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The panel featuring communications leaders from Armenia, Ukraine, Ghana, Switzerland and South Africa at the World Communications Forum’s PR Summit in Davos with Lebo Madia, PR Powerhouse, centre (In blue) (Image supplied)

PR & Communications

Exclusive: Lebo Madiba - Trust Engineers: The rise of strategic communicators in an age of AI, conflict and cultural complexity

Lebo Madiba 16 Apr 2025

Mary Beth West, a senior strategist from the US, challenges the industry to confront its role in blurring the lines between advocacy, ideology, and profit at the World Communications Forum Association’s Davos Communications Summit (Image supplied by Lebo Madiba)

PR & Communications

Exclusive: Lebo Madiba - Bell Pottinger’s legacy and the shifting terrain of PR, ethics and geopolitics

Lebo Madiba 14 Apr 2025

Lebo Madiba is at the World Communications Forum Association’s Davos Communications Summit. Here, she reports on the message from the keynote speaker, Paul Holmes, founder and chair of PRovoke Media (Image supplied)

PR & Communications

Exclusive: Lebo Madiba - The Chaos Dividend - Corporate Affairs must lead with pattern recognition, not panic

Lebo Madiba 11 Apr 2025

Source: wirestock via

Logistics & Transport

Heightened marine trade risks and what they mean for insurance

Kennedy Ntenjwa 7 Apr 2025

Lemonaid: How to turn ‘pollycrisis’ into ‘polytunity’

Marketing

Lemonaid: How to turn ‘pollycrisis’ into ‘polytunity’

4 Apr 2025

Source: @GovernmentZA/X

Economy

Countdown to #Sona2025: Will foreign-policy concerns overshadow domestic troubles?

Katja Hamilton 6 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: Future-focused procurement – embracing change and empowering growth

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Future-focused procurement – embracing change and empowering growth

Debbie Tagg 28 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

Roelf Pienaar 28 Jan 2025

Don’t call it a comeback, but Exxaro is banking on coal resurgence

Coal, Oil & Gas

Don’t call it a comeback, but Exxaro is banking on coal resurgence

Lindsey Schutters 16 Jan 2025

Souvenir luggage tags are displayed at a Barrick Gold Corp at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Source: Reuters/Chris Helgren

Mining

Barrick to suspend operations in Mali after gold seized

Portia Crowe, Divya Rajagopal, David Lewis and Giulia Paravicini 14 Jan 2025

Markets & Investment

Natural Resources Outlook 2025: Trade tariffs and geopolitics set to bolster gold's appeal

George Cheveley 13 Jan 2025

Mining industry stands to win from Trump Arctic interests

Mining

Mining industry stands to win from Trump Arctic interests

Lindsey Schutters 8 Jan 2025

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

South African rand drifts in holiday-thinned trade

24 Dec 2024

Source: Microsoft Designer

Mining

‘Gold rush’ driven by geopolitics and consumer anxiety

Lindsey Schutters 12 Dec 2024

Markets & Investment

What does China’s new policy direction mean for investors?

4 Nov 2024

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

US 10-year Treasury yield hits 4%, keeps equity bulls in check

Alun John and Kevin Buckland 7 Oct 2024

PR & Communications

#Exclusive: Dustin Chick: Enough of the OMGs – it’s time to ask, ‘what now?’

Dustin Chick 18 Sep 2024

Bridgewater, Global Citizen, and Harith General unveil research on sub-Saharan Africa's economic potential

Economy

Bridgewater, Global Citizen, and Harith General unveil research on sub-Saharan Africa's economic potential

Issued by OnPoint PR 5 Sep 2024

Markets & Investment

FT Africa Summit 2024: Global leaders unite in London to drive Africa's sustainable growth and nnovation

19 Aug 2024

Mastering resilience: How preparation beats the odds in building agribusiness

Agriculture

Mastering resilience: How preparation beats the odds in building agribusiness

24 May 2024

Skills needed for more profitable trading in SA's FMCG sector

Training

Skills needed for more profitable trading in SA's FMCG sector

Andrea du Plessis 23 Apr 2024

Global trade map redrawn as growth slows and regional links deepen

Logistics & Transport

Global trade map redrawn as growth slows and regional links deepen

4 Mar 2024

How the beer industry is shaping South Africa's economic future

FMCG

How the beer industry is shaping South Africa's economic future

Zoleka Lisa 12 Feb 2024

Iata: Air cargo demand in Africa falls as global markets recover in 2023

Cargo & Storage

Iata: Air cargo demand in Africa falls as global markets recover in 2023

2 Feb 2024

#BizTrends2024: Trends shaping the future of the global wine industry in 2024

Trends

#BizTrends2024: Trends shaping the future of the global wine industry in 2024

Rico Basson 24 Jan 2024

Source: WEF Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI; Marc Benioff, chair and CEO of Salesforce; Albert Bourla, CEO of Pfizer; Jeremy Hunt, chancellor of the Exchequer of the UK; Julie Sweet, chair and CEO of Accenture; and CNN host Fareed Zakaria speak about technological advances on 18 January

