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RUTH COOPER
The eighth instalment of the Investec Cape Town Art Fair recently ran at the CTICC. We got in touch with Investec Cape Town Art Fair art fair director Laura Vincenti to find out what goes into putting on an event of this scale, cultivating a Pan-African dialogue and art trends for the year ahead... read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The final quarter of the 2019 Audit Bureau of Circulations of South Africa (ABC)'s magazine circulation results was a subdued affair, characterised by further decreases, with only a few publications able to boast good to excellent increases on the quarter and the prior year...read
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DANETTE BREITENBACH
The decline in newspaper circulation continued in the last quarter of the Audit Bureau of Circulation of South Africa's results for 2019, with Q4 showing a decline of 4.7% on the previous quarter and 9.1% on the prior year...read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Lanie Krugel has just launched Kru & Co, a South African social media agency. We discussed the agency's startup story and social media trends for South Africa to wake up to...read
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TERRY LEVIN
Khumo Theko, cultural identity trend spotter at Flux Trends was BizTakeouts' podcast guest on Monday, 10 February, recorded at Workshop 17, the Firestaion in Rosebank, Johannesburg... Read
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Design Indaba will host its 2020 Nightscape public festival at the Artscape Piazza in Cape Town from 26 to 28 February... Read
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JESSICA TENNANT
Design Indaba alumnus Robert Wong, co-founder and CD of Google Creative Lab, has been announced as one of the speakers at this year's Design Indaba... Read
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Advertising
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Today marks the launch of the South Africa chapter of the Unstereotype Alliance, an industry-led initiative convened by UN Women to end harmful stereotypes often perpetuated through advertising... Read
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DAMON STAPLETON
Dargaville, a small town on the banks of the Wairoa River in the North Island of New Zealand with a population of approximately 4,500 people, lost the second-last 'Blockbuster' movie store on Earth a few weeks ago. The last one is in the town of Bend, Oregon in the USA... Read
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Biz Takeouts
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In conversation with Rutendo Nyamuda about how traditional corporates need to adjust their structures and systems to prepare for the incoming Gen Z workforce and the more liberal generations to come. View
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Branding
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CRM, CX, UX
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South African fintech and customer engagement business, 2Engage, is pursuing international growth opportunities... Read
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NONYE MPHO OMOTOLA
The term 'populism' usually brings to mind political ideologies where the citizens of a country or region tangibly influence decisions and socio-political landscapes... Read
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CSI
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The crown of more than 51,945 people at this past weekend's Match in Africa - which saw Roger Federer take on Rafael Nadal in a charity match in Cape Town - set a new world record for the largest attendance at a tennis match... Read
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Design
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Lumières d'Afriques will open at the Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg on 21 February 2020. The group exhibition will showcase the work of 54 artists from across the African continent... Read
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Forty-five talented South African designers will have their products feature at the NEXT20 Trade Exhibition, taking place from 27 February to 1 March 2020 at the V&A Waterfront... Read
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Digital
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BRENT HAUMANN
Most organisations understand the need for digital transformation, with many spending fortunes on investments in digital technologies... Read
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RUTH MASON
France and the US have managed to avoid turning their recent trade skirmish into a war - for now... Read
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MICHAEL GULLAN, ISSUED BY G&G DIGITAL
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Education
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Local media personality and leading social entrepreneur, Fikile Moeti aka DJ Fix is launching a learnership programme in partnership with the Skills Development Corporation (SDC). Applications for the May intake of The Fix SDC Learnership Programme are now open... Read
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NTOMBI MALAZA
The re-introduction of art in schools is an essential starting point to instilling the requisite skills necessary to the next entrants of higher education students being ready for the modern economy - of the fourth industrial revolution... Read
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Events & Conferencing
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ANN NUROCK
This past weekend was one of sheer inspiration, witnessing the unique and lasting contribution Rolex is making to culture and the arts by promoting the transmission of knowledge across generations... Read
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Exhibitions
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The AAXO ROAR Awards are aimed at acknowledging and recognising excellence in the exhibition industry and are judged on successful exhibition strategies incorporating marketing, public relations, operations and activation... Read
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The 92nd Academy Awards was held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California, United States... Read
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DANIEL DERCKSEN
Daniel Dercksen chats with director André Velts ahead of the release of his new film, Vergeet My Nie in local cinemas tomorrow, 14 February... Read
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EARLE HOLMES, ISSUED BY AFDA
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Good Things Guy has been named South Africa's Blog of the Year for 2019, for the third consecutive year, as well as Best Lifestyle Blog for 2019... Read
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Mobile
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DOUGLAS VAN WYK
The next generation SMS that comes native on smartphones is known as Rich Communication Service (RCS)... Read
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Online Media
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Google announced a $1m pan-African Google.org fund to support innovative ideas around privacy and launched a child online safety programme, Be Internet Awesome... Read
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PR & Communications
