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Over the years, Black Friday has grown by leaps and bounds with more retailers and shopping centres jumping on the bandwagon to offer South African consumers bang for their buck... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Bonnie Horbach, former Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, based in Cape Town for the last five years, explains the importance of encouraging more females in the Stem professions through the likes of #InspiringFiftySA and why she says, "there's something special going on in Africa"... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The negative impact of code-switching and tokenism, why females speak almost three times as many words a day as men and how to deal with queen bees in the workplace were hot topics at the most recent Future Females Cape Town morning session. Here's what you missed... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Mentorship is a crucial factor of career growth. Marloe Wise, client services director at Demographica, explains the role of business mentors in her own life and why we need to address the lack of female representation in management positions within the B2B space... Read |
 | PHILIPPA CLAYRE Sixty-two years ago, they signed a petition. Sixty-two years ago, they marched to Pretoria with that petition. And sixty-two years ago after leaving the petition at the door of the prime minister's office, they sang as one, "Wathint' Abafazi Wathint' Imbokokodo" - you strike a woman, you strike a rock... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS It's finally Loeries Creative Week 2018! Here's some insight from Ian Mackenzie, ECD at FCB Six, Canada and this year's Loeries 'integrated campaign', 'print and out of home (OOH)' and crafts jury president... Read |
 | Paylater, the mobile app providing Nigerian consumers with access to credit, has reached 1 million downloads... Read |
 | CARMEN MURRAY Faith Popcorn, the Nostradamus of marketing and most accurate futurist, called it out in her book, "Eve"olution in 2000 about how women would rise and revolutionise society. While we still have a long way to go, our society has reached a tipping point. Women are calling for gender parity, especially in previously male-dominated industries such as Stem... Read |
 | Zone Tech Park, a new venture builder for start-ups in Nigeria, has officially opened for business... Read |
 | BOGOSI MOTSHEGWA A brand is what it does and doesn't do. Whilst we tend to focus on what brands do, just as significant is what a brand or company decides not to do. More often than not, not doing anything results in missed opportunities... Read |
 | JENNIGAY COETZER Most jobs that involve thinking for a living require some form of writing, even if only to produce the occasional report, proposal, memo or email or to communicate through social media. Yet so many individuals battle to express themselves in the written word... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON Egyptian startup Flareinn has developed an online marketplace for art, connecting young artists with potential customers... Read |
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| Retail |
 | In an effort to reduce packaging waste, Woolworths is piloting an integrated reverse vending machine in its flagship green store, Woolworths Palmyra in Claremont... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | BRUCE HAKUTIZWI As South Africa establishes itself ever more securely in the modern world, so South African farmers must adapt to a set of new challenges... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | Goodyear South Africa appoints Piotr Czyzyk as a new addition to the Trentyre and Goodyear leadership team... Read |
 | MARCUS 'THE MALTESE FALCON' BREWSTER One cannot write about Maltese lifestyle without weighing in about the Maltese obsession with cars. So, this column is long overdue... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | Red Bull and Kusini Water recently announced the launch of a partnership that will see the development of a desalination plant at the V&A Waterfront later this year... Read |
 | The Southern Africa Stainless Steel Development Association (Sassda) has said that it welcomes any and all beneficiation of South Africa's raw materials... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | TIMOTHY NJAGI NJERU Like most of sub Saharan African countries, Kenya has registered a decline in the poverty rate over the past decade... Read |
 | The Indaba Institute in Stellenbosch held its first graduation ceremony for 22 students, including five recipients of Indaba Foundation bursaries late last week... Read |
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| Finance |
 | JONTY LEON The tax law amendment designed to compel expatriates to pay tax is going ahead, causing many citizens living abroad to consider the legal formalities of terminating their South African tax and exchange control residency... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | NICCI BOTHA Wilma Liebenberg, chief executive officer of Knowledge Objects Healthcare, says an initiative as immense as NHI needs appropriate technology and real-time risk management capabilities in order to succeed... Read |
 | The Cancer Alliance has issued the third in its series of toolkits focusing on the National Policy and Strategy for Palliative Care, this time dealing with caring for children with cancer... Read |
 | KAREN FELDSCHER There are a lot of scary threats in the world - extreme weather, terrorist attacks, deadly infectious diseases, mass shootings - but if healthcare organisations plan ahead for such disasters, lives can be saved... Read |
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| Legal |
 | The public has been invited to have their say on the draft regulations on the Governance and Composition of the Special Economic Zones Act... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | South African photographer and director Chris Saunders recently worked on Rudimental and Major Lazer's new collaborative intercontinental music video for their new song "Let Me Live"... Read |
 | 2017 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition winner Lebohang Kganye's first solo exhibition Mohlokomedi wa Tora (Lighthouse Keeper) will be on at the Pretoria Art Museum... Read |
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| Property |
 | Property ownership among South African women is on the rise... Read |
 | PIETER PIEK There are certainly advantages to paying cash for your investment property, however there is an intriguing alternative... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Following the opening of its Sandton, Johannesburg location, Signature Lux Hotel by Onomo will open its doors 500m outside of the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town in September 2018... Read |
 | The Western Cape, City of Cape Town, Wesgro and its supporting partners have announced the launch of the inaugural Africa Halal Week 2018, which will foster business links, conversations and opportunities across tourism, trade and investment... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | The search is on for the 4th annual Veuve Clicquot Elle Boss: one woman who is redefining the world of business with her entrepreneurial spirit, leadership, creativity and determination... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UCT GSB has awarded a total of R660,000 ($50,000) to 10 startups via two different grant funding mechanisms... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Praekelt.org is again changing the field of delivering technology that gives both social good organisations and businesses a highly effective and instantly accessible way of reaching their stakeholders... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG For but a sliver of land in the Middle East, with a population below 9 million, you'd never guess that Israel has the second largest number of companies on the Nasdaq, after China... Read |
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