Midwives are routinely "overlooked and ignored" despite saving millions of lives a year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, urging the world to hire more women and safeguard new life...
Sonia Elks 17 hours ago
Performance marketing and SEO agency Mickey Llew recently appointed Cassandra Wingrove to lead growth and development at its Australian office...
Jessica Tennant 30 Apr 2021
Afrikrea has partnered with DHL and Visa to launch Anka, a platform that provides African micro retailers and small businesses with e-commerce, payments and global shipping services...
The nominees for the 15th South African Film and Television Awards (Saftas) have just been announced.
Kantar's Creative Effectiveness Awards reveals the world's most effective ads of 2020, and what makes them great...
Daren Poole, Issued by Kantar 14 Apr 2021
Many island economies are dependent on tourism and nowhere is this more apparent than in the Indian Ocean islands of the Maldives and the Seychelles...
The North-West University (NWU) celebrated the torchbearers of its teaching excellence during a virtual event...
Issued by North-West University (NWU) 29 Mar 2021
Disputes over the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine have dominated the week, just as they have at various points over the past few months...
Rob Reddick 29 Mar 2021
Together, Uber and Unesco aim to remove transportation as a barrier to accessing vaccinations for teachers around the world as and when governments allow local teachers to get vaccinated...
Jenna Delport 18 Mar 2021
The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards were announced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas live from London...
The 63rd Grammy Awards took place last night in Los Angeles, hosted by Trevor Noah the event saw live performances from Taylor Swift, BTS, Cardi B and more, as well as awards handed out in 83 categories, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
The International Tourism and Investment Summit's partnership with World Travel Market will leverage each companies' strengths and commitment to propel growth in travel and tourism through innovation in products, destination marketing and investment in sustainable development and infrastructure...
With the right preparation, specialist destinations can benefit from an expected increase in demand...
Jaeyeon Choe and Michael Di Giovine 8 Mar 2021
There is no question that the public sector and the state-owned companies (SOC) cluster in South Africa has come under enormous scrutiny from all sides...
Bakang Letshwiti 4 Mar 2021
"The bedrock on which ProfitShare Partners (PSP) is founded on is inclusivity," says Andrew Maren, CEO and founder of the company working with SMEs to effect growth and success in a sector largely shut out by traditional banking processes...
Issued by Hot 91.9FM 4 Mar 2021
Europlaw Group decided of entering into a formal business collaboration of entering into a joint venture with SJ Global Investments...
Issued by Europlaw 2 Mar 2021
Africa has the potential to harvest 1,000 times more than the continent's projected demands for electricity in 2040 from renewable sources...
Nicci Botha 2 Mar 2021
The One Club for Creativity has announced the first group of creative leaders who will serve on juries for the inaugural One Show 2021 Fusion Pencil and ADC 100th Annual Awards Fusion Cube awards...
Partnered by British Council Southern Africa Arts, Business and Arts South Africa will be launching a hybrid live-and-digital platform called Assembly on 25 March 2021...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 11 Feb 2021
The ventilators will be placed in the Department of Health's Job Shimankana Tabane and Moses Kotane Hospitals...
Trustlink Africa is a platform that aims to build more sustainable and bankable small/medium enterprises that are ready for access to funding and business opportunities made available by the government, corporates, and financial institutions...
Evan-Lee Courie 5 Feb 2021
Amazon announced Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO almost 27 years after he founded the company to sell books to customers over dial-up modems...
Venkatesh Shankar 4 Feb 2021
From large florals to '50s inspired headscarves, fashionistas globally are getting ready to kiss their WFH ensembles goodbye, despite many countries forcing their citizens back indoors to help curb the spread of the dreaded coronavirus. Here are a few trends the stylish can look forward to in the year to come...
Rob Noble 18 Jan 2021
The Thomson Reuters Foundation has released a report containing the voices of journalists working across the Global South and Emerging Economies highlighting the challenges faced by the profession during the pandemic...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently approved a Desert-to-Power (D2P) technical support programme that aims to advance the rollout of solar generation in G5 Sahel countries...
The African Development Bank last week approved $15m from the Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa (SEFA) and $10m from the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) to advance the African Renewable Energy Fund (AREF) II's projects...
International advocacy organisation Global Citizen has announced the winners of the 2020 Global Citizen Prize...
Issued by OnPoint PR 17 Dec 2020
For people, corporations, and global brands, 2020 went from "twenty plenty" to "twenty empty"...
Madelain Roscher 14 Dec 2020
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2020 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views...
Business and Arts South Africa NPC (Basa), in partnership with Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), concluded their three-year stint as co-collaborators of the Scale-Up Programme with a wrap event reflective of this year's sleek and slimline approach...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 10 Dec 2020
Thirteen youth-led projects are set to benefit from the Driving Force for Change initiative, intended for projects that tackle issues of climate change, waste management and biodiversity loss...
Reimagined to reflect the current state of the world, the platform for the 23rd annual Basa Awards partnered by Hollard is an integrated online experience available to everyone...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 19 Nov 2020
The 2020 Basa Awards commissioned Mrs + Mr Luke to create seven installations at seven secret locations around Johannesburg...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 17 Nov 2020
Visual artist, curator and gallery director Banele Khoza is the featured artist for the 23rd annual Business and Arts South Africa (Basa) Awards, partnered by Hollard...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 17 Nov 2020
Basa CEO Ashraf Johaardien describes the 2020 iteration of the annual Basa Awards as "an integrated online experience available to the public from 19 November 2020". Sascha Polkey chatted to him to find out more...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 13 Nov 2020
The 23rd Annual BASA Awards, partnered by Hollard, are once again shining a spotlight on indelible business and arts partnerships in seven categories...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 29 Oct 2020
The 2020 Ugu Film Festival (UGUFF) will be held online from 22 to 25 October 2020...
Weekly entertainment show Devi has a new timeslot...
Issued by eMedia 13 Oct 2020
African Sports Content Network (ASCN) was founded with the mission to decentralise consumer access to quality sports products...
Papama Nyati 12 Oct 2020
Award-winning digital marketing expert and influencer, Deshnie Govender discusses the launch of her podcast, Influence Insider by Digi Hype, her stance on diversity and inclusion in the industry and she talks us through some of the highlights in her career...
Juanita Pienaar 25 Sep 2020
In a week, some of the most awarded individuals in the brand communication industry join the Loeries to begin judging thousands of entries submitted for 2020 in the hope of scooping Africa and the Middle East's highest creative accolade - a Loerie...
Basa members elected Unathi Malunga and Makgati Molebatsi as the organisation's new directors...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 21 Sep 2020
South African commodity trading and brokerage house E&T Minerals is one of the companies/organisations bidding for OCM (Optimum Coal Mine)...
Issued by E&T Minerals 17 Sep 2020
Business and Arts South Africa NPC (Basa), in partnership with Rand Merchant Bank (RMB), is expanding the scope of its Scale-Up Programme, with the addition of phase two, which includes a mentorship and funding component...
Issued by Business and Arts South Africa 17 Sep 2020
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has issued a second concurrence to a Section 34 Ministerial Determination, which paves the way to procure 11,813MW of new electricity capacity...
The 58th D&AD Awards Ceremony took place virtually last night where 4 Back Pencils were awarded and South Africa ranked 22nd in the country rankings...
Ad Stars has announced this year's Grand Prix, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners, chosen from 20,028 entries from 60 countries...
Despite the devastating economic impacts of Covid-19, the franchising sector could remain a viable business investment for aspiring entrepreneurs...
Lauren Hartzenberg 2 Sep 2020