South Africa’s leading pizza quick-service restaurant, Debonairs Pizza, recently launched its Small Triple-Decker® TVC. The TVC promotes the Small Triple Decker that comes with a free energy drink. For the launch of the Small Triple-Decker® campaign, FCB Joburg developed a 20-second TVC which has gone live on SABC, eTV, Viacom, DSTV and Mzansi Magic channels,…
South African brands dominate the Brand Finance Africa 150 2021 ranking once again, with the entire top ten hailing from the nation. In total, 81 South African brands feature with a cumulative brand value of $29bn, equating to 73% of the total brand value in the ranking – a 15% decrease from last year. MTN…
If you have figured out an effective way to manage your company’s big data, then make way for some serious innovation. But be warned, big data can be problematic. Often large and complex data sets are difficult (at the best of times) for brands to capture, manage and process within traditional database systems.According to a…
Université de Sherbrooke students participate in a course about elementary school science education. (Jean-Philippe Ayotte-Beaudet) My research is concerned with outdoor science education so I have long been engaged in studying outdoor learning. At the Université de Sherbrooke, among our measures to promote student and staff safety during the pandemic was setting up outdoor sheltered…
CA(SA) trainee, Thokozani Mazibuko, speaks about how Thuthuka changed his life. The individuals whose lives are touched by a comprehensive educational and support programme like SAICA’s Thuthuka Bursary come from all over South Africa and have different backgrounds. Many of them, like Thokozani Nowgli Mazibuko (24) say that they were “always good with numbers”, but…
If 2020 was an old-school video game, it would be the level where they make you fight all the boss characters you’ve defeated before all at once and you have to remember the right button sequences to defeat each of them. While you’re doing that they throw in Covid-19, the new ultra-powerful boss. All of…
South Africa’s 9th annual Top 20 Small Business and Entrepreneurship Award winners were announced by the National Small Business Chamber (NSBC), in association with World Famous Events, today, 9 November 2017. 2017 Small Business Award winners With eight main categories, the awards serve to not only acknowledge the respective businesses, but to also assist them…
© Pisit Khambubpha – 123RF The Competition Commission had initially recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the proposed acquisition be prohibited. Following this, BKSA, Grand Foods Meat Plant and ECP Africa Fund submitted an application to the Tribunal to reconsider and approve the proposed transaction, subject to revised conditions volunteered by the parties. The Tribunal…
The devasting health, social and economic impact of the Covid pandemic will have long-term impact on the funding strategies of grantmakers, corporate social investors, and philanthropists in Africa for many years to come. The last two years – 2021 and 2021 saw large funding pledges for climate change: in February 2020, Bill and Melinda Gates…
Trevor Ncube, executive deputy chairman of the South Africa-based Mail & Guardian and founder of the Zimbabwe-based The Standard and The Zimbabwe Independent, has been appointed co-chair of the African Media Initiative (AMI) board. Ncube will lead the newly formed board with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, US journalist and former Africa CNN Bureau chief. Hunter-Gault and Ncube…