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We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views. Discover the most read content on Bizcommunity's Marketing & Media site over the past year below... read
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AFRICA
PIETER BENSCH
With the World Bank forecasting economic growth in sub Saharan Africa at 3.6% for 2019-20, some of the world's fastest-growing economies are in Africa...read
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AFRICA
LOUISE BURGERS
Journalists need to be taught how to be entrepreneurs so they can contribute to the survival of the media industry, said Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, chairman of the APO Group...read
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AFRICA
The African Leadership magazine Persons of the Year Awards committee has unveiled the winners for different categories, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi emerging as the African Political Leader of the Year 2019; and African of the Year 2019, awarded to Dr Akinwumi Adesina...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Pantone has announced its 2020 Color of the Year: Classic Blue... Read
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AFRICA
Fashionomics Africa's pilot phase of a digital marketplace is set to connect African creators with the world... Read
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AFRICA
Seedstars World, a seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes, has come to its peak during the latest edition Seedstars Summit Africa in South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
Influencer marketing is a young segment in digital marketing, yet it is one that is growing rapidly and is taking up a key role in marketing campaigns. Episode 12 of the IAB's Insight event series focused on this topic. We interviewed the panellists to get their views on the topic... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South African retailer Mr Price has just launched its own beauty brand named Scarlet Hill. The new product offering comprises over 200 products across 8 categories... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
In a move that will ease and speed up e-commerce set up on WordPress, internet domain registrar and web hosting company GoDaddy has integrated with WooCommerce... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Food Lover's Market has banned plastic bags in all national corporate stores as of 1 December 2019, and will only be offering paper bags, boxes and Food Lover's Market canvas bags going forward... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As the year winds down, it is normal to want to celebrate and reflect. While it is important to do so, it is even more important for small businesses to be proactive... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Eleven black-owned wine brand made history as the biggest delegation to attend the annual ProWine China trade show in Shanghai, China held from 12 to 14 November 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
REZA HENDRICKSE
After a quiet start to the third quarter, a familiar script began playing out with President Donald Trump once again proceeding to threaten China with additional tariffs on imports... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian author and artist, has been announced as one of the speakers at next year's Design Indaba Conference... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RAYNOLD WONDER ALORSE
Modern society has given significant attention to the promises of the digital economy over the past decade. But it has given little attention to its negative environmental footprint... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CHANELL KEMP
With the current economic climate, organisations are often left to wonder where they can save money and how they can cut costs. But can research really help organisations to save money? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Association for Communication and Advertising has launched the 2020 Effie Awards South Africa... Read
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ZIMBABWE
Zimbabwe to launch program on national digital television platform. Read
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NIGERIA
Nigerian journalists attacked and threatened while covering Bayelsa and Kogi state elections... Read
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NIGERIA
MUTHOKI MUMO AND JONATHAN ROZEN
The ongoing detentions of Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo and Ethiopian editor Fekadu Mahtemework, don't tell the whole story of their governments' crackdowns on freedom of expression... Read
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AFRICA
The aim of the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) index is to provide an assessment of the extent to which businesses across Africa find trading across borders in Africa challenging, and to identify the main barriers to trade... Read
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NIGERIA
US-Nigerian Sahara Reporters website reports assets frozen amid surveillance, censorship... Read
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AFRICA
MBC original narrative short film festival promotes Arab filmmakers... Read
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EGYPT
HANAN MORSY
Fostering jobs, entrepreneurship, and capacity development for African youth: the time for disruption is now... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
Held at the new 44 on Long venue, above Tiger's Milk, the PR2020 Summit shared top insights into PR trends set to continue into 2020. Here are highlights from the five speakers of the day: Robin Tindall of Lead Genius; Regine Le Roux of Reputation Matters; Sasha Knott of Job Crystal; Jody Kolbee of Writers Hand Studios; and Jaco Pienaar of PEAR... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA TENNANT
Jessica Tennant interviews Graham Cruikshanks, director for Africa operations at TBWA\ Johannesburg on his involvement in the recent #TBWAAfricaConference, with the objective of re-emphasising TBWA\'s core disruption principles while fostering an "attitude of disruption", which he tells us more about here... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TERENCE T CHINYANGARE
How do you harness this consumerism to market and sell your products or services? One of the best ways to achieve this in a modern era is through online or digital marketing. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ALAN RADMALL
The ability to build an emotional connection between a brand, an entertainment property, a service, and its consumers, is becoming very much more difficult... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KEVIN DHERMAN
It is no secret that the manufacturing sector is critically important for both developed and emerging economies. From producing necessities like food for a nation to creating much-needed jobs... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Pick n Pay has launched a mentorship app to connect its small suppliers with experts across its business. The initiative seeks to empower entrepreneurs with easy access to business development support... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PAUL MCINTYRE
As business heads into 2020, the way customer experience is managed will irrevocably change. Ushering in this new era will be technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) which have already impacted how companies engage with their end-users... Read
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AFRICA
ELANA BEISER
The number of journalists imprisoned globally for their work in 2019 remains near record highs. China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt are world's worst jailers of journalists... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The results for Google's 2019 Year in Search have been released, offering a unique perspective on the year's major moments and top trends based on searches conducted in South Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
My favourite session of Cape Town Startup Week 2019 was the Raw series workshop featuring SA entrepreneurs Siya Beyile and Vincent Manzini, AKA 'Sir Vincent' on the power of personal branding for entrepreneurs. Here's what you missed... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
STEFAN JACOBS
Most organisations began with automating just their core business processes when they first set up their ERP systems... Read
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GLOBAL
