3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (184+ words) Founder and CEO Anthony Kettle heads the agency with extensive experience in team leadership and talent acquisition, backed by a veteran consulting team boasting over 170 years of collective industry expertise. The firm will specialise in engineering, manufacturing, IT and finance,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (466+ words) Led by Thandiwe Maqetuka, the fund has been established in partnership with Knife Capital and Thinkroom. It follows the deployment of Grindstone Ventures Fund I, which invested in seven portfolio companies and helped catalyse further seed investment from South African…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (203+ words) Kylie Naude has been promoted to senior PR account manager, while Roche Fester moves into the role of junior account executive. Fester joined HLS a year ago as a PR intern through the agency’s long-standing relationship with the Cape Peninsula…...

5+ day, 40+ min ago   (669+ words) This October, France takes centre stage at Fame Week Africa as the 2026 Destination Focus, bringing French and African creatives, producers, buyers, distributors, entrepreneurs and cultural organisations together to create new opportunities for collaboration and business. Taking place from 28 to 30 October…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (476+ words) As a profession, we need to be clearer and more confident about this distinction. PR is not competing for attention — it is shaping the environment in which attention becomes possible. The Prisms Awards play a vital role for several reasons:…...

6+ day, 35+ min ago   (822+ words) In the US, sales of promotional products classified as sustainable reached $3.69bn in 2024, according to the Promotional Products Association International (PPAI), representing 20% year-on-year growth. While South Africa's corporate merchandise sector is not officially tracked at the same level, the scale of…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (525+ words) The Africa Rural Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism (ARCAFIM) was launched at the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 in Kigali, Rwanda, on 4 September. The 12-year mechanism will operate in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda, targeting approximately 260,000 smallholder producers and 500 rural enterprises. ARCAFIM…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (521+ words) The ECMX study showed illicit trade – conservatively estimated to be worth R280bn across 12 sectors – is not an isolated problem within a limited set of industries, but affects the entire economy by crushing legal businesses, eating into tax revenue, displacing jobs, exposing…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (416+ words) MHS Farming, Greatful Agriculture and Malesedi participated in a Dragons’ Den-style pitching competition, where young entrepreneurs in the water and sanitation, waste and recycling, renewable energy, and regenerative agriculture sectors presented their businesses to a panel of industry leaders and…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (435+ words) The bank will participate in the event from 9 to 12 September at Bredasdorp Park in the Western Cape, under the theme “Together We Grow”, and will host three lunchtime discussions focused on issues affecting farmers and the wider agricultural value chain....