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Growthpoint Properties has successfully taken The District in Cape Town completely off the municipal water grid... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | ROBYN FISCHER While there's been much debate about the bank's new logo, the actual task of rolling out Absa's vision across hundreds of OOH sites had print solutions companies burning oil day and night... Read |
 | The Zimbabwe Advertising Research Foundation intends to revamp the Zimbabwe All Media Product Survey, the largest research into the Zimbabwean consumer... Read |
 | UJU OKOYE Beijing watchers say China's activities in Djibouti are a blend of commercial and military interests... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON The Ugandan government's taxes on social media and mobile money, is surely one of the most regressive steps taken by an African government in the tech space to date... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Cape Town-based do it yourself e-commerce company EcoDepot has launched its South African online marketplace... Read |
 | It has been reported that iconic British luxury fashion label Burberry destroyed its unsold products to the value of £28.6m last year to make its brand more exclusive, adding to the total value of £90m worth of goods it has destroyed over the last five years... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Data has long been likened to be the equivalent of oil in the digital age. For farmers, the ability to capture, analyse, and gain insights from it in as real-time a manner as possible, can be the difference between success and failure... Read |
 | Although the drought in the Western Cape proved a challenging environment to land investment, the Agribusiness Investment Unit made it possible to sell the province as an agribusiness investment destination... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | ILSE VAN DEN BERG At the end of a week, you have to leave extra early to miss Cape Town's Friday frenzy on the roads - especially if you're heading out of town past the Hottentots Holland mountains for the weekend... Read |
 | GEORGE MIENIE Don't be surprised to see a vehicle dealership popping up in your neighbourhood shopping centre, right next to your favourite fashion store in the near future... Read |
 | DAVID SZONDY Osaka, JAPAN - We've had autonomous cars, autonomous trucks, and autonomous buses, and now Osaka-based diesel engine manufacturer Yanmar is introducing a new line of robotic tractors... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | WARA FANA "In the past 18 months we have had water for only eight months..." Read |
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| Education |
 | Government wants more young people to attain skills and competencies that will help them find jobs or create their own enterprises... Read |
 | The #TaftaTellMyStory competition, hosted by The Association for the Aged (Tafta), is a writing and multimedia competition open to all primary schools in the Durban region to commemorate the organisation's 60th birthday... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | Eskom has summarily dismissed its suspended head of legal, Suzanne Daniels, following the outcome of a disciplinary hearing... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | In the wake of the City of Ekurhuleni's new mandatory household recycling programme launched earlier this month... Read |
 | OLIVER MUTANGA, BOTHWELL MANYONGA, SINDILE NGUBANE South Africa finally has a disability policy that's specific to the higher education sector... Read |
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| Finance |
 | LUKO ONKE BINASE We have reached a technological crossroad for payment services where adaptation and innovation will have to pave the way... Read |
 | Treasury appears to have taken a tough and inflexible stance in addressing the ongoing industry debate on the income tax treatment of disposal of assets within a collective investment scheme (CIS) - or unit trusts... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | Has the almost simultaneous release of the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill, the Medical Schemes Amendment Bill and the provisional findings of the Health Market Inquiry (HMI) created an information overload? Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | MARTIN MYERS Makeeda Swan is a Cape Town-based artist on the rise. She is a UCT jazz and music technology graduate, and has just released her two new singles: Got it Good as well as Locked. I spoke to her last week. Read |
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| Property |
 | According to student housing facility, StudentatHome, Adderley Street in Cape Town has seen a stream of national and international students drawn into the city... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | DANNY BRYER There's a race on internationally among big hotel groups to unveil hotels that feature rooms equipped with the Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can carry out a variety of tasks for guests. This state-of-the-art hotel experience will likely become commonplace globally, the question is, is South Africa ready for such a development? Read |
 | Protea Hotels by Marriott has announced that it will replace plastic straws with biodegradable straws in all of its hotels across sub-Saharan Africa. This announcement follows Marriot International removal of disposable plastic straws and stirrers from its more than 6,500 properties... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | CELESTE DICKINSON When you're dealing with employees, it's almost impossible to anticipate or control what will happen. Everything is fine until something is not, right? So when is the right time to get HR support...? Read |
 | Introducing capital into a company can play a huge role in the execution of its growth strategy, but businesses need to be funding-ready before approaching investors for capital... Read |
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| ICT |
 | JAMES HOLLOWAY It's a cliché to say we're addicted to our smartphones, isn't it? You know: any spare moment, there we are, SnapBooking our WhatsFaces or adding likes to our tweet-zones... Read |
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