World food prices rose significantly in November, reaching their highest point in more than two years, driven by jumps in the international prices of meat products and vegetable oils... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Unilever has invested €85 million in a new food innovation centre in the Netherlands, as the consumer goods giant looks to address "major global food system challenges". Read
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AFRICA
The Tikki Hywood Foundation and African Parks partnered to combine their expertise and resources to boost the protection of pangolins in Africa, the most heavily trafficked mammal on the planet... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
It's all about teamwork and collaboration in the workplace currently. Office walls have come down and co-workers spend their days with their heads together brainstorming and planning. However - are there detrimental effects to not having "alone time" at the office...? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Don't expect to see self-driving vehicles on the roads anytime soon, especially not in the developing world... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
All businesses, but especially small businesses can gain significantly from hiring interns... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRIAN EAGAR
Some may argue that 2019 has been a tough year - consider organisations such as SAA which continues on what seems to be a downward spiral. It wasn't all doom and gloom though. Whether linked to positive or sad news stories, several local and foreign leaders have made us stop and think about how we are leading and living... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
OLATUNJI ADETOKUNBOH
Sub-Saharan African countries account for about a third of the global burden of vaccine-preventable diseases. These diseases are responsible for a large proportion of deaths in children under the age of five... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NORA WAHBY
The potential of Information and Communication Technologies can enhance rural communities opportunities in Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MALEKA FEMIDA CASSIM
There are at least four ways in which directors can be responsible for reckless or fraudulent trading... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
According to Chris Cilliers, CEO and principal of Lew Geffen Sotheby's International Realty in the Winelands, while often associated primarily with security, there is a lot more to the growing global trend... Read
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GLOBAL
RANALD BOYDELL
Our power plants may be dirty now. But unlike combustion vehicles, electric cars give us the chance to finally free ourselves from high-carbon travel... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JONATHAN DE KOCK
No matter what a business specialises in and how long it has existed, it must deal with the reality of rampant cybercrime... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CAYLE SHARROCK
Blockchains. They're all the rage. They're touted as the magic bullet for everything from money to medicine to political regime change... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
When you have invested time and money into technology to run your business better and it doesn't have the positive effect you were counting on... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As rolling power cuts are predicted for the coming weeks, the commercial sector will bear the brunt... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Aerobotics recently hosted a panel discussion to unpack the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and its impact on South Africa and Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DAVID LOXTON
Due diligence is a fundamental to sound practice - and yet so many companies overlook this fact, with grave consequences... Read
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ETHIOPIA
ERMIAS BETEMARIAM
Ethiopian researchers put together maps which show where there are soil fertility issues and whether nutrients are missing... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The new year ushers in a new decade, and in the world of business travel it brings new advances and trends for those embarking on business trips... Read
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
WANDILE SIHLOBO
A recent report from the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative indicates a high probability of below-normal rainfall in Southern Africa between December 2019 and February 2020... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
HAROLD SPIES
Build-to-rent (BTR) is not a well-known term in South Africa, but is an investment model to watch... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Robotic surgery has successfully been applied to almost 2 000 major urological procedures at The Urology Hospital, Pretoria, and is the way of the future for medicine... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NICKLAUS KRUGER
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases. It's massive, it's tricky, and treatment can be exhausting (and toxic). But there may be new hope for TB treatment on the horizon: nanomedicine. Read
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LESOTHO
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) tunnel has been re-opened with water already reaching the Saulspoort Dam in Bethlehem in the Free State... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ERIC CROESER
Smarter mining, embracing the total value chain and finding solutions to the new realities that the industry faces, holds the key to remaining competitive in a fiercely contested marketplace... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Around the world, ocean-impact accelerators are emerging as societies start to realise the importance of focusing efforts and investments towards healthier oceans... Read
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KENYA
According to the Knight Frank Prime Global Cities Index (PGCI) for Q3 2019, house prices in Nairobi's high-end market fell by 5.4% in the year to September... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Minister of public enterprises Pravin Gordhan, issued a statement in the early hours of this morning, 5 December 2019 to confirm that SAA will be placed into business rescue immediately. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JANE NJOKU
What's the point of setting goals if you can't achieve them? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SIMEON TASSEV
The City of Johannesburg recently became the latest victim of high-profile ransomware attacks specifically targeting government departments... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The devastating impact of Stage 6 load shedding on production this week has prompted a call from the mining industry to produce its own power... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ATHABILE JOJO
Athabile Jojo, CEO of Diversity Empowerment, shares what the 2019 downturn taught him and his hopes for growth in 2020... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MAIYO FEBI
Setting goals for the New Year may be the last thing you feel like doing now that the festive season has kicked in, but the buzz will eventually fade and it will be back to 'business-as-usual'. This is where setting goals becomes important... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
Dr Tana Joseph heads up AstroComms, a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) consulting and communications company with the aim to assist STEM practitioners, institutions and policymakers... Read
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AFRICA
The 2019 Human Development Report from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has found that while African countries have made significant strides in advancing human development, a new generation of inequalities is opening up... Read
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AFRICA
Smallholder farming might not be able to generate enough value on its own, but farmers still need support... Read
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AFRICA
In the opening statement for Africa Day at the COP 25 climate meeting on Tuesday, 10 December, Yasmin Fouad, Egypt's minister of environmental affairs, on behalf of the African Union, said: "We have, and will continue to engage and to seek landing grounds on the outstanding issues. But we must flag our concern... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views... Read
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