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 | LEIGH ANDREWS Annual film award season is in full swing, swiftly tailed by the annual hashtags signifying lack of industry diversity. This year, in addition to #OscarsSoWhite there's been a focus on #DirectorsSoMale and renewed call to stand with the #TimesUp movement...read |
|  | RIRHANDZU SHINGWENYANA Surviving the year 2020 will create a new trajectory for the decade ending 2030. However, one's survival will be determined by a myriad of dynamics internal and external of the business environment...read |
|  | GILLIAN RIGHTFORD I'm going to buck the trend and not talk about anything to do with tech or mobile, or the demise of the agency model. I'm also going to be honest and say that what I'm writing about isn't a mainstream trend yet, but it should be...read |
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 | JOSEPHINE SEBESHO Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?... Read |
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 | EUGENE COETZEE What role can tech startups play in helping to solve the unemployment crisis? The short answer is: in a greater capacity than you'd think... Read |
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 | SANDRA CROUS The role of HR within the business has come a long way. For many years the HR person within a company was tasked with managing salary cost, ensuring the right talent was attracted and managing performance... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY PROVANTAGE Mzukisi Deliwe, Deputy CEO of Provantage Media Group and head of leading airport environment out-of-home player Airport Ads, unpacks the most pertinent trends for 2020... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY OGILVY SOUTH AFRICA Ogilvy South Africa CEO, Alistair Mokoena, will be leaving the group and joining Google South Africa... Read |
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 | The Stevie Awards has announced its finalists for Sales and Customer Service and South African companies DHL Express and xneelo (formerly Hetzner) were announced as finalists in several categories... Read |
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 | The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa's (Zeitz MOCAA) Institutional Advancement division has welcomed two new members. Annicia Manyaapelo has been appointed head of marketing and communications while Michelle Stein has been appointed as head of philanthropy... Read |
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 | SHEREESA MOODLEY Google on Wednesday revealed a new feature on Search that gives users a simpler way to shop for fashion items on mobile... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BLUEGRASS DIGITAL Bluegrass Digital, the only Umbraco Certified Partner in Africa, has helped African Infrastructure Investment Managers (AIIM) with a design refresh of its website using Umbraco Content Management System (CMS)... Read |
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 | According to Statistics South Africa, retail trade sales for November 2019 increased by 2,6% year-on-year, growing the most in seven months and boosted by Black Friday promotions... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA) champions business investment within the arts, cultural and heritage sector. To this end the BASA Supporting Grants programme is calling for applications throughout 2020... Read |
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 | When it comes to energy, it's not just the traditional advocates of renewable energy that are leading the way, it is the world's major emerging economies such as China and India that are driving this clean energy transition... Read |
 | WALE FATADE In its latest report on Nigeria, the World Bank issued a stark warning: that the country risks becoming home to a quarter of the world's destitute people in a decade unless policymakers act to revive economic growth and lift employment... Read |
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 | Growth of the entrepreneurial sector is key to addressing South Africa's unemployment crisis, especially amongst the youth... Read |
 | Alistair Mokoena has been appointed as country director at Google South Africa... Read |
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