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 | LEIGH ANDREWS On Wednesday, 10 April 2019 I snatched up the rare opportunity to spend most of my lunch hour with Marianne Thamm, the incredibly smart, candid natural storyteller who has witnessed the harshest violence as an investigative journalist, as well as the hope, resilience and fortitude of South Africa. Here's what you missed...read |
|  | DERMOT LATIMER Dermot Latimer, CEO and founder of the Iconic Media Group lists four top advantages of choosing an independent agency...read |
|  | JESSICA TENNANT Having won the same award in 2017, Nomacala Mpeta, head of learning at Digify Africa, explains why they're proud to be recognised a second time for leading the push for transformation in digital and encourages more agencies and NGOs to recognise the need to do so as a business imperative in corporate SA...read |
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 | Core banking products are largely undifferentiated across the various brands, resulting in customers who are becoming increasingly multi-banked... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY HOT 102.7FM The Vuma Cam, Hot 91.9FM and Future City Fourways partnership is the next phase of an anti-crime initiative, with the installation of fibre-linked CCTV cameras, covering 25 intersections within the Fourways area as phase 1... Read |
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 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG The fifth annual Condé Nast International Luxury Conference kicked off in Cape Town yesterday, bringing some of the biggest names in global luxury to African soil... Read |
 | ISSUED BY WORX GROUP Organising an international event can be an exhilarating experience. It's an opportunity to spread your eventing wings, to overcome unprecedented challenges and to prove your mettle to your clients... Read |
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 | VICKY GILLAN "Marriage is the wrong metaphor for the client/agency relationship; it's more like a harem..." Read |
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 | RIRHANDZU SHENGWENYANA Rirhandzu Shingwenyana from Sadmon lists ways in which nano, micro (mid-tiers) and macro influencer (mega influencers) are most effective and efficient when it comes to ROI... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT In the run-up to the 22nd Prism Awards taking place on Sunday, 14 April, we chatted to this year's cohort of young judges about their fresh approach to the judging process... Read |
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 | In this episode of #StateoftheMedia, Nadia Hearn of 2OceansVibe Radio chats to Leigh Andrews and Angie White about April Fool's Day jokes reported by media, the #Momochallenge hoax and the IAB's annual Bookmark Awards... View |
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 | DHL Express has launched Africa eShop, a platform enabling customers to shop directly from more than 200 US- and UK-based online retailers... Read |
 | What if a mobile phone could prevent a health epidemic? It may sound like science fiction, but the WHO polio geographic information system (GIS) technology is doing just that in 43 countries in Africa. Read |
 | The latest figures released by the African Development Bank suggest the continent's infrastructure needs amount to between $130-170bn a year, with a current financing gap of $67-$107bn per annum... Read |
 | ANNE COCKCROFT & NEIL ANDERSSON Nigerian women are at high risk of death related to pregnancy and child birth. Accurate figures are hard to come by, but the WHO estimates there are more than 800 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in Nigeria... Read |
 | Nigerian media mogul Mo Abudu receives 2019 Médailles d'Honneur at Cannes MIPTV... Read |
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 | Current medical aid models for end-of-life care will pay for costly in-hospital care but won't pay for home-based care... Read |
 | MARIA SOTENKO Solving environmental problems usually just means cleaning up the mess people have made. But scientists are increasingly interested in creating something valuable from pollution... Read |
 | AADIL PATEL AND DYLAN BOUCHIER It is no secret that the intensified load shedding has had a devastating economic effect on many companies. Without electricity, many businesses cannot function, and in those instances, employees are unable to work... Read |
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