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HR & Management

Job profiling pitfalls: How to avoid misprofiled levels, vague duties and inflated job titles

Chimoné Zaayman 2 days

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HR & Management

Job profiling pitfalls: How one vague verb can sabotage the integrity of job evaluations

Chimoné Zaayman 1 Jul 2025

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Higher Education

Can academics use AI to write journal papers? What the guidelines say

Sumaya Laher 30 Jun 2025

Harmony Gold has lost an appeal against a ruling by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration in the Labour Court. Illustration: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Labour Law & Unions

Harmony Gold to pay R100k in damages for k-word incident

Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti 19 Jun 2025

PR & Communications

Welcome to a new PR challenge: surviving the unmoderated internet

Yolisa Mkele 8 May 2025

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Specialties

Home dialysis: The affordable solution for kidney patients in remote areas

10 Apr 2025

KZN Clothing & Textile cluster opens entries for accelerator

Design & Manufacturing

KZN Clothing & Textile cluster opens entries for accelerator

2 Apr 2025

Penquin celebrates its creative DNA with bold new culture reel

Branding

Penquin celebrates its creative DNA with bold new culture reel

Issued by Penquin 28 Mar 2025

Best study apps for students in South Africa

Higher Education

Best study apps for students in South Africa

Issued by FundiConnect 28 Feb 2025

Happy Sandpit announces Culture Bus giveaway for HR students and junior HR associates

Skills Development & Training

Happy Sandpit announces Culture Bus giveaway for HR students and junior HR associates

Issued by Happy Sandpit 10 Feb 2025

Duduzile Zuma, daughter of South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma, looks on during a press briefing on the outcomes of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) National High Command Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, 11 October 2024. Reuters/Alet Pretorius/File Photo

Criminal Law

Zuma's daughter charged over 2021 riots

Sfundo Parakozov 30 Jan 2025

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Criminal Law

Rhino poachers handed prison sentences

27 Jan 2025

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Climate Change

Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world

Oscar Berglund and Tie Franco Brotto 7 Jan 2025

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Career Advice

Momentum is key to a successful 2025

Anja van Beek 6 Jan 2025

Human Rights Law

Zimbabwe scraps the death penalty – tracking the path to abolition

Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar 3 Jan 2025

HIV/AIDS

How Afrocentric's Aid for Aids programme is transforming HIV care in South Africa

13 Dec 2024

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Healthcare

HIV: there’s hope for a cure – where we stand now

3 Dec 2024

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Criminal Law

Does the punishment fit the counterfeit crime? A look at lenient sentencing

Hashiem Logday 29 Nov 2024

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Criminal Law

NPA scores Steinhoff victory

27 Sep 2024

Criminal Law

Thabo Bester and hundreds of other prisoners kept in unlawful conditions, says inspectorate

Daniel Steyn 23 Sep 2024

The importance of oral storytelling and reading to children

Primary & Secondary Education

The importance of oral storytelling and reading to children

Nelia Landman, Issued by Oxford University Press 13 Sep 2024

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Criminal Law

Former Prasa employee sentenced to 15 years in prison

4 Sep 2024

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Law Practice

Challenges in enforcing foreign judgments in SA

Jonathan Barnes, Max Taylor, and Kelly Calvert-Evers 29 Aug 2024

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Accounting & Auditing

Amendments to 5 International Financial Reporting Standards

Leeann Naidoo, Issued by SAICA 23 Aug 2024

SADiLaR raises global visibility from Poland to Italy

Higher Education

SADiLaR raises global visibility from Poland to Italy

Issued by North-West University (NWU) 15 Jul 2024

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Criminal Law

Ex-VBS Bank chair pleads guilty, gets 15 years

11 Jul 2024

First-of-a-kind study measures children’s utterances in Southern Bantu languages

Higher Education

First-of-a-kind study measures children’s utterances in Southern Bantu languages

Birgit Ottermann, Issued by North-West University (NWU) 20 Jun 2024

Former South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to his suppoters during the launch of the election manifesto of his new political party, uMkhonto we Sizwe, ahead of a general election on 29 May, at a rally in Soweto, South Africa, 18 May 2024. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

Law Practice

#SAelections24: Zuma disqualified from running for parliament, ConCourt rules

Anait Miridzhanian 20 May 2024

Child speech database research project attracts international attention

Higher Education

Child speech database research project attracts international attention

Birgit Ottermann, Issued by North-West University (NWU) 7 May 2024

Does anyone know what content is any more?

