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Financial Services

Sassa says it has fixed most of its audit problems but gaps remain

Marecia Damons 16 Sep 2025

Introducing South Africa’s first eco-flat wine bottle

Packaging

Introducing South Africa’s first eco-flat wine bottle

Issued by Safripol 15 Sep 2025

Image credit: Reuters

Climate Change

African leaders unite to fund $50bn yearly climate initiative despite global setbacks

11 Sep 2025

Image credit: Reuters

Environment & Natural Resources

Landslide devastates village in Darfur, over 1,000 feared dead

3 Sep 2025

Explore the bold and diverse films lighting up September's screens

Film

Explore the bold and diverse films lighting up September's screens

Daniel Dercksen 2 Sep 2025

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Plastic microbeads: great in your face wash, bad in your food – how South Africa’s ban can work better

Anusha Rajkaran and Conrad Sparks 25 Aug 2025

Grey’s Anatomy star Jeffrey Dean Morgan leads thrilling new travel reality show Destination X

TV

Grey’s Anatomy star Jeffrey Dean Morgan leads thrilling new travel reality show Destination X

Issued by DStv Media Sales 21 Aug 2025

Untamed Africa celebrated on National Geographic Wild this August

TV

Untamed Africa celebrated on National Geographic Wild this August

Issued by The Walt Disney Company Africa 19 Aug 2025

Calm restored at Maponya Mall

Retail

Calm restored at Maponya Mall

19 Aug 2025

Soweto's Maponya Mall temporarily closed after deadly attack

Retail

Soweto's Maponya Mall temporarily closed after deadly attack

14 Aug 2025

#Orchids&Onions: Clientele stands up to crumbling service, City Power flickers out

#OrchidsandOnions

#Orchids&Onions: Clientele stands up to crumbling service, City Power flickers out

Brendan Seery 12 Aug 2025

Fish deaths in Lake Victoria raise alarm over disease and antibiotic resistance

Fishing

Fish deaths in Lake Victoria raise alarm over disease and antibiotic resistance

5 Aug 2025

Image source: burdun –

Law of Succession

When can a non-compliant Will be declared valid?

Roberto Oktober and Karel Kogler 1 Aug 2025

Lebogang Mashangoane, PR account director at the Riverbed Agency, says we need to ask what modern PR looks like in an AI-powered world. (Image supplied)

PR & Communications

#WPRD2025 | Riverbed’s Lebogang Mashangoane: Modern PR in an AI-powered world

Lebogang Mashangoane 31 Jul 2025

Mastering PR: staying human in a tech-saturated world

PR & Communications

Mastering PR: staying human in a tech-saturated world

Issued by icandi CQ 25 Jul 2025

Source: © 123rf The IAS Media Assurance Masterclass Series reveals that 70% of procurement professionals are
overwhelmed by marketing contracts, while agencies quietly exploit the gaps

Marketing & Media

Overwhelming marketing contracts, agencies quietly exploit the gaps

16 Jul 2025

Law of Succession

Dispute over life partnership status fuels legal battle for estate

Loraine Strydom and Kaamilah Paulse 15 Jul 2025

Source: Supplied. Adv. Hendrik Terblanche, Managing Director of Legricon Legal Risk and Compliance Consultants.

Construction & Engineering

The battle of clarity: Construction safety regulations fall short, say industry experts

3 Jul 2025

Family Law

Disturbing the dead for DNA testing? High Court rules

Anelisa Zungu and Kaamilah Paulse 4 Jul 2025

Reflections on World Press Freedom Day amid rising online attacks on journalists

Media

Reflections on World Press Freedom Day amid rising online attacks on journalists

Issued by Media Development and Diversity Agency 3 Jul 2025

Source: Pexels.

