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TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY

#AfricaMonth: A new wave of safari travel

Elephant Pepper camp

[Paul Steyn] African safaris have always been notoriously exclusive and complicated to plan and book, and often the only people losing out are travellers themselves...

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TOURISM, TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY

#AfricaMonth: Building real awareness of the situation in Africa

[Cari Coetzee] With more and more of Africa's fauna and flora under threat, many of the stories that came out of We Are Africa was the importance of conservation...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Five major social media benefits for your business

[Aimeé Serrão] Entrepreneurs have come to rely on social media marketing practices as well as social media management tools in order to promote their products and services...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Social media - there are always two sides of the same coin

[Aimeé Serrão] We have all witnessed those annoyingly cute couples on Facebook. They are the ones constantly pouring their hearts out to each other via status updates and wall posts...

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Lesley Svenson

[BizTakeouts Radio Show & Podcasts] This week we hosted Korak Kuhnert, chief technical officer of Magnetic. Magnetic is an all-in-one, integrated account management, business development, CRM, time tracking, traffic and resource management, finance and HR solution for creative, advertising and digital agencies.https://

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RETAIL

#AfricaMonth: Loving Levi's locally

[Leigh Andrews] 20 May marked the 143rd birthday of the Levi's 501 button-fly. To celebrate the milestone of that red-tagged fashion favourite, members of the media were recently invited on an exclusive factory tour...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

Tweets encourage double amputee teen to walk again

[Mike Sharman] From no legs to running a mile of The Ultimate Human Race...

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Ruth Cooper

[Music]

Die Antwoord release track GUCCI COOCHIE ft. Dita Von Teese, The Black Goat + God, from their new mixtape, Suck on This.

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

Meeting Majozi

[Pasqua Heard] Bizcommunity meets well-known musician Majozi to discuss his new album, his views on the changing quota of local music played on SA radio, as well as his wide-brimmed hat - thanks to Zak Venter, founder of Sergeant Pepper Clothing, who told him the benefits of having 'a look'...

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MARKETING & MEDIA

#Loeries2016: Creative conversations with Laura Jordan-Bambach

Laura Jordan-Bambach

[Leigh Andrews] Jury president of the Loeries' communication design category for 2016 Laura Jordan-Bambach shares her views on gender equality in advertising as well as her best way to get out of a creativity rut...

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Ruth Cooper

[Music]

GoodLuck release the official music video for Thinking About You. The music video was filmed and produced by 2plus3 productions and directed and edited by Stephen Du Plessis.

GoodLuck - Thinking About You from Sony Music Africa on Vimeo.

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ENERGY & MINING

#AUW2016: Operationalising the water-energy nexus

[Nicci Botha] Day 2 of African Utility Week looked at the cornerstones of sustainable development - energy, water and food security - and how they need to developed in unison to achieve the ambitious goals of COP21,,.

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MARKETING & MEDIA

The 'Case' for Ogilvy's digital domination

Pete Case

[Leigh Andrews] Merge SA's most awarded digital agency with its closest competitor locally, add a sprinkle of digital wizardry and you have a winning formula for continued digital success...

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Ken van Ginkel

[Advertising]

Heigh ho, heigh ho! When Spitfire Director AK and Ireland/Davenport came together to create Isuzu's new TVC, it was off to work they went with a vengeance.

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ESG & SUSTAINABILITY

#SBCT16: What value does advertising bring to your life?

Thomas Kolster, founder, Goodvertising Agency

[Sindy Peters] Thomas Kolster is the founder of the Copenhagen-based Goodvertising Agency. Through Goodvertising, he is challenging the way we do business and advertising.

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LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT

#AfricaMonth: Umlilo the post-kwaito pop prince(ss)

[Ruth Cooper] Musician and artist Umlilo is awe-ing local and international markets with his unique post-kwaito electronica, socially conscious lyrics and gender-bending avant garde style.

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LEGAL

CCMA cases increase, giving rise to careful consideration on retrenchment

[Aadil Patel] According to the CCMA, it has around 687 cases a day, which represents an increase of almost 23% over the past five years...

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IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

IT is less important than you think

[Mark Geschke] The chatter around digital transformation is steadily increasing and in almost all cases IT is regarded as super critical for moving forward. While a more effective use of information technologies...

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