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Achieving broadband access for all in Africa comes with a $100 billion price tag... read
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AFRICA
LAURENT LAMOTHE
Africa has a thriving informal sector, but governments are constrained when it comes to regulating this sector so that it can contribute to the formal economy...read
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AFRICA
The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) has identified the top 10 finalists for its grand finale event...read
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BOTSWANA
TAAZIMA KALA-ESSACK
Culture, by its very definition, ought to be fluid. It evolves, it changes, it adapts, and it reflects in perhaps the most authentic way the ideals, purpose and passion of an organisation...read
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NIGERIA
Nigerian artist Wizkid has recently announced he would soon roll out a new music streaming app... Read
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WEST AFRICA
ALEXANDRA STOREY, CAROLINE SOUTHEY, LYRR THURSTON
The Conversation Africa bolsters West African team to continue expansion into the African continent... Read
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AFRICA
BBC Studios has announced that it has licensed over 800 hours of content to clients across the African continent in the past six months... Read
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AFRICA
After four years of being on the market in West Africa, Boomplay Music is set to expand its services to French-speaking countries on the continent.... Read
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ZAMBIA
As part of Lafarge Zambia's 70 years celebration, Boomtown created an emotive commercial for online platforms and local television... Read
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EGYPT
Egyptian authorities must immediately release imprisoned journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah, drop all charges against her, and investigate allegations that she was tortured... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
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COTE D'IVOIRE
The government in Ivory Coast has announced that 40% of the country has now been equipped with DTT signals... Read
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NIGERIA
A dedicated Broadcast Analytics Audit Reporting platform has been launchd in Nigeria to help brands interpret their TV and radio advert compliance reports... Read
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ALGERIA
Journalists who covered recent protests, as well as alleged corruption in Algeria have been detained ahead of elections... Read
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WEST AFRICA
Canal+ International (the international subsidiary of Canal+ Group) and Mediawan are forming a partnership to invest in original content in French for the African audience.... Read
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EGYPT
'Between Two Seas' film highlights the various societal issues facing women, especially in rural areas... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
To facilitate efforts by companies to think about their product packaging with reuse and recycling in mind, the PET Plastic Recycling Company (PETCO) has released a definitive guide to packaging design... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
TRAVIS BUSSIAHN
The data on video marketing isn't nebulous stats. That's where your target market is... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Unilever has committed to reduce plastic waste across its portfolio and help create a circular economy for plastics. The pledge includes halving its use of virgin plastic... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
While technology is certainly one of the important decisions that must be made by a company embarking on a digital journey, it does not represent the starting point of such a transformation. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
VIAN CHINNER
It's June. In Durban. In a clothing store in the main street, a 26-year old marathon-runner buys a bowtie and, seemingly randomly, adds a board shorts... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DAVID LIMBERT
There's a wonderful world out there beyond our screens, and it's our role as creatives to get out there and explore it, writes David Limbert... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LAUREN HARTZENBERG
Competition amongst suppliers and retailers are at an all-time high, and today's consumer is much less predictable than in the past... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 2019 Nielsen South Africa Shopper Trends Report has found that 'lowest prices' are no longer the key driver of store choice in the country... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
OjuChat is a fully functional, hyper-localised and culturally diverse messaging application now bringing a dash of colour with region-specific and culturally appropriate communication tools... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The third annual SingularityU South Africa Summit is hosted in collaboration with The Development Bank of Southern Africa, global partner Deloitte and partners MTN and Absa on 16 and 17 October 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RIRHANDZU SHINGWENYANA
Is social media killing advertising? You've probably heard this question 1,000 times lately... Read
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AFRICA
ISSUED BY KANTAR
Nearly half of advertisers admit they don't currently have the right balance between online and offline, according to the latest annual state of marketing study, Getting Media Right: Marketing in Motion, from Kantar... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JESSICA BARRELLA
As someone has so aptly said, when you are in any doubt as to the appropriateness of something you intend posting, apply the golden rule: WWGT (what would Granny think?)... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Over 1,400 delegates from the retail, shopping centre and associated industries are gathered in Cape Town this week for the 23rd SACSC Annual Congress... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
What started as a simple video clip on Facebook has grown into one of the fastest-growing pages globally on Facebook... Read
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AFRICA
DISCOP Joburg puts strong emphasis on African television projects in development and the booming animation sector... Read
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ALGERIA
