If you are your people … A photo essay for Mark magazine by Lami Sambo celebrating South Africans at work. Here is Xolani and Musi of Champion Security Group (Gauteng).
Category archives: Marketing
New frontiers of identity
The emerging market is changing the way brand identities are forged.
Bollocks to alcohol advertising
A press release from The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) crossed my desk this week. “ACA is busy standing up and making its mark on behalf of the entire advertising profession, as Government has proposed a ban on all advertising depicting alcoholic products,” it reads.
End of the road for GMs Pontiac, Saab, Hummer & Saturn?
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that GM is considering shedding up to four brands as it prepares a plan for the US Congress on how it will apply money from a potential government bail-out to stave off bankruptcy.
God is pro-sex
How to fill a church to capacity and become a media sensation overnight; Ed Young, a pastor from Texas, last week dropped in on South Africa to promote his “Seven Days of Sex” sermon. Basically he challenged members of his congragation to have sex with their partners every day for seven day and promising them …
Survival of the ad-apted
I was speaking to Clem Sunter the other day when he told me that in Darwin’s first edition of Origin of the Species, Darwin didn’t talk about survival of the fittest, rather the survival of the adapted. The short code = those who survive (and thrive) are those that adapt the fastest. What Darwin meant was that survival is ensured for those who best fit the environment as it changes.
Reviving PF Zapu
An interesting time in Southern African politics. Locally we have seen the launch of COPE and the relaunch of the DA. Now neighbouring Zimbabwe might find itself facing a split in the ruling Zanu (PF).
The Meaning of Youth
A youthful outlook is no longer the sole preserve of the young.
Complete Obama victory speech!
Complete Obama victory speech!
Mad Bush
Johan Grobler found the essential George Bush magazine cover and sent it straight to MarkLives!