Marketing

Does anyone know what content is any more?

Justine Drake, Issued by Dentsu 16 Apr 2024

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Criminal Law

Woman sentenced for R16m theft

9 Apr 2024

An authentic voice when using AI

Technology

An authentic voice when using AI

Marylou Kneale, Issued by Livingfacts 8 Apr 2024

Digital

The role of AI in PR: A cautionary tale from Sports Illustrated

Judith Middleton 5 Apr 2024

Media Freedom

Detained Congolese journalist Bujakera has been freed, lawyer says

Bate Felix 20 Mar 2024

Two Cape High Court judges had to carefully consider parts of speech to decide whether a popular Western Cape phrase violated a court order. Archive photo: Liezl Human / GroundUp

Law Practice

Judges grapple with use of “ma se p...”

Tania Broughton 29 Feb 2024

Ogilvy Health leverages the power of data to launch South Africa’s first patient-led cancer registry

Oncology

Ogilvy Health leverages the power of data to launch South Africa’s first patient-led cancer registry

Issued by Ogilvy South Africa 26 Feb 2024

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Oncology

Ogilvy Health champions South Africa's first patient-led cancer registry

26 Feb 2024

Digital footprint crucial for indigenous language preservation

Higher Education

Digital footprint crucial for indigenous language preservation

Birgit Ottermann, Issued by North-West University (NWU) 23 Feb 2024

The Bitcoin price surge is predicted to continue throughout 2024. Source: André François McKenzie/Unsplash

Technology

Bitcoin rollercoaster rides on with halving and regulatory legitimacy still to come

Lindsey Schutters 15 Feb 2024

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Labour Law & Unions

Are extended notice periods enforceable?

13 Feb 2024

Finance

Majority of cash-strapped South Africans unable to retire comfortably

1 Feb 2024

The war against cable theft is being won. Source: Kindel Media/Pexels.

Hardware

Telkom and SAPS partnership to fight theft and vandalism sees results

29 Jan 2024

Source: Twitter/@Isaac_Herzog. Israeli President Isaac Herzog addressed The World Economic Forum's 54th Annual Meeting in Davos last week, calling on world leaders to not forget the hostages taken captive by Hamas gunmen on 7 October 2023. The hostages include both Israelis and Muslims, among them Kfir Bibas who turned one last week. President Herzog is seen here seated at #WEF2024 next to a photo of Kfir Bibas, taken shortly before Bibas was abducted.

Healthcare

#WEF24: Israeli president addresses dire health of Hamas-held hostages

Katja Hamilton 22 Jan 2024

Cristiano Ronaldo is the most prominent spokesperson for Binance. Source: x.com

4th Industrial Revolution

Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1bn lawsuit, implicated in Binance crypto fraud

Lindsey Schutters 1 Dec 2023

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Criminal Law

July unrest 'instigator' Mdumiseni Zuma slapped with 12-year jail sentence

30 Nov 2023

File photo: Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius leaves court after appearing for the 2013 killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, 14 June 2016. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko/Files

Criminal Law

UPDATED: Pistorius granted parole

Bhargav Acharya 24 Nov 2023

Sam Bankman-Fried introduced at Crypto Bahamas conference.

Tech Startups

SBF found guilty on all counts, faces 100-year sentence

Lindsey Schutters 6 Nov 2023

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IP Law

SA's battle against fake goods

Mohamed Khader 7 Nov 2023

Tunisians gather during a pro-Palestinian protest to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in Tunis, Tunisia, 20 October 2023. REUTERS/Jihed Abidellaoui/File Photo.

Human Rights Law

Tunisian parliament committee proposes bill criminalising normalisation with Israel

Tarek Amara 25 Oct 2023