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LOUISE MARSLAND
Bizcommunity.Africa has curated our business-to-business outlook for Africa for this year... read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA TENNANT
Bizcommunity invited contributors to join its vision for Africa (with over 230 industry trend contributions making up the 2019 report) at BizTrendsLIVE!, which took place at Ster-Kinekor Sandton City in Johannesburg on Thursday, 31 January.read
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AFRICA
STEVEN FRIEDMAN
The democratic inferiority complex of many Africans is unwarranted. The idea that our democracies are "B Grade" and those of the West are prime quality is false...read
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AFRICA
African Media Agency to reward best African Journalist with a fully paid trip to cover The Africa CEO Forum in Kigali... Read
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UGANDA
Isaac Oboth is an Ugandan-born entrepreneur who has proven that even without a certificate, one can still make it big in life through hard work and dedication... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA TENNANT
Jessica Tennant reports back on Charles Stuart's analysis of the annual 'Entertainment Media Outlook: An African Perspective', specifically with regard to three key trends in the entertainment and media space... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Those that fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Luckily, in the January 2019 Meltwater webinar, Ogilvy Cape Town's creative director Melissa Attree explained how to evolve your content marketing strategy for success in 2019... Read
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SENEGAL
Partnerships are key to improving prosperity and economic development in Africa... Read
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AFRICA
The Merck Foundation has launched the "Merck More Than a Mother" Film Awards, aimed at breaking the stigma around infertility in Ghana and rest of Africa... Read
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AFRICA
The SABRE Awards has announced the final deadline for entries for the Africa competition that has been extended to 15 February... Read
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AFRICA
Access Bank is the inaugural sponsor of CNN's newest programme, Africa Avant-Garde, which will tell stories across CNN's TV and digital platforms about contemporary African culture... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEAGO MONARENG
As a PR professional, crisis communication is all about getting your client out of the storm with the least amount of damage, whether it's to the organisation or its reputation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANDREW SMIT
Google Shopping and Facebook Dynamic Product Ads are a powerful way for retailers to reach new customers and drive sales... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MIKE BEUKES
In psychology, there's a term known as post-traumatic growth. If you haven't already worked it out, it talks to the idea of rising from the ashes. Or, to use a phrase coined by Nassim Taleb, being 'antifragile'. What didn't kill us, made us stronger... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SIZAKELE MARUTLULLE
Whilst it is exciting to think of the future and to guess what may or may not come to pass, it is also an undertaking that requires deep reflection... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Pernod Ricard, the distributor of brands such as Absolut Vodka, Jameson Whiskey and Beefeater Gin recently set out to discover "how convivial the world is"... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ZUBEIDA GOOLAM AND WAYNE FLEMMING
The field of digital and social media marketing is constantly changing as technology advances and consumer needs develop. It is paramount for us to stay ahead of the curve with continual innovation and the application thereof... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LARA UTIAN-PRESTON
While virtual reality, augmented reality and 360-degree video and photography become the norm within advertising, filmmaking, and content production, their applications across a range of other industries and sectors are also set to exponentially increase... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Hoorah Digital has won Hi-Tec and Pizza Hut Tanzania, the latest in its growing stable of brands to turn to the consultancy for their performance marketing needs... Read
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ZIMBABWE
Celebrated singer, songwriter and guitarist Dr Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi passed away, aged 66, in Harare on 23 January 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARYLEE TOWNSHEND
IRI's Marylee Townshend predicts 7 trends that will influence the future of FMCG... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
This week we go behind the selfie with Grant Sithole, chief creative officer at Avatar agency... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY KANTAR MILLWARD BROWN
A significant percentage (45%) of audiences think women are still being portrayed inappropriately according to Kantar's newest analysis of advertising creativity and media effectiveness... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
HIGOR TORCHIA
Is the bricks and mortar ship really going down? Not for those that innovate and adapt, says Vend's Higor Torchia... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ERNST WITTMANN
