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African remittance provider Mukuru has launched a grocery service that will give foreign national workers living in South Africa, as well as any South Africa-based customer, the ability to send groceries... |
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 | AMANDA ROGALY Media is experiencing the aftershocks of the pandemic with fast-tracked digital transformation causing seismic shifts in media consumption. In turn this is impacting media spend, creating a 'new normal' in the South African media and advertising industry... read |
|  | | The role of the business advisor has never been more important to ensure the survival and growth of small businesses, in these unprecedented times... read |
|  | ONALENNA MHLONGO Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga is expected to brief media on Tuesday, on preparations for the re-opening of schools amid the Covid-19 lockdown... read |
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 | CASEY DELPORT Canada, Brazil, the US and Ireland continue to report closures of meat-processing plants because of Covid-19 infections. This essentially means that if the disruptions in various meat plants persist for some time and spill over into the global market, SA would not be spared from the price impact, particularly on poultry products... Read |
 | The smallholder and communal farmers' application process opened on 8 April and closed on 22 April 2020, and 33,000 manual application forms were distributed through our provincial and district offices, commodity organisations, and civil society organisations... Read |
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| Construction & Engineering |
 | YAZEED VAN WYK Apart from ensuring there are enough facilities, an equally important consideration is to ensure that death and burial occur safely given the highly infectious nature of the SARS-CoV-2 virus... Read |
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| Energy & Mining |
 | NICCI BOTHA To improve its energy security, Namibia is planning to grow its upstream industry by reviewing its policies in a bid to court private sector investors... Read |
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| ESG & Sustainability |
 | SINDY PETERS Amina Rai, regional communication officer for the UNHCR Private Sector Partnerships Africa, shares her experience of the current Covid-19 crisis and how her organisation is navigating these unusual times... Read |
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| Finance |
 | ZANE DE DECKER South Africa is currently enjoying the status of a tax haven - a bold statement, I admit, and one that some might think outrageous, but if you break down the monetary calculations of a Section 12J investment, you will realise the glaring opportunity too... Read |
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| Healthcare |
 | STEVE REID The National Health Insurance (NHI) has become an idealistic concept known as "imaginary". It's become the idea onto which all South Africa's aspirations for healthcare have been projected... Read |
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| Legal |
 | While there is general scientific consensus that the novel coronavirus is of zoonotic origin and various groupings are advising that wildlife markets must be closed, the South African government has been putting forward legislation that could massively expand the wildlife industry to become mass meat suppliers to the world... Read |
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| Lifestyle |
 | The Virtual National Arts Festival, due to kick off on 25 June 2020, has announced a new digital platform created especially for artists wanting to showcase their work and earn an income online during the Virtual National Arts Festival, vFringe... Read |
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| Logistics & Transport |
 | ECKART ZOLLNER The nationwide lockdown in South Africa and its associated road travel bans have shown that massive reductions in emissions are possible, which can be continued post-lockdown if the industry... Read |
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| Property |
 | CARL COETZEE It is safe to say that almost every economic sector in the country has in some way been affected by the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown... Read |
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| Tourism, Travel & Hospitality |
 | South African travel writers, Di Brown and Ryan Enslin have launched an innovative online platform called Virtual Bucket List.Guru, which seeks to contribute towards the medium to long term recovery of the South African domestic tourism industry... Read |
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| HR & Recruitment |
 | Students can now form part of a Working Student Programme, designed to uplift young people who want to study further and increase future employment opportunities while offering South African businesses a meaningful way to improve their B-BBEE score... Read |
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| ICT |
 | Although Covid-19 is not the first pandemic the world has faced over the last 100 years, its effects are unique due to increased globalisation and interconnectivity... Read |
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| Africa |
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 | With the world on lockdown, the importance of digitisation to the economic growth and prosperity of nations and regions is becoming increasingly clear, also on the African continent. Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Sue Green, co-founder of RISE Academy of Entrepreneurship, shares how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted the academy... Read |
 | ALLON RAIZ The scale of the national Covid-19 lockdown is unprecedented in living memory and entrepreneurs need to be making the right decisions... Read |
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