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|  | BRONWYN WILLIAMS This week, Bronwyn Williams has been wading through Robert Greene's The Laws of Human Nature. The book explores the psychology and sociology around what makes us do the things we do and make the choices we make...read |
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| |  | ISSUED BY LOERIES The Red & Yellow Creative School of Business in Cape Town has joined forces with Africa and the Middle East's premier award as the official education partner of the Loeries... Read |  | ISSUED BY LOERIES Two gifted young creatives, Tshepo Tumahole, a copywriter at Joe Public, and Jarryd Duthoit, a finishing artist at Left Post Productions, have been awarded the 2020 Loeries Brand South Africa Young Creatives Award... Read |  | ISSUED BY LOERIES The continued development of the creative economy and celebration of creative excellence across the region helps grow businesses according to AB InBev, one of the Loeries's partners for Loeries Creative Week... Read |  | ISSUED BY LOERIES Chicken Licken's managing director and chief marketer, Chantal Sombonos-Van Tonder, has made Loeries history by being the first second-generation award winner of the coveted Marketing Leadership Award, an honour her late father George Sombonos received in 2013... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Alan Kelly, CCO at Rothco, based in Ireland, shares the three ingredients needed to win an award... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT Fran Luckin, CCO at Grey Africa and recently elected Loeries chairperson welcomed guests to the virtual edition of Loeries 2020... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT On day one of Loeries Creative Week, Katherina Tudball, creative director at Superunion London and this year's Loeries international jury president for design, shared an interesting talk around the theme of visceral creativity... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE On day two of Loeries Creative Week, Sindiso Nyoni, Nomfundo Myeni and Khethiwe Makhubo discussed the future of advertising for Black females... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT This week, we go behind the mask with Januario Jano, a multidisciplinary visual artist and the founder of Pes Descalços... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT Jarryd Duthoit, a finishing artist at Left Post Productions along with Tshepo Tumahole, a copywriter at Joe Public, was awarded the 2020 Loeries Brand South Africa Young Creatives Award earlier this week... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT During Loeries Creative Week, Jess Weiner, CEO of Talk to Jess in the US talked to the power of inclusivity and of belonging in the work that we do, both in the creative industry and in our work environment... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT Tshepo Tumahole, a copywriter at Joe Public along with Jarryd Duthoit, a finishing artist at Left Post Productions, was awarded the 2020 Loeries Brand South Africa Young Creatives Award last week... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT The Awards announced on day two of Loeries Creative Week 2020, Tuesday, 17 November, included Digital Communication, Digital Crafts, Integrated Campaign, Media Innovation and Young Creatives... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT The Awards announced on day one of Loeries Creative Week 2020, Monday, 16 November, included Out of Home, Out of Home Crafts, Print Communication, Print Crafts, Shared Value, Effective Creativity and Service Design... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE The Awards announced on day three of Loeries Creative Week 2020, Wednesday, 18 November, included Radio & Audio, Radio Crafts and Student Awards in partnership with Facebook... Read |  | JESSICA TENNANT The Awards announced on day four of Loeries Creative Week 2020, Thursday, 19 November, included Design, Design Crafts, PR and Media Communication, Live Communication and the Marketing Leadership Award... Read |  | EVAN-LEE COURIE On the last and final day of Loeries Creative Week 2020, Friday, 20 November, winners of Film; Film Crafts; Grand Prix; Agency of the Year Award and Regional Agency Group of the Year were announced as well as the Loeries Hall of Fame inductee, Boniswa Pezisa... Read |
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 | NICK GRUBB In previous years we've become accustomed to most businesses going into "sleep mode" over the December-January period in South Africa. If you're thinking of closing your doors over the festive period, you might want to reconsider... Read |
 | Chimera Creative is taking a fresh approach to gig work by rebranding as a social development enterprise to provide employment in the creative sector... Read |
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 | PIKIE MONAHENG Communications service providers need to transform their businesses to compete in the country's highly competitive communications landscape. However, digital transformation is a journey, which takes time, and there are many tasks to undertake on the way... Read |
