BA Journalism | ||
Year completed | : | 2004 |
Education level | : | Degree |
Final year subjects | : | Journalism
Psychology |
Institution | : | RAU |
Location | : | Johannesburg, South Africa |
BA (Hons) Psych | ||
Year completed | : | 2005 |
Education level | : | Honours |
Final year subjects | : | Psychometry |
Institution | : | UJ |
Location | : | Johannesburg, South Africa |
This week, we go behind the selfie with Jason Stewart, co-founder of HaveYouHeard...
Leigh Andrews 1 day ago
Attendees of the final Future Females founders' breakfast for the year were in for a treat, as the Cape Town Startup Week edition's speakers included serial entrepreneur Catherine Luckhoff, SweepSouth's Aisha Pandor, and Pichulik founder Katherine-Mary Pichulik. Here's what they shared about their entrepreneurial journeys thus far...
Leigh Andrews 3 days ago
This week, we go behind the selfie with Sibongile 'Sbosh' Mbuzwana, client partner at BrandTruth DTGL...
Leigh Andrews 4 Dec 2019
Cindy Mkaza-Siboto is co-founder of Emagqabini Education Academy, the community-based, educational non-profit organisation operating in Khayelitsha that assists township learners with after-school academic support, mentorship and career planning, based on Mkaza-Siboto's own sister Yonela's academic struggles. Here's how they've grown to support more than 100 learners...
Leigh Andrews 3 Dec 2019
Unfortunately, gender-based violence is a harsh reality of everyday life for the majority of South African women. Here's what's being done to not just take a stand but also act to end GBV this #16DaysofActivism and beyond, with UN Women's global #OrangetheWorld campaign...
Leigh Andrews 2 Dec 2019
This week, we go behind the selfie with Stephen Werner, now station manager at KFM for Primedia Broadcasting, Cape Town...
Leigh Andrews 27 Nov 2019
With his characteristic dry, wry wit in full force, I sat down with entrepreneur-at-heart Simon Dingle for an exclusive interview after his Catalyst Africa presentation, on why an open internet that connects people is a winner for every industry...
Leigh Andrews 25 Nov 2019
An all-female AfricaCom panel discussed the fact that the backbone of a truly digital economy is hyper-connectivity. While M-Pesa is still celebrated a decade after it disrupted the way money works on the continent forever, digital inclusion remains a problem. How do we scale innovation, yet leave no-one behind?
Leigh Andrews 25 Nov 2019
At Ask Afrika's 'Aha moment' market research intelligence Cape Town Roadshow, MD Sarina de Beer combined insights from their latest Ask Afrika Orange Index report to isolate standout service excellence trends, as these are informing and transforming business today. Here's what you missed...
Leigh Andrews 22 Nov 2019
At Ask Afrika's 'Aha moment' market research intelligence Cape Town Roadshow, MD Sarina de Beer combined insights from their latest Ask Afrika Icon Brands benchmark report to isolate the latest customer loyalty trends. Here's what your business needs to know...
Leigh Andrews 21 Nov 2019
This week, we go behind the selfie with Simon Spreckley, executive creative director at Hoorah Digital consultancy...
Leigh Andrews 20 Nov 2019
Get ready for a wealth of acronyms! The newly refreshed Publisher Research Council (PRC) showcased the power of the PAMS Brands and People, Products and Platforms (PPP) fused data, providing a teaser of insights on consumer media habits and preferences, media usage throughout the day on different devices and usage of different media at the same time. Here's what you missed...
Leigh Andrews 19 Nov 2019
Up to 18 million jobs need to be created annually just to absorb the new entrants each year. This is unprecedented globally and doesn't even include the unemployed and underemployed...
Leigh Andrews 18 Nov 2019
Dion Jerling, co-founder of Connect Earth was chair of the third and final day of AfricaCom 2019's keynote sessions. He said there had been closer to 17,000 attendees than predicted 15,000 and convened a panel discussion on getting user experience (UX) right...
Leigh Andrews 15 Nov 2019
Yolisa Phahle, CEO of general entertainment at the MultiChoice Group, presented the final keynote session of the second day of AfricaCom 2019. As "a South African who lives and breathes the African dream," she explains why they're retelling possibly the greatest African story of all time, with global appeal...
Leigh Andrews 14 Nov 2019
This week, we go behind the selfie with Brendan Linley Arries, creative technologist/manager at HelloFCB+...
Leigh Andrews 13 Nov 2019
The 22nd edition of Africacom took place from 12 to 14 November 2019 at the CTICC in Cape Town. Chair for the first morning of Africacom's headline keynotes was Toby Shapshak, editor-in-chief of Stuff magazine, with Paul Scanlan, CTO of carrier business group at Huawei technologies, up first on all things 5G and even 'facial recognition' of fish...
Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2019
Simon Dingle started his Catalyst Africa presentation by confirming that when he's not making apps or writing books, he loves thinking out loud in public about a variety of divergent topics...
Leigh Andrews 12 Nov 2019
The final standout session from the Kantar customer experience (CX) advantage 2019 masterclass featured lessons from diversity and inclusion initiatives to transform your business strategy from the inside-out, leverage the experience advantage and get CX right, as presented by Kantar's customer experience consultant Sibongile Vilakazi...
Leigh Andrews 11 Nov 2019
Dr Carl Driesener, senior marketing scientist at the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute (EBI) of marketing science in Australia - the home of evidence-based marketing, shared five steps to being a smarter target marketer at Spark Media's recent 'seminar roadshow'...
Leigh Andrews 8 Nov 2019