Target will add products from more than 500 Black-owned businesses across its multi-category assortment and increase its spend with more Black-owned companies...
Popularised by the US Army as a result of the extreme conditions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the acronym VUCA - volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - was widely used to refer to our pre-Covid world... Then the pandemic hit...
Faeeza Khan 4 Jan 2021
Part 2 of Solani Hlayisi, group account director at Wunderman Thompson and Babalwa Nyembezi, head of digital at Net#work BBDO's discussion about Women's Day and the role brands and corporates could play in meaningfully engaging with this day...
Solani Hlayisi & Babalwa Nyembezi 17 Aug 2020
When it comes to making good business decisions, representation matters. Always...
Janade du Plessis and Kashira Naidoo 6 Aug 2020
But even though brands are stepping up and making statements, the broader industries behind these messages also need interrogating. Decolonisation, for example, is rarely discussed in my field, advertising - and it needs to be...
Carl W Jones 29 Jun 2020
PepsiCo CEO and chairman Ramon Laguarta announced on Twitter the CPG conglomerate's commitment to doing their part to help dismantle the systemic racial barriers that block social and economic progress for Black people in the US.
Inspired by the insight that only 7% of executive directorships in South Africa are held by women, the 7% Tribe is a movement which aims to equip women with the skills and networks they need to get ahead in the workplace...
Jessica Tennant 31 Aug 2018
A week of sojourning in the French summer has drawn to a close. Cannes 2018 was different for everyone, that much is clear...
Jarred Cinman 26 Jun 2018
IRBA outlines its concerns around the slow pace of transformation of the financial services sector before parliament...
Judges for top British literary award the Man Booker Prize spurned big-name novelists in favour of experimental new talent as they announced their shortlist in London...
Jury panel leader for the Loeries' print, outdoor and out of home category for 2016, Jimmy Smith shares his views on gender equality in advertising as well as his best ways to get out of a creativity rut...
Leigh Andrews 21 Jul 2016
In this exclusive interview I speak to Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of the One Club and One Show Awards taking place in New York City this week, about what true diversity means in terms of both gender and race throughout the industry...
Ann Nurock 11 May 2016
The Nelson Mandela Foundation, in partnership with Brand South Africa, will launch the "Play your Part for Madiba" campaign on Monday, 6 July 2015...
The University of Cape Town has appointed Professor Penelope (Penny) Andrews as the new Dean of the Faculty of Law...
Cecil John Rhodes' days are numbered. After a week of student protest, the UCT vice-chancellor has given the clearest indication yet that he believes the controversial statue of Rhodes should be moved from its "pride of place, at the focal point of the campus"...
Reitumetse L Pitso, Shaun Smillie and Poppy Louw 19 Mar 2015
Truth is most definitely stranger than fiction in film and this week you can unravel the mystery behind a deadly conspiracy in Kill The Messenger, explore Stephen Hawking's mindscape with The Theory of Everything, and join a woman on her journey to absolute freedom in Wild...
Daniel Dercksen 27 Feb 2015
The third annual Careers24 Salary Survey, released earlier this week, reveals that despite South African organisations' commitment to gender and racial equality, differences among the demographics suggest that many are still unconvinced.
South Africans feel their country is doing a lot better than a year ago when it comes to education, business prospects, media freedom and gender equality, according to data released this week by FutureFact 2006.