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Johannesburg, 03 March 2022 – You may be wondering how to prepare your house or your business for load-shedding.  This guide provides ideas for you to consider – some of which are easy and affordable.DO THE EASY THINGS FIRST Check the load-shedding schedule to plan your electricity usage. Buy a small gas cooker if you don’t already cook with gas. Make sure that your electronics, like your cell phone and laptop, have sufficient battery life. Buy a solar cell charger, a car phone charger, or … [Read more...] about How To Beat Load -Shedding At A Price You Can Afford

Johannesburg, 03 March 2022 : The enactment of the Property Practitioners Act on 1st February 2022 has brought many exciting changes to the property sector including the requirement now for all property practitioners to have valid B-BBEE certificates and be B-BBEE compliant.BEE was first introduced in the form of legislation in 2003. Government through the Department of Trade and Industry (Dti) introduced the revised Codes of Good Practice in October 2013. The revised Codes aim to enhance the … [Read more...] about BEE Now A Requirement In The Property Professionals Act What Does That Mean For The Real Estate Industry?

Boomtown Creative Director, Thule Ngcese, was ranked as the Number 1 Art Director on the 2021 Loeries Official Rankings lists, released late last month. We spoke to him about what this achievement means, and his creative plans for the future.• What does your 2021 Loeries achievement mean to you? I have never been one to speak of my achievements, but somewhere out there is a black kid who grew up like me and who will read this and be inspired to do what I have done, so it’s important. To see the … [Read more...] about Three questions for … South Africa’s Number 1 Art Director

Boomtown’s design interns for 2021 – members of its highly-successful BAYEZA Graduate Programme – have designed the new corporate identity for the Ubomi Foundation, an Eastern Cape NGO.Explaining the new design, the agency’s design group head, Jesse Sharkie, who worked alongside interns Afra Chinamasa, Tameron Karelse and Temba Mkosi, said that the fact that Ubomi means ‘life’ influenced the team’s decision to bring an organic visual metaphor into the typography. Sharkie said the ‘U’ in Ubomi … [Read more...] about Boomtown’s interns design new CI for Ubomi

At 14h00 on 10 February 2022 Shell and HCI will challenge the interim interdict as per Judge Bloem’s judgement from 28 December 2021 by seeking leave to appeal. They are joined by the DMRE Minister Mantashe.WESSA Algoa Bay Branch Chair and Algoa Bay Ocean Stewards Founder Member, Gary Koekemoer said today; “In essence they hold that the “learned judge erred” on every aspect of his judgement, amongst other, from deciding the communities were not consulted, to establishing a prima facie right to … [Read more...] about Shell Throw a HEAVY Book at Judge Bloem in Wild Coast Appeal

21-Year-Old From Newcastle Wins A Mercedes – AMG A45 S Valued at R1,8 Million In Monster Energy GiveawayTwo very happy winners, with a new bike and a new car © SupaFly Media Newcastle: Tristan Louw, a 21-year-old from Newcastle, recently won an R1,8 Million Mercedes AMG A45 S in a Monster Energy giveaway. Based on SMSing a bar code from a can of Monster Energy, the’ Fastest Pair’ competition gave away the Mercedes and a Yamaha R1M motorbike, valued at R500k.  “I didn’t really think I … [Read more...] about 21-Year-Old From Newcastle Wins A Mercedes – AMG A45 S Valued at R1,8 Million In Monster Energy Giveaway

Winners of the R30 000 bursary’s along with the International Hotels School and Algoa FM representatives.PLUS Bursaries totalling R370 000 given to 10 local, aspiring chefs! Gqeberha, South Africa – The International Hotel School (IHS) is opening a new campus in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape, which will be ready for Culinary students in March this year. “We are thrilled to bring an internationally-acclaimed and accredited tertiary institution to this region,” says John Creighton, the school’s … [Read more...] about International excellence in culinary education now available in Gqeberha

