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JUANITA PIENAAR
Why do women drag other women down? How can we make it stop? How do you find your best-ever work wife (or husband)? SheSays Cape Town invited a panel of women to unpack 'the pink elephant' in the room... read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Xolisa Dyeshana, chief creative officer at Joe Public, also represents South Africa as part of the international board of the One Club for Creativity. With #AfricaMonth coming to an end, we caught up for a quick chat on the calibre of South Africa's creativity, what's holding us back and what more we can do to shine on the global stage...read
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JESSICA TENNANT
This National Child Protection Week (CPW), Google South Africa and Media Monitoring Africa hosted a roundtable putting a spotlight on the importance of online safety for children...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
With #ChildProtectionWeek observed from 2 to 9 June and #YouthMonth underway, what better time to put the focus on how to more ethically report on violence against children? Here's my second report back from Media Monitoring Africa and the UCT Children's Institute media workshop on 22 May at the Doubletree Hilton...read
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Africa Month
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Overseeing multi-ethnic innovation for Estée Lauder Companies, Susan Akkad is no stranger to the concept of 'inclusive beauty'... Read
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Addressing the well-being needs of Africans through a true collaborative effort between business, government, communities and the people who inhabit this continent will unlock future value... Read
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Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is estimated to rebound to 2.8%1 for 2019... Read
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OZ DESAI
Travel in Africa can be challenging and even risky at times. However, technology is helping to mitigate these issues... Read
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MAROEFAH SMITH
African personalities, vloggers, influencers and makeup artists bring an African flair to the New York attitude of Maybelline in the Makeup In The Cities - Africa web series... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Africa has been a rich source of artistic inspiration for many parts of the world for centuries, but what's changing now is that Afrocentric culture is being spearheaded by the sons and daughters of the African continent... Read
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To achieve universal healthcare in Africa, strong leadership, good governance structures and partnerships with the private sector are required to build a strong public health sector.... Read
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YAW DWOMOH
"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter..." Read
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Brand Africa has announced the Top 100 brands in Africa in their 7th annual 'Brand Africa 100: Africa's Best Brands'... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Quicket founders, James Tagg and James Hedley elaborate on the company's aggressive growth trajectory, especially throughout Africa, on what it is that sets them apart and on their future plans... Read
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JOHAN WALTERS
With the Augmented World Expo USA starting 29 May 2019, Johan Walters is on the ground in San Francisco. Here's what he's looking forward to from three days filled with AR, VR and everything in between... Read
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JOHAN WALTERS
The Augmented World Expo is underway in Silicon Valley, USA, and Johan Walters shares highlights from Day 1... Read
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JOHAN WALTERS
The Augmented World Expo is underway in Silicon Valley, USA, and Johan Walters shares highlights from Day 2... Read
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JOHAN WALTERS
The Augmented World Expo recently took place in Silicon Valley, USA. Here, Johan Walters shares highlights from Day 3... Read
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Advertising
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PAUL PHILLIPS
Paul Phillips, MD of AAR Group enlisted the help of 16 pitch consultants globally, to share their experience and list the top reasons why CMOs choose to pitch their business and how they pick the winning agency... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
But Carsmetic Surgeon's unfunny sexism needs to be knifed... Read
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Wina announced its shortlist for the 2019 competition with South African creative advertising agency, Kilmer & Cruise featuring in four categories... Read
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Branding
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BOGOSI MOTSHEGWA
You need to be smart and intentional with your approach. It also helps to have a brave and relentless brand team... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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VISHAL BARAPATRE
Digitisation has revolutionised the way businesses operate, with new entrants into all markets disrupting traditional enterprises through entirely innovative models... Read
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CHRIS MOERDYK, ISSUED BY CHRIS MOERDYK
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CSI
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HUGH TYRRELL
The recent passing of Tom Mclaughlin, who first led the Woolworths Good Business Journey has been a shock to all who came to know his warmth and wisdom... Read
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Terms such as "environmentally friendly", "organic", and "natural" or "pure" are popping up on marketing campaigns across the world... Read
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Arc Interactive hosted six female learners between Grades 10 to 12 from Minerva Secondary School as well as Sandringham High School, for the Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work Day 2019 programme... Read
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Design
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Cape Town-based floral designer Blomboy has designed The Conservatory of Beauty - a large-scale floral installation - for furniture and homeware brand Weylandts... Read
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Digital
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MATT ARNOLD
Data analytics; the new buzzword for business people everywhere - it's the new north star guiding every decision we're supposed to make. But there's a lot of data and not a lot of understanding on what to do with it, often making data analytics more confusing and less useful than it should be... Read
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JARRED MAILER-LYONS
Science fiction movies and novels did an amazing job of creating and dramatising encounters with artificial intelligence - but did it prepare us for the real world of AI? Unfortunately not... Read
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TUMI RABANYE, ISSUED BY THE BRAVE GROUP
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Education
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KIRSTI BUICK, ISSUED BY FRIENDS OF DESIGN - ACADEMY OF DIGITAL ARTS
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Events & Conferencing
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ZOE VAN DER VYVER
When it comes to hiring an event planner for your corporate event, one takes it for granted that certain things are included in their mix of talents on offer, because 'they are the experts' and it's why you've hired them... Read
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KELLY MCGILLIVRAY
