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RUTH COOPER Sandy de Bruin, former owner of Country Living SA and winner of Miss South Africa in 1980, has recently turned her attention to the opening of No. 5 On Hudson, a new art gallery in Cape Town... |
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 | LEIGH ANDREWS What do roller derbies, feminism and food blogging have in common? The answer is purple-haired Taiwanese-South African copywriter, foodie and author, Ming-Cheau Lin, who uses her platforms to educate the industry on being mindful of multiculturalism and better reflecting 'otherness'... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Red Carpet Creative, formally known as Red Carpet Concepts, is led by MD Jade Allen. Here, she shares some of the barriers she's had to overcome in the first 10 years of business, more about the rebrand, and why she doesn't believe in glass ceilings... Read |
 | CLAIRE COBBLEDICK Every single day, in the English-speaking world, five new books are published on the topic of leadership. A cursory Google search for the term how to lead delivers 1.3 billion results in less than a second. Clearly, this tells us that there are a) no shortage of leadership styles in the world and b) no shortage of people in leadership positions that want to learn how to improve their leadership style... Read |
 | ANDREW MACKENZIE We will almost certainly wake up tomorrow with a new platform, feature, or app; this raises a few critical questions for advertisers and marketers: how will we keep up? Should we rush in to adopt? And how do we adapt to these new trends?... Read |
 | Cape Town is bidding to host the 2022 Women Deliver Conference and as part of the bid, the Cape Town and the Western Cape Convention Bureau, a division of Wesgro, will be running a #WomenDeliver2022 social media campaign, sharing the journey and vision of local women during August... Read |
 | The killing of three Russian investigative journalists in the Central African Republic must be probed, said CPJ... Read |
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| Retail |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG In #FreshOnTheShelf, we round up some of our favourite food and beverage products that have hit the retail shelves recently... Read |
 | This August, Clicks celebrates fifty years of trading since launching in Cape Town in 1968. The health and beauty retailer has since expanded to more than 650 stores and over 500 in-store pharmacies... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | Plant diseases significantly limit the ability of many countries to produce sufficient staple and cash crops. Research conducted by Connected focuses on addressing its spread by vector-insects that transmit a disease from one plant to another... Read |
 | WANDILE SIHLOBO Within the aquaculture space, a notable uptick in jobs was in fish hatcheries and fish farms, with a modest uptick in ocean and coastal fishing jobs... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | SINDY PETERS Founded in 2010 by Marloes Reinink, Solid Green Consulting is all about advancing sustainability in the African built environment... Read |
 | Twenty five mesmerising land art projects have been shortlisted for the fifth edition of Land Art Generator Initiative (LAGI) competition at St. Kilda Triangle in Melbourne, Australia... Read |
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| Education |
 | CAROLE PODETTI-NGONO "The education system represents the single greatest obstacle to socio-economic advancement in South Africa. It replicates patterns of unemployment, poverty, and inequality and denies the majority of young people the chance of a middle class life." Read |
 | Africa Code Week (ACW) has introduced coding skills to over 1.8 million young Africans across 35 countries since its inception by SAP CSR EMEA in 2015. This week, another 1,000 participants at various communities across Botswana received hands-on training on the new ACW digital curriculum... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SINDY PETERS Celebrating Women's Month on Biz, we chatted to Keri-Leigh Paschal, executive director of Nation Builder, to find out more about the women empowerment space in SA... Read |
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| Finance |
 | One third of the JSE-listed companies polled have cited the mandatory audit firm rotation (MAFR) rule as the primary reason why they have changed audit firms... Read |
 | The long-term success of financial service providers lies in consumers understanding of the financial products they offer, says Finance Deputy Minister Mondli Gungubele... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | The state of flux the private healthcare industry currently finds itself in is reflected in the declining scores in the 2018 South African Customer Satisfacti on Index (The SA-csi) for Medical Schemes... Read |
 | The Free State has made commendable progress in implementing some of the suggestions made by the National Council of Provinces to improve healthcare delivery in the province... Read |
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| Legal |
 | The Department of Home Affairs has called on all foreign nationals who have applied for citizenship through naturalisation to approach offices where they lodged their applications so that they can urgently update their contact details... Read |
 | The Gauteng Provincial Road Traffic Act (No.10 of 1997) will be amended in an effort to better govern the towing industry and promote professional business practices... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Mike Higley, vice president of operations at FedEx Express sub-Saharan Africa, provides some tips for expanding your business globally... Read |
 | Engen, with its 24-hour automated parcel lockers, is set to treble the number of collection and drop-off points across its network... Read |
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| Property |
 | STEVEN FRIEDMAN The South African government's plan to change the constitution to mention land expropriation without compensation could, ironically, end up strengthening the property rights on which investment depends... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | According to Ryan Rennison, managing director of UK visa solutions experts, Move Up, the agency has seen a 22% increase in South Africans interested in relocating to the United Kingdom over the past two years... Read |
 | SHAUN LAMONT Shaun Lamont, managing director of First Group, takes a look at the various elements that are influencing the future of the hospitality industry... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Sara's annual Reward Awards, which aims to encourage and promote the development and improvement of total reward practices - combining financial remuneration and non-financial benefits - is open for entry... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Silicon Cape launches their new Africa-first strategic membership plan to enable the accelerated inclusion of tech startups... Read |
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