#Orchids&Onions: Sugar scares and DA’s AI blunders
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Going through some (very) old photographs recently and this was in black-and-white, so that should…

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#Orchids&Onions: Sugar scares and DA’s AI blunders

#Orchids&Onions: When Ryanair schools Elon Musk
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Can anyone here remember the “dot.com” boom, when companies fell over themselves to get “on…

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#Orchids&Onions: When Ryanair schools Elon Musk

#Orchids&Onions: Illegal billboards, brilliant billboards and a very strange unicorn
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Political shenanigans aside, the recent row over the Solidarity banner on a freeway in Johannesburg…

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#Orchids&Onions: Illegal billboards, brilliant billboards and a very strange unicorn

#Orchids&Onions: SAB drives a hard message home, KFC does ESG right
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Stopped at a traffic light the other day, I got quite angry looking at an…

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#Orchids&Onions: SAB drives a hard message home, KFC does ESG right

#Orchids&Onions: Checkers cooks with Jamie Oliver, Vaseline warms hearts
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There is one thing you have to say about British celeb chef Jamie Oliver… and…

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#Orchids&Onions: Checkers cooks with Jamie Oliver, Vaseline warms hearts

#Orchids&Onions: Heritage wins with Castle and Eskort, but Spar sparks backlash
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Heritage Day is spluttering to its smoke-infused end as I write this, the smell of…

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#Orchids&Onions: Heritage wins with Castle and Eskort, but Spar sparks backlash

#Orchids&Onions: Ford drives conservation forward, Platinum Life stalls on trust
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Corporate social investment (CSI) is often cynically abused by big brands as a marketing gimmick…

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#Orchids&Onions: Ford drives conservation forward, Platinum Life stalls on trust

#Orchids&Onions: Clientele stands up to crumbling service, City Power flickers out
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Though I’ve never been a potential client for the Clientele group’s various insurance-related products, I’ve…

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#Orchids&Onions: Clientele stands up to crumbling service, City Power flickers out

#Orchids&Onions: Ford gets it,  iWyze doesn’t
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One of the classic South African advertising catchlines is more than 50 years old, yet…

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#Orchids&Onions: Ford gets it, iWyze doesn’t

#Orchids&Onions: Machine captures the essence of KZN in Spotify’s ode to Zulu traditions
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One of the cardinal rules of advertising and marketing – for those who put it…

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#Orchids&Onions: Machine captures the essence of KZN in Spotify’s ode to Zulu traditions