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- Buddy Learning founder Tshaamano Mabuba crowned winner of Jacaranda FM’s Her Perfect Pitch
Tshaamano Mabuba, founder of education technology company Buddy Learning, has been named the winner of the 2026 edition of Jacaranda FM’s Her Perfect Pitch. The station’s flagship campaign is dedicated to empowering and uplifting women-led businesses across South Africa, taking home a comprehensive prize package designed to help her business… Read more » - AI in media monitoring: Not a choice between tech and people
Used well, AI can help monitoring teams work through more coverage without taking away the judgement clients still rely on to understand what they are seeing. Broadcast monitoring makes that particularly clear. Read more » - Creativity beyond the work
Creativity has never respected office hours. Some of my best ideas have arrived at the most inconvenient times. Very rarely do they arrive neatly between nine and five, exactly when the brief asks them to. Read more » - Woolworths to Pick n Pay: Spencer Sonn named CEO-delegate
Pick n Pay has named retail executive Spencer Sonn as its next CEO-designate, with Sonn set to join the retailer in February 2027 and work alongside current CEO Sean Summers during the leadership transition. Read more » - TikTok's local feed isn't in South Africa yet. That's the head start
In February, TikTok gave American users a dedicated tab for finding restaurants, events and shops near them. South African users still do not have it. That gap is not protection. It is a head start, and most brands are going to waste it. Read more » - The cost of coping is changing the way township consumers shop
For South Africa's township consumers, the customer journey no longer starts at the till. It starts at home, with whether there's electricity to keep food from spoiling, water to cook with or enough left in the budget to justify another trip to the shops. Those everyday realities, more than any… Read more » - When does being ‘apolitical’ become a political act? An ethicist on the Ed Sheeran saga
Headlines this week have been inundated with news of artist Macklemore being dropped from Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour, following Macklemore’s onstage calls to “free Palestine”. Read more » - SA High Court strikes down century-old patriarchal marriage rule as unconstitutional
The Western Cape High Court recently delivered a decisive blow to a century-long patriarchal common law rule of lex domicilii matrimonii; paving the way for a fairer future for women, same-sex, and non-binary couples. Read more » - Bianke Neethling promoted to deputy editor of Daily Investor
Daily Investor has quickly grown into South Africa’s largest and most influential finance and investment publication. Read more » - TotalEnergies sweeps in as fuel supplier after Namibia drops Vitol
Namibia has selected the TotalEnergies bidding group to supply the country’s bulk diesel and petrol needs for three months, from November to January, Energy Minister Modestus Amutse said. Read more »
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