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Could De Beers be the next Twitter?

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Marc Jury, MultiChoice SA and Showmax CEO, resigns

MSC Musica arrives in Durban, ushering in 2024/2025 cruise season

Jaguar’s rebrand: creative vision or branding blunder?

Karabo Ledwaba

Government funding open for registered township spaza shops

ABC Q3 2024: A quiet quarter for newspapers

Danette Breitenbach

ABC Q3 2024: Magazine momentum continues to build with some good performances

Danette Breitenbach

Checkers rolls out the new Sixty60 app with enhanced features

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R100k in street pole ads granted to entrepreneurs

Karabo Ledwaba

#BizTrends2025 Sponsors announced and categories still open for Curating the Future

#BizTrends2025 Sponsors announced and categories still open for Curating the FutureBizcommunity.com

Positive portrayals of men in ads boost brand equity and salesKantar

Human8 and L’Oréal win 2024 Esomar Award for pioneering consumer empathy programme

Human8 and L’Oréal win 2024 Esomar Award for pioneering consumer empathy programmeHuman8

Tag Collective: Innovation for Africa

Tag Collective: Innovation for AfricaTag Collective

Unlocking the potential of communities in Africa

Unlocking the potential of communities in AfricaHuman8

Apple is the world’s first trillion dollar brand in the 2024 Kantar BrandZ Most Valuable Global BrandsKantar

Africa's creative future: Leading the world through innovation and collaboration

Africa's creative future: Leading the world through innovation and collaborationDawn Rowlands, Dentsu

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Image supplied. Three South African agencies - Promise, Accenture Song and LePub - have been named in the NYF 2024 shortlist

3 SA agencies named in New York Festivals 2024 shortlist

3 Jun 2024

Image supplied. Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of Confidencial (Photo: Mick Friis)

Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro awarded Wan-Ifra's Golden Pen of Freedom

31 May 2024

Image supplied. Wan-Ifra announced the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide winners with SA’s Food For Mzansi Group, wining the 2024 Digital Media Awards Worldwide Best Podcast category

SA's Food For Mzansi Group wins Wan-Ifra 2024 Digital Media Awards Podcast category

28 May 2024

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Updated: D&AD Awards 2024: SA brings home 8 Pencils

27 May 2024

Source: © Ekonomist The MMA SA is launching the inaugural sub-Saharan Africa Smarties (SSA Smarties) this year, expanding into key markets like Kenya and Nigeria

MMA SA launches inaugural sub-Saharan Africa Smarties in Kenya and Nigeria

24 May 2024

Source: © 123rf A CMO study has found that chief marketing officers appear clear, confident, and intentional in where Gen AI integration and application will deliver the best results in marketing process improvement and execution in 2024

A clear and confident shift in marketing technology as CMOs embrace AI

22 May 2024

Image supplied. The final and full shortlist for the D&AD Awards has been released and the 62nd D&AD Awards ceremony takes place tomorrow, Wednesday 22 May in London

Full D&AD shortlist revealed

21 May 2024

The 62nd annual D&AD Awards’ first shortlist has been announced

D&AD Awards announce first shortlist

21 May 2024

Source: © Witness Media Lab Many people have been targeted by deep fakes

WPP CEO Mark Read targeted by deep fake AI scam

15 May 2024

Image supplied. Levergy, South Africa, Creative Edge, Kenya and VML, Tunisia are among the shortlisted agencies in the Warc Awards for Effectiveness 2024, in association with the Cannes Lions

3 African agencies on Warc Awards for Effectiveness 2024 shortlist

14 May 2024

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Raymond Langa 24 Apr 2024

Geoff Seeley is the CMO for PayPal. Source: PayPal.

PayPal appoints Geoff Seeley as new CMO amid job cuts

Karabo Ledwaba 27 Feb 2024

Damage is suspected to have occurred in the Red Sea

Seacom subsea cable outage disrupts service in east and southern Africa

26 Feb 2024

Source: © Multichoice DStv, the satellite service of MultiChoice, has experienced its first downturn in its most dynamic market, South Africa

Subscriber downturn leads to questions on MultiChoice's sustained success

18 Jan 2024

Democratising access to luxury goods on the African continent

Democratising access to luxury goods on the African continent

9 Jan 2024

Source: © 123rf The 2024 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Media Awards are open for entries

2024 SADC Media Awards entries open

9 Jan 2024

Source: © 123rf TrustList is a home-grown new digital initiative that aims to protect media buyers and brands by providing real-time warnings against placing programmatic advertising on 'red-listed' online media

TrustList: Real time warning against programmatic advertising placement on 'red-listed' online media

27 Nov 2023

Donna de Varona will be receiving the award. Source: Supplied.

Donna de Varona to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from NYF TV & Film Awards

22 Nov 2023

Caché McClay has filled the coveted position. Source: USA Today.

