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Is workplace stress a trigger for substance abuse, and how can employers help?

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14 Jul 2025

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Ugandan journalist Gloria Laker Adiiki Aciro is pictured on the left. Source: Peace News.

Ugandan journalist wins 2025 Luxembourg Peace Prize

Warc signals potential renaissance for programmatic advertising

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#WPRD2025 | Bizcommunity joins global PR community in celebrating World PR Day

#WPRD2025 | Bizcommunity joins global PR community in celebrating World PR Day

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The high-tech solution is based on the RITM-200 reactor

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Egypt will benefit from floating nuclear plant

11 Jun 2024

Patoranking launches $50m tech scholarship initiative

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Patoranking launches $50m tech scholarship initiative

10 Jun 2024

Source: © LinkedIn Dentsu’s Carat has been appointed to Pernod Ricard's €100m EMEA media planning and buying account

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Dentsu’s Carat wins Pernod Ricard's €100m EMEA media planning and buying account

7 Jun 2024

Joe Public named Most Effective Independent Agency in the region in the 2023 Global Effie Index

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Joe Public named Most Effective Independent Agency in the region in the 2023 Global Effie Index

Joe Public 7 Jun 2024

Source: © Content Creator Awards The DStv Content Creator Awards have introduced a Pan-African Creator Award for creators across the continet

Digital

The DStv Content Creator Awards' Pan-African Creator Award

6 Jun 2024

Survival of the fittest: How the media apocalypse is forcing PR and marketing to reinvent themselves

PR & Communications

Survival of the fittest: How the media apocalypse is forcing PR and marketing to reinvent themselves

Adam Hunter, Hook, Line & Sinker 5 Jun 2024

Source: © Cannes Lions the Cannes Lions 2024 has released its first shortlists

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#Cannes2024 : Innovation, Glass and Titanium Shortlists released

Danette Breitenbach 4 Jun 2024

Advertise on SA’s most influential industry news website

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Advertise on SA’s most influential industry news website

Bizcommunity.com 3 Jun 2024

Source: © 123rf The UK Parliament has passed the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

Media

UK passes Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill

3 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Three South African agencies - Promise, Accenture Song and LePub - have been named in the NYF 2024 shortlist

Advertising

3 SA agencies named in New York Festivals 2024 shortlist

3 Jun 2024

Branding

Top 16 Youth-Owned Brands Awards announce 2024 nominees

31 May 2024

#AfricaMonth: Jane Nshuti, transforming African foodways with plant-based cuisine

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#AfricaMonth: Jane Nshuti, transforming African foodways with plant-based cuisine

Robin Fredericks 31 May 2024

Source: UG Standard Metropolitan Republic Uganda at the 2023 Silverback Awards. Pictured centre is Josephine Muvumba, MD

Africa Month

#AfricaMonth: Josephine Muvumba, MD, Metropolitan Republic Uganda - Bringing Africa closer

Danette Breitenbach 31 May 2024

Image supplied. Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of Confidencial (Photo: Mick Friis)

Media Freedom

Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro awarded Wan-Ifra's Golden Pen of Freedom

31 May 2024

Source: Reuters.

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BioNTech gets $145m funding for African vaccine plants

Jennifer Rigby and Ludwig Burger 30 May 2024

#AfricaMonth: Jo Griffiths on GIIG’s mission to boost African tech startups

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#AfricaMonth: Jo Griffiths on GIIG’s mission to boost African tech startups

Imran Salie 30 May 2024

Source: Supplied. Samuel Seeff, chairman of the Seeff Property Group.

Trends

#AfricaMonth: Seeff explores the continent's real estate trends and growth opportunities

Katja Hamilton 28 May 2024

Image supplied. Wan-Ifra announced the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide winners with SA’s Food For Mzansi Group, wining the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide Best Podcast category

Online Media

SA's Food For Mzansi Group wins Wan-Ifra 2024 Digital Media Awards Podcast category

28 May 2024

Navigating unemployment in a changing skills development landscape

Skills Development & Training

Navigating unemployment in a changing skills development landscape

Tarryn Mason, Progression 28 May 2024

The future of Africa's automotive industry: Key insights and trends

Trends

The future of Africa's automotive industry: Key insights and trends

Dentsu 28 May 2024

Latest accreditations awarded by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (NPC) Cohsasa

Hospital Groups

Latest accreditations awarded by The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (NPC) Cohsasa

COHSASA 28 May 2024

Branding

MTN tops Brand Finance Africa 200 2024 rankings

27 May 2024

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D&AD Awards

Updated: D&AD Awards 2024: SA brings home 8 Pencils

27 May 2024

New Coca-Cola Wozzaah celebrates vibrant and dynamic African culture

FMCG

New Coca-Cola Wozzaah celebrates vibrant and dynamic African culture

24 May 2024

Africa’s creative sector at a crossroads

Africa Month

Africa’s creative sector at a crossroads

Brenda Fashugba 24 May 2024

Source: © Ekonomist The MMA SA is launching the inaugural sub-Saharan Africa Smarties (SSA Smarties) this year, expanding into key markets like Kenya and Nigeria

Marketing

MMA SA launches inaugural sub-Saharan Africa Smarties in Kenya and Nigeria

24 May 2024

Source: © 123rf A CMO study has found that chief marketing officers appear clear, confident, and intentional in where Gen AI integration and application will deliver the best results in marketing process improvement and execution in 2024

Marketing

A clear and confident shift in marketing technology as CMOs embrace AI

22 May 2024

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Afreximbank launches Canex Prize for Publishing in Africa to promote literary excellence

22 May 2024

The Coca-Cola system in Kenya announces major investment

FMCG

The Coca-Cola system in Kenya announces major investment

22 May 2024

Image supplied. The final and full shortlist for the D&AD Awards has been released and the 62nd D&AD Awards ceremony takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 22 May in London

D&AD Awards

Full D&AD shortlist revealed

21 May 2024

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