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2025 Africa Impact Investment Awards announces winners

CSI & Philanthropy

2025 Africa Impact Investment Awards announces winners

1 day

#YouthMonth: Lesedi Lehasa, a trade quality specialist, is shaping SAB's quality standards

Design & Manufacturing

#YouthMonth: Lesedi Lehasa, a trade quality specialist, is shaping SAB's quality standards

Evan-Lee Courie 2 days

Advertising for employment: How youth are marketing themselves like products

Branding

Advertising for employment: How youth are marketing themselves like products

2 days

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

South African assets sink on risk aversion after Israel's strike on Iran

2 days

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Tax Law

Landmark judgment rules crypto 'freely transferrable' - Sarb moves to block it

Bright Tibane, Andani Thovhakale and Tony Misago 2 days

The future of medical schemes depends on technology, trust and transformation

Medical Aid

The future of medical schemes depends on technology, trust and transformation

Kevin Aron, Issued by Stone 2 days

Source: Reuters.

Taxation & Regulation

South African budget law passes after months of delay

Alessandro Parodi and Sfundo Parakozov 2 days

5 things you might not know about SA's youth consumer class

Youth Month

5 things you might not know about SA's youth consumer class

Issued by BrandMapp 3 days

Source: © 123rf Chilean advertisers currently allocate an average of 3.6% of their revenue to communication, marketing, and advertising budgets says Scopen research. Pictured: Panoramic view of Santiago de Chile with the Andes mountain range in the background.

Marketing & Media

Part 1: Scopen - Advertising investment increases in Chile

3 days

Parliament recently heard submissions on the One-Stop Border Post Bill. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Legislation & Regulation

New border control plan could harm asylum seekers, say critics

Jan Bornman 11 Jun 2025

New dairy ad campaign gives TV a go

Advertising

New dairy ad campaign gives TV a go

Issued by The Consumer Education Project of Milk SA 10 Jun 2025

Financial Services

Cabinet sent basic income grant plan back to the drawing board

Marecia Damons 9 Jun 2025

Liezel Jonkheid is the director and founder of the Consumer Psychology Lab. Source: Supplied.

CRM, CX, UX

Transform your business culture through customer experience

Liezel Jonkheid 6 Jun 2025

No market research? You’re throwing good money after bad

Research

No market research? You’re throwing good money after bad

Issued by BMi Research 5 Jun 2025

Budget 3.0 intensifies pressure on beer producers in SA

Food & bev. services

Budget 3.0 intensifies pressure on beer producers in SA

4 Jun 2025

Ready or not? Why a budget shows you're serious about PR

PR & Communications

Ready or not? Why a budget shows you're serious about PR

Issued by Brandfundi 4 Jun 2025

Medical Aid

Profmed steps in as 1,800 qualified SA doctors face job and healthcare crisis

Katja Hamilton 4 Jun 2025

Fuel price update still pending as June adjustment date nears

Fuel & Energy

Fuel price update still pending as June adjustment date nears

3 Jun 2025

Source: © Whiteriver Technical College by 30 June, companies and municipalities will have to have registered a supervisor as a professional process controller with the WISA, as required by Regulation 3630 of the National Water Act

Science & Engineering

Legal risk for employers with water treatment facilities looms

3 Jun 2025

Pepkor's fashion chain Ayana aims for hundreds of stores in SA

Fashion & Homeware

Pepkor's fashion chain Ayana aims for hundreds of stores in SA

Nqobile Dludla 3 Jun 2025

Makro cuts prices on 100 essential items in 3-month-long rollback

Retailers

Makro cuts prices on 100 essential items in 3-month-long rollback

3 Jun 2025

Temu highlighted at Google I/O 2025

Technology

Temu highlighted at Google I/O 2025

2 Jun 2025

Source: Wikimedia/Lschefa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lesotho’s capital.