A 'Best Practices to Reach Your Audience' workshop will be held on the margins of the Marrakesh International Film Festival... Read
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NIGERIA
Nigeria will become the 40th country in the world to air the local version of The Voice Kids... Read
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GLOBAL
BDO and Warc's new 'Martech: 2020 and beyond' report indicates that the worldwide global martech market has grown by 22% year-on-year... Read
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GLOBAL
East-West Digital News (EWDN) recently released a report on the state of influencer marketing in Russia... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Timberland has committed to planting 50 million trees by 2025, supporting multiple re-forestation initiatives around the world... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ERNEST NORTH
Over the past few years, digital-native companies like Uber, Amazon, and Airbnb have redefined the rules of competition in their industries... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
In a European car maker's manufacturing plant, a car rolls off the production line every 90 seconds. One hour of line stoppage due to IT issues means 40 "lost" cars... Read
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MALAWI
Set to speak at the Agritech Africa 2020 conference in Cape Town in June next year, Dr Max Wengawenga, assistant chief economic advisor to the president of Malawi, says that Africa needs more innovation in the agricultural sector... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RYAN FALKENBERG
AI and machine learning are here and working away in a company near you... and on your phone, in your car and in all sorts of places online. Here we outline five types of digital worker you'll likely have on your team in the immediate future, if you don't already... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
A survey of skills trends in the South African ICT sector has been released... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The University of Pretoria (UP) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have successfully developed a vaccine against avian influenza using tobacco plants... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Rural learners face many challenges before finishing school, including having to walk long distances, walking in the dark, they are constant victims of the rainy seasons, having to cross overflowing rivers... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Online marketplace Airbnb has unveiled its list of 20 trending destinations, based on year-over-year growth in bookings, for 2020... Read
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AFRICA
The International Air Transport Association released data for global air freight markets showing that demand contracted by 3.9% in August 2019. This marks the 10th consecutive month of year-on-year decline in freight volumes... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ARTURO BRIS
Cities are fast becoming "smart", and the impact on people's lives can be immense... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Governments need to start understanding that collaboration is critical if they want banks and financiers to start funding small to medium size businesses and/or small to medium size oil and gas companies... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NOKWAZI MZOBE
Teaching is one of the oldest and most respected professions and yet one of the most undervalued and underpaid. All this is changing, with the gig-economy and 4IR... Read
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TUNISIA
The addition marks the group's fourth hotel in the country... Read
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UGANDA
Uganda is set to immunise more than 18-million children against measles and rubella, which amounts to 43% of the country's population... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Whilst few would refute that technology contributes to making our lives easier, global research has found that technology has the power to... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ALEX HEALING
Building a safe future for business' critical data requires a collaborative effort between machine learning capabilities and traditional human decision-making... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
An international, collaborative study led by University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers has revealed an unexpected finding that could lead to better therapies towards reducing the HIV reservoir, a major barrier to developing a cure for HIV... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula has emphasised the importance of establishing a regional regulatory authority to enforce agreed harmonised standards... Read
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MOZAMBIQUE
The latest final investment decision (FID) on Mozambique's $20bn Anadarko liquified natural gas (LNG) project makes it the largest sanction ever in sub-Saharan Africa oil and gas sector... Read
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AFRICA
Now in its third year, the Africa Property Investment (API) Awards recognises innovation and outstanding achievement in the property industry... Read
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GHANA
DIVINE KWAKU AHADZIE
Over the past two decades, Ghana's construction sector has both contributed to and benefited from a rapidly growing economy... Read
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AFRICA
It is widely acknowledged that agribusiness is the key to transforming African economies - this was the core message at the 2019 Agra Forum in Accra, Ghana and a constant topic of discussion during the African Agri Council (AAC) recent West Africa roadshow... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GERHARD HARTMAN
As a manager or owner of a medium business, a large portion of your time each day will be taken up by negotiations... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GRAEME PALMER
On 1 March 2020, an amendment to the foreign employment income exemption comes into operation. There have been misperceptions about those expatriates that will be affected by this change to the tax law... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SIMON USHERWOOD
Against seemingly all the odds, we have a new Brexit deal. As an apparent vindication of UK prime minister Boris Johnson's strategy to ramp up the threat of a no-deal departure from the EU and to force concessions from Brussels, one would imagine that Number 10 is rather happy right now... Read
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