What is a laboratory?We’ve all seen laboratories (or “labs”) in films and TV – lots of vials, test tubes, and machines humming away on the counter. But what exactly is a laboratory?The precise definition is any room or building with scientific equipment used to conduct scientific tests or teach science. That’s pretty broad. Though, it does establish the primary purpose of a laboratory: to do science. However, science is a vast field, and the laboratory equipment present in a lab may differ … [Read more...] about Everything You’ve Ever Wondered About Laboratories

Something else from MyGqeberhaAssistant Springbok Coach, Deon Davids, takes questions from the Media ahead of the Springboks first test against Georgia on Friday. In the lead-up to the 2019 Rugby Championship opener in Johannesburg, Davids was spotted at a Springbok training session wearing a team tracksuit and chatting with the other coaches. Erasmus played down speculation at the time, stating that Davids had joined the session as ‘an observer’. Following the 2019 Rugby World Cup, SA Rugby … [Read more...] about Is Your Article on THIS List?

Multisure CEO advocate Denton Goodford believes many intermediaries in the insurance industry may have unknowingly lost control and ownership of their clients and businesses due to a legal loophole. Photo: Full Stop CommunicationsMany intermediaries in the insurance industry, including funeral parlours, may have unknowingly lost control and ownership of their clients and businesses due to a legal loophole. One such intermediary, Multisure Corporation in Gqeberha, found this out the hard way when … [Read more...] about Legal loophole: Insurance intermediaries unknowingly ‘lose’ control and ownership of clients

Cape Town, January, 11, 2022Khwezi Financial Services stands out above the rest as the first South African owned forex trading platform with an ODP license. There are many unethical forex trading platforms in South Africa, but the ODP regulation stands to clean up the industry. In terms of the Financial Markets Act Regulations, the FSCA have authorized Khwezi Financial Services as an Over-the-Counter Derivatives Provider on the 9th of November 2021. Khwezi Financial Services is regulated to … [Read more...] about Khwezi Financial Services, The First South African Owned Forex Trading Platform to receive an OTC Derivatives License from the FSCA

At MyPR.co.za we have been racking our brains as to how we can give some benefit to other freelancers and PR people and, as a consequence, made significant changes to the MyPR Directory.Please give it a go: https://mypr.co.za/add-your-business-skill/ If logged in you will be able to see Contact Details for listings as well as Edit and Delete your own listing. Find a freelancer or business here: https://mypr.co.za/list/ Offer open to anyone in these business … [Read more...] about Give Your Business a Boost (For Free Nogal!)

Opportunity knocked for Michelle Stockwell when she was selected as one of eight for the digital marketing and creative brand agency Boomtown’s 2021 Bayeza Graduate Internship Programme.It certainly delivered when her design got selected for Brands & Branding 2021, which launched earlier this month and is available for the first time as a free eBook here: Brands&Branding2021. The 26th edition of the book published by Ken Preston’s Affinity Advertising & Publishing annually since 1993 … [Read more...] about Boomtown Bayeza intern design selected for Brands & Branding 2021

Over a period of 54 hours of an extended Power Outage THIS Summerstrand home only experienced 4 hours and 47 minutes without power – if the sun had shone on Monday then the time without electrical power would have been ZERO minutes.With the recent power outage woes being experienced by Summerstrand, Gqeberha, Nelson Mandela Bay residents for an an extended length of time due to vandalism of an ancient oil filled 132 KvA cable, along with an extended overcast and rainy period we pulled out some … [Read more...] about Real World Report – Tesla and Solar Edge Installation Under Stress

Boomtown, the agency behind the recent Stellenbosch University identity redesign, is actively encouraging its clients to rewrite their consumer communication strategies to include marketing for good elements.Most recently (June 2021), the agency assisted client National Glass draw attention to the gun violence that is wrecking communities in Gqeberha’s Northern Areas with its ‘The Last Child’ initiative and launch a corporate social outreach programme to equip the youth in these communities with … [Read more...] about Boomtown encourages inclusion of ‘marketing for good’ elements in client campaigns