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Source: © VML Parusha Partab, chief strategy officer, VML South Africa says leading with empathy – not noise – is how brands can get the balance right between grounded messaging and standout creativity

Trends

#BizTrends2025 | VML's Parusha Partab: Empathy in a surreal world and other trends

Parusha Partab 11 Sep 2025

RAPT BizTrendsTV | Faith Popcorn: The people's pushback trend

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV | Faith Popcorn: The people's pushback trend

Danette Breitenbach 29 Jul 2025

#BizTrends2025: 555 Media Hub’s Tapelo Zama | The challenge for brands - LLM disrupting the consumer journey

Digital

#BizTrends2025: 555 Media Hub’s Tapelo Zama | The challenge for brands - LLM disrupting the consumer journey

Tapelo Zama 16 May 2025

All about YOU! Putting YOU in YOUth Month on Biz!

Youth Month

All about YOU! Putting YOU in YOUth Month on Biz!

Issued by Bizcommunity.com 20 May 2025

#BizTrends2025: Discovery CEO Hylton Kallner on the future of spending

Marketing

#BizTrends2025: Discovery CEO Hylton Kallner on the future of spending

15 Apr 2025

#BizTrends2025: Discovery - Visa: 2025 the year of returning to the office

Marketing

#BizTrends2025: Discovery - Visa: 2025 the year of returning to the office

Danette Breitenbach 10 Apr 2025

Source: © 123rf In a world of sameness, humans are not thinking, not applying themselves and not adding anything new, just melting into whatever the digital algorithm is feeds us

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Break free from brain rot, enshittification, move from digital sameness and embrace culture movements

Danette Breitenbach 31 Mar 2025

Source: Supplied.

Covid-19

5 years on: How Covid redefined the future of work

Mark Dixon 12 Mar 2025

New MoU between Competition Commission and CIDB is aimed at stamping out anti-competitive behaviour.

Construction & Engineering

CompCom and CIDB join forces to tackle construction corruption

Lindsey Schutters 3 Mar 2025

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Li Ndube on Afro-optimism - African growth vs Western degrowth

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Li Ndube on Afro-optimism - African growth vs Western degrowth

Danette Breitenbach 25 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: The rise of new CBDs

Trends

#BizTrends2025: The rise of new CBDs

Lindsey Schutters 6 Feb 2025

Busisiwe Phakathi is 5fm's marketing manager. Source: Supplied.

Youth Marketing

#BizTrends2025: Busisiwe Phakathi, 5FM - Keeping radio relevant among youth

Busisiwe Phakathi 6 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: E-commerce fuels surge in last-mile delivery demand

Trends

#BizTrends2025: E-commerce fuels surge in last-mile delivery demand

Damian Velayadum 6 Feb 2025

Yesh Surjoodeen is managing director of HP Southern and Central Africa

Trends

#BizTrends2025: African innovation depends on investment and protecting intellectual property

Yesh Surjoodeen 5 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: Twyg's Jackie May - Is sustainable fashion possible?

ESG

#BizTrends2025: Twyg's Jackie May - Is sustainable fashion possible?

Danette Breitenbach 5 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: 7 trends for retailers to '2020-thrive'

Trends

#BizTrends2025: 7 trends for retailers to '2020-thrive'

Evan-Lee Courie 6 Feb 2025

Grant Lapping is a digital executive at Midnight. Source: Supplied.

Digital

#BizTrends2025: Grant Lapping | 3 trends dominating search: GEO, social search and voice

Grant Lapping 5 Feb 2025

Ancel Draai, MD for Applico Training

Trends

#BizTrends2025: What’s next for HR and payroll? Top trends to watch in 2025

Ancel Draai 4 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: The rapid transformation of South Africa’s energy sector

Trends

#BizTrends2025: The rapid transformation of South Africa’s energy sector

Jenna Harris 4 Feb 2025

$Andre Le Roux, head of strategy: TBWA\Coastal, talks about trends that drive culture to understand SA shopper (Image supplied)$

Marketing

#BizTrends2025: TBWA\Coastal's Andre Le Roux - Understanding the SA shopper

Andre Le Roux 4 Feb 2025

Source: Ben April, Associate Director: ESG leader for KPMG in Africa.

Trends

#BizTrends2025: COP29 reflections and the importance of sustainable finance and investment

Ben April 4 Feb 2025

Source: Supplied. Brina Biggs

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Data-led insurance product development – the key to the year ahead and beyond

Brina Biggs 4 Feb 2025

Dr Chris Blair, CEO at 21st Century

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Future of remuneration - culture, AI, and management shifts

Chris Blair 3 Feb 2025

Arik Karani says PR needs to embrace empathetic communication. Source: Instagram.

PR & Communications

#BizTrends2025: Arik Karani on how data, disinformation, and ethics will redefine PR in Africa

Karabo Ledwaba 3 Feb 2025

#BizTrends2025: Special Effects Media’s Kelly Kaimowitz - Creating a lasting impact through influencer marketing

Social Media

#BizTrends2025: Special Effects Media’s Kelly Kaimowitz - Creating a lasting impact through influencer marketing

Kelly Kaimowitz 3 Feb 2025

Dr Melanie van Rooy. Source: Supplied.

