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Matric class of 2024 sets new national record with historic pass rate

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2025 Dakar Stage 9 results – a new race leader

South African rand gains after hitting 9-month low, US inflation data in focus

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Real Madrid launches first soccer academy in South Africa

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#BizTrends2025: the rise of the conscious consumer

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

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Positive portrayals of men in ads boost brand equity and salesKantar

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

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Peak and Dale acquires Bean Interactive to boost its tech and communications leadership in Africa

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Tag Collective: Innovation for Africa

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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

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#BizTrends2018: Small is Africa's 'new smart' in 2018

#BizTrends2018: Small is Africa's 'new smart' in 2018

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#BizTrends2018: Identity crisis - the business of being WOKE

#BizTrends2018: Identity crisis - the business of being WOKE

Dion Chang 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Sex, data and advertising

#BizTrends2018: Sex, data and advertising

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Daniel Munslow, independent communications consultant.

#BizTrends2018: Are you a reputational resilience expert or crisis fodder?

Daniel Munslow 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: The ever-changing consumer

#BizTrends2018: The ever-changing consumer

Dave Nemeth 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Brands need to stop thinking like brands and become more human

#BizTrends2018: Brands need to stop thinking like brands and become more human

Dean Oelschig 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Go where the people are

#BizTrends2018: Go where the people are

Gau Narayanan 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Get ready for fluid reality and a collapsing conversion funnel in 2018

#BizTrends2018: Get ready for fluid reality and a collapsing conversion funnel in 2018

Nunu Ntshingila 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Storytelling has to sit at the core of it all

#BizTrends2018: Storytelling has to sit at the core of it all

Brett Morris 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Telling the truth is not a lie

#BizTrends2018: Telling the truth is not a lie

Samantha Page 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: A short to-do list for the new year

#BizTrends2018: A short to-do list for the new year

Pepe Marais 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Three things you have to know about your customers in 2018

#BizTrends2018: Three things you have to know about your customers in 2018

Brandon de Kock 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: The in-store experience - an opportunity for brands

#BizTrends2018: The in-store experience - an opportunity for brands

Caroline Currie 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: Five Predictions for media

#BizTrends2018: Five Predictions for media

Lisa Macleod 8 Jan 2018

Kevin Welman, director and co-owner of ByDesign Communications.

#BizTrends2018: The rise (and rise) of influencers and specialists

Kevin Welman 8 Jan 2018

Nicole Solarsh Glickman, creative group head at House of Brave.

#BizTrends2018: Refocus on the business of advertising

nicole glickman 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: The Platform Economy

#BizTrends2018: The Platform Economy

Josephine Buys 8 Jan 2018

#BizTrends2018: It is time for marketing professionals to become more innovative

#BizTrends2018: It is time for marketing professionals to become more innovative

Desiree Gullan 8 Jan 2018

Amanda Dlamini, strategic planning manager at Y&R.

#BizTrends2018: Treading softly - creativity in sensitive times

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Mike Oelschig, head of advisory at Cerebra.

#BizTrends2018: The (eventual) rise of the social command centre in South Africa

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Understanding the brands of the future in Africa

Understanding the brands of the future in Africa

23 Oct 2017

Contributors to this piece (top to bottom, L to R): Graham Cruikshanks, TBWA\Africa; Ken Kyaka, TBWA\Redhouse Kenya; Hunsa Chikaha, TBWA\ Khanga Rue, Tanzania; Tumiso Mabusela, TBWA\ Medcom, Botswana; Filipe Braga, TBWA\ Angola; Yosia Lukwago, TBWA\ Limelight, Uganda; Kobby Acquah-Hayford, TBWA\Markcom, Ghana; Kelechi Nwosu, TBWA\ Concept, Nigeria; and Sapi Bachi, TBWA\ Zimbabwe

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[2014 trends] Fashionably late

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Kenya pushes technology into overdrive

Kenya pushes technology into overdrive

23 Apr 2013

Mobile and digital trends in 5 African countries: a cultural interpretation

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[2013 trends] Africa poised for a great future

Africa poised for a great future

Nandkishor Buty 30 Jan 2013

[2013 trends] Africa finding its own solutions using mobile tech

Africa finding its own solutions using mobile tech

Dr KF Lai 25 Jan 2013

[2013 trends] Mobile money to give SoLoMo a kick in the pants?

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Vanessa Clark 23 Jan 2013

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Gareth Knight 25 Sep 2012

Video streaming coming to Africa

Russell Southwood 16 Jul 2012

Kenya's advertising sector attracts new players, technologies

Kenya's advertising sector attracts new players, technologies

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DISCOP Africa announces intl initiative

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CNBC Africa celebrates five years of broadcasting

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Tablets leaking ad dollars to mobile from 'Net - BuzzCity CEO

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Africa's five major trends for potential growth

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Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia 7 Oct 2011