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After contracting by 33,6% quarter-over-quarter in the first quarter of this year, the South African agricultural economy entered technical recession in the second quarter following a further 29,2% q/q contraction... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Mann Made recently disrupted themselves before anyone else could with a rebrand. Here's how what started out as a wedding video company by three brothers in 2000 has transformed into a storytelling, forward-thinking, 65-employee strong experiential brand agency that hosts the SingularityU SA Summit... Read |
 | The finalists for the 2018 New Generation Awards have been announced, with a record number of entries received, from a record number of agencies, corporates and individuals, representing hundreds of South African brands... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS The launch of the UCT Unilever Institute of Strategic Marketing's Youth Report 2018 explained the confusing terminology of 'millennials', 'Gen Z', 'born frees', 'generation jobless' as well as the often-misquoted numbers... Read |
 | Subscribers of StarTimes have started enjoying a reduced subscription rate on the classic bouquet... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Politicians need to learn that they are not the story. So, City of Joburg, you get this week's Onion for unnecessary ego-stroking... Read |
 | BRENDON BAIRSTOW-KLOPPER Brendon Bairstow-Klopper suggests that it is more sensible to take a macro-level view by practising the peak-end rule. The peak-end rule says that customers remember their peak-experience with a brand, rather than specific interactions... Read |
 | WERNER THERON Customers choose brands that value them and understand their needs... Read |
 | mSurvey appoints NPS co-creator, Richard Owen, to board of directors... Read |
 | 2019 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards submissions opened... Read |
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| Retail |
 | MAROEFAH SMITH The Korean Wave has brought several things to our shore, but K-Beauty has caused a surge in the beauty world. More and more beauty enthusiasts are looking at Korean beauty techniques and products to achieve flawless skin... Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Jekyll and Hide founder Bernard Bultemeier talks luxury leather, global expansion, the challenges facing independent retail today and why we'll all be wearing backpacks soon... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | According to Akinwumi Adesina, the president of the African Development Bank, the time has come to view investment and development opportunities in Africa through a totally different lens... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | A further strain on the consumer has almost been averted following the announcement of the intervention by the Department of Energy to limit the fuel increase to only 5c per litre... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | The upcoming Middle East Facades Summit 2018, to be hosted at the Dubai World Trade Centre, will focus on future facades... Read |
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| Education |
 | TOM JACKSON Ed-tech startups connecting learners with tutors are increasingly prevalent across Africa, but these platforms are adding additional components to their models to increase impact. Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | The mining sector grew by 4.9% and contributed 0.4 of a percentage point to gross domestic product (GDP) growth, led by growth in platinum group metals (PGMs), copper and nickel, amongst others... Read |
 | The Department of Mineral Resources' Mpumalanga Regional Office has been shut down until further notice, following complaints of corruption and backlogs in issuing licences, Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | REID LIFSET, MARTIN BAUMERS, AND TIMOTHY GUTOWSKI Over the past decade 3D printing has captured the imagination of the general public, engineers and environmental visionaries... Read |
 | BONANG MOHALE South Africa is the third largest economy on the continent with a GDP of $350bn. Last year SARS collected R1.2tn from a country of 57 million people. No South African should suffer hunger... Read |
 | The Shoprite Group will be staging cleanup events across Africa on 15 September 2018, marking World Cleanup Day... Read |
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| Finance |
 | South Africa is likely to exit its technical recession in the third quarter, the Bureau of Economic Research (BER) saiid... Read |
 | Parties that are not happy with the decisions of the Pension Funds Adjudicator may now lodge appeals with the Financial Services Tribunal... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | An alternative reimbursement model has been launched that will benefit patients and encourage best practice among clinicians in the private healthcare sector... Read |
 | Very limited therapies are currently available for progressive multiple sclerosis (MS), but there's a drug that shows promise in slowing brain shrinkage by nearly half... Read |
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| Legal |
 | BERNÉ BURGER & DANIEL VALE Duties which may not have been relevant to a company director 10 years ago may now have become relevant due to the development of technology and the associated risks... Read |
 | South Africa is participating in the oral hearings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legality of Britain's claim to the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | The Getaway Show will be held at the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg from 14-16 September 2018... Read |
 | American singer, rapper, and songwriter Lauryn Hill will bring her The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill 20th Anniversary Tour to the Ticketpro Dome in Johannesburg on 2 February 2019... Read |
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| Property |
 | GIDGETTE OSBORNE The growing trend of flexible working, and with-it flexible workspace, has gained a lot of recent coverage globally... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | The Department of Tourism has announced the addition of water efficiency measures support in the hospitality industry to the third window application period of the Green Tourism Incentive Programme... Read |
 | Africa's tourism competitiveness is below its potential, and despite the great progress that it has been made, the tourism industry on the continent remains behind other regions in terms of competitiveness... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | According to Managed Integrity Evaluation (MIE) research, misrepresentation and fraud of qualifications remains high and that a candidate's qualification(s) is the most likely aspect to contain discrepancies... Read |
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