By Vincent Magwenya Black Friday has come and gone, with popular consumer products ranging from food items, electronic devices and to furniture items flying off the shelves at bargain prices. The retail phenomenon traces its growing popularity to the United States merchants of the 1980s, who recorded their sales profits accrued on the day after […]
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Bell Pottinger – Crossing the line: when ethical conduct falls by the wayside
The Gupta Leaks affair in South Africa lifted the lid on unacceptable PR activities on behalf of a high-risk client. Communicators must not descend into unethical behaviour. By Vincent Magwenya is the Founder and CEO of Conversations Media and Communications [This piece originally appeared as part of the IPRA Thought Leadership series of essays.] South […]
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A few years ago, a string of opinions and articles written by the so-called social media experts surfaced proclaiming that organisational social media platforms should be managed by those under the age of 25 as they were the only ones that truly understood these platforms. That might very well have been true back then, however […]
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By Vincent Magwenya CEO of Conversations Media and Communications Prepare yourself By now you would have observed that some of the individuals whose names appear in the leaked emails by members of the Gupta family and their associates, were not necessarily people involved in their business dealings. They may have simply been candidates for public […]
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