Marketing

#BizTrends2025: Dr Melanie van Rooy, CMO at Clicks - Experiential marketing key to retail future

Melanie van Rooy 31 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: VML SA's Inga Sikweyiya - What really matters to South African youth in 2025

Youth Marketing

#BizTrends2025: VML SA's Inga Sikweyiya - What really matters to South African youth in 2025

Inga Sikweyiya 31 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Digital marketing and advertising trends for SMEs

SMEs

#BizTrends2025: Digital marketing and advertising trends for SMEs

Charmagne Mazhindu 31 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: The future of travel - how connection, conscience, and custom comforts redefine 2025

Trends

#BizTrends2025: The future of travel - how connection, conscience, and custom comforts redefine 2025

Marc Harding 31 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Shaping tomorrow’s travel industry - innovation, sustainability, and purpose

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Shaping tomorrow’s travel industry - innovation, sustainability, and purpose

Olivier Perillat-Piratoine 31 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Smart telematics use can mitigate e-commerce growth risks

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Smart telematics use can mitigate e-commerce growth risks

Justin Manson 31 Jan 2025

Anja van Beek, talent & culture strategist, leadership & HR expert and executive coach

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Building resilient, human-centric workplaces

Anja van Beek 30 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Bettabets Mathabo Sekhonyana - Dispelling the dazzle: A closer look at AI's real potential

Digital

#BizTrends2025: Bettabets Mathabo Sekhonyana - Dispelling the dazzle: A closer look at AI's real potential

Mathabo Sekhonyana 30 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Special Effects Media’s Shaheed Rajab - Community management, from likes to connections

Social Media

#BizTrends2025: Special Effects Media’s Shaheed Rajab - Community management, from likes to connections

Shaheed Rajab 29 Jan 2025

Image source: Dilok Klaisataporn –

Trends

#BizTrends2025: What does IP law look like in 2025 and beyond?

Alicia van der Walt, Tshireletso Tlholoe, and Marcelle Samons 28 Jan 2025

Bruce Hunt, Managing Director, Transcend Capital

Trends

#BizTrends2025: 5 BEE trends transforming South Africa

Bruce Hunt 28 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Grid Worldwide’s Clinton Bridgeford - The challenge of creativity in 2025

Advertising

#BizTrends2025: Grid Worldwide’s Clinton Bridgeford - The challenge of creativity in 2025

Clinton Bridgeford 28 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: 5 trends shaping the travel sector in 2025 and beyond

Trends

#BizTrends2025: 5 trends shaping the travel sector in 2025 and beyond

Kelly Jackson 28 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Future-focused procurement – embracing change and empowering growth

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Future-focused procurement – embracing change and empowering growth

Debbie Tagg 28 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Exploring key trends in the apple and pear industry

Roelf Pienaar 28 Jan 2025

Source: Supplied. Zihaad Israfil, CEO CFI Financial South Africa.

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Shaping the future of trading in South Africa

Zihaad Israfil 27 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: FMCG Retail Outlook: built to withstand the pressure

Trends

#BizTrends2025: FMCG Retail Outlook: built to withstand the pressure

Nicola Allen 27 Jan 2025

Lyndy van den Baarselaar, Managing Director at ManpowerGroup SA

Trends

#BizTrends2025: #CuratingtheFuture - trends shaping SA's HR and recruitment landscape

Lyndy van den Barselaar 27 Jan 2025

Jane Andropoulos, Partner, Bowmans

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Expect more corporate corruption crackdowns in 2025

Jane Andropoulos 27 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Studio H’s Hannerie Visser - The ‘un-trending’ of trends and the subtle shift

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Studio H’s Hannerie Visser - The ‘un-trending’ of trends and the subtle shift

Hannerie Visser Visser 24 Jan 2025

Brian Eagar, CEO of Towerstone

Trends

#BizTrends2025: #CuratingtheFuture with emotional intelligence to unlock leadership doors in 2025

Brian Eagar 24 Jan 2025

Judith Mugeni says success in 2025 will mean harnessing the power of sponsorship in a futuristic environment by returning to fundamental principles (Image supplied)

Marketing

#BizTrends2025: Judith Mugeni - Back to the future, sponsorship in 2025

Judith Mugeni 24 Jan 2025

Source: John Loos, senior economist at FNB Commercial Property Finance.

Retail & Hospitality Property

#BizTrends2025: Cautious optimism for better times, but risks are abundant

John Loos 23 Jan 2025

Kate Bester is project and contracts Manager at Jet Demolition

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Sustainable demolition is key for circular construction

Kate Bester 23 Jan 2025

Source: Supplied. Mike van der Westhuizen, portfolio manager at Citadel.

Markets & Investment

#BizTrends2025: Local and global economic outlook for 2025 - the "year of Trump risk"

Mike van der Westhuizen 23 Jan 2025