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From Vision to Action
May 12, 2011
From Vision to Action was the tagline of the 2011 World Economic Forum on Africa hosted in Cape Town in the first week of May. Over 1000 political heads, businessmen, activists got together for the meeting where the ‘next steps’ for our continent were discussed. Having now attended WEF for three years running one can’t help but start questioning just how much ACTION emanates from the meeting. There are so many good ideas, so many...
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Harnessing Young Talent in the ‘Age of Impatience’
April 15, 2011
There can be no doubt that one of the biggest challenges facing South Africa in the 21st century is the issue of sustained and gainful employment for the youth. Recent statistics reveal that 42 percent of young graduates between the ages of 18 and 29 are currently unemployed. The youth of SA are leaving universities and places of higher learning across the country in droves annually expecting to find gainful employment and begin to build...
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Where Next for Global PR Companies?
April 15, 2011
SA managing director of global PR agency Fleishman-Hillard, Kevin Welman, recently presented to PRISA on global trends in public relations. As local MD of one of the few truly global PR companies present in SA he brought some fresh international insights and food for thought into the PR mix for local communication clients and PR companies to consider. I recently attended a meeting of the global PR heads of Fleishman-Hillard which combined groups of thought...
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Fleishman-Hillard Unites Europe, U.K. and Africa Under John Saunders
April 15, 2011
John Saunders, Fleishman-Hillard regional president for Continental Europe and Ireland, has now taken on additional responsibility for the firm’s operations in the United Kingdom and Africa...
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WEF in Tanzania More Than a Talk Shop
May 7, 2010
The World Economic forum in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania has proven to be more of a beneficial and productive exercise than the talk shop most of us here thought it would be. The quality of the sessions and the participants clearly showed that the organisers did their homework and are serious about helping African countries and their economies take their rightful place amongst the community of nations...
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Elections Signal a New Hope for Sudan
April 20, 2010
The recent multi party elections in Sudan, although a subject of much contestation, remain a living proof that the much troubled country will at last achieve what has been most elusive for a long period of time, relative peace. While it would be naive for anyone to expect an election, especially held under the circumstances that the Sudan elections were held, to correct the wrongs of the recent past in that vast country, it can...
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South Africans Still a Polarised Society
April 6, 2010
The recent public outcry over the singing of the struggle song “Kill the Boer” by ANC Youth League president Julius Malema proves beyond doubt that South Africa is a highly polarised society. This issue has been further aggravated by the recent killing of AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche, who was found bludgeoned to death at his farm in the North West Province...
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Ke Nako – It’s Time
March 30, 2010
It certainly is time, our time. Never before has one event excited so many South Africans and hopefully Africans. Six years ago in May 2004, FIFA awarded the 2010 FIFA World Cup to SA. In the six years following that SA has upgraded airports, hotels, guest houses, built magnificent new stadiums and exposed our country and continent to the best footballers on the planet and the thousands of supporters who follow them...
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Through the Eyes of a 7-Year-Old Girl – Mandela Walks Free
February 11, 2010
On this day, when South Africans celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela, Nomathemba Malinga, Fleishman-Hillard Johannesburg Account Manager, recounts her memories of that historic day...
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2010 Soccer World Cup – Judge South Africa on Its Record
February 11, 2010
Recent comments about safety concerns regarding the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa, attributed to world sporting luminaries such as Brazilian soccer legend, Pele and Uli Hoeness, president of Bayern Munich in Germany, cannot go unchallenged...