HIV/AIDS

Lesotho’s health system has been decimated by US funding cuts

Sechaba Mokhethi 2 Jun 2025

This Youth Month Unathi Mahlangu, public relations and communications intern at NerdNarrative dares you to step into your potential (Image supplied)

Youth Month

Step into your potential and honour Youth Month

Unathi Mahlangu 2 Jun 2025

“If you’re broke, you can’t be boring.”: Mariska Oosthuizen, chief marketing officer at Sanlam

Financial Services

“If you’re broke, you can’t be boring.”: Mariska Oosthuizen, chief marketing officer at Sanlam

Issued by Sanlam Fintech 30 May 2025

Source: Supplied. Cape Town's Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis.

Finance

Updated City Budget offers sweeping relief measures for households

Katja Hamilton 29 May 2025

Source: Supplied. Christina Mooki, Head: Medical Partnership Operations at Merchant Capital.

Healthcare

4 key trends driving growth opportunities for pharmacies

Christina Mooki 29 May 2025

Source: Reuters.

Finance

South Africa GDP growth outlook gets biggest cut since early 2023

Vuyani Ndaba 28 May 2025

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Higher Education

Call for rebranding of TVET colleges to unlock full potential

28 May 2025

Branding

Dancing in concert: Reimagining brand impact

Tumelo Mphirima, Issued by Motherland OMNi 28 May 2025

Sinamuva Crèche has not received subsidy payments for two months. Photo: Joseph Bracken / GroundUp

Early Childhood Development

KwaZulu-Natal government ordered to pay crèches

Joseph Bracken and Tsoanelo Sefoloko 28 May 2025

Source: © KFC Collectively, 16.28 million South African adults have eaten from the top 5 fast food outlets, roughly the same number that voted in the 2024 South African elections

Food & bev. services

South Africans love their fast food... especially KFC

28 May 2025

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Student Village's Ronen Aires - Gen Z's disruption of the world

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Student Village's Ronen Aires - Gen Z's disruption of the world

Danette Breitenbach 27 May 2025

Scientists at the University of Pretoria have found that fresh vegetables are being contaminated by disease-causing bacteria through irrigation from polluted rivers and boreholes. Photos: Steve Kretzmann / GroundUp

Food, Water & Energy Security

South Africa’s polluted rivers pose food contamination risk

Steve Kretzmann 26 May 2025

Consumers prefer relevant local advertising – new research

Media

Consumers prefer relevant local advertising – new research

Issued by Spark Media 23 May 2025

Source: Pexels.

Finance

Massive public outcry over Cape Town's controversial 2025/26 budget proposals

23 May 2025

Source: Supplied. Shawn Theunissen, founder of Entrepreneurship To The Point (eTTP) and Property Point.

Finance

Why Budget 3.0 isn't the boon for small businesses South Africa needs

22 May 2025

Why your digital media might not be scaling

Digital

Why your digital media might not be scaling

Issued by TDMC 22 May 2025

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Health & Social Welfare

#Budget3.0: Social grant increases remain in place

22 May 2025

Source: Flickr/GovernmentZA; SA Finance Minister, Enoch Godongwana.

Finance

#Budget3.0: GNU's strategic pivot balancing growth with fiscal responsibility

Katja Hamilton 21 May 2025

Skills Training

UJ, Google partnership to boost cybersecurity skills, youth employment

20 May 2025

Stop optimising your mistakes: Why brave creative is the key to marketing's future

Marketing

Stop optimising your mistakes: Why brave creative is the key to marketing's future

Vanessa Bolosier, Issued by Incubeta 20 May 2025

Substance abuse is costing companies dearly: Here’s what they can do about it

Employee Wellness

Substance abuse is costing companies dearly: Here’s what they can do about it

Issued by Harmony Clinic 26 May 2025

Bradly Howland, president-elect: Public Relations Institute of Southern Africa (Prisa) says while the public relations profession is changing, that change is nota collapse. Transformation is not crisis (image supplied)

PR & Communications

Prisa | PR: Transformation is not crisis

Bradly Howland 19 May 2025

Biggles Removals weekly update on the East Rand’s property, infrastructure and moving trends

Residential Property

Biggles Removals weekly update on the East Rand’s property, infrastructure and moving trends

Issued by Biggles Removals 16 May 2025

Travel

Expat Explore turns 20: The South African-born travel brand comes home to celebrate

Issued by The Publicity Workshop 16 May 2025