the globe, we're witnessing the demise of physical retail as we know it... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Out of the 945 dairy products from 83 producers that vied for the attention of the 84 judges, only 18 were honoured with the Qualité mark of excellence... Read |
 | GILBERT NAKWEYA The continent's livestock sector has the potential to transform the lives of smallholders but inadequate, unreliable and unavailable data in some instances is a major challenge in the sector... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | KATHERINE DAFFORN, ANA BUGNOT, ELIZA HEERY, MARIAN Population growth has seen skylines creep ever higher and entire cities rise from ocean depths... Read |
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| Education |
 | The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) has unveiled a digital certificate to help learners with foreign qualifications by reducing the time it takes to get the outcome of an evaluation... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | KATE FERREIRA As more and more people flock to cities, the threat of environmental pollution and its associated health risks grow - conjuring images of swarms of people in pollution masks... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Pontsho Manzi, managing director of Botlhokwa Group, is a businesswoman with the Midas touch... Read |
 | An ultra-fine biodegradable film some 50,000 times thinner than a human hair could be enlisted to protect the Great Barrier Reef... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | NICCI BOTHA The quality and outcomes of the health service often boils down to getting the basics right, such as employing best practices in clinical procedures... Read |
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| Legal |
 | BEKEZELA PHAKATHI A contract dispute between the Department of Justice and publisher Juta has resulted in judges being locked out from accessing Juta's content, on which they rely as an archive of judgments and legal commentary... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Catch this year's Lusito Land Festival in Cayman Road, Alewynspoort, Johannesburg South between 15 April to 6 May 2018... Read |
 | Dein Perry's Tap Dogs comes to South Africa with shows heading for Cape Town on 22 August at the Grand Arena, GranWest and Johannesburg on 29 August 2018 at Montecasino... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | The Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) has lost almost 1,400 train coaches due to vandalism in the past three financial years resulting in over R503m in losses... Read |
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| Property |
 | The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has set aside R415m to refurbish 11 industrial parks across South Africa... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON In a surprise move, Investec Bank will buy back its Sandton head office from SA's largest listed real estate group, Growthpoint Properties, for R2.2bn... Read |
 | ALISTAIR ANDERSON The first man-made lagoon in Africa will open in Pretoria East in September... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | CARI COETZEE The QSL Members Club will be an incubator for Africa's leading lights, an organic platform for ideas to be birthed, connections to be forged and for plans to be set in motion... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to meet the first 100 young people to participate in the Youth Employment Service (YES) programme which he will launch on Tuesday... Read |
 | The national minimum wage online exemption system will go live in the last week of April, according to the Department of Labour... Read |
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| ICT |
 | TOM JACKSON South African startup Passmarked, which offers website owners, users and developers a single and transparent platform to test how well a website works, has come out of open beta and is now ready for tests and collaboration from the global internet community... Read |
 | A lot has been written about the impact of the looming VAT increase on the ordinary South African, but not so much on how this will affect technology vendors, particularly point-of-sale developers... Read |
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