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Skincare and beauty enthusiasts have affirmed their affinity to Avon as the skincare, makeup and fragrance brand that they’re most loyal to in the 2022 Ask Afrika Icon Brands Survey. The Ask Afrika Icon Brands is the largest annual benchmark survey of its kind that measures loyalty across 237 brand categories and thousands of brands. The results of the survey vindicates Avon’s bold position that people #ChooseAvon. Avon is an Icon Brand and a Category Winner in the following categories: blushers/bronzers and highlighters, lipstick/lip-gloss and nail polish/nail care. Avon is also a Category Winner in cleansing products/toners, eye make-up, face…

Customers across South Africa will now be able to shop online at a brand-new Pick n Pay Home shop for a range of exciting new products that will only be available online. The new online shop will be dedicated to homeware and appliances and aims to deliver great prices and the best online shopping experience. Pick n Pay Home will feature an impressive range of popular products for every room in the home, with a strong focus on new and exclusive online-only premium brands, such as Zwilling, Staub and Siemens. It will also feature the latest range available in stores, such…

Attacq, a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), is to list its shares for trade on A2X Markets (A2X) effective 16 November 2022. A2X is a licensed stock exchange that provides a secondary venue for companies to list their shares for trade. It provides a cost-effective exchange platform for Attacq to improve its shares’ liquidity and investor base. Attacq will retain its primary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and its issued share capital will be unaffected by its secondary listing on A2X. Attacq is well known for its flagship development of Waterfall City, which is anchored by the 130,000m2…

Liquid Networks, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, announced it is entering into a channel partner agreement with Nokia. As a result of this relationship, Liquid Networks will partner with Nokia on private wireless 4G and 5G opportunities for industry verticals. In addition, Liquid Networks will market, distribute and service Nokia’s product line of its NDAC (Nokia Digital Automation Cloud) solution portfolio consisting of Nokia 4G and 5G Radio Access Equipment and Nokia’s NDAC Core Solution for onsite Campus deployments. Deon Geyser, CEO of Liquid Networks South Africa, says, “In the last two years, we have witnessed…

The African Telecommunications Union (ATU) held a ministerial forum on Day 0 of AfricaCom 2022, bringing together participants from Malawi, Namibia, Uganda, and Zambia. The session focused on methods to engineer a new sense of hope for Africa’s digital economy journey. Under the theme ‘Rise Stronger with Digital Economy: New Paths towards a Resilient Recovery and Growth’, the forum was supported by Huawei. PIC: Panel discussion at the ATU Ministerial Forum Introducing the session, the General Secretary of the ATU, John Omo spoke about digital transformation as the driver of inclusive economic growth, job creation, the improvement of public service…

Teraco: A Digital Realty Company, Africa’s largest interconnection hub and vendor-neutral data centre provider, announced that construction has commenced on a new hyperscale data centre facility with 30 megawatts (MW) of critical power load at its Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg, South Africa. The facility, known as JB5, is scheduled for completion in 2024 and will incorporate the latest environmentally sustainable cooling and water management designs. CEO of Teraco, Jan Hnizdo, said that the company continues with solid growth as enterprise and hyperscale requirements continue apace due to sustained demand for hybrid cloud deployments and the adoption of…

The Volkswagen Golf 8 GTI, which was launched in South Africa last year, is now available with the iconic Clark Plaid Jacara fabric seats which feature a check pattern design. The classic checked design was produced by the first woman to work in the Volkswagen design department, Gunhild Liljequist. For Liljequist, black was a sporty enough colour, but she was also looking for a second colour with a powerful and sophisticated effect and thus settled on the colour red. That marked the origin of what is now known as the ‘Clark Plaid’ pattern which is still available in the Golf…

Data has been described as the “new gold” as the power of data analytics to transform business performance becomes better understood, but South Africa has too few specialists in this field. Now, a band of big data boffins will be applying their substantial intellects to some of the critical problems of our time at top local universities – as beneficiaries of an annual fellowship established by leading fashion and homeware retailer TFG. The Data Science and Leadership Fellowship, supported by TFG, will fund outstanding young South African students in the field of data science to accelerate the development of one…

Huawei South Africa recently held the second of its Huawei ICT Academy Job Fairs in 2022, an initiative designed to promote local Huawei-certified ICT Talent to Huawei partners and offer them the opportunity to advance their careers. “This year we are celebrating 48 colleges that have been registered as Huawei ICT Academies. That on its own is an achievement considering that this partnership with Huawei is just three years old. A lot of strides have been made and we urge certified colleges to maximise the opportunity to ensure that their learners and lecturers register for the courses offered,” said Mr.…

With 38 of its 54 states being coastal or island states, it is no surprise that Africa is home to over 100 port facilities, including massive terminals in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town in the south, and Mombasa and Dar es Salaam in the east, and Lagos in the west. 90% of Africa’s imports and exports travels by sea. The volume of trade through these ports is enormous with South Africa alone in pre pandemic 2019 handling almost five million TEU (20 foot container equivalents) with just over 9 000 ship calls nationally. However, few of these ports operate optimally,…