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Employee Wellness

How to spot and reengage quiet quitters in the workplace

18 Jul 2024

How AI tools are transforming coaching in SA

Skills Training

How AI tools are transforming coaching in SA

Issued by SACAP 2 Apr 2024

Marketing

#Exclusive: Ethics in marketing - Just because you can, should you?

Anisa Fielding 18 Mar 2024

Public Health

Pharma Dynamics takes lead in translating medicine information leaflets into isiZulu

6 Feb 2024

Advertising

Google Chrome just rolled out a new way to track you and serve ads. Here's what you need to know

Erica Mealy 11 Sep 2023

Source: Bankless Semona Pillay of UJ gives four ways to managing privacy and risk in the metaverse

Marketing

4 ways to managing privacy and risk when marketing in the metaverse

Semona Pillay 16 Aug 2023

Leading the healthcare revolution ethically

Education & Training

Leading the healthcare revolution ethically

Dr Nivisha Parag, Issued by Regent Business School 20 Jun 2023

Source: Wikipedia. Lithium chemicals, a transition mineral seen here in oil, is set to in demand by 700% by 2050, a growth that will be spurred on by the manufacture of electric vehicle batteries.

Banking

What banks are overlooking when financing mining for transition minerals in SA

3 May 2023

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Higher Education

Universities shouldn't use software to monitor online exams: here's why

Sioux McKenna 14 Sep 2022

Acting Judge Noluntu Bam has ordered the Minister of Mineral Affairs and Energy to re-open an appeal by several community organisations against the extension of its Somkhele mining operation in KwaZulu-Natal. Graphic: Lisa Nelson / GroundUp

Corporate & Commercial Law

Judge blocks mine expansion

Tania Broughton 6 May 2022

The research was conducted at the Zambia University Teaching Hospital morgue. Salim Dawood/AFP via Getty Images

Covid-19

Latest data from Lusaka morgue analysis shows spike in Covid-19 deaths

Christopher J Gill 12 Jul 2021

You hate robocalls for the wrong reasons

Digital

You hate robocalls for the wrong reasons

JD Engelbrecht, Issued by Everlytic 29 Jun 2021

Employee privacy is as important as consumer privacy

Management & Leadership

Employee privacy is as important as consumer privacy

Andrew Bourne 4 Jun 2021

Ethics & Medicolegal

How to manage risk against medical injury claims

Vanessa Rogers 24 May 2021

The implications of administrating ivermectin to Covid-19 patients

Covid-19

The implications of administrating ivermectin to Covid-19 patients

31 Mar 2021

Marketing in a world without third-party cookies

Marketing & Media

Marketing in a world without third-party cookies

Colleen Rose 23 Feb 2021

Don't force customers to watch ads!

Advertising

Don't force customers to watch ads!

15 Feb 2021

We can shape the climate future we want

Climate Change

We can shape the climate future we want

Amy Giliam 10 Dec 2020

Body dysmorphic disorder and surgical outcomes

Ethics & Medicolegal

Body dysmorphic disorder and surgical outcomes

Vanessa Rogers 2 Dec 2020

Ethical and legal guidelines for telemedicine

Ethics & Medicolegal

Ethical and legal guidelines for telemedicine

Vanessa Rogers 25 Nov 2020

Can employers be held liable for employee data breach conduct?

Labour Law & Unions

Can employers be held liable for employee data breach conduct?

16 Oct 2020

South Africa’s east and west coastlines have some of the world’s richest, unexploited, naturally occurring heavy mineral sands. Shutterstock

Mining

South African community wins right to access mining application. But who will win the war?

Tracy-Lynn Field 14 Oct 2020

Youth Day 2020: Safeguarding children's rights in the digital era

Youth Month

Youth Day 2020: Safeguarding children's rights in the digital era

Avani Singh, Issued by IAB South Africa 17 Jun 2020

Collaboration is crucial for scientists to tackle the COVID-19 epidemic. Getty Images

Covid-19

Coronavirus: never been a more compelling time for African scientists to work together

Salome Maswime, Collet Dandara & Sudesh Sivarasu 22 Apr 2020

Stephanie Esterhuyse, consultant, litigation practice, Bowmans.

