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Rising fish exports outpace inflation
Read The Citizen News article here: Sushi or tinned fish? Here is what South Africans prefer Retail sushi expands across supermarkets as tinned fish...
Eighty20 spills the tea on SA’s sipping habits: Data reveals what’s brewing in local cups
Read The Citizen News article here: Why rooibos could be the world’s peace offering | The Citizen In South Africa, it’s common to ask, “Rooibos or...
Sin Tax in South Africa’s 2025 Budget
Watch the PowerFM interview here: Budget 2025: Impact of Sin Tax increase on consumer spending South Africans can breathe a sigh of relief that...
Mortality in South Africa – Some good news
View the eNCA interview here: Discussion | Improved healthcare increases SA life expectancy – eNCA The sobering festive season road accident...
Nearly 31-million South Africans are proficient in English speaking and comprehension
Watch the eNCA interview here: Discussion | Complexity of language use in SA – eNCA Less than half of Baby Boomers can speak and understand...
Perth became the sports capital of South Africa
Read the Netwerk24 article here: SA is gewis sportmal, met miljoene wat dit beoefen én kyk, wys peiling 25-million South Africans participate in...
Too much month left at the end of the money
Read the BusinessTech article here: South Africans earning over R15,000 a month are in serious trouble Analysis of instalment-to-income ratios...
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South Africa’s Most Vulnerable Employment Sectors
Nearly one-third of South Africa’s jobs stem from Elementary Occupations May 1st marks the observance of May Day, also known as Workers’...
South Africa: More than just sport fanatics
25-million South Africans participate in a sport South African athletes and sports teams have punched well above their weight on the global stage...
Analysing the Current State of the Nation
Listen to the CapeTalk interview here: SONA unpacked: Navigating unemployment and economic prospects With the State of the Nation address due to be...
Back to School Blues
Read the IOL article here: The scary numbers behind South Africa’s matric pass rate (iol.co.za) South African education system not delivering the...
Half of South Africans start their day with a cuppa
Watch the eNCA video here: International Coffee Day | Over 2.25 bn cups of coffee consumed daily International Coffee Day takes place on October...
Elementary Occupations hit hard in latest Unemployment data
Elementary Occupations hit hard in latest Unemployment data: Mothers of the Nation segment under strain The Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS)...
Lipstick effect set to help drive beauty sales this Mother’s Day
Source: Lipstick effect set to help drive beauty sales this Mother’s Day – Retail Brief Africa Listen to the interview here: Mother’s,...
Be The Best B2B Business You Can Be
When thinking about service quality, it is typical to consider your own customer experiences, such as those at a restaurant, in a taxi, or at your...
Loyalty programmes | The more simple and easy to use, the better
Pick n Pay, Shoprite and Clicks get it right with the youth with their host of partners and digital-first approach By LYNETTE DICEY | Sunday Times...
Three pillars to get the most out of hybrid working
Effective hybrid working rests on three pillars: Strategy, Technology, and Employee Experience. Cindy Meijboom, Head of People, Operations and...
The counter-intuitive truth about sex at birth
I have been helping people to make use of secondary data for nearly two decades. When I work with groups who have little or no statistical...
Workplace Management: Two positives to come out of the pandemic
Workplace management is unlikely to ever be the same again. But this is a good thing, says Cindy Meijboom, Head of People, Operations and Marketing...
A tale of two nations
In 1998, Thabo Mbeki, then South Africa’s deputy president, spoke of South Africa as one country, but two nations. He spoke about one being black...
Strategic Decision Making Event presented by Wayne Borchardt
“Half of your strategic decisions are destroying value! Do you know which half? Do you know why? Do you know how to reliably improve your results?”...
What is an informal settlement?
For the past five years Eighty20 has worked closely with the Housing Development Agency to enumerate and profile informal settlements across South...
Housing investment in low-income areas of South Africa
Census and recent Community Survey data highlights a significant shift in the way households are housed in South Africa. According to the 2001...
The 3 essential elements of a winning loyalty rewards programme
It seems that everyone has a loyalty programme these days – from the “artisanal, single origin” coffee shop down the street to the...
Affordable housing: A Tafelberg perspective
The furore over the sale of the Tafelberg site by the Western Cape Department of Public Works has highlighted key issues regarding affordable...