There's a reason why being an event coordinator was identified as the fifth most stressful job in America last year (after police officer) - things can go wrong. Bringing events to life is fun and adrenaline works wonders when it kicks in, but the communication and production elements have to knit together seamlessly... Read
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Exhibitions
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BRONWYN WILLIAMS
Morality marketing. Woke-washing. Brand-standing. Jumping on the brand wagon. Whatever you want to call it, companies are increasingly taking the plunge and tying their brands to issues of social justice... Read
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CLAIRE DENHAM-DYSON
In marketing and business, good insights are like Fabergé eggs - rare, fascinating and in many ways, mythical. Most strong strategy does not evolve without a powerful insight to lead it, and robust research backing it up... Read
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JENARÉ HARDCASTLE, ISSUED BY THE WEB SHACK
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Media
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Mobile
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PR & Communications
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JESSICA TENNANT
Having joined Pernod Ricard in 2017 as a media manager, John Beale was recently promoted to head up the communications department... Read
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Production
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Radio
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The New York Festivals Radio Awards has announced its 2019 finalists with South Africa's CliffCentral selected as a finalist in the Podcast category... Read
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Research
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The report reveals that internet ad formats already account for the majority of media spend in eight markets, including the US, UK and China... Read
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The Financial Mail announced the winners of its annual Top Analyst Awards at an event held in Johannesburg last night... Read
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Retail
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SEMONA PILLAY
In an era of rapid technological change, and with the Fourth Industrial Revolution on everybody's lips, I ask: What about lower-income retail shoppers in emerging markets like South Africa? Read
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JONATHAN SCHROEDER AND JANET BORGERSON
When we hear the word "stereo" today, we might simply think of a sound system, as in "turn on the stereo". But stereo actually is a specific technology, like video streaming or the latest espresso maker... Read
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Social Media
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PIETER GROENEWALD
Pieter Groenewald from Nfinity unpacks the idea of using people as marketing channels and to view them the same as traditional marketing channels... Read
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ANDY WALKER
South Africa's former deputy president David "The Cat" Mabuza will be sworn in as an MP later today, this after he postponed taking his oath of office last week in Cape Town... Read
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JAMES TAGG
Facebook Messenger bots are a new communications channel. With 1.3 billion monthly active Messenger users, this new feature has the potential to disrupt the way businesses across all industries connect with their customers on a one-on-one basis... Read
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TV
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This #AfricaMonth we go behind the selfie with Ghana-born, Yaw Dwomoh, managing director of Idea Hive specialist brand storytellers based in Johannesburg... Read
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D&AD Awards
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Fairness First
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LEIGH ANDREWS
With #YouthMonth just around the corner, what better time to put the focus on how to more ethically report on violence against children? Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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The Creative Circle Monthly Award winners for work flighted between March and April this year were recently announced at Ogilvy in Johannesburg... Read
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JÁNOS BESENYO
Russia has never had an African colony. It stayed out of the scramble for Africa, only engaging with African states in the 19th Century. Read
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OTTO SHIKONGO
The incredible wealth of the Southern African region's offshore mineral deposits was once again highlighted by the oil and gas find off the coast of Mossel Bay... Read
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There has been justified outrage about a recently published - and hastily retracted - academic article written by academics from Stellenbosch University in South Africa... Read
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TIAAN DE JAGER & TANESHKA KRUGER
Malaria is a serious, complex and often fatal vector-borne disease caused by the parasite Plasmodium and transmitted when people are bitten by infected female Anopheles mosquitoes... Read
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Nestlé has launched a Research and Development (R&D) innovation challenge in sub-Saharan Africa to provide a platform for startups and universities to contribute to local sustainable growth... Read
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This year's SABRE Africa Awards provide a snapshot of how PR on the continent is progressing... Read
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In On Africa and African Business magazine announce partnership for the Africa Country Benchmark Report 2019... Read
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Realness, an African Screenwriter's Residency, announces 2019 participants at Cannes Film Festival... Read
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NOELLE GARCIN
The African Climate Reality Project (ACRP) welcomes the implementation of a carbon tax in South Africa as of 1 June 2019... Read
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The long-awaited Carbon Tax Bill, which is due to be implemented on 1 June 2019, will have a considerable impact on many of the large corporates that are currently operating in South Africa. As such, these companies will be under increasing pressure to find viable strategies to make their operations more sustainable. Read
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The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement, entered into force yesterday, brings with it the possibility of boosting intra-Africa trade and investment. The agreement, provides a framework to ease the doing of business in Africa... Read
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BILL WINTERS
The clock is ticking on climate change. We currently have more greenhouse gases in our atmosphere than at any time in human history... Read
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RAYMOND PARSONS
The economic message emerging from the reconfigured and leaner Cabinet announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa is potentially a positive one for business and the markets... Read
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Participating in this year's Cell C Take a Girl Child to Work Day, thousands of girls across South Africa will gain first-hand work experience... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Astral Aerial Solutions, based in Nairobi, Kenya, is an affiliate of Astral Aviation, an established all-cargo airline with over 20 years of experience operating within Africa... Read
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