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ROBIN FREDERICKS
"Has anybody ever asked you what you're passionate about and you can't help but have a glow before you respond?" read
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CAMEROON
JULIUS T. NGANJI AND LYNN COCKBURN
The Conversation Africa examined how various groups - including the government, Anglophone activists, media organisations and citizens - used social media to report on growing unrest in Cameroon...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Our roving reporter Ann Nurock chats to CEO of Fort, Shukri Toefy, the only South African speaker at Cannes this year, about the African ad industry in a global context.read
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NAMIBIA
The Namibian and 14 media organisations around the world have partnered with Forbidden Stories - to combat the deliberate silencing of journalists in various parts of the world... Read
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AFRICA
Infront Media seizes six-year Olympics TV rights agreement in sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRUCE BORRIE, ISSUED BY ROCKETSEED
If your business is just you, then maybe it's not the biggest decision you'll ever make, but if there's 50, 100 or 1,000 people in the business then suddenly the decision (and the risks) become bigger... Read
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KENYA
ISSUED BY DENTSU AEGIS NETWORK
Dentsu Aegis Network currently holds the rank as the fastest growing media agency in the country, demonstrating their pioneering spirit yet again through the launch of the groups newest global agency, Vizeum... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MELISSA CAMPBELL
A panel of subject matter experts explores the future of the in-store experience, including strategies for neuroplasticity... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHAEL GULLAN
Customer relationship marketing (CRM) is an important tool to help turn your marketing campaigns into a success. With this tool, repetitive tasks are automated, freeing up time for teams to engage with tasks, that are more demanding to meet business objectives... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is officially underway, with awards being announced nightly from 17 to 21 June 2019. But keep your eyes peeled until the end, as The Glass Lion for Change, announced in the final ceremony of the week, is one of the most hotly contested awards - here's why we're hoping to see Caster Semenya and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka shine... Read
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KENYA
Pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund, and incubator MEST Africa, this week closed its fourth successful MEST Africa Summit, in partnership with Microsoft... Read
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AFRICA
HiPipo is the organiser of the annual Digital Impact Awards Africa which will take place on 20 September 2019 at the Kampala Serena, Uganda... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 18 June, with the 2019 Cannes Film Craft, Digital Craft and Industry Craft Lions announced during the Craft award track ceremony... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KAMO MOGASHOA
At its root, data storytelling is about using the facts and numbers to craft stories that create a deeper connection with the real person at the end of the data... Read
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NIGERIA
Online shopping destination, Jumia is empowering resident women in Lagos to deepen e-commerce penetration in Nigeria... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 66th annual Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity continued on 18 June, with the 2019 Cannes Entertainment Lions, Entertainment for Music Lions and Entertainment for Sport Lions announced during the Entertainment award track ceremony and SA bringing home two Bronze Lions... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ROGER WOODEND
When we think of industries obsessed with customer experience, we often think about travel, retail or even retail banking... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRONWYN WILLIAMS
Cryptocurrencies offer a financial lifeline to people excluded from the formal financial economy and to those living in oppressive political or economic regimes... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
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AFRICA
NICK WILKINSON
Rand pricing on the horizon as holidaying from Africa evolves... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY PRODUCE MARKETING ASSOCIATION
The 9th annual Fresh Connections: Southern Africa Conference and Trade Show is taking place on 30-31 July 2019 in Cape Town, at the Century City Conference Centre. This is the only annual event connecting people involved in the southern African fresh produce industry... Read
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BOTSWANA
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SOUTH AFRICA
More than 90% of the market for digital services that support African smallholders remain untapped and could be worth more than €2bn (US$2.26bn), according to a new report... Read
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KENYA
ABDHALAH ZIRABA
The second largest Ebola virus disease outbreak on record is currently raging in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with over 2,000 cases and more than 1,400 deaths recorded... Read
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AFRICA
EMMANUEL AKYEAMPONG AND BHEKINKOSI MOYO
This century belongs to the African philanthropists whose capital, influence, local knowledge, and moral authority have the power to address pressing challenges that face the continent... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The call for entries for the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) will be closing on 30 June 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JENNY RETIEF
Cyril Ramaphosa made it very clear that the inclusion of coding into the national curriculum will be an objective he intends to see come to fruition during his presidency. This is commendable - but is it realistic...? Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Hosted by Womandla, nominations are open for the first Women in STEM Awards set for 17 August in Cape Town... Read
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TANZANIA
Designed for the modern traveller with an emphasis on approachable design, the hotel features 174 spacious and contemporary rooms including suites... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PAUL GROTA
