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 | | On-demand drinks delivery business Quench has expanded its service to include groceries... read |
|  | WILLIAM FULLARD On 24 March 2020, the minister of trade, industry and competition published certain regulations entitled Covid-19 Block Exemption for the Retail Property Sector 2020... read |
|  | ADAM IKDAL We are in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. It started as a health crisis, within days became a real economic crisis, and is now on a swift path to becoming a massive fiscal challenge... read |
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| Marketing & Media |
 | BRENDAN SEERY There's nothing like a good crisis to bring out the best in brands ... and a number of our household name companies stepped up this week to throw their weight behind President Cyril Ramaphosa's plea for people to stay at home... Read |
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| Agriculture |
 | "The agricultural sector has a responsibility to apply all precautionary measures necessary to prevent the further spread of this deadly virus and to make sure that all workers wear masks and gloves. The sector needs to strictly comply with social-distancing rules..." Read |
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| Education |
 | AIDAN VAN DEN HEEVER The University of the Western Cape will go ahead with its first graduation season for 2020 - in an unconventional, pioneering manner, while South Africa is on lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | South Africa's 22 operational wind farms are considered essential services and will continue contributing to the national grid... Read |
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| Entrepreneurship |
 | ALLON RAIZ The scale of the national Covid-19 lockdown is unprecedented in living memory. The repercussions - personal, professional, national and international - will reverberate for years to come... Read |
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| Finance |
 | AUBREY MAZIBUKO & LOUIS BOTHA To alleviate the impact of the lockdown on businesses, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the introduction of a number of economic measures, including tax relief measures... Read |
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| Legal |
 | BERNADETTE VERSFELD, One only has to look back in history to appreciate the extent to which necessity is indeed the mother of invention. Some of the greatest inventions were the product of pandemics, wars and recessions... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | RUTH COOPER The National Arts Festival will move into the digital realm and for the first time ever go fully virtual. We chatted to National Arts Festival CEO Monica Newton to find out how exactly this new virtual format will play out, the opportunities of targeting a wider audience and how creatives can try and combat the negative effects of the Covid-19 crisis... Read |
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| ICT |
 | The Social Collective has created a free platform to assist South African companies more accurately track indicators of Covid-19 at the workplace... Read |
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| Africa |
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 | WURAOLA AKANDE-SHOLABI The spread of Covid-19 has been slow in Nigeria compared to other countries on the continent. Nevertheless, the federal government has a taken steps in readiness for a more rapid outbreak... Read |
 | CARLOS LOPES Since 2000, European and African leaders have been talking about giving the partnership between the two continents a "new strategic" dimension... Read |
 | DOROTHY TEMBO With the novel coronavirus Covid-19 having reached the African continent, countries are getting ready to manage the spread of the virus and ensure that their fragile health systems can cope... Read |
 | SAMUEL AYOKUNLE OLOWOSEJEJE Nigeria may have to implement a nationwide lockdown to stem the rise in Covid-19 cases. Such a drastic measure would alter the country's energy consumption pattern. This would further burden an already dilapidated power supply system... Read |
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 | Ford Motor Company, in collaboration with GE Healthcare, will begin producing third-party ventilators to help coronavirus patients... Read |
 | Addressing reporters during a social cluster press briefing on Tuesday, 31 March, the minister revealed that some employers were still not adhering to the relevant laws... Read |
 | Paxful highlights 10 women in Africa who are making waves in the rapidly growing blockchain and Bitcoin industries... Read |
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