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Topco Media in partnership with Standard Bank have released the names of those companies and individuals named as winners in the 2019 Top Women Awards... read
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Celebrated South African artist, designer and businesswoman Carrol Boyes passed away Wednesday night at the age of 65...read
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SHARON ADETUTU OMOTOSO
So-called 'new media' emphasises gender norms and portrays women as sex objects, morally deficient, and vulnerable...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
The Loeries is only the second international award show after the D&AD awards to introduce "unconscious bias" workshops for its judges. Asha Ranchhod Patel, head of marketing at Google South Africa, explains how the workshops work to sensitise judging panels and help them recognise their own inherent prejudices, while removing these from their judging decisions...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
From the boardroom to business results, Faith & Fear 'growth hacking' consultancy founders Taryn Hunter Sharman and Perri King are all about unlocking new revenue streams for private and public companies alike. Here's how to put the current decade's big buzzword of growth hacking to work for you... Read
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YAW DWOMOH
Brands that fly in the face of inclusivity by depicting lazily formulaic brand stories are losing out on some phenomenal stories waiting to be told... Read
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Claire Carter, Lenovo's marketing director for MEA, chats about the business benefits of having more women in the tech industry and why Lenovo sees this as a priority... Read
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In celebration of Women's Month, Orms has launched a mentorship programme aimed at empowering female artists... Read
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This Women's Month, UN Women South Africa Multi-Country Office (SAMCO) and the Official German Development Cooperation (GIZ) calls on the media to be more mindful of the kind of content they create and share... Read
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SINDY PETERS
Refiloe Seseane is the founder of 18twenty8, a non-profit organisation that aims to empower young women through educational and personal development... Read
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JUANITA PIENAAR
Claudelle Naidoo, the newly appointed MD of MediaCom SA, tells us more about her new role, the challenges she's faced as a woman in the industry and her career highlights... Read
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LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Penny Parolis, founder of Inner Secrets Lingerie, reflects on the motivation behind the upmarket boutique and the lessons learned along her business journey... Read
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SINDY PETERS
According to UNESCO Statistics, women make up only 23% of STEM talent globally, and this inequality is mirrored in South Africa's science, technology and engineering industries... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Carol Weaving, MD of Reed Exhibitions, explains the gaming and investment culture of the Business of Gaming Forum and Comic Con Africa, and how gaming has shifted from hobbyist activity to viable career choice... Read
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SINDY PETERS
Slovakian by birth, Andrea Gombalova Stevens made South Africa her home many years ago and is currently the franchisee of Just Property Port Elizabeth. She is the epitome of inspirational leadership with a motivational morning regimen to match... Read
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CLAUDETTE THORNE
We've all heard about the glass ceiling. It's that invisible - but very real - barrier to climbing further up the corporate ladder; with women and minority groups typically the ones who hit their heads against it the hardest... Read
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NICCI BOTHA
Women often talk about power in all sorts of contexts, but do we actually know what our power is? This is the question posed by Alana James, chief executive officer of The Sunflower Fund... Read
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One Show Awards
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The One Club for Creativity has promoted Kasia Karolak into a newly-created role to lead its gender equality programming and has also announced inaugural gender equality conference ... Read
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Advertising
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Advertising firm WPP has released its interim results and CEO, Mark Read commented that WPP's performance in the second quarter was slightly ahead of its internal expectations but in line with its full-year guidance and three-year strategic targets... Read
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In lead up to the fifth annual Amasa Awards, the advertising media association has developed a workshop to give entrants insight into how the judges select winning work... Read
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BRENDAN SEERY
Orchids to Nedbank for deciding to do a positive thing and get people thinking, while Rosebank Day Spa gets an Onion for a lost opportunity... Read
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HOWARD FELDMAN
September is the month of bright flowers, fresh scents and new beginnings and the chance to smile, writes Howard Feldman... Read
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Branding
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RIRHANDZU SHINGWENYANA
The process of brand management is not as complicated as a lot of non-brand or marketers sees it... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Rather than quote you the shocking stats about plastics, I've chosen just one: "Every piece of plastic ever made still exists today." Read it again and let that sink in, because this fact was top of mind when SodaStream SA hosted a bunch of the Cape's media and influencers for the launch of their new re-usable bottles that effectively lead the charge against single-use plastics... Read
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CRM, CX, UX
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MO AREFF
Omnichannel customer engagement revolves around so much more than just a technology-driven approach. A cross-channel strategy needs to be an integral human one if organisations are to remain competitive... Read
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Chatbots continue to be a hot topic among media, end-users and vendor communities. This is no surprise, as chatbot technology is beginning to mature... Read
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CSI
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Diageo, one of the world's largest producers of spirits and beers, has committed to investing $219million in renewable energy upgrades at 11 of its breweries in Africa... Read
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Design
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100% Design South Africa, announced its 2019 Design Award winners at an event that was held at Gallagher Convention Centre on Thursday, 8 August 2019... Read
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Digital
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WAN-IFRA has announced the 2019 finalists for the prestigious African Digital Media Awards... Read
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Education
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The winners of the 2019 Fairlady Santam Women of the Future Awards were announced at a VIP luncheon MC'd by businesswoman and Women of the Future judge, Johanna Mukoki... Read
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Raylene de Wet, director of event sales at Hyatt Regency Johannesburg, unveils six trends that will likely disrupt and elevate South Africa's events industry in the coming year... Read
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Exhibitions
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Magazines
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
All Magazine categories declined on the previous quarter and the prior year in Q2 2019. Once again, the B2B category was the only category to show an increase on the prior year, as it did in Q1 2019... Read
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The Agency Scope 2019 South Africa study fieldwork is nearing an end and feedback and trends have started emerging... Read
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ALAN RADMALL
Royalties paid for character licensing is not a direct cost to business - it is a marketing cost to increase sales, help build brands and, more importantly, profit margins... Read