PR & Communications

Davos: 4 themes for PR and communication practitioners for 2024

24 Jan 2024

Economy

Chief Economists Outlook 2024: More economic uncertainty on the horizon

15 Jan 2024

Fintech

2024 predicts: GenAI realism, Digital ID progress, but social engineering mutates again

Gerhard Oosthuizen 8 Jan 2024

Source: PRovoke Media The 2023 Global Sabre Awards' Global Agency of the Year is the Weber Shandwick Collective

PR & Communications

The Weber Shandwick Collective named 2023 Global Sabre Awards' Global Agency of the Year

10 Nov 2023

Source: Reuters.

Economy

Oil rises more than $1 on fears of spread of Middle East conflict

27 Oct 2023

Matheus Bertelli Reuters News, Reuters Breakingviews, has launched a new daily column, The Big View

Media

Reuters Breakingviews launches daily column on global issues

25 Oct 2023

Source: Reuters. China's Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao and South Africa's Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Ebrahim Patel.

Economy

#BRICS2023: What is Brics and who are its members?

Bhargav Acharya 22 Aug 2023

2023 is seeing expanded malware targeted at Apple devices. Source: cottonbro studio/Pexels

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity threat trends show increased vulnerability for Apple devices

1 Aug 2023

Gear change needed to accelerate SA's auto manufacturing sector

Manufacturing & Parts

Gear change needed to accelerate SA's auto manufacturing sector

Pieter Wessels 10 Jul 2023

Source: PIRO4D via

Agro-processing

Hortgro Awards honours deciduous fruit industry champions

8 Jun 2023

Critical-mineral deals made up 66% of top 40 M&A in 2022 - PwC report

Mining

Critical-mineral deals made up 66% of top 40 M&A in 2022 - PwC report

8 Jun 2023

Economy

The MPC's decision: Another blow to consumers' wallets

Katja Hamilton 25 May 2023

Tourism

Wesgro locks down R4.1bn in new direct investments for Cape Town and Western Cape

21 Apr 2023

Image source: Aleksandra Alekseeva –

ESG & Sustainability

Business expansion in Africa: Avoid the 'Calabash Effect'

Dr Rutendo Hwindingwi 30 Mar 2023

#BizTrends2023: Africa real estate trends to watch out for in 2023

Trends

#BizTrends2023: Africa real estate trends to watch out for in 2023

Tilda Mwai 10 Jan 2023

Remaining ahead of shifting trends will be key to successful property investments

Trends

Remaining ahead of shifting trends will be key to successful property investments

Waldo Marcus 13 Dec 2022

Advertising

World Cup 2022: how sponsorship has become less about selling drinks and more about geopolitics

Simon Chadwick 29 Nov 2022

COP27 will be remembered as a failure - here's what went wrong

Climate Change

COP27 will be remembered as a failure - here's what went wrong

Mark Maslin, Priti Parikh, Richard Taylor, Simon Chin-Yee 22 Nov 2022

Image source: Galina Peshkova –

Management & Leadership

Evolution of leadership: What global leaders can learn from the corporate world

Roland Innes 27 Sep 2022

Image supplied. Lebo Madiba, whose curiousity led to the podcast Influence

Publishing

Influence: Driving the necessary conversations

Danette Breitenbach 24 Aug 2022

Research

Drop in optimism among Africa's youth - report

27 Jun 2022

Tax season is coming amidst a shocking rise in cybercrime

Cybersecurity

Tax season is coming amidst a shocking rise in cybercrime

Dan Thornton 1 Jun 2022

Image supplied: The Toil of Man by Segun Aiyesan

Art

Salon Afrique opens in Cape Town

31 May 2022

War in Ukraine is changing energy geopolitics

Energy

War in Ukraine is changing energy geopolitics

Scott L. Montgomery 11 Mar 2022

Source: josealbafotos via

Agriculture

How Russia-Ukraine conflict could influence Africa's food supplies

Wandile Sihlobo 25 Feb 2022