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ROBIN FREDERICKS Cape Town startup, Aerobotics has launched five new innovations, which have been designed to help farmers with early pest and disease detection... |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | MIKE SALOMON Tough financial times are pushing businesses to cut costs in order to strengthen the bottom line. The mistake many organisations make is to cut the budgets, instead of first analysing marketing expenses and determining which avenues are offering the best return on investment... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS Ever thought the answer to breaking the country's poverty cycle was as simple as improving basic education for females? Economist Dr Dawie Roodt explained the implications at last week's Ads24 Food for thought session... Read |
 | ALICE JAKINS Yes, your social media team can be spread out across the globe. What matters is that they share your work values and that they rock in their zone of genius when it comes to delivery... Read |
 | African statisticians urged to take ownership of their data and use it for continent's prosperity and beware of fake news and populist politicians... Read |
 | YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM Facebook has officially signed a partnership agreement with Airtel Uganda and Bandwidth & Cloud Services... Read |
 | LOUISE MARSLAND Growing women's economic empowerment in Africa and creating the number one globally recognised platform for female entrepreneurship in Africa, is what AWIEF is about... Read |
 | TOM JACKSON Six African tech startups have been named alongside the likes of Apple, Netflix and SpaceX in TIME's 50 Genius Companies for 2018 list... Read |
 | NEWSWATCH: As reported on News24 yesterday, the Sunday Times has apologised and announced that it will return all awards and prize money received for three now-discredited reports - on the Cato Manor police unit dubbed as a 'death squad', the SARS 'rogue unit' and Zimbabwean 'renditions'... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Edcon, South Africa's largest non-food retailer, has officially announced the launch of Edgars Home. The new store concept replaces the Boardmans brand... Read |
 | The multibillion-rand structural redevelopment of Fourways Mall in Johannesburg is being accompanied by a new brand and corporate identity... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | SAMANTHA SNEDORF The end of the year is edging ever closer and the need for time away increases almost daily which is why... Read |
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| Automotive |
 | NIAL O'BRIEN What earth dweller is unfamiliar with a stop sign? Its signature eight sides and fire engine red colour have been ingrained like golden arches onto our collective subconscious for the past century... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | THÉO GAULTIER A recent Balfour Beatty survey envisions a construction industry with dramatic digital capability by 2050... Read |
 | At the MBAWC's recent AGM, awards were bestowed upon two apprentices who have shown particular promise as future master builders... Read |
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| Education |
 | With the aim to help incubate open source projects and train blockchain developers, both locally and globally, Tari Labs has launched a free online university... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | Seven finalists in the Innovations for Water Resilience Competition recently pitched their water innovations to a tough 'shark tank-style' panel of judges... Read |
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| Finance |
 | NICCI BOTHA Independent financial advisers (IFAs) believe one of their greatest challenges now and over the next five years is regulations related to the industry... Read |
 | New Finance Minister Tito Mboweni will be affirming government's commitment to fiscal consolidation and strategic investment in the face of low economic growth... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | A recent study, which set out to understand the genetic makeup of the many different phages that live on the bacteria living on the cells of our skins, found that no fewer than 130 entirely new species... Read |
 | Women who reported recent, regular use of low-dose aspirin (100 milligrams or less) had a 23% lower risk of developing ovarian cancer when compared with women who did not regularly take aspirin... Read |
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| Legal |
 | BARBARA MAREGELE The case of a Sea Point security company and its owner, who have been accused of failing to pay provident fund contributions, has been postponed until February... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | Non-profit organisation Baz-Art will host the third International Public Art Festival (IPAF) in Salt River, Cape Town from 9-17 February 2019... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | People planning their travel routes using Google Maps will now see a Taxify icon in the app... Read |
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| Property |
 | Government is intensifying the implementation of land reform and restitution programmes so that South Africans can leverage land... Read |
 | Considering the announcement of a technical recession and ever-rising fuel costs pinching consumers even further, there can be no doubt that the last quarter has been a tumultuous one... Read |
 | RONALD ENNIK What is the right price of a property? Is it the advertised price? Or 10% lower than advertised? Or even 20% lower? Read |
 | NELIO MENDES Rental inspections are a necessity when it comes to good rental management, and both landlords and tenants should stick to the terms and conditions... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | Hilton has invested $1m in driving sustainable travel and tourism in Africa, incorporating five key areas, namely that of youth opportunities, water stewardship, anti-human trafficking, local sourcing of entrepreneurs and protecting wildlife-based tourism... Read |
 | The South African Blue Flag for 2018/19 season will officially open on 1 November 2018 and will see 66 Blue Flags flown across 46 beaches, 8 marinas and 12 sustainable boats... Read |
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| ICT |
 | KATE MOLLETT Faced with customer demands that are evolving faster than ever and the pressure of ongoing economic uncertainty, manufacturers are turning to digital transformation... Read |
 | As the rate of identity theft accelerates, some have asked how information becomes available to companies... Read |
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