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Read |  | Many flourishing tourism businesses saw their income dry up overnight with the arrival of Covid-19. The pandemic has dealt a particularly cruel blow to the women in the industry, who make up 70% of the workforce Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our Women's Month content feature and in the build-up to our panel discussion with some of this year's Gerety Awards all-female South African executive jury members, taking place in September, Jessica Tennant, senior editor: Marketing & Media at Bizcommunity interviews Riverbed's founder and CEO Monalisa Sibongile Zwambila... Read |  | JUANITA PIENAAR With 20 years of experience in PR and communications across a range of sectors, Tracy Jones, founder and MD of Positive Dialogue is a force to be reckoned with. Here, she shares some amazing career highlights and personal tips on getting to the top in the comms industry... Read |  | Around the globe, companies are facing a reckoning - particularly when it comes to female representation at executive management level... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the mask with Debbie Turner, design director at Digitas Liquorice... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE This Women's Month, we've showcased the incredible work of women in their respective fields of expertise... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our Women's Month content feature and in the build-up to our panel discussion with some of this year's Gerety Awards all-female South African executive jury members, taking place in September, Jessica Tennant, senior editor: Marketing & Media at Bizcommunity interviews MullenLowe South Africa's CEO Sarah Dexter... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE This Women's Month, Bizcommunity showcased the incredible work of women in their respective fields of expertise... Read | ISSUED BY KANTAR | ISSUED BY EAST COAST RADIO |  | NICCI BOTHA Out of the three things Covid-19 taught Lizeth Kruger, national clinic manager at Dis-Chem, probably the most important is that you have to adapt to change as quickly as possible... Read |  | THAMI MOATSHE We continue to hear the lament about the low numbers of women CEOs, CFOs, and women in finance or in leadership and decision-making positions... Read |  | JUANITA PIENAAR Keri-Leigh Paschal, executive trustee of social impact organisation Nation Builder, shares what drives her passion for social impact development and how she thinks that even though we are consciously looking to support one another as women, we need supportive men to walk alongside us... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our Women's Month content feature and in the build-up to our panel discussion with some of this year's Gerety Awards all-female South African executive jury members, taking place in September, Jessica Tennant, senior editor: Marketing & Media at Bizcommunity interviews LifeDesign's founder and director/producer Linda Notelovitz... Read |  | JUANITA PIENAAR Claire Denham-Dyson, head anthropologist at Demographica shares why she hopes that marketing becomes more of a lucrative space for creatives and why she thinks it's essential that young womxn see this industry as a safe and fruitful space where they can be properly remunerated... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Karen Nadasen, CEO at PayU South Africa, is fulfilling her promise of a seismic shift towards women in technology, and women in her community... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE With over 24 years of telecommunications experience working with governments, private and public sector across Africa, Charmaine Houvet is a member of the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR)... Read |  | NICCI BOTHA Her curiosity about how money works as a young child is what inspired Zimkita Mabindla to become a chartered accountant. But what she really strives for is to be an empowering leader, both professionally and personally... Read | ISSUED BY KAYA FM 95.9 |  | Repositioning a major brand with decades of heritage and familiarity is not easy. Throw in a global pandemic which has changed the way we work, and you are left with a task which many would say is insurmountable... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our Women's Month content feature and in the build-up to our panel discussion with some of this year's Gerety Awards all-female South African executive jury members, taking place in September, Jessica Tennant, senior editor: Marketing & Media at Bizcommunity interviews marketing director at Bliss Brands, Dr Liezel Bygate... Read |  | |  | JESSICA TENNANT As part of our Women's Month content feature and in the build-up to our panel discussion with some of this year's Gerety Awards all-female South African executive jury members, taking place in September, Jessica Tennant, senior editor: Marketing & Media at Bizcommunity interviews freelance producer Loli Bishop... Read |  | One industry that can attest to the importance of gender diversity, is the insurance sector - particularly liability insurance. Women possess a number of traits that make a significant impact in this complex and ever-evolving world. Read |
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 | JUANITA PIENAAR Coverage of presentation by IAB Tech Lab's Amit Shetty on tech standards that enable improvements in ad experiences and measurement... Read |
 | BRENDAN SEERY Humour: VW's funny advert is a sign we're getting back to normal; Close shave has cost plumbing franchise Brendan Seery's business, though it's not due an Onion, yet... Read |
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 | MIKE ABEL Mike Abel, chief executive partner at M&C Saatchi Abel elaborates on how brands can inspire us to be better and to do better... Read |
 | DYLAN FORTUNE Dylan Fortune, head of Innovation at MetropolitanRepublic elaborates on his statement that customers and clients alike don't buy your product; they buy the processes that created it... Read |
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 | YUMNA AYSEN If you want to build a successful business, having a strong brand story should be a key priority... Read |
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 | VIRESH HARGOVAN The time is right now for organisations to leverage changes in customer behaviour and preferences, and begin reassessing their digital strategy to realign misguided customer journeys... Read |
