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| Marketing & Media |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The 20th Sunday Times Top Brands Awards saw iconic South African brand, Koo, awarded the Consumer Overall Favourite Brand Grand Prix. In the business category, another local brand, Discovery Health, was awarded the Business Overall Favourite Brand Grand Prix... Read |
 | LEIGH ANDREWS With rising awareness that inequality needs to be tackled head-on, we're seeing more mindfulness of issues of inclusion and equality in local marketing campaigns and movements like the 7% Tribe, Take This Thread and 'Women Acknowledged'... Read |
 | A judge for the upcoming AWIEF Awards for women entrepreneurship in Africa shares her tips for promoting women entrepreneurship on the continent... Read |
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| Retail |
 | Finance Minister Tito Mboweni says government proposes that come April 2019, three items, including sanitary pads, will be added to the zero-rated list... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | ADAM FREW More than half the world's plant-derived energy intake comes from just three crops: rice, wheat and maize... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | Unveiling with only three images, the design scheme is based on five central points: light, structure, urban porosity and gardens, open offices and ecology and gardens... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | HARTMUT WINKLER There's a lively debate raging in South Africa about the extent to which renewables should replace coal, particularly given the threat of climate change... Read |
 | MELBA K WASUNNA After decades of failed attempts, Kenya finally struck oil six years ago... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | FRANK M. MITLOEHNER As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action... Read |
 | SINDY PETERS Founded in 2009 by international volunteers Tom Walsh, Philippa (Pip) Wheaton and Kathryn Maunders, enke enables young South Africans who are passionate about driving social change to become the masters of their own destiny and make their mark. Read |
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| Finance |
 | The closed environment, where it's difficult to access contextualised customer information, in which the insurance industry traditionally operates is shifting to a model that's more interconnected... Read |
 | Individual taxpayers have until close of business on Wednesday, 31 October, to file personal income tax returns, the South African Revenue Service (Sars) said... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | MELODY EMMETT A report by organisations collaborating under the umbrella of the People's Health Movement South Africa was interrogates, among other things the flaws and pitfalls of the country's NHI proposal... Read |
 | Government will reprioritise funds to make R350m available to recruit new health professionals, says Finance Minister Tito Mboweni... Read |
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| Legal |
 | MARTHA SMIT AND DANIEL MWALE Throughout the world, legal cases against pharmaceutical companies that manufacture medical devices such as implants for treatment of specific conditions are on the increase, as patients are not always properly informed about how the device works... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | DANIEL DERCKSEN Searching, First Man, Peppermint, Goosebumps 2: A Haunted Halloween, Little Vampire and King Lear open at cinemas this weekend... Read |
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| Property |
 | DR ANDREW GOLDING Straight-talking as expected, the minister of finance's medium-term budget policy statement sought to inspire investor and market confidence... Read |
 | AIDAN JONES CEO of Communicare Anthea Houston said of the delay, "This is a set back for those in need of affordable housing opportunities in the city ... It would be huge loss to Cape Town if they pull out now." Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | With less than six months to go until the deadline, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called for a contingency plan from UK and the European Union for uninterrupted air services in the event of a 'no-deal Brexit'... Read |
 | Big data is a powerful and innovative tool that wine, food and hospitality establishments can use to get closer to consumers... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant is leading a South African delegation to the 334th Session of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Governing Body underway in Geneva... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Amazon Web Services announced it will open an infrastructure region in South Africa in the first half of 2020... Read |
 | The Institute of Information Technology Professionals SA (IITPSA) has named the finalists for the 2018 President's Awards... Read |
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