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 | MUSA KALENGA The day has come when we must comply or face the consequences. The additions to the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) came into effect on 1 July 2021 and aim to protect companies against data breach and the misuse of personal information... read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Empowerment Capital Investment Partners has appointed Bongumusa Makhathini as its first chief executive officer. We find out more about the appointment...read |
|  | | The Clicks Group is expanding its incubation support for local Black-owned businesses with the launch of a new SMME supplier listing portal...read |
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| |  | Blockchain technology could finally give intra-African trade the lift off similar to other, successful, trading coalitions, despite years of false starts and the Covid setback... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Thabo Nale is making waves in the Mzansi automotive sector with the launch of a new experience that mixes the best of several previously very different worlds. Introdusing Cafe JCM... Read |
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 | ALLON RAIZ Raizcorp CEO Allon Raiz provides a number of pitching techniques critical to attracting investors and funders looking to back small businesses... Read |
 | Silicon Cape and the US Mission to South Africa has revealed Team Basket as the winner of their latest hackathon... Read |
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 | Private equity firm Tana Africa Capital has purchased a stake in Kensington Distillers & Vintners, an African premium drinks business focused on beverage manufacturing and distribution... Read |
 | Acanda Jaswa, Brown and Ayo founder, said her odds for raising significant venture capital funding were low... Read |
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 | SCHALK MALAN In these uncertain times, group risk cover is a good vehicle to protect employees against the possibility of something happening to them where their ability to earn a living is compromised... Read |
| Marketing & Media |
 | EMILY STANDER YouTube hosted a festival that focused on showing marketers and advertisers what can be achieved through using YouTube... Read |
 | LESLEY-ANN ROZANSKI Facebook Wi-Fi has landed on South African shores and allows you to reach more people and grow your business in a few simple steps... Read |
 | The World Federation of Advertisers (WFA) recently launched a global census of the marketing and advertising industry. The deadline to take part has been extended to 31 July 2021... Read |
 | The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) welcomes the government's decision to follow through on its promise to prioritise journalists in the country's vaccine rollout programme... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | Zeerust Solar Farm's recent business acceleration programme has nominated five principally women-led agriculture SMMEs as the key beneficiaries of its enterprise development initiative... Read |
| Starting Up |
 | ROB MEYERSON While conducting brand strategy work in Southeast Asia presented difficulties, my biggest challenge was creating new company and product names that worked well across such a diverse set of cultures and languages... Read |
 | NATALIA ROSA Africa is an incredible continent of people who solve problems innovatively and we need to share this message with the world... Read |
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 | NINA TRIANTIS Nina Triantis, global head of telecoms, media and technology at Standard Bank, unpacks why Africa's data centre market is poised for growth... Read |
 | DEORAJ CAUSSY The abrupt arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world, creating havoc for economies and social fabrics and taking heavy tolls on lives and livelihoods... Read |
 | LIBBY GEORGE & CAMILLUS EBOH Both chambers of Nigeria's parliament have passed a bill that overhauls nearly every aspect of the country's oil and gas production, putting a project that has been in the works for two decades one step closer to presidential sign-off... Read |
 | The Botswana energy regulator has granted a generation licence for a 100MW solar project to local firm Shumba Energy... Read |
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 | UMBERTO BACCHI & BEH LIH YI China's sweeping ban on cryptocurrency mining delivered a blow to an industry criticised for its environmental impact, but emissions from the sector could grow... Read |
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 | DARRYL FURMAN Is a company that provides a loan to a person to buy shares in that company required to register as a credit provider in terms of the National Credit Act 34 of 2005 (NCA)? Read |
 | LIBBY SANDER If you've ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren't imagining it... Read |
 | ALEXANDER WINNING Eskom, Africa's biggest greenhouse gas emitter, is pitching a $10bn plan to global lenders that would see it shut the vast majority of its coal-fired plants by 2050 and embrace renewable energy. Read |
 | ALEXANDER WINNING South Africa should set a more ambitious emissions reduction target in the leadup to a United Nations climate conference this year for economic and health reasons... Read |
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