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With Cape Town's dam levels nearing 70% of storage capacity, the city has announced that it will be conservatively lowering water restrictions and associated tariffs... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | NEWSWATCH: When you think 'KFC' you probably think 'eating Kentucky Fried Chicken', and not how to spin your car... Read |
 | WAYNE HULL Wayne Hull highlights that for CEOs and CMOs alike, addressing customer experience will be the key imperative in 2018 - and not merely at the B2C level, but B2B and B2B2C too... Read |
 | KATE WILSON A recent statistic on female representation in the South African ad industry caught my eye: Just 3% of creative heads are female. There is no questioning the exceptional female creative talent in our industry, so why then are we not seeing more female creative heads?... Read |
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| Retail |
 | South African-based Point of Sale payments provider, Yoco, has raised $16million in a Series B funding round led by Partech, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley... Read |
 | Zimbabwe is set to be the next country of origin for Nespresso's popular range of coffees. The unit of Nestle SA expects to start selling limited-edition Zimbabwe coffee capsules to global consumers in 2019. Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | SAMANTHA SNEDORF In this week's #MeetTheMakers, Samantha Snedorf visits the Sugarbird Cape Fynbos Gin producers and chats to Brendan Witherspoon, Sugarbird's brand ambassador and trade marketing manager... Read |
 | PAUL MAKUBE Following a stellar performance in 2017, South Africa's agriculture output shrank by massive 29.2% in the second quarter of 2018 and contributed -0.8 of a percentage point to GDP growth. This follows a contraction of 24.2% quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of 2018... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) has announced the 2019 cycle of the Richard Rogers Fellowship open for applications... Read |
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| Education |
 | PwC and Universitas 21 (U21) have come together to offer exclusive professional development opportunities for U21's graduate students through the Innovation Challenge competition... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | NICCI BOTHA The two great disruptions happening in the world economy are the rise of China and renewable energy (RE)... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | ROSS HARVEY Early last week, global news outlets reported that 90 carcasses of illegally killed elephants had been found around a famous wildlife sanctuary - the Okavango Delta - in Botswana... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Turning seven this year, 5 For Change has been an annual highlight on the Cape Town social and philanthropic calendar. In 2018, however, its founders are shaking things up... Read |
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| Finance |
 | IMRAAN VALODIA & DAVID FRANCIS The one percentage point increase in South Africa's value added tax (VAT) rate, which was implemented in April this year, has raised important questions about how the tax system can and should address inequality... Read |
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| Legal |
 | Children will be the worst affected if the proposed Road Accident Benefit Scheme (Rabs) Bill goes ahead in its current iteration... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | The winners of the 2018 South African Savanna Comics' Choice Awards were announced at The Lyric Theatre at Gold Reef City in Johannesburg on 8 September 2018... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | Climate change is impacting ice hazards for shipping, freeing up new trade routes in some areas, while increasing the risk of ice in others... Read |
 | Leading customer-centric businesses could see their projected profit growth rates increase from 5.3% this year to 7.4% in 2020, according to a 2018 survey by KPMG Canada... Read |
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| Property |
 | ADRIAN GOSLETT Following the recent announcement of a 0.7% drop in GDP in the second quarter of 2018, South Africa has fallen into another technical recession... Read |
 | NOMFUNDO XOLO Hostel dwellers at A-Section in KwaMashu marched to Durban City Hall on Monday... Read |
 | Online estate agency PropertyFox has acquired Steeple, a similar business which has been in operation since 2012... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | CACIAAS met with Wesgro CEO Tim Harris to sign a Memorandum of Understanding - encouraging the sharing of business support services between Angola and the Western Cape... Read |
 | ENVER DUMINY "The word "recession" is an abstract one; it sounds quite depressing, if not terrifying, but its reality is a harsh one that we must face." Read |
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| ICT |
 | MORNE BEKKER Morne Bekker takes a look at how data miners are able to influence a voter's behaviour... Read |
 | Thingstream's new partnerships in South Africa are driving the development of more cost-effective IoT innovations... Read |
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