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| |  | RUTH COOPER Travel writer and earth advocate Dawn Jorgensen shares her #LockdownLessons and predictions on how travel will shift to a more authentic, climate-friendly and sustainable focus post Covid-19... Read |  | ISSUED BY CITY LODGE HOTEL During the lockdown, five City Lodge hotels have remained open to accommodate inbound and outbound travellers in quarantine, as well as essential workers. The group remains well positioned to reopen any of its hotels on very short notice... Read |  | ISSUED BY HAVAS JOHANNESBURG The Blue Train has announced an extension of the current suspension of its services amidst the nationwide lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The suspension, which was initially meant to end on 30 April 2020, has been extended to 30 June 2020... 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 |
 | Wesgro has launched its One Day campaign to support the tourism industry in the Western Cape during the coronavirus crisis. Read |
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 | Two of South Africa's best seaside hotels, The Plettenberg and The Marine, are among the most recent additions to the prestigious Small Luxury Hotels of the World platform... Read |
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 | The Private Hotel School (TPHS) is looking for the two best hospitalians in South Africa to be awarded a year-long bursary each to study a Certificate in Hospitality Management for 2021 at the institution... Read |
 | As South Africa begins the journey along the government's phased approach to fully lifting lockdown, many businesses are gearing up for resuming operations, at least partially... Read |
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 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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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 | Fuel price changes will be effected on Wednesday, 6 May 2020... Read |
 | MISHECK MUTIZE A number of rating agencies have downgraded emerging market economies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Their actions have raised the question: why do so during a crisis? Read |
 | ROWAN LEIBBRANDT This too shall pass. And once it has, we will need small-, micro- and medium-sized enterprises more than ever to boost our flailing economy, drive innovation and create jobs... Read |
 | The Covid-19 coronavirus has forced essential businesses to offer delivery options and pushed consumers to buy online... Read |
 | No-one knows what the long-term economic effects of the Covid-19 epidemic will be... Read |
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