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 | JUANITA PIENAAR Coverage of Angelina Eng, VP of Measurement and Attribution at IAB Tech Lab's presentation on the subject of ad experience and measurement... Read |
 | JESSICA TENNANT Bizcommunity's senior editor for Marketing & Media, Jessica Tennant met with Wunderman Thompson's newly appointed CEO, Miles Murphy to discuss his new role and was hugely impressed by his eagerness to familarise himself with the local media and marketing landscape, priortising relationship building, albiet online... Read |
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 | LERATO MOKHETHI Lerato Mokheti, a freelance journalist and communications consultant explores how investing in quality content and diversifying revenue streams are key elements in news media businesses' long term success... Read |
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 | KOBUS BADENHORST As the march of technology advances in almost every facet of human life - from online shopping to financial transactions to e-learning - major, traditional brands that were built on their physical and market presence are forced to adjust to potential disruption... Read |
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 | JESSICA TENNANT Rapper-turned-publisher Siya Metane aka Slikour, founder of SlikourOnLife, on the importance of making relevant music locally and globally and using music consumption to gain insights for brands... Read |
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 | LIANI MAASDORP Making and distributing films in new ways, that are also cognisant of the global climate emergency, is going to become a growing trend not just in South Africa, but around the world... Read |
 | The 2020 Encounters South African International Documentary Festival concluded with the announcement of the Festival Award winners at an awards ceremony, which took place via Zoom on 30 August 2020... Read |
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 | RIRHANDZU SHINGWENYANA Rirhandzu Shingwenyana discusses how you can use a marketing strategy to build relationships with your audience... Read |
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 | LIESL SIMPSON Liesl Simpson, MD at Evolution PR discuss whether a small or large PR agency is more effective and how to know which size agency suits your organisation... Read |
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 | JOHANNA MCDOWELL 85% of marketers declare that they have reduced their investment in advertising since the start of the crisis caused by Covid-19, mainly in durable consumption goods, government and NGOs... Read |
 | SheSays Cape Town, in partnership with Kantar, has released the results of it's SheSays Survey on Gender Representation, which is a first for South Africa and for SheSays globally... Read |
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 | KERRY THOMAS Although women are more likely to be unemployed and earn less than their male counterparts, research has found that women hold the buying power in most SA households... Read |
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 | RON STEFANSKI YouTube is a great platform to share your expertise in a wide range of topics. Since the creation of this video sharing platform, it has grown to become the second biggest search engine in the world, surpassed only by Google, its owner... Read |
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 | OLUDOYINMOLA OMOBOLADE OJIFINNI Talking about the reproductive system has always been difficult among women in low- and middle-income countries of Asia and sub-Saharan Africa... Read |
 | AMROTE ABDELLA Africa faces many challenges on its path to becoming a global economic competitor. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Africa's development can either be a massive barrier to advancement - or, the spark that lights the fire... Read |
 | Emerging startups from around Africa will be showcasing their solutions to a panel of investors at the Startup Circles.ai Demo Day... Read |
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 | Small Business Friday was created nine years ago by the National Small Business Chamber in response to small business owners' most pressing need: getting more customers... Read |
 | Covid-19 has shone a light on the need for South Africans to embrace the Fourth Industrial Revolution at a much faster rate... Read |
 | 'My laptop has frozen'. 'My phone has no data.' 'There's no reception where I live.' 'Our Wi-Fi is down.' 'I can't access my mail.'... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Covid-19 has seen much of the globe encouraged to work from home where possible... Read |
 | The Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) has resumed payments for the Covid-19 temporary employee/employer relief scheme (TERS) after it was suspended... Read |
 | CHRISTELLE MARAIS Since the Brundtland Commission coined the phrase "sustainable development" in the late eighties, sustainability has had a bad rap... Read |
 | CRAIG BYREN Empathy, humility and generosity, along with preparedness and quick action, helped ViaData, a software provider to the hard-hit tourism and travel sector, through the last few months. Managing director, Craig Byren, talks us through their top five lessons... Read |
 | The Covid-19 pandemic and nationwide lockdown has compounded the effects of existing gender inequalities and led to an increase in violations of women's rights, including elevated risks of domestic violence and other forms of GBV... Read |
 | It's officially happening. Telkom is discontinuing its copper line based ADSL services... Read |
 | The National Assembly has passed the Disaster Management Tax Relief Bill and the Disaster Management Tax Relief Administration Bill... Read |
 | The Gauteng Growth Development Agency (GGDA) continues to accelerate its strategic intent to grow the province's economy... Read |
 | NUNU NTSHINGILA The enthusiasm and commitment of role models, like my mother and grandmother, helped to spark my passion for contributing to the development of female leaders and entrepreneurs across the African continent... Read |
 | Lufthansa has expanded its repatriation programme to include further flights between Frankfurt and Johannesburg/Cape Town... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE How do we plough back into the SME sector to reignite growth? Is the sector strong enough to revive economic growth in a post Covid world as we head towards a sovereign debt crisis? Read |
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