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Louise Marsland Uganda is in the news today across the globe for what is being called a "social media tax" on social media users in the East African country, which has in the past imposed draconian laws that curb press freedom and freedom of speech.read |
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 | MultiChoice Africa announces Pan-African initiative for film and television industry, to ignite Africa's creative industries... read |
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 | Seedstars World will be visiting Morrocco for the fourth time on 6 July 2018 when it hosts a startup pitch event in Casablanca... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the launch of a EUR65 million (US$76.14 million) fund dedicated to providing access to small ticket funding for African startups, as part of the unveiling of a 'Digital Africa' initiative... read |
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 | UNDP and Accenture are partnering to change the face of Africa's development by implementing the YAS! portal-platform... read |
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 | Priscilla Kennedy Video production and viewing become more challenging as goldfish attention span proves longer than a human's... read |
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 | Official selection announced for the Zanzibar International Film Festival after record number of entries... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews All about the luxury brand's African consumer market and tailoring their 'premiumisation' approach to the mobile-first continent... read |
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 | Kwesé TV inks impressive multi-territory deals with leading global brands for the 2018 FIFA World Cup... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Mercedes-Benz and Net#work BBDO today released the S-Class content piece that returns to the famous Chapman's Peak accident that Christopher White survived 30 years ago... read |
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 | Mercy Mpinganjira Africa's growing digital economy is fast changing how business is done on the continent. Trading of goods and services online, for example, is estimated to be worth $24bn... read |
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 | A first-ever gathering in the sub-Saharan African region will be held in Cape Town, bringing together more than 700 people to discuss how to improve the diversity of knowledge represented on Wikipedia and Wikimedia sites... read |
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 | Wearable technologies offer enormous potential to a wide range of industries - provided they make use of fast, high-quality connectivity. read |
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 | Derryn Jackson Derryn Jackson unpacks how the digital era has affected brand building... read |
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 | Sam Hirst, Nando's Peri-Peri Farming Initiative manager shared how Nando's creates shared value for small farmers in southern Africa who farm their unique African Bird's Eye Chillies used in the Peri-Peri flavour Nando's is famous for... read |
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 | Korea is ready to share its technological and industrial revolution experience with Africa, says President Moon Jae-in... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews With warm lighting and a can-do attitude at the no-queue-in-sight, just-walk-up-and-chat reception desk, this is not your average 'government office' - this is the InvestSA one-stop shop (OSS)... read |
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 | Brian Mechem The fall of traditional outbound marketing strategies has seen the meteoric rise of influencer marketing This is due to its potential to grow your business manifold. It can help you to engage with your audience and improve your brand's visibility. read |
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 | Auguste Coetzer A series of corporate communication missteps and ponderous responses has exposed a gap in the skills mix at executive and directorial levels across South Africa ... read |
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 | Jennilee Peremore Jennilee Peremore lists five of the common misconceptions of PR and the qualities you should look for when looking to hire a PR employee or agency... read |
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 | Bill Buchanan Most of us have been bombarded recently by a barrage of emails from companies begging us to "stay in touch" or "opt in" or informing us of a "policy update". On May 25, an historic date for the internet, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force... read |
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 | Issued By Kantar Millward Brown The total brand value of the BrandZ Top 100 grew by a record 21%, adding almost $750bn to the ranking, now valued at $4.4tn... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews This #AfricaMonth, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Benjamin Schoderer, digital manager at KFC Africa, awarded Black Pixels for ranking as marketer of the year and brand of the year respectively in the IAB SA's 2018 Bookmarks Awards earlier this year... read |
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 | Eugene Yiga Eugene Yiga offers a guide of suggestions on how publicists can better work with journalists, freelancers, bloggers, and the like... read |
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 | During a fireside chat with Publicis Groupe chairman and co-founder, Maurice Levy, at the recent Viva Tech event, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke about privacy, GDPR, his plans for governance, and how he intends to fight bad content... read |
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 | Booking is open for the 19th Pamro All Africa Media Research Conference, which will this year, consider a 'billion dollar question'... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Online supermarket and grocery store Mart.ng has launched in Abuja, claiming to deliver all ordered items within one hour... read |
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 | Lauren Hartzenberg Manufacturing Indaba 2018 promises to be bigger and more innovative than ever before, providing the broader manufacturing industry with a roadmap and the connections to unlock their growth potential and deliver accelerated GDP growth... read |
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 | The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the ruling by Lesotho's Constitutional Court that criminal defamation is unconstitutional... read |
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 | Kora aims to engage with existing communities in rural Africa to combat issues that keep communities circling the poverty drain by using blockchain technology in the current financial system in Africa... read |
