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LEIGH ANDREWS
Standard Bank has firmed up South Africa's commitment to UN Women's #HeForShe movement. Here's why it's so impactful, especially in Africa, and how you can go beyond clicktivism and get involved, too... read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Facebook Africa has launched third-party fact-checking in partnership with Africa Check and AFP to help assess the accuracy of news in South Africa and reduce the spread of misinformation...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The director behind some of South Africa's most iconic TV ads has passed away...read
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AFRICA
GEORGE OGOLA
The government of Benin has cancelled a recent decree that imposed a tax on users of platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY TOP EMPLOYERS INSTITUTE
Top Employers Institute, a global organisation dedicated to enriching the world of work, and connecting Top Employers throughout the world, has just announced Africa's Top Employers for 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SINDY PETERS
What started off in 2012 as a games arcade for the 400-plus kids of Ponte City in Hillbrow, Johannesburg, has evolved into an inspiring social development project... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
WYNAND SMIT
Fostering a culture of continuous learning is essential in today's business environment, but companies find this principle difficult to implement... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
Facebook has revealed new features for its Marketplace as it celebrates being around for two years... Read
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AFRICA
As part of Spotify's newest Global Cultures initiative, designed to promote and bring to the surface culturally diverse music, Spotify today announced the launch of Afro Hub... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Mars Multisales Africa, a division of global family-owned food company Mars Incorporated, has announced progress made on the company's global 'Sustainable in a Generation' plan... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
REBECCA NOWLAND
Young people are lonelier than all other age groups, according to recent findings from the BBC Loneliness Experiment... Read
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AFRICA
The Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) has announced influential South African film duo Faith Isiakpere and Firdoze Bulbulia as its new CEO and festival director respectively... Read
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AFRICA
Generation Africa is a documentary film project aimed at changing the narrative on migration through the stories made by African filmmakers... Read
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GHANA
The Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership's (SBL) Professor Douglas Boateng has launched the second edition of the compendium on Supply Chain Management (SCM) in Accra, Ghana... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Visi magazine's editor-in-chief Sumien Brink explains how New Media's bi-monthly décor, design and architecture-first magazine has proven its endurance and longevity over the past 20 years... Read
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AFRICA
Africa's media landscape has undergone significant changes since African publishers across the continent gathered for the first Digital Media Africa conference in 2016, and this year's gathering promises to address digital revenue challenges... Read
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AFRICA
The African Academy of Sciences and its partners continue to accept pitches from African journalists every month. The next deadline is Wednesday, 10 October 2018... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Artist, maker and activator Chris Auret led attendees of the September Creative Mornings Cape Town session through a "collaborative art experiment"... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRENDAN SEERY
What does it mean to be a man? Most of us, a new Carling ad says, learned the wrong way, from our fathers, about being bold, brave and strong... Read
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AFRICA
LONDON - AfricaCom 20/20 will launch at midday on Tuesday, 13 November 2018. This year's line-up has an agenda to raise robust debate around some of the most pressing issues facing Africa's entry into the 4th Industrial Revolution... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PAULA SARTINI
BrandQuantum recently hosted a marketing roundtable to debate the role of marketing in today's digital business environment and some of the key challenges they are facing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CECIL UNGERER, ISSUED BY SMART MEDIA
Despite challenging global economic conditions, retail sales in South Africa rose 1.3% year-on-year in July. Even though this is in line with expectations... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Regularly scan your messaging inbox for messages saying you are subscribed to mobile services... Read
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AFRICA
MARRAKECH: The second World Summit of Women in Africa (WIA) Initiative commenced on Thursday, 27 September at the Beldi Country Club in Marrakech, Morocco... Read
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UNITED STATES
NEW YORK: The One Club for Creativity today debuted an online video campaign by Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo to promote the call for entries for the 2019 iteration of the One Show awards... Read
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NAMIBIA
ANDY WALKER
Doppelgangers are instant viral internet fodder, but even more so when the person in question looks like Regina George from Mean Girls. Read
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UNITED STATES
The campaign was developed by brand experience design firm Collins and each episode is brought to life by one of six talented animation and illustration studios from around the world... Read
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UNITED STATES
NEW YORK: Leading figures from the worlds of business, advertising, design and philanthropy gathered at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 in New York City to celebrate the winners of the third annual D&AD Impact Awards... Read
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MALTA
MARCUS 'THE MALTESE FALCON' BREWSTER
One of the advantages of living on the other side of the equator to South Africa is that it gives you a different perspective - on everything! From a Maltese standpoint, Marcus Brewster was led to look at a recent report about population density through the other end of the telescope... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
French luxury house Chanel has acquired British tailored swimwear brand Orlebar Brown for an undisclosed sum... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JOHN PRESS
Television shows like Dragon's Den would have us believe that a halfway decent product and a charismatic founder are all that's needed for an SMME to attract investors... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The partnership will lead to the opening of the 363-key hotel and serviced apartments, making it the largest hotel and the first dual hospitality offering in Ghana set to open in 2021... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ADAM IHUCHA
Tanzania's tourism is facing a pricing crisis causing the frustration of a multi-billion-dollar industry that wants to grow by leaps and bounds... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TOM JACKSON
Kenyan startup Angaza Elimu is attempting to transform education by addressing the problems of inefficient classrooms and inadequate educational material... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TOM JACKSON
Agritech startup Bandim Online has been named the winner of the Guinea Bissau round of the Seedstars World competition... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
While global population growth slows, Africa's population is set to double over the next three decades, reaching around 2.2bn people by 2050... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Jumia is at it again in the expansion of its flights services, this time in partnership with Amadeus, a travel technology company... Read
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SOUTH SUDAN
Oranto Petroleum has completed the award of a contract for the construction of two primary schools in South Sudan... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
In a move to help tackle the burden of foodborne diseases, a new African Food Safety Index (AFSI) was launched on Tuesday, 2 October 2018... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TOM JACKSON
Amref Health Africa has selected six African healthcare startups to join its Innovate for Life Fund Accelerator programme, which supports post-revenue entrepreneurs with innovative products tailored to improve primary healthcare... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The benefits of the digital revolution to the healthcare sector in Africa are enormous... Read
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AFRICA
International investment group Africa investor (Ai) recently announced the 2018 winners in the Ai Institutional Investment and Capital Market Awards... Read
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GLOBAL
GILBERT NAKWEYA
Fighting fall armyworm requires global efforts as the pest could spread to more countries, warn scientists... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
If creepy-crawlies give you the heebie-jeebies, then Gourmet Grubb's ice-cream, which is made using insects, may not be high up on your list of things to try... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
A better health system, access to affordable drugs, more investment in research and innovation are needed to stop the Tuberculosis epidemic, says President Cyril Ramaphosa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SOROMFE UZOMAH
African consumer and business spending is projected to reach a combined $6.7tn by 2030 with some reports indicating a $2.1tn consumer spending projection for as early as 2025... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Select-service brands and conversion opportunities spur growth by five new Marriott International hotel signings... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GRAHAM REID
Whose problem is workplace fraud, and what can individuals, companies and municipalities do to combat it...? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MEGAN BLAKE
The volume of edible food that is wasted is staggering. In 2017, the UN estimated that almost a third of all food that is produced is discarded... Read
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