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The Free State's Central University of Technology has officially opened its to first-year students who attended their practical sessions on a farm for the first time... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | SAM SWAINE Last Saturday saw the resignation of advertising titan, Sir Martin Sorrell who's been labelled as "the world's most famous adman." Sam Swaine gives some more insight into why this is truly an annus horribilis for WPP... Read |
 | RALEEN BAGG With 7.3 billion people to connect with, why is loneliness becoming an epidemic... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY One of my greatest pleasures is a road trip. Getting up before sunrise, packing, with the aroma of the bacon-and-egg sarmies wafting through the car, almost as heady as the anticipation in the air. And this country, South Africa, has provided me, and my family, with some amazing memories... Read |
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| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Consumers are wising up to the far-reaching environmental, ethical and health benefits of conscious consumption, and a review of our beauty routines are an important part of the lifestyle audits we're undertaking... Read |
 | One of the world's top-selling prosecco brands, Mionetto, is now available in South Africa.... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | BEN COUSINS Authorities must be alive to the fact that smaller-scale commercial farmers face different constraints and opportunities from those of large-scale, commercial farmers. It's critically important that planning and post-settlement support are appropriate to their needs and objectives... Read |
 | MNQOBI NGUBANE A new sense of urgency has entered South Africa's land reform process... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | SHERRY ZAMEER While there have been some recent setbacks (and there will doubtless be more) it appears that, with the massive investments in R&D, driverless cars will one day become a reality... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | NJOMBO LEKULA The country is currently experiencing a palpable positive mood of change since the recent changes in government... Read |
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| Education |
 | In coming months, Grade 9s will choose which subjects to pursue during their final school years, on which they will be tested when they sit for their final Matric exams... Read |
 | On the first day of opening applications for 2019 school admissions, the Gauteng Department of Education said it received 144,124 online applications... Read |
 | The Limpopo Department of Education will open its Grade 1 and 8 applications for 2019 on Wednesday... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | At the first of its countrywide public hearings, held in Cape Town, Eskom presented its case to recover costs already spent in the provision of electricity totalling R66.6bn... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | Female empowerment and community development NGO Women4Women is the latest brainchild of former Miss South Africa and local businesswomen Cindy Nell-Roberts... Read |
 | JAMES J. WINEBRAKE AND JAMES J. CORBETT The International Maritime Organization, a United Nations agency that regulates global shipping, is writing new rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions from ships by 2050... Read |
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| Finance |
 | Since the scandals around the accounting and auditing profession erupted last year, the SCoF has recognised the need to strengthen the IRBA oversight powers... Read |
 | The South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) and the Bank of England (BoE) will work together on providing training and technical assistance to central banks in certain African countries... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | DUSTIN HOMER Rising levels of education, improving salaries and rapid urbanisation mean that health insurers and the private healthcare facilities they work with are commanding an increasing share of health services in Africa... Read |
 | There's been an "explosion" of medical malpractice litigation claims in the country over the past few years, with warnings that the compassion-based practice of medicine is being replaced by defensive medicine and mistrust... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Seether will be performing in South Africa for one night only, at the Marks Park Sports Club in Emmerentia, Johannesburg on 20 May 2018. Read |
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| Property |
 | JSE-listed Fairvest Property recently announced that it has raised some R250m in new equity at R2.20 per share... Read |
 | General manager of East Coast Radio Boni Mchunu recently shared her inspirational life story at a networking meeting of the KwaZulu-Natal chapter of the Women's Property Network... Read |
 | ADRIAN GOSLETT The recent interest rate cut has stoked the coals in the first-time buyer's market... Read |
 | LAURENCE SMITH Office blocks are quickly becoming more attractive as targets for criminals... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | As part of the Shotleft initiative that promotes a culture of local holiday travel, South African Tourism is inspiring South Africans to travel their own county with its new This is your country brand campaign.
Produced by Ola! Films, the TVC brief from FCB Johannesburg looked to market travel for black people to traverse South Africa the way they would like to, enjoying activities with their friends and exploring places they wouldn't ordinarily feel comfortable to.
Ola! Films director Olivia Leitch said that they were able to shoot in five of the nine provinces over ten days, coupled with vast distances and long hours spent on the road. From the Union Building in Pretoria to Krugersdorp, the team filmed quad biking, zip lining, bungee jumping, cave diving, sandboarding, game driving and skydiving to demonstrate the wealth of tourism activities on offer locally. Read |
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