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The National Tourism Safety Awareness Campaign has been launched at Table Mountain in Cape Town, following isolated incidents of violence directed as tourists... Read
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To spearhead a shared marketing agreement between Cape Town and New York City, Enver Duminy, CEO of Cape Town Tourism and Alderman James Vos visited Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) to oversee a campaign installation... Read
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ILSE STRUWEG
Integration remains a topic of much agreement, argument, analysis and ambiguity when it comes to getting it right... Read
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CARMEN MURRAY
Carmen Murray is curious about applying true grit to brands... Read
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Media
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Since its launch in June, the South African National Editors' Forum's (Sanef) Inquiry into Media Credibility and Ethics has received submissions from journalists and members of the public... Read
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American mass media company Condé Nast has made some changes to its global leadership team... Read
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TIFFANY MARKMAN
Local training companies selling business writing workshops all seem to have borrowed their sales pitch from the same place - 1995... Read
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2019 marks 30 years since the Galliova Food and Health Writers' Awards was first introduced to the food and health-writing world... Read
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Newspapers
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
Following the trend set in the Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa (ABC) Q1 2019 total newspaper circulation in Q2 2019 declined by 1.4% on the previous quarter and by 6.9% on the prior year... Read
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GRAEME PHILLIPS
The eThekwini Municipality's new outdoor advertising by-law has come into force, effective 4 July 2019... Read
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Research
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Retail
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YAEL GEFFEN
Accolades and awards in business for a job well done are undeniably satisfying, but in order to maintain that success, rewards are necessary... Read
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JESSICA BARRELLA
Many businesses can give testimony to the fact that social media has been an extremely vital tool to grow their business and promote sales... Read
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Social Media
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Sho Madjozi and Stayfree have launched a Facebook chatbot aimed at making conversations about menstrual health pain-free. In Sync with Sho Madjozi is available for free... Read
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LAURENCE SMITH
Social media networks are saturated with video footage shared from dashboard cameras... Read
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ANDY WALKER
Twitter may soon allow users to "snooze" the app's notifications thanks to a yet-unreleased feature... Read
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ANDY WALKER
Cape Town's Metrorail train service announced that users can now follow line-specific information channels on Telegram... Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Have you always dreamed of having your thoughts and feelings seen by your favourite YouTubers? Read
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SHEREESA MOODLEY
Facebook on Wednesday announced a partnership with fact-checking company Africa Check to bring local African language support to its third-party Fact-Checking programme... Read
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Streaming
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This #WomensMonth, we go behind the selfie with Lauren Africa, founder and CEO of Digital Driven... Read
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Fairness First
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Daniel Thebe, founder of Isidima Brands Multimedia and Uhuru Consumer Electronics, explained his five phases of career growth so far at the 2019 CEM AfricaSummit, issuing advice and learnings for those looking to follow in his footsteps as a young entrepreneur from Khayelitsha... Read
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Loeries Creative Week Durban
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Like many South African women, Gogo Nozizwe raised her grandson, Akhona, and his siblings in Nyanga, Western Cape. To honour her and all the women raising the next generation of South African men, Gillette launched this film in celebration of Women's Day. View
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Early projections from recent onshore discovery made in the Delta de la Cuvette deposit in the Republic of Congo indicate that the deposits could produce up to 359-million barrels of oil... Read
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Finalists announced in annual AWIEF Awards to celebrate women leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa... Read
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The Afrima (All Africa Music Awards) international committee and the AU (African Union) have announced the regional and continental nominees of the sixth annual awards show... Read
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AIMEE LAURENCE
Startup businesses are popping up everywhere and many people, both young and old, have amazing small business ideas that could potentially change the world... Read
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CNN International's African Voices is entering a new era in its quest to profile outstanding individuals across the continent with a new name, a new host and new format... Read
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IME ARCHIBONG
Africa's young population could be its greatest asset in an age where many other regions in the world are aging as a result of declining birth rates... Read
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AHMAD BELTAGUI, ACHILLEAS SESIS AND NIKOLAOS STYLOS
The first conviction for 3D printing a firearm was recently reported in London, not long after 3D printed masks were used to trick face recognition. Should we be afraid? Read
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Cape Town has been named as Africa's leading digital city... Read
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The Mastercard Index of Women Entrepreneurs report revealed that in South Africa women in early-stage entrepreneurial activity dropped by 15.7% in 2018... Read
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Taxpayer education and the cost of tax compliance remains a significant challenge for small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs)... Read
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Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) has designed and co-developed incubator programmes with Innovator Trust to support, grow and inspire emerging tech entrepreneurs in Cape Town... Read
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More than 70% of small businesses struggle to survive the first two years of operation, with poor cash flow management and insufficient funding... Read
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Increased complexity in the workplace requires specialisation when it comes to successfully completing multiple projects within the strict confines of deadlines and budgets... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Yolandi Strauss is the Agile Head of Product Delivery for Basalt, an international tech solution provider... Read
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By networking with like-minded, professional business owners, entrepreneurs and industry leaders you will be able to nurture relationships... Read
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"How I Built This" dives into the stories behind growing SME's and the movements they built... Read
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According to the latest survey from Fasa, 39% of franchisors have businesses in Africa, outside South African borders. This is equivalent to 1,775 stores in the SA franchise population... Read
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Melody Beattie "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." Robert H. Schuller "Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come." Bill Gates "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." Stephen Hawking "We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
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