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 | Authorities in the breakaway region of Somaliland should desist from detaining and harassing journalists covering a conflict with Puntland... read |
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 | CMO Council and Deloitte Study finds hesitation to embrace analytics skills, forge new C-Suite partnerships and extend strategic role beyond short-term acquisition goals... read |
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 | The Warc Awards has announced the 2018 winners of the Effective Use of Brand Purpose category... read |
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 | Newswatch: Just six weeks after resigning from WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell has returned to the stock market as executive chairman of Derriston Capital and plans to use it as a means to build a "next-generation" advertising group... read |
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 | Cannes Lions has announced it will host a two-day "Change for Good" Hackathon, to be held live on 19-20 June at the 65th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity... read |
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 | Philipp Trotter and Sabah Abdullah Foreign investment in sub-Saharan Africa's power sector has reached a record-high... read |
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 | A key focus of the fifth Attractions Africa conference will be the creation of a continental attractions association in partnership with the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions... read |
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 | Together with healthy agricultural ecosystems, biodiversity provides the ecological foundations for food production, which play a critical role in humankind... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg Digital transformation is affecting and reshaping the entire automotive business model - from design and production to distribution and retail. We find out more from Lee Naik, CEO of TransUnion... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg NEWSWATCH: Rumours have been circulating this week that Sergio Machionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), could announce the closure of one of America's oldest remaining automakers... read |
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 | Some publications go as far as to sight a global vegetarian population by 2050. The estimated $750m - $800m macadamia industry seems perfectly poised to answer this... read |
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 | 228 applications have been received for the global Fall Armyworm Tech Prize with over 80% of the entries coming from Africa... read |
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 | Gifted by Nature is a slogan Uganda uses to promote its tourism, especially wildlife, primates, and freshwater lakes. Now, Uganda plans to join countries such as Germany, Cambodia, Japan and Rwanda as destinations for what is known as dark tourism... read |
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 | "We believe in a future where local farmers play a large role in feeding our communities and we are working on making that a reality. We are focusing on emerging markets with a target of over 20,000 local farmers on our platform in 2018." read |
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 | Alawi Masare The Tanzanian government has concluded two preliminary studies to connect electricity to Mafia island in the Indian Ocean through submarine cable and generate 7MW through solar, thermal and wind sources... read |
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 | Tea consumption has grown particularly rapidly in China, India and other emerging economies, driven by a combination of higher incomes and efforts to diversify production to include speciality items such as herbal teas, fruit fusions and flavoured gourmet teas... read |
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 | Following rich presentations, panel discussions and plenary sessions, the South African Confederation of Agriculture Unions conference agreed on a number of several key messages covering critical areas... read |
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 | GreenCape released its free annual market intelligence reports this week... read |
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 | Jarryd Chatz You don't need to be in IT to understand the ins and outs of the internet. This 'how the internet works' series will teach you everything you need to know about the internet... read |
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 | In celebration of Africa Day, the University of Cape Town's Centre for African Studies announced the appointment of esteemed Ugandan Professor Mahmood Mamdani as Honorary Professor... read |
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 | Africa carries roughly a quarter of the burden of the world's diseases, but only 1.3% of the world health workforce, so the ongoing brain drain remains a concern... read |
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 | The agriculture and food industry, particularly in Abidjan, have been very dynamic - both in production and processing - and both sectors enjoy a prominent regional position as they also supply to other francophone countries in the region... read |
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 | Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed has revealed that the country will "very soon" follow Rwanda's example allowing all Africans to travel to the country without visas... read |
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 | The naysayers have long held that renewables are too unpredictable for us to rely on them totally to supply energy... read |
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 | On top of removing plastic straws from its 650 managed properties by the end of 2018, Hilton revealed it will double its social impact investments and cut its global environmental impact in half by 2030... read |
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 | The healthy food trend is becoming increasingly popular on the developed markets, thereby encouraging the consumption of natural products, including fruit and berries. This trend is expected to continue in the coming years... read |
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Angelina Jolie "Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same." Henry Ward Beecher "Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." Norman Cousins "Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic." Les Brown "In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact." Thomas Mann "It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death." |
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