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AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina, says "We are in a race with time to unlock Africa's full potential..." read
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AFRICA
African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina confident of "very promising future" for continent...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JAINITA KHATRI
Coca-Cola dividing their products into three categories - leaders, challengers and explorers - is a good way of defining the future of any brand...read
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AFRICA
BENJAMIN TETTEH
Ghana rolls out the red carpet to encourage resettlement in the motherland...read
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BURKINA FASO
Learning how to report on migration issues in the media with due regard to human rights and the dignity of migrants, is a fundamental step in informing public opinion... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA TENNANT
Jessica Tennant interviews Peter DeBenedictis, chief marketing officer for Microsoft in the Middle East and Africa on his recent business trip to South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RACHEL THOMPSON
Rachel Thompson, insights director at GfK South Africa comments on the recent Gillette "We Believe" campaign that urges men to be their best and leave behind toxic behaviours like mansplaining, bullying and sexual harassment... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EBEN ESTERHUIZEN
Branding and selling is about knowing what and how technology can assist in the CX experience but it's also about ensuring that there's a human and emotional connection with the consumer every step of the way... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARC KORNBERGER
The term 'influencer marketing' has never been sexier than now, but many agencies are not getting it right. Welcome to the world of micro influencers... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARCO BROCCARDO
With the number of instant messaging app users worldwide expected to top 2.4 billion by 2021, there is no better time for brands to embrace using these platforms as a way to engage with customers. However, care must be taken in its adoption as the rules are still being made up as we go along... Read
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AFRICA
Facebook has announced that it is supporting Safer Internet Day, held annually on 5 February, with a campaign spanning 15-plus African countries... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SYLVIA SCHUTTE
For years, Sylvia quoted best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell's theory that it takes 10,000 hours to master a craft. Whether it's to improve as an athlete, a musician or to be a better leader, it's about the time you put in to master that skill. But then there are people who improve faster than others, so it clearly can't just be about putting in the 10,000 hours... Read
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COTE D'IVOIRE
The distribution of digital terrestrial television (DTT) will begin in Ivory Coast in February in the Abidjan region... Read
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EGYPT
Initiative launched for Egyptian screenwriters... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LG Electronics (LG) has appointed James Lee as its news president of the Middle East and Africa Region (MEA)... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SABRINA CHAKORI
Wrapped, sealed, boxed, cling-filmed and vacuum packed. We have become used to consumables being packaged in every way imaginable... Read
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GHANA
Forbes8 Network aims to inspire entrepreneurs and those with great ideas to promote new businesses... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PIETER GEYSER
Success is dependent on how well one responds. Professional marketers are constantly having to evolve as industries shift. The competitive landscape, in market dynamics and consumer expectations, plays a mammoth role in how marketers respond to these shifts in the industry... Read
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AFRICA
Media relations expert APO Group experiences record growth in Africa and the Middle East and plans continued expansion for 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Loeries has announced that entry is now open for the 2019 Awards and has called for agencies, studios, brands and designers to tell better stories - stories that upend stereotypes, tear down racial divides, and embrace cultural differences... Read
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KENYA
Kenya's second largest telco Airtel, Equity bank and pay TV service provider DSTV have emerged to be among major brands offering their customers remarkable services and satisfaction... Read
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AFRICA
Kwesé Free Sports has rolled out new TV programmes in Ghana... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 2019 RapidLion South African International Film Festival will be held at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg from 1 March to 10 March 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Grey Africa's Fran Luckin has been announced as one of the executive jury members of the 2019 New York Festivals Advertising Awards... Read
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NIGERIA
Applications for the BBC World News Komla Dumor Award are open until 23.59GMT, 26 March 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
SA-born filmmaker now based in New York, Dan Mace, was the speaker at Creative Mornings Cape Town's first event of the year, where he spoke through all things surreal, and how to put your otherness to your creative advantage... Read
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GHANA
Facebook partners with Vodafone Ghana to roll out Express Wi-Fi facility in the residential areas... Read
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AFRICA
Facebook to open its first content review centre in Sub-Saharan Africa in a number of African languages... Read
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AFRICA
MIKE HIGLEY
Seven of the top ten fastest growing internet populations in the world are in Africa, and there is an 81% mobile penetration rate on the continent... Read
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SENEGAL
The African media industry can help shape economic development across the continent... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Increasingly connected and engaged consumers have become a key driving force for change in the food and beverage industry in SA, say stakeholders... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CARMEN MURRAY
Carmen Murray asked the public to vote to identify the top 8 youth wonders in South Africa under 30 and shares the results... Read
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AFRICA
Plus TV, the 24-hour news channel, will be broadcast on StarTimes... Read
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LESOTHO
Vodacom Lesotho has partnered with Facebook to launch Facebook Flex, which is a connectivity service allowing people to stay connected with news all free of charge... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Turkish Airlines has teamed up with the Lego Movie team to create a new safety video featuring no less than 20-million of the toy bricks... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Swiss transnational food and drink company Nestlé will accelerate its journey to reach full supply chain transparency by disclosing its list of suppliers alongside a variety of data of its 15 priority commodities... Read
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GLOBAL
Slack Technologies Inc. said it has filed confidentially with regulators to list the company's shares in the US... Read
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GLOBAL
LEIGH ANDREWS
Get ready to recognise the Mastercard brand not only with your eyes but also your ears. That's right, the latest phase of its brand evolution involves sonic melody that's set to form part of your Mastercard brand experience in the future... Read
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DR CONGO
SHIRIN ASHRAF & ARTHUR WICKENHAGEN
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has emphasised that an experimental vaccine is playing a major role in controlling the spread of Ebola... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BINGANIDZO MUCHARA
President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address (Sona) theme was "Following up on our commitments. Making your Future Work Better."... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LLEWELLYN LEONARD
During the apartheid era in South Africa, the mining industry operated without restraint and had undue influence over government decision-making... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SA manufacturing investment slows down, but automation could power progress... Read
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AFRICA
ROBIN FREDERICKS
AGCO's senior vice president and general manager for Asia Pacific and Africa elaborates on the company's new Farm in a Box initiative and how it's helping African farmers... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The digitisation of our personal and work lives is making society increasingly reliant on technology, and more vulnerable to the risk of a debilitating cyberattack... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NICCI BOTHA
The governmental mismanagement of the past nine years has impacted on the mining industry. But what would happen if the sector grows? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South African fishing and food company Sea Harvest International has entered into a bid implementation agreement with its 56.3% held Australian subsidiary, Mareterram... Read
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RWANDA
AGNES BINAGWAHO
A new university of health sciences is being launched in Rwanda. The University of Global Health Equity is being touted as a centre that will "contribute to addressing the critical shortage of health professionals" and "ensure they remain committed to the continent"... Read
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GLOBAL
FAO launches a comprehensive publication that points the way to how we can improve our food systems... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Accenture has announced plans to launch a new Applied Intelligence Studio for Mining in Johannesburg, South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
The global food and beverage space is bubbling over with creativity and innovation, with an eager audience of brave consumers with bold taste eager to sample the next big thing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
YPO is hosting the world's largest gathering of chief executives, its Global Leadership Conference and YPO Edge, right here in Cape Town on 6 and 7 March 2019, with the theme, 'Life of Re'. YPO member Julia Raphaely, also CEO of Associated Media Publishing, shares what to expect... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
This year will be a big one for the next-generation transactional sector, with disruption increasingly coming to market and long-standing challenges being overcome... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARIAN SALZMAN
Change for women in the workplace is happening, but more needs to be done... Read
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