Ghana became the first country globally to receive a vaccine shipment from the Covax facility...
Godfred Boafo 29 Apr 2021
Before Covid-19 relegated most of society to the confines of their homes, the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) sought to bring digital transformation to the masses...
Mondli Cele 28 Apr 2021
Conspiracy theories on social media are stoking the fires of fear around the Covid-19 inoculation...
Kenya has started the first phase of its Covid-19 vaccination strategy. This was made possible by the delivery of just over one million AstraZeneca vaccines that arrived in two batches...
Catherine Kyobutungi 9 Apr 2021
FCM's latest white paper has revealed that although New Zealand leads the way when it comes to domestic business travel recovery, South Africa claims second place in the race to recovery, reaching up to 25% of pre-Covid travel volumes...
The pandemic has exposed inequalities in society. There is concern that tying freedoms to vaccinations may further disadvantage vulnerable groups...
Yara M. Asi 15 Mar 2021
In a webinar hosted by the BroadReach Group, global and African health experts came together to share challenges and solutions around mass Covid-19 immunisation across Africa...
Just over two-thirds of South African adults polled said they would probably or definitely take a Covid-19 vaccine, a survey by the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) shows...
In the second century, the Antonine plague killed millions of people across the Roman empire. Opportunists and madmen postulated a variety of self-serving, nonsensical theories for this pestilence - and this caused great anxiety for Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
GroundUp Editors 13 Jan 2021
Vaccine hesitancy is a severe threat to global health, according to the World Health Organisation. The term refers to the delay in acceptance or the refusal of vaccines, despite the availability of vaccination services. It's a serious risk to the people who aren't getting vaccinated as well as the wider community...
Lessons from South Africa 2020 to tackle the unknown of the 2021 business year...
Issued by Kantar 15 Dec 2020
Vaccine hesitancy is a severe threat to global health, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
Steven Lloyd Wilson & Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Dec 2020
Polio is a highly infectious disease. It's caused by a virus that enters the body through the mouth. The virus then multiplies in the intestine and attacks the central nervous system - causing paralysis...
Charles Shey Wiysonge 4 Nov 2020
It has been nine months since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the outbreak of Covid-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a "public health emergency of international concern"...
Scott C Ratzan, Agnes Binagwaho, Heidi Larson, Jeffrey V Lazarus, Kenneth Rabin & Lawrence O Gostin 29 Oct 2020
World Immunisation Week is celebrated in the last week of April every year. The aim is to recognise efforts to develop new vaccines and increase vaccination coverage worldwide...
Katherine E Gallagher, Anthony Scott, Ifedayo Adetifa, John Ojal, Shirine Voller & Wangeci Kagucia 5 May 2020
Millennials have been accused by some media outlets of "killing the housing market", due to their reluctance to buy property. Their hesitancy stems more from being unable to afford it than from an emotional state...
Andrew Price 17 Jan 2020
A recent judgement of South Africa's Constitutional Court involving the country's energy regulator signals a new found willingness by the courts to scrutinise the way regulators set prices and tariffs...
Stephen Labson 31 Jul 2019
Forty-five years ago, the World Health Organisation launched the Expanded Programme on Immunisation. It covered six diseases - measles, tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus...
Benjamin Kagina 10 Jul 2019
YouTube has removed money-generating advertisements from anti-vaccination conspiracy channels...
There's been a recent increase globally in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases....
Marina Joubert & Francois van Schalkwyk 14 Feb 2019
The World Health Organisation's new five-year strategic plan - the 13th General Programme of Work tackles multiple global health challenges...
Reported measles cases spiked in 2017, as multiple countries experienced severe and protracted outbreaks of the disease. This is according to a new report published today by leading health organisations...
Vaccine hesitancy is a complex phenomenon that needs to be understood within the specific context it occurs...
Michelle Rotchford-Galloway 17 Oct 2018
A total of 33 countries have eliminated measles and the same number countries have eliminated rubella in the World Health Organisation's (WHO) European region...
