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LEIGH ANDREWS
CapeTalk radio host Africa Melane served as MC for the recent #BI4Gov Behavioural Insights conference in Cape Town. After a quick tea break chat, he inspired me to share my thoughts on how we need to both be the best we can be and give a hand up, not just a hand out... read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NICK HEDLEY
Tiso Blackstar Group, the owner of Business Day, will sell certain locally produced films to global and local streaming platforms, CEO Andrew Bonamour said on Thursday...read
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AFRICA
MIMI KALINDA
Africa is perceived in a certain way because of the stories being told about it...read
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AFRICA
Kenyan TV presenter wins BBC World News Komla Dumor Award...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Publisher Research Council and Nielsen launched a 'fused' survey, called Fusion - said to change the face of research in South Africa - in Johannesburg and Cape Town last week... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ALUN WITHEY
Personal grooming has perhaps never been so important, so popular and so well-served by "product". For men at least. Male grooming products are now part of a huge industry... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have announced their resignation from Facebook... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Gauteng startup MyBraai has taken a popular South African past-time and turned it into a thriving online business... Read
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AFRICA
Tidal, CCA and MTN join forces to educate and empower musicians in Uganda through exclusive artists collaboration conference... Read
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AFRICA
Africa in Motion Film Festival has announced the final short list of its annual Short Film Competition... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DANIELLA SHAPIRO
Fake news is a pervasive epidemic. Insidious distortion of truth, fueled by hidden (or blatant) agendas is now accepted as a fact of life. Read
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NIGERIA
YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
Kwese´ iflix and Clickatell Transact launch streaming entertainment in Nigeria... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
2019 is almost here and with it your annual invitation to join BizTrends... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 2018 Fak'ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival will be held across Johannesburg from 24-29 September 2018... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JONATHAN HOUSTON
What too many organisations overlook when embarking on a digital transformation is the cultural and leadership readiness for the change. Both are essential to the success of any initiative... Read
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AFRICA
YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
SVOD platform iflix has agreed a partnership with TRACE, a youth media afro-urban entertainment channel, to provide two of its channels for free to iflix users worldwide, including Africa... Read
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ETHIOPIA
Access to the internet was cut in Ethiopia's capital amid clashes and protests last week... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SEBASTIAN ISAAC
The digital shift in retail does not refer only to the notion that customers will one day forgo physical stores and shop exclusively online... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The MMA SA Smarties shortlist has been announced, as part of the global mobile marketing awards programme that honours innovation and creativity while measuring the impact and success of mobile on business... Read
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AFRICA
The African Continental Free Trade Area will spur Africa's industrialisation and economic development... Read
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NIGERIA
A study conducted by Kaspersky Lab has revealed online activities of children across Nigeria, based on statistics from the company's Parental Control modules... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KEENAN BOUWER
Have you ever sat in a presentation or pitch wishing it would be over? The answer that I believe 99.9% of people will reply with is a resounding YES... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DANETTE BREITENBACH
Solutions to problems often require a change in behaviour, which in turn leads to other inventions. The result is a wheel that is spinning faster and faster, and one that is creating anxiety - more recently about jobs... Read
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AFRICA
Risk is important but it should not be an excuse not to invest in Africa, according to African Development Bank president Akinwumi Adesina... Read
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AFRICA
Africa's first LGBTIQ+ network set to create meaningful dialogue within the LGBTIQ+ community at global network session... Read
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GHANA
YUVESHEN DARMALINGUM
Africa's digital entertainment platform, Kwese´ iflix rolls out its mobile streaming collaboration with MTN Ghana... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NEWSWATCH: It's been reported that WPP will merge creative agency Y&R and digital network VML to create a new entity called VMLY&R, marking new CEO Mark Read's first significant move just weeks after being appointed. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Retail spend at frictionless payment stores like Amazon Go will grow from an estimated $253 million in 2018 to over $45 billion by 2023, as retailers strive to eliminate queues... Read
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AFRICA
According to a new report from the African Development Bank on inter-African trade, opportunities for investment in Africa outweigh the obstacles... Read
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ANGOLA
The government revised the growth forecast to 2.2% in August, compared to 4.9% in the previous forecast, and the IMF forecast 2.3% of economic growth... Read
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AFRICA
SALLY BROWN
Sea levels are rising around the world. In the last quarter century, on the north-eastern African coastline, sea levels have risen by as much as 12cm... Read
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AFRICA
According to the cofounders of TagPay Yves Eonnet and Hervé Manceron in their new analysis of the digital revolution, Fintech: The Banks Counter-attack, "Africa is the Silicon Valley of banking"... Read
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EGYPT
NUNO PINTO AND AYA BADAWY
Egypt is the latest country to build a new capital city from scratch, with ambitions to move parliament away from Cairo as early as summer 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The impacts of technology are widely felt across all sectors. The advancement of technology as it pertains to the logistics sector is detailed in Broll's Logistics Report... Read
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AFRICA
JOACHIM JARREAU, CRISTINA MITARITONNA AND SAMI BEN
The share of internal trade in Africa remains low, as reflected by official statistics. This is despite numerous regional trade agreements that have led to tariffs removal within the trading blocs... Read
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AFRICA
Hosted by the African Development Bank and Purdue University, the Scale Up Conference on Agricultural Innovations is currently under way in Indiana, USA. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
African clothing manufacturers have to become super vendors to reduce lead times and cost better to handle more styles, cater to in-season change and improve the top line and bottom line of their businesses... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
French home improvement retailer Leroy Merlin is preparing to open its first store on the African continent in Edenvale, Gauteng on Friday, 28 September 2018... Read
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AFRICA
JLL and LaSalle's biennial Global Real Estate Transparency Index has noted that increased regulatory requirements and greater data availability have driven incremental improvements... Read
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AFRICA
LAURA SWANEPOEL
The next generation of healthcare buildings will be very different from the hospitals, clinics and general practitioner (GP) surgeries we are familiar with today... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
WANDILE SIHLOBO
South Africa is ranked as the most food-secure country in Africa and is 44th out of 133 countries worldwide... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ROBIN FREDERICKS
During day two of the THINC Africa conference, which recently took place in Cape Town, Radisson RED curator, Dale Simpson, navigated a conversation around what millennials expect from employers in hospitality and what employers can do to stay relevant to this segment... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Department of Mineral Resources, which has withdrawn the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Amendment (MPRDA) Bill, is to bring its focus on gas and oil to Cabinet... Read
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AFRICA
KATY MICALLEF
Africa is rising and technology is at the forefront of growth on the continent... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
According to analysis conducted by Travelport, the countries that have seen the greatest growth in flight bookings from travellers in South Africa in the last 12 months are Mauritius, Thailand and Zimbabwe... Read
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