Covid-19

Tech closes the distance between telemedicine and consent

20 Apr 2020

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Pharmaceuticals

Clinical trials: how to make informed consent more ethical

Jeremy Howick 19 Feb 2020

Practice management

What you need to know about sick notes

Myrna Sachs 6 Feb 2020

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Mining

Communities want fairer say in mining laws

30 Jan 2020

HIV/AIDS

Messages about male circumcision aren't clear: why this is dangerous

Gwinyai Masukume & Witness Mapanga 29 Jan 2020

Management of intact forestlands by indigenous peoples key to protecting climate

Research & Development

Management of intact forestlands by indigenous peoples key to protecting climate

Julie Mollins 24 Jan 2020

Medical Research

Africa's genetic material is still being misused

Keymanthri Moodley 9 Jan 2020

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

Healthcare

#BestofBiz 2019: Healthcare

17 Dec 2019

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Oncology

A multidisciplinary team approach in managing breast cancer

9 Dec 2019

Cadaver-based teaching prepares students intellectually and emotionally to deal with the challenges they will face in their health sciences careers. Dr Tobias Houlton

Medical Research

Health professionals and cadavers: the quest for an ethical approach

Brendon Kurt Billings & Beverley Kramer 29 Oct 2019

Medical Research

Quarter century study on ageing in South Africa offers new perspectives

Kathleen Kahn & Stephen Tollman 17 Oct 2019

Lake Turkana Wind Power turbines. LTW

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

How Kenya's mega wind power project is hurting communities

Zoe Cormack 3 Sep 2019

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Fintech

5 ways Africa's payments industry is evolving

Vaughan Alexander 12 Jun 2019

Be wary of recorded conversations

Cybersecurity

Be wary of recorded conversations

11 Jun 2019

Energy

Mixed reactions to Mantashe's two hats

3 Jun 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Youth Month

#FairnessFirst: A picture tells a thousand words, but should it?

Leigh Andrews 3 Jun 2019

Recycling: poorer countries can now refuse plastic waste imports - this could make the system fairer

Circular Economy & Waste Management

Recycling: poorer countries can now refuse plastic waste imports - this could make the system fairer

Jen Allan 27 May 2019

#FairnessFirst: Refreshing the legalities of ethical reporting on children

Fairness First

#FairnessFirst: Refreshing the legalities of ethical reporting on children

Leigh Andrews 27 May 2019

When can you claim malpratice for plastic surgery?

Medical Law

When can you claim malpratice for plastic surgery?

7 May 2019

Mental illness and human rights: Implementing ethical practices

Mental health

Mental illness and human rights: Implementing ethical practices

7 May 2019

Image: Richards Bay Minerals

Markets & Investment

Dirty deeds: how to stop Australian miners abroad being linked to death and destruction

Julia Dehm 17 Apr 2019

Informed consent: The costly legal implications if it's not done right

Surgical Procedures

Informed consent: The costly legal implications if it's not done right

Lisa Swaine 3 Apr 2019

Swimmers promote alternatives to mining the Wild Coast

Environment & Natural Resources

Swimmers promote alternatives to mining the Wild Coast

Luke Riley 1 Apr 2019

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Medtech

Regulating telemedicine in South Africa

19 Mar 2019

Allan Reid, director and mining sector head in the corporate & commercial practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Mining

Ramaphosa's sunrise industry starts to shine

Allan Reid 13 Mar 2019

Health workers in Liberia at the height of the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA

Medical Research

Ebola in the DRC: the race is on between research and the virus

Yap Boum, Jean-Jacques Muyembe & Sabue Mulangu 8 Mar 2019