Video killed the radio star, it was alleged in 1981 by pop group The Buggles in the song of the same name. But has social media caused the death of newspapers, magazines, and television?...
Iza Grek 6 Sep 2017
The world is changing before our very eyes, yet too often as a media strategist you remain doing what you have always done...
Ingrid von Stein 23 May 2016
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Despite the availability of effective vaccines, 1.5 million children across the world, including South Africa, die each year from preventable diseases...
nudge, a company specialising in online research, conducted a dipstick survey amongst 271 South Africans from across the country to explore awareness and participation intentions of Mandela Day...
Issued by nudge 14 Jul 2015
FlySafair, the newest domestic air service in South Africa, launched on 16 October 2014. I recently caught up with FlySafair CEO, Dave Andrew, to find out what to expect from the new low-cost airline.
Evan-Lee Courie 24 Oct 2014
The landscape of social media changes so rapidly that marketers are often left scrambling to keep up...
Gareth Slaven 28 Jul 2014
On a mission to make music fully mobile, affordable and heard, Spinlet will shortly launch its revolutionary music platform in South Africa. This will be the company's second launch on the African continent, after setting up office in Nigeria in 2011.
Spinlet, a digital entertainment company founded in Finland in 2006, will launch its revolutionary music platform in South Africa.
General Motors South Africa (GMSA) achieved a market share of 11,6% with 6 716 sales in a total vehicle market of 57 845 units in October as reported by NAAMSA. While up on September sales, the vehicle market continued to show a softer growth trend than that experienced during the first eight months of the year.
The news that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has dropped to a 14 month low of 4,9%, will reinforce pleas from the South African residential marketing and development sector for a further 0,5% drop in the interest rates, says Nancy Todd, the Rawson Property Group's Western Cape business development manager.
The Johannesburg Tourism Company is looking to triple the number of conventions and conferences it hosts by using its new bid fund to lure more business travellers to the city, acting chief executive Phelisa Mangcu said last week.
Executive-level race and gender equity continued to lag in appointments made in 2011, but not because of a lack of will to redress imbalances, a leading executive head hunter says.
The FNB/BER consumer confidence index (CCI) dropped by 7 index points, from +11 in 2Q 2011 to +4 in 3Q 2011, indicating that consumer spending is likely to moderate, should consumer confidence remain at this lower level in subsequent quarters.
JHI Properties has purchased East African Properties, a Zimbabwean company with an existing property management portfolio comprising 48 properties, which are a mix of industrial and retail. This forms part of its strategic expansion into Africa. The group is currently in Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho, Ghana, Nigeria, Botswana and Zambia.
The signs are ominous for South Africa's mass media. The percentage increase in the cost of advertising to a fixed number of consumers has doubled over the past year and is also twice the national inflation rate. And where mass media audiences did grow, it was at a far lower rate than media inflation.
Chris Moerdyk: @chrismoerdyk 5 Oct 2010
Given that FNB/BER consumer confidence index (CCI) surged briefly by 27 index points when South Africa won the bid to host the World Cup in 4Q2004, consumer confidence could easily have increased once more during 2Q2010 as a groundswell of excitement took hold of the whole country in the last month before the start of the final event.
The luxury hotel market is struggling to provide rooms for the forthcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup, argues Joop Demes, CEO of Pam Golding Hospitality.
I believe that the great NFL Hall of Fame coach, Vince Lombardi, had it right when he said, "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." Do you agree with coach Lombardi or are you the type of person who has difficulty staying focused and keeping commitments?
John Boe 8 Dec 2008
Earlier this week, the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) made a submission to the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) calling for the hearing to investigate the alleged misconduct of the Constitutional Court Judges and Cape Judge President John Hlope to be held in public. The FXI further supported the broadcast media's right to broadcast the hearing live.
EMPS has been checking previous employment references for over 30 years in South Africa and offers some valuable advice on doing telephonic reference checks.