Innovation in smartphones seems to have hit a ceiling, with most manufacturers releasing new products that feel like incremental improvements ... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Two years ago Ikea teamed up with a group of designers, architects, artists and creatives from five African countries to collaborate around modern urban rituals and the importance they play in the home... Read
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AFRICA
African Development Bank to present 2019 African Economic Outlook at 32nd AU Summit... Read
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NIGERIA
MultiChoice Nigeria is strengthening its content library on DStv by introducing three new 24-hour channels on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), beginning 31 January 2019... Read
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AFRICA
Meetings Africa 2019 working towards inclusivity and sustainability... Read
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NAMIBIA
ISSUED BY TECHSYS DIGITAL
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SOUTH AFRICA
KFC, one of the world's largest quick service restaurant chains, has publicly committed to ensuring that all plastic-based, consumer-facing packaging across its global system will be recoverable or reusable by 2025... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Amazon is field testing a new delivery robot called Scout, which the company describes as a "fully-electric delivery system" designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEO VAN DE POLDER
Technology and changing customer demographics have set a new stage for retail. Success today is defined by the ability to keep up, or get out in front of, trends that are driving consumer purchases... Read
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AFRICA
Capacity-building and agricultural mechanisation are a priority to facilitate food security and unlock the potential of small-scale farming in Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Experts predict that advances in science and technology will keep farmers and agriculture professionals on their toes... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NATALIA ROSA
For many years, content has been king when it comes to marketing travel and tourism brands. This is changing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Clover has received a buyout offer from the newly-formed consortium called Milco - led by Israel-based Central Bottling Co.- which has plans to delist the dairy business from the JSE and expand it across sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Combining insights from psychology, judgement, decision making and economics, the field of behavioural economics considers why individuals make purchasing decisions, what they will buy and how much they are willing to spend... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Africa Energy Indaba 2019 platform has announced the top five nominees for Africa's Youth Energy Innovator award... Read
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GLOBAL
From 25-27 January 2019, Wesgro CEO Tim Harris and Wesgro head of leisure tourism, Inge Dykman will join over 560 exhibitors representing 170 destinations at this years' New York Times Travel Show... Read
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GLOBAL
Tribal Tourist has launched a new website to provide travellers with an easy way to find and book tours and activities; and promote responsible adventure travel in Africa... Read
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AFRICA
PATIENCE PANASHE
According to the World Bank, Africa's economic performance over the last decade has been significant, registering an average growth of 5%. If this growth is maintained, projections indicate that Africa's current GDP of 4.1% will increase by an estimated threefold by 2030 and sevenfold by 2050... Read
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AFRICA
Speaking at the inauguration of the Africa Centre for Climate and Sustainable Development in Rome this week, FAO director-general José Graziano da Silva said a major focus on boosting the agricultural sectors and promoting rural development in Africa is needed... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DHIREN VASRAM
2018 was a landmark year for the cloud with a flurry of mergers and acquisitions, and technological advances... Read
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GLOBAL
Knight Frank has released its inaugural Urban Futures report which has found that the affordable housing gap reached an estimated $740bn globally in 2018... Read
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SOUTH SUDAN
Health workers and other frontline responders in South Sudan are being vaccinated against Ebola as part of preparedness measures to fight the spread of the disease... Read
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AFRICA
LAMECH MWAPAGHA
All organisms are unique. Each having a set of genetic instructions for their build-up and maintenance. This set of genetic instructions is contained in genes that makeup a genome... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
In his opening address at the 2019 Meetings Africa launch, South African Tourism CEO, Sisa Ntshona delved into how SA Tourism is looking to grow business tourism in the country through NCB efforts to sell the country as a business events destination of choice... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NIR KSHETRI
When a Chinese consumer buys a package labelled "Australian beef", there's only a 50-50 chance the meat inside is, in fact, Australian beef. It could just as easily contain rat, dog, horse or camel meat... Read
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