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 | | The annual Prism Awards, celebrating excellence in the public relations and communication industry took place on Friday, 4 June 2021 in a virtual format hosted by TV presenter, Thabiso Makhubela... read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT Cannes Lions and its official representative in South Africa, Ster-Kinekor recently announced this year's jury. With only one month to go until two years' worth of Lion-winning work is awarded, we touched base with some of the local jury members for a preview of what to expect. Next up, Fran Luckin...read |
|  | BRETT ROGERS When Colin Mkhosi was tired of commercial non-delivery in Langa, his solution was to make an opportunity out of it...read |
|  | RUTH COOPER Twenty-two-year-old Courtney Hodgon chats about founding Kiffkak - a tongue-in-cheek, proudly South African apparel and product range - at such a young age, winning a Loerie and her advice for aspiring creatives...read |
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| |  | CAROL BRANDT The mining industry has a pivotal role to play in solving the longstanding issue of youth unemployment in South Africa, which was made worse by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdowns... Read |
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| |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our ongoing #BehindtheBrandManager series, we interviewed the Marketing Achievement Awards' Rising Star finalists. Next up, Itumeleng Matlare... Read |
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 | PAULA SARTINI Document creation and management have a big impact on the day-to-day life of a knowledge worker and subsequently on a company... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BRAVE GROUP Brave Group has appointed Zamani Ngubane as its new creative director. Zamani joins a formidable creative team spearheaded by executive creative director Vanessa Pearson... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY BRAND SOUTH AFRICA Brand South Africa will be hosting a webinar on Tuesday, 8 June 2021 to unpack the 2021 World Bank Ease of Doing Business Index... Read |
 | The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement have opened the call for entries for their jointly run Next Creative Leaders 2021... Read |
 | The International News Media Association (INMA) has unveiled winners in its 2021 Global Media Awards competition... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY DOTGOOD [Dot]Good MD and founder Michael Baretta outlines the benefits of cause marketing... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY CLOCKWORK Clockwork took home a total of four awards across various categories for Netflix's Blood & Water at the 2021 Prism Awards... Read |
 | MIRANDA LUSIBA As the old-school generation of PR professionals, we were taught that we needed to be patient with the process of learning on the job. That we needed to make sure that our foundation was solid... Read |
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 | The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) is launching a global census of the marketing and advertising industry, designed to provide hard data on the people who are working in the profession... Read |
 | A new Juniper Research report has found that iPhones will bring in over $200bn in 2022; nearly 40% of the total smartphone hardware market... Read |
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 | Well-loved South African actress Shaleen Surtie Richards has died at the age of 66... Read |
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 | MUSA MUTALI The government of The Gambia recently announced that the country had eliminated trachoma... Read |
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 | ROBBIE KEARNS The pandemic has underlined the importance of strong digital channels, particularly for business-to-business buyers who aren't used to doing business online... Read |
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 This UCT four-day course is presented by Prof Mohamed Paleker from UCT's Department of Private Law, where he teaches civil procedures and civil justice reform. Read more >>Digital Youth FestivalAB4IR - 10 Jun 2021 to 11 Jun 2021, Tshwane | 17 Jun 2021 to 18 Jun 2021, Makwarela | 24 Jun 2021 to 25 Jun 2021, Port Elizabeth |
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