In a 2015 report, McKinsey estimated that if every country in Africa had to build to meet their current electricity demand, the region would require about $490bn of capital for new generating capacity - and a further $345bn for transmission and distribution infrastructure... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his second State of the Nation Address this year, said that revising the National Health Insurance (NHI) detailed plan of implementation is at an advanced stage... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Over half of company data remains unclassified, despite a rise in security breaches and stringent data protection regulations... Read
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ETHIOPIA
In this perspective of strengthening relations between France and Ethiopia, Ethiopian Airlines will propose three weekly flights between Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Marseille, France from 2 July 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The advent of renewables, new storage technologies present Africa's utilities with an opportunity to increase capacity and efficiency while re-kindling their appeal to investors... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
HENRY CAZALET
Deciding to go it alone and start your own business is always hugely daunting. There's so much to learn and so much can go wrong... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CHRIS OGDEN
Technology has transformed the collaborative capabilities of African business... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Digital empowerment will not make workers redundant, but it is key for an organisation's growth and survival... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MICHAEL VON MASSOW AND MITCHELL GINGERICH
Dairy proteins may be the next product to be mass produced in labs, for use in fluid "milk" production and processed dairy products like yogurt and cheese... Read
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AFRICA
The new premises are to serve as the company's regional sales office for West and North Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
New trends in energy storage, small-scale embedded generation, and smart grid systems are disrupting the power sector, a trend that will accelerate in South Africa with the recent lifting of licence restraints on power plants.... Read
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SEYCHELLES
Africa's first utility-scale, private-sector funded floating solar project is continuing in the Seychelles on to its next implementation phase... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Based on its research performance and capacity, Stellenbosch University (SU) has recently been invited to represent Africa in the Global Alliance of Universities on Climate (GAUC) which held its inaugural executive meeting in Beijing, China, late last month... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Broll Property Group and Cushman & Wakefield have entered into an exclusive affiliation arrangement, branded Cushman & Wakefield Broll, covering the Sub-Saharan Africa region... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
IBM announced the expansion of its' quantum computing efforts to Africa in a new collaboration with the University of the Witwatersrand... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KATE STUBBS
The UN has estimated that the global population will near 11.3 billion by 2060, with Africa expected to experience just as much exponential growth (2.5 billion by 2050), which will represent about 26% of the world's total population. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As a mark of a collaborative effort between United Airlines and Cape Town Air Access, Cape Town and the Western Cape will be represented at the annual United Airlines Global Sales Conference in Anaheim on 17 June 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The JET8 Foundation, in partnership with the Lewis Pugh Foundation, has launched a social commerce mobile application, called OceansCam, that focuses on saving the oceans... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GLENDA GRAY
There are an estimated 5,000 new HIV transmissions every day. Around 70% of the 37-million people living with HIV globally are in sub-Saharan Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CHRISTOPHER MURRER AND DEAN JOFFE
During a speech at Consenus 2019, Sigal Mandelker, the US Treasury's Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, reiterated the projection that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will adopt international standards for cryptocurrency-based services in June 2019... Read
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UGANDA
MOSOKA FALLAH
More than 2,000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since last August. Now, despite authorities' efforts - such as screening millions of travellers moving between the DRC and its neighbours - the disease has spread... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
To accommodate the State of the Nation Address (SONA) and the opening of the 6th Parliament on Thursday, 20 June 2019, several roads will be closed in and around the Cape Town CBD... Read
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AFRICA
Ecobank has been named Best Retail Bank in Africa 2019 at the prestigious African Banker Awards... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
New research identifies simplified access to technology as missing piece of the puzzle; companies that put it in place can drive greater engagement, productivity and business results Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANDRE PASCAL KENGNE, ELVIS BANBOYE KIDZERU & MUKI SHEY
Non-communicable diseases are the current leading cause of death worldwide. And the burden is increasingly shifting from developed to developing countries... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CHRISTO WESSELS
Smartphones are critical devices for most people in their everyday lives... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
World Wi-Fi Day is celebrated every year on 20 June... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
A recent report reveals that 40% of South African consumers would give up their social media accounts to guarantee their data remains private for the rest of their life... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JANNIE ROSSOUW
Countries that use an inflation target to anchor monetary policy pay considerable attention to expectations of future inflation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Non-profit youth organisation Activate! Change Drivers has compiled a book, Heroes, featuring some of the 3,400 youth 'activators' that have taken part in its leadership programme... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
Carla da Silva, Air Mauritius Regional Manager: Africa and Latin America, has been re-elected as chairman to the Board of International Airlines South Africa... Read
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