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When Literacy Development Meets Easy Answers: A Deeper Look at South Africa’s Literacy Crisis

2 Weeks ago Media

media update considers how our relationship with AI and the decline in reading for pleasure fit into South Africa's literacy crisis.

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When Local Language Meets Global Default

19 Aug 2026 Media

South Africa's multilingual reality can get lost when local languages present a challenge for developing language technology. media update considers what it means when the language we use does not fit the systems built to understand it.

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The Cost of Disconnected Marketing and Operations

20 Aug 2026 Marketing

media update considers what happens when businesses experience misalignment in marketing and operations by looking at the recent SPAR Chairman and Deputy Chair's resignations as case study.

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Roots to Reinvention — The Editor's Note

3 Weeks ago Publicity

Spring notoriously signals new beginnings, meaning most industries lean on this symbolism for their own gain. media update considers how publicity campaigns can offer an edge to an overdone story by rooting a brand's future in its own history.

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The Human Edge in an Automated Communications Industry: A Q&A With Kevin Welman

4 Weeks ago Publicity

media update talks to Kevin Welman about how agencies can balance integration with specialist knowledge, creativity with commercial value and technological efficiency with human relationships to build lasting credibility.

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Taste as an Editorial Skill

4 Weeks ago Media

media update considers how technology and trend culture shape our relationship with taste, and why developing discernment and an independent perspective remains essential to editorial judgement.

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How Spaces Shape the Stories We Tell About Them

1 Week ago Publicity

media update considers how the way we experience our surroundings can influence what we believe about them, and why changing that perception requires more than a fresh coat of paint.

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Taking Local Global — What Durban FilmMart 2026 Asks of African Storytellers

6 Days ago Media

Africa's leading film finance market returns this coming October under the theme Shifting Worlds: Turning Towards Ourselves. media update looks at how local stories reach global audiences without losing what makes them local.

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Building a Data Profile: A Q&A With Melissa Mc Nally — Part One

5 Days ago Marketing

media update talks to Melissa McNally about the assumptions behind audience research, from the limits of consumer personas to the risks of AI-led targeting, and how research can keep pace with changing needs and motivations.

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When Purpose Meets People — A Q&A With Tarri Parfitt

18 Aug 2026 Publicity

media update talks to Tarri Parffit about how the Smile Foundation communicates humanitarian influence and keeps people at the heart of the cause.

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The Optics of Defence: AAD 2026 Through Communication's Lens

21 Hours ago Publicity

African Aerospace and Defence's (AAD's) air show is on everyone's lips after this past weekend's impressive display of skill, but the exhibition's story began decades before the first jet took to the Waterkloof skies. media update considers how AAD evolved from a simple air show into a major civil and military industry event.

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Shaun Jacobs Promoted to Deputy Editor of Daily Investor

56 Minutes ago Media

Daily Investor has announced that Shaun Jacobs has been promoted to its Deputy Editor, where he will be responsible for the editorial direction of the publication.

Exabeam Appoints Craig Patterson as SVP of Global Channels and Marketing

1 Hour ago Marketing

Exabeam, a provider of Behavior Intelligence for the agentic enterprise, has announced that Craig Patterson has been named SVP of Global Channels and Marketing, reporting to CEO Pete Harteveld.

SPAR Announces Tshaamano Mabuba as 'Her Perfect Pitch' Initiative Winner

2 Hours ago Publicity

South African entrepreneur Tshaamano Mabuba, Founder of Buddy Learning, has been announced as the winner of Her Perfect Pitch Season 5, a Jacaranda FM initiative supported by SPAR and 1st for Women.

South Africa's Heritage Was Partly Written by Advertisers

3 Hours ago Marketing

We tend to think of heritage as something inherited. Language, food, music, traditions, places and stories passed down through families. However, some of the memories we share as South Africans were created by people trying to sell us something, says Emma Rijkers, Growth and Performance Director at Alkemi Collective.

CapeGate Highlights Three CSI Initiatives This September

3 Hours ago Publicity

This September, CapeGate has said that it is shining a light on three of its ongoing CSI initiatives, Cupcakes for Kids with Cancer, the Santa Shoebox Project and the CapeGate x The Princess Project.

The Optics of Defence: AAD 2026 Through Communication's Lens

21 Hours ago Publicity

The Cost of Coping is Changing the Way Township Consumers Shop

21 Hours ago Marketing

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.

Trevor Noah Returns to Captain South Africa's Comedy "National Team"

22 Hours ago Marketing

After taking South African comedy to audiences around the world, Trevor Noah is returning home for a collaboration that celebrates the industry where his own journey began.

AI Didn't Break the Creative Industry, It Exposed What Was Already Broken

23 Hours ago Marketing

AI is often blamed for the homogenisation of creative work, the erosion of craft and the threat to jobs. But a new publication from creative production partner MikeTeevee argues that AI did not create these problems.