Caché McClay is the official Beyoncé reporter for Gannet

Karabo Ledwaba 16 Nov 2023

Tradeway Promotions welcomes creative giant, David Tshabalala, as head of design

Tradeway Promotions welcomes creative giant, David Tshabalala, as head of design

Tradeway 15 Nov 2023

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A villager arrives to collect her monthly allocations of food aid provided by the World Food Program (WFP) in Mumijo, Buhera district east of the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, 16 March 2024. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

ESG & Sustainability

More than half of Zimbabwean population will need food aid, cabinet says

Nyasha Chingono 17 May 2024

Source: © Ollivier Girad/CIFOR-ICRAF Fifty-eight ‘forgotten’ food crops in sub-Saharan Africa have been identified as able to provide healthy diets in a changing climate

Agriculture

Africa’s ‘forgotten’ foods research wins prestigious US Cozzarelli Prize

16 May 2024

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Lifestyle

The power of African creativity: Our time is now!

Raymond Langa 24 Apr 2024

Source: Supplied

Tourism & Travel

ATM 2024 to explore transformative innovation, entrepreneurship in global travel

23 Apr 2024

A man poses with a handful of Zimbabwean dollars at a bank in central Harare, 15 June 2015. Zimbabweans began exchanging old notes of local dollars for US dollars, as President Robert Mugabe's government seeks to officially bury the worthless currency. Reuters/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo

Finance

Zimbabwe launches gold-backed currency to replace battered local dollar

Nyasha Chingono 5 Apr 2024

Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, sits as he waits to face prosecution for tax evasion and money laundering at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria, 4 April 2024. Reuters/ Abraham Achirga

Legal

Detained Binance executive in court on Nigerian tax, money laundering charges

Camillus Eboh 4 Apr 2024

Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies

Logistics & Transport

Somali pirates' return adds to crisis for global shipping companies

22 Mar 2024

The subsea cable damage on West Africa could take 5 weeks to repair

ICT

5 week restoration for damaged subsea cables

Maxwell Akalaare Adombila 18 Mar 2024

A view shows solar panels at the green hydrogen proof-of-concept site in Vredendal. Source: Reuters/Esa Alexander

Energy & Mining

$1.3bn fund launched to build transmission lines across Southern Africa

Wendell Roelf 5 Mar 2024

Source: 123RF/svershinsky

Healthcare

South Korea: Junior doctors strike amid concerns over low doctor-to-patient ratio

Katja Hamilton 4 Mar 2024

Damage is suspected to have occurred in the Red Sea

ICT

Seacom subsea cable outage disrupts service in east and southern Africa

26 Feb 2024

Source: Reuters.

Finance

World shares off record highs ahead of inflation tests

Yoruk Bahceli and Wayne Cole 26 Feb 2024

Finance

First Abu Dhabi Bank starts selling 5-year debt - IFR

21 Feb 2024

Finance

Japan slides into recession

15 Feb 2024

File photo: President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa addresses the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, US, 21 September 2023. Reuters/Brendan McDermid/File Photo

Legal

Zimbabwe scraps colonial-era death penalty law

Nyasha Chingono 7 Feb 2024

Report sheds light on the Africa Cup of Nations 2023

Lifestyle

Report sheds light on the Africa Cup of Nations 2023

11 Jan 2024

Democratising access to luxury goods on the African continent

Retail

Democratising access to luxury goods on the African continent

9 Jan 2024

ESG & Sustainability

WFP plans food relief for 270,000 Zimbabweans, poor harvest expected

Nyasha Chingono 5 Jan 2024

Source: Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI).

Finance

IsDBI unveils flagship Islamic finance marketplace

3 Jan 2024

Energy & Mining

Angola decides to leave OPEC, says it doesn't serve its interests

Miguel Gomes, Ahmad Ghaddar and Alex Lawler 21 Dec 2023

Healthcare

Accenture and Palantir secure $415m contract with NHS England to deploy data system

22 Nov 2023

Amazon delivery drones: How the sky could be the limit for market dominance

Logistics & Transport

Amazon delivery drones: How the sky could be the limit for market dominance

Renaud Foucart 22 Nov 2023

African Energy Chamber predicts 'relative calm' market

Energy & Mining

African Energy Chamber predicts 'relative calm' market

NJ Ayuk 20 Nov 2023

Source: International Criminal Court.

Legal

South Africa refers Israel to ICC for Gaza war crimes

16 Nov 2023

Source: Gift of the Givers.

Healthcare

Gift of the Givers leader killed in Gaza

16 Nov 2023

Source: Supplied.

Property

Stokado expands portfolio with acquisition of self-storage facility

16 Nov 2023

Source: Pixabay.

Healthcare

Turkey aids Palestinian cancer patients amid Israel-Hamas conflict

16 Nov 2023

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