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|  | JOSEPHINE BUYS Media has a key role to play in shaping how we think and act during these uncertain times. South Africans are seeking out trusted, reliable sources of news and information, yet publishers across the board are suffering catastrophic losses of revenue as many advertisers reduce, pause or even stop advertising during lockdown...read |
|  | DAMON STAPLETON It is a strange feeling to start writing without knowing what you are going to write. It is a feeling of absolute uncertainty. It is so powerful that it can cause paralysis. You can't do what you know you must but you also can't do anything else either...read |
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| |  | JESSICA TENNANT Founder and MD of Ebony+Ivory, Paul Middleton's account of work-life in the time of Covid-19, part of a series of articles looking into how agencies and agency folk are responding to the crisis and viewing it through a creative lens... Read |  | JUANITA PIENAAR Managing and strategy director of The Jupiter Drawing Room, Michelle Beh's account of work-life in the time of Covid-19, part of a series of articles looking into how agencies and agency folk are responding to the crisis and viewing it through a creative lens... Read | DAREN POOLE, ISSUED BY KANTAR |  | IAN GABRIEL As the country and the film and advertising industry gears up to confront the post lockdown new normal, a great deal of attention has rightly been focused on the fresh creative and communication challenges the industry will confront in the days ahead... Read | ISSUED BY BORDERLESS ACCESS | ISSUED BY TQ GROUP |  | WAYNE FLEMMING With Covid-19 continuing to change the world as we know it, it has created a new normal that has placed digital at the forefront for any current and future business operation... Read | NIGEL HOLLIS, ISSUED BY KANTAR | JENNI-RUTH COGGIN, ISSUED BY BMI RESEARCH |  | Following President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement that the lockdown restrictions would be eased from 1 May 2020, leading South African media share news and updates on the impact of the coronavirus on the nation... Read | ISSUED BY MANN MADE |
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 | The final shortlist has been released for the Warc Awards 2020. 21 campaigns have made the Effective Social Strategy shortlist, which links social strategies to business success... Read |
 | New York Festivals 2020 AME Awards has announced its 2020 finalists, honouring effective work that works... Read |
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 | Staying in touch with what customers and employees are saying about their experiences with brands has never been more important than now... Read |
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 | SIMON DE HAAST Start practising the art of outside-in innovation. Pretty soon you'll see things that aren't reflected in research documents or analytics data... Read |
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 | MOLEFI MOKETSI, JURNI CTO Jurni CTO, Molefi Moketsi shares four tips for tourism #SMMEs to leverage technology efficiently... Read |
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 | DANIEL DERCKSEN Daniel Dercksen chats with Tertius Kapp, who wrote the screenplay for Griekwastad, the true story of the cruel acts which shook the world to its core in 2012... Read |
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 | The One Club's annual in-person Creative Week in New York has transformed into Creative Month 2020, with more than 60 sessions with creative leaders from around the world streaming free of charge from 4-29 May... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT Some high-level findings from the IAB SA Digital Landscape Report for 2020, as presented by Ryan Smit, MD at BMIT and head of the Measurement Council for the IAB... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Some trends revealed through the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report, conducted by PwC and sponsored by the IAB SA... Read |
 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL The chart below details what the average investment in marketing communications is as a percentage of the client company's turnover... Read |
 | Pams 2019 embraces the Neighbourhood Lifestyle Index to deliver retail insights... Read |
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 | The Edcon group announced today that its board has passed a resolution authorising it to file for business rescue in the course of the next few days... Read |
 | Consumers have switched to digital shopping alternatives, with 37% of South Africans saying they are shopping more online... Read |
 | MICHAELA GABRIEL As a result of the lockdown, there has been an almost immediate shift from traditional methods of business and retail... Read |
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| Behind the Selfie |
 | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the selfie with Hestelle Robinson, COO of Homemakers Media Holdings... Read |
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 | MEST is expanding the 2020 MEST Africa Challenge to target a larger number of tech startups in need of funding. This means the application deadline for the 2020 MEST Africa Challenge has been extended to 13 May 2020... Read |