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Global communications firm, Edelman is further cementing its position as a pan-African consultancy having opened a new office based in Nairobi, Kenya and with the acquisition of... Read
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The new study, conducted by Talk2 Media & Events, surveyed over 200 buyers and exhibitors from across the Asia Pacific region looking at industry challenges and the most valued attributes... Read
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DR. GLEB TSIPURSKY
Negotiators, even professional ones, make surprisingly many wrong decisions that doom negotiations that should have succeeded... Read
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Promotions & Activations
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Future Females has launched an activation in support of 5,000 female entrepreneurs to help in executing their business goals... Read
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Research
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With analysts warning of a gloomy outlook for South Africa's beleaguered retail sector, the release of Stats SA's retail sales figures for November 2019 have provided a glimmer of good news... Read
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South Africa's 'love economy' continues to grow, with Valentine's Day spend up 11%... Read
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A Rutgers study has found that gender bias and stereotypes corresponding to certain occupations are prevalent on digital and social media platforms... Read
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CHRIS SWANEPOEL
Increasingly, customers are engaging with brands remotely - this is the age of online shopping and deliveries, with online services making it easy for customers to buy and consume without leaving their homes... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Jalome Chirwa met Emmanuel Mareme and Milaan Mashele at a launch that sparked the idea of WhatsOnSale, a web and mobile platform aimed at the retail industry... Read
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Adidas has surged ahead to become a global leader in sourcing sustainable cotton. From 6th place in the last ranking, the apparel company now sources 100% of its cotton from sustainable sources... Read
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Behind the Selfie
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LEIGH ANDREWS
This week, we go #BehindtheSelfie with Amanda Cromhout, founder and CEO of Truth Customer Leadership and Emerce Commerce, as well as #NedbankIMC2020 speaker... Read
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Fairness First
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LEIGH ANDREWS
Here's how President Ramaphosa's Sona address for 2020 promised to shine a light on making a better future through inclusive economic growth, with a firm stance on the empowerment of women and taking steps against gender-based violence... Read
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The Nigerian Academy of Science has called for the current outbreak of Lassa fever in Africa's most populous nation to be declared a national health emergency because of its severity... Read
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NICCI BOTHA
Mining is so much more than just digging up rocks. Sustainable development, community welfare, greenhouse gas emissions and traceability of the source of minerals all play a substantial role in developing the industry as an economic driver in Africa... Read
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NIVAASH SINGH
While the risks are high, Africa currently offers a very compelling mining proposition with a number of excellent prospects in many parts of the continent... Read
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New York Festivals TV & Film Awards has announced its 2020 competition finalists... Read
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Applications for the 10th annual SAB Foundation Social Innovation and Disability Empowerment Awards will open on 24 February 2020... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Cape Town-based startup, Creative Crafting Club is the brainchild of sisters, Christelle Janse van Rensburg and Stefanie de Wet... Read
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PIETER BENSCH
President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a sober assessment of the challenges the nation faces along with realistic proposals about how these problems may be addressed... Read
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Disruptive business models will require new job specifications, which in turn will demand an element of upskilling... Read
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In his State of the Nation Address (Sona), President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed that the regulatory environment is to be changed in order to facilitate uncapped commercial and industrial distributed generation for own use.... Read
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EDWARD PARKER
In the final weeks of 2019, a virus slipped furtively from animal to human somewhere in the Chinese city of Wuhan. This inauspicious moment marked the sounding of a starting pistol, unheard at first but now echoing deafeningly across the globe. The race to stop a pandemic had begun... Read
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Toll tariffs on national roads will be adjusted on 1 March 2020... Read
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DOROS HADJIZENONOS
Nearly 9 in 10 companies not only allow but actually rely on their employees to access critical business apps using their personal devices... Read
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South Africa's retail trade sales dropped by 0,4% year-on-year in December 2019, according to Statistics South Africa. Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
If you think that investing is only for the rich, you're absolutely wrong... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Companies of all natures, shapes, and sizes are at risk of cyber threats and crime. No organisation is immune to cyber-attacks... Read
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MYRNA SACHS
The validity of sick notes has come under the spotlight this week, but it is not a new issue, rather one which employers have been grappling with for a long time... Read
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IMRAN SALIE
Elisabeth Moreno, vice president and managing director of HP Africa, offers insight into how technology and education can help economic growth in Africa... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
Owner of Supa Quick Hillcrest, Angie Frederic's foray into entrepreneurship has been a long road that began in childhood... Read
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A new study from the UBC Sauder School of Business has found that companies that appoint more women to their boards are able to fuel groundbreaking innovation, improve efficiency, spur growth, increase competitiveness and reduce risk... Read
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ANDREW ROBINSON
Increased automation, AI, robots, 5G, digital everything - the workplace of the future that we've been talking about for so long, is actually here... Read
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