Construction & Engineering

Tragedy strikes Durban construction site: One dead, four injured in structural collapse

25 Jun 2025

Image credit: Jared Brashier on Unsplash

Mining

Ghana uses drone tech, AI to catch wildcat miners

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 26 Jun 2025

The top job sectors opening their doors to young South African workers

Talent Acquisition

The top job sectors opening their doors to young South African workers

Issued by Pnet 10 Jul 2025

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

Public Health

Medical students open SA's first organ donor support unit at Tygerberg Hospital

12 Jun 2025

Andrew Trench has passed away. Source: LinkedIn.

Media

Remembering a formidable journalist and editor, Andrew Trench

4 Jun 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

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

Taking Care of Business turns retail waste into a R559m micro-enterprise economy

ESG

Taking Care of Business turns retail waste into a R559m micro-enterprise economy

19 May 2025

Advertising

Why smart TVs are the new front door for brands

Leslie Adams 14 May 2025

5 Things we learnt directing Chasing the Sun.

Production

5 Things we learnt directing Chasing the Sun.

Issued by Scholars Film 7 Nov 2024

#OrchidsandOnions: Corion Capital’s Star Wars surprise, while Wired misses the PR brief

#OrchidsandOnions

#OrchidsandOnions: Corion Capital’s Star Wars surprise, while Wired misses the PR brief

Brendan Seery 5 May 2025

May cinema lineup: from Marvel adventures to South African dramas

Film

May cinema lineup: from Marvel adventures to South African dramas

Daniel Dercksen 30 Apr 2025

Trump’s tariffs an unmanageable risk for SA carmakers

Commercial & Industrial

Trump’s tariffs an unmanageable risk for SA carmakers

Lance Branquinho 22 Apr 2025

Law Practice

Supreme court ruling: lapsed contracts can't be revived without written reinstatement

Jaco van der Westhuizen 15 Apr 2025

Is strategic CSI dead... or just evolving?

CSI & Philanthropy

Is strategic CSI dead... or just evolving?

Cathy Duff, Issued by Trialogue 8 Apr 2025

MegaVision Media powers the in-store Unilever Sunlight 5-in-1 Washing Powder launch

In-store Media

MegaVision Media powers the in-store Unilever Sunlight 5-in-1 Washing Powder launch

Issued by MegaVision Media 1 Apr 2025

5 years on from Covid and how work will continue to evolve

Trends

5 years on from Covid and how work will continue to evolve

Mark Dixon, Issued by GO Content Lab 31 Mar 2025

Sassa presented its audit action plan to Parliament on Wednesday. Archive photo of people queueing for social grants in Eerste River in 2018. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Sassa explains why it paid grants to 75,000 dead people

Marecia Damons 24 Mar 2025

The number 1 workplace skill you’re probably ignoring (but shouldn’t)

Skills Development & Training

The number 1 workplace skill you’re probably ignoring (but shouldn’t)

Chantel Botha, Issued by BrandLove 24 Mar 2025

The disease is hard to catch because it looks similar to other crop diseases. Source: Supplied.

Agriculture

Goss’s Wilt and Leaf Blight: A new threat to South African maize production

Dr. Rikus Kloppers 19 Mar 2025

Source: © 123rf The legal bid of eTV, Media Monitoring Africa and SOS Support public broadcasting continues today, Wednesday 19 March in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria

TV

Television access at risk for millions of South Africans as analogue switch-off date is contested

19 Mar 2025

Source: © 123rf Leslie Adams, sales director at Reach Africa, asks, while TV licences are outdated, is a streaming levy the right fix?

TV

The TV licence is dead! Long live the streaming levy - or not?

Leslie Adams 17 Mar 2025

ESG & Sustainability

ESG down but not out: SA's businesses need to step up after Trump’s exit from JET

Mila Vicquery 17 Mar 2025

Source: Supplied.

Covid-19

5 years on: How Covid redefined the future of work

Mark Dixon 12 Mar 2025

South African playwright Athol Fugard passes away

Theatre

South African playwright Athol Fugard passes away

10 Mar 2025