 | VUKANI MNGXATI In the midst of a major technology revolution, South Africa continues to face multiple challenges such as high unemployment, slow economic growth and declining productivity to mention a few... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Ten-year-old Gracia spent hours watching her seamstress grandmother make clothes. As she grew older, she became concerned about how people didn't like to wear African print designs... Read |
 | MELISSA MBAZO While skills development and policymaking play a vital role in long term transformation efforts, youth entrepreneurship serves as a viable way to achieve tangible impact on a local, national and even continental scale... Read |
 | JUSTINE DAVIES On 2 April, Sierra Leone reported its second Covid-19 case. The government reacted quickly, the country was on lockdown for 72 hours and borders were closed... Read |
 | HARSHANA KASSEEAH Mauritius is a small island nation located in the Indian Ocean. Like other countries, it faces drastic changes to its social and economic landscape with the appearance and spread of Covid-19... Read |
 | More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included... Read |
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 | The Gray philanthropy ecosystem in South Africa has made available R180 million of funding to assist with the economic, educational and medical shortages created by the coronavirus crisis. Read |
 | PAULA SARTINI Many businesses have developed business continuity plans (BCP) to mitigate risks and reduce the impact of the coronavirus crisis... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE #TheLockdownSeries explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses... Read |
 | Santam, Fairlady and True Love magazines have partnered up in the search to find the best female entrepreneurs in South Africa... Read |
 | The Covid-19 coronavirus has forced essential businesses to offer delivery options and pushed consumers to buy online... Read |
 | Due to high levels of fear, South Africans are increasingly missing their healthcare appointments and not collecting their chronic medication during lockdown... Read |
 | ANDRE VAN HEERDEN, JACQUES VAN WYK, AND BRADLEY WORKMAN-DAVIES How do we calculate the benefits payable to employers, on behalf of their employees, in terms of the Covid-19 TERS...? Read |
 | The sale of cigarettes and alcohol will remain prohibited... Read |
 | DR COBUS OOSTHUIZEN While the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to sideline the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we are in fact more vulnerable now than ever... Read |
 | STEPHEN KENNEDY-GOOD AND AKHONA BOLOKO SA law requires that directors must exercise their powers in the best interests of the company, and with the degree of care, skill and diligence that may be reasonably expected of a person carrying out those functions. Directors can be held personally liable, and are now having to take tough decisions in the context of the pandemic... Read |
 | PayFast has seen a 226% year-on-year increase in new business account registrations in the food industry since Covid-19 restrictions were put in place... Read |
 | BIASE DE GREGORIO Covid-19 has provided an opportunity for society, business and government to embrace uncertainty. This global crisis will force us to solve highly complex problems in new and creative ways... Read |
 | No-one knows what the long-term economic effects of the Covid-19 epidemic will be... Read |
 | One of the concerns that frequently comes up when companies consider moving parts of their workforce home is how to maintain company culture when your people are physically dispersed... Read |
 | ARTHUR KAMP When measured relative to the size of our economy, South Africa's Covid-19 targeted economic programme is extensive, comparable to some of the largest pandemic-related interventions in other countries... Read |
 | Businesses and consumers must continue to be on the lookout for online fraud and phishing scams as fraudsters try to take advantage of Covid-19... Read |
 | Yoco has launched a suite of online payment solutions for merchants to sustain their cash flow during and beyond lockdown... Read |
 | The nationwide lockdown has dramatically flattened South Africa's Covid-19 curve, allowing the country time to reinforce its healthcare infrastructure, Health Minister, Zweli Mkhize said in a technical briefing... Read |
 | Mobile consumers should also be aware that they cannot opt-out from receiving educational text messages on Covid-19 from the South African government... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Given the tough economic times, the Pride Factor Online Academy has launched with five courses, three of which will be available for free as long as learning institutions are closed... Read |
 | A total of 217 Cuban health specialists and workers arrived in South Africa over the weekend to boost the local sector in its efforts to flatten the Covid-19 curve... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE #LockdownLessons explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses... Read |
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