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 | Under the theme "Communication in a Changing World; Challenges and Opportunities", Zambia will make history as the first African nation to host the World Communication Forum, from 24-25 November 2020... Read |
| Film & Cinematography |
 | The adaptation of Dalene Matthee's best-selling novel Toorbos has been selected as South Africa's entry for the Best International Feature Film Award at the 2021 Academy Awards. Directed by René van Rooyen, the film is currently on circuit in South African cinemas... Read |
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 | SHAUNE JORDAAN "Data" is likely to be right up there with the buzzwords of the next decade. But more than mere buzzwords, data is not only here to stay, but will also transform the way in which we all do business... Read |
 | ZANELE HLATSHWAYO & CIARÁN WHITAKER Google has been conducting ongoing research since the start of Covid-19, internally and with the help of Kantar and Ipsos, in a number of markets including South Africa... Read |
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 | The winners of the 19th Vodacom Journalist of the Year (VJOY) regional awards has been announced... Read |
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 | KARENA CRERAR With the outbreak of the coronavirus, many businesses across the world were flung into a state of crisis and every aspect of our lives - how we connect, move, live, and work - were changed... Read |
 | As many public relations officers know, in order to be successful, you need to be multi-faceted and multi-skilled to juggle the everyday combination of client service, media deadlines, content development, strategic counsel and creativity... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Seasoned radio host Carol Ofori returns to East Coast Radio to host the station's coveted 9am - 1pm slot. We catch up with her to find out about her return to the station and what she has planned for this new adventure... Read |
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 | CLAIRE HERMAN Being in my mid-forties and a bit of a techno-phobe, my previous online shopping experience had been limited to the occasional Netflorist purchase. But my eyes have been opened... Read |
 | The New House of Busby will be rebranded to FrontierCo and its head office has relocated from Germiston to George in the Southern Cape... Read |
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 | MICHAEL E ODIJIE A free trade agreement, in its most basic sense, is an attempt by existing industries to find new markets. Their need to do this arises from industrialisation - that is, the process of developing sectors that attract high levels of protection in the international market... Read |
 | BHAVTIK VALLABHJEE Forward thinking investors and entrepreneurs in the African energy sector will deliver significant downstream benefits for the continent in the coming years... Read |
 | Africa is not getting the investment needed to help the world meet the United Nation's (UN's) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030... Read |
 | The South African chapter of Women in Music (WiM) will be hosting its first webinar, alongside co-host Africa Rising Music Conference (ARMC), on 19 November 2020... Read |
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 | Local female entrepreneurs will gather to network, learn from each other and urge the private sector as well as the government to do more to support the economic development of women... Read |
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 | EZRA PILLAY When developing a compliance function from inception, a compliance officer can have paralysis from analysis, especially when there has not been a pre-existing compliance function. Below are a few points that may assist a compliance officer in kick-starting the investigation and discovery phase of building a compliance function... Read |
 | MILLS SOKO The Auditor-General.Kimi Makwetu, who passed away on 11 November 2020 after a battle with lung cancer, was the quintessential civil servant who took his job as South Africa's auditor-general seriously and threw every sinew of his being into it... Read |
 | There's a famous saying by diversity and inclusion consultant Verna Myers: "Diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance, and belonging is dancing like no one's watching"... Read |
 | Two out of the three global ratings agencies blamed the Covid-19 pandemic and the effects of lockdown on South Africa's economy for further downgrading the country's investment status... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE The National Small Business Chamber (NSBC) hosted the 2020 South African Small Business Awards virtually to announce the champions of entrepreneurship... Read |
 | According to Bonga Xulu, Johannesburg's regional portfolio manager at TUHF, SMMEs have a crucial role to play in South Africa's economic recovery as the Covid-19 pandemic remains an ongoing concern. Read |
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