By:  LUYOLO MKENTANE JOHANNESBURG - A creative and dynamic duo have teamed up to tap into the multi-billion rand promotions industry in South Africa and create much-needed employment for young unemployed youths. Childhood friends Tshepiso Malefane, 27, and Tshepo Ngwenya, 29, who grew up together in dusty streets of the sprawling Soshanguve township in Pretoria, are co-founders and directors of promotions firm Creative Brands Studio.   They established the company in 2014 and stress that since its inception it has grown from strength to strength.   Malefane holds a business management qualification from the Tshwane South College, a short course in corporate development from the University of...

One of my favourite accounts I’ve ever worked on was for the SABC during the World Cup. Feel it! It is here! — Groovin Nchabeleng Groovin Nchabeleng is an award-winning South African advertising and marketing guru with over 25 years industry experience. He is the current executive chairman of the Blueprint Group, a 100% black-owned advertising agency that has been in existence for over 18 years. Groovin is former CEO and shareholder of Leo Burnett South Africa/MMS Group, a division of Publicis Worldwide, the third largest communications group in the world with 65 000 employees in more than 83 countries. With more than R1 billion in...

Written by  Mimi Gauteng based digital marketing agency Stilt Media are making waves as one of the few completely black women owned and led agencies in the current South African marketing and advertising landscape. The agency is already disrupting the typical client/agency relationship by using technology and data to add real value and return on investment to clients’ bottom lines. Founded in 2015, Stilt Media headed up by Marketing Director Mimi Mphaphuli and Managing Director Tina Manyanya. Both women come from impressive leadership and management backgrounds, with Manyanya having headed up her own department at Publicis Media and Mphaphuli having lead a department at Ogilvy. The...

I worked the 9 to 5 job for a big financial institution, but I've always wanted to own my own business. — Tebogo Motshwene, founder of Brandhead Tebogo Motshwene is the founder of Brandhead, an experiential marketing agency that focuses on the black consumer market. We're trying to be different in the brand marketing space. We tap into the research about the black consumer market space. — Tebogo Motshwene, founder of Brandhead Brandhead offers market research and insights and brand activations, explains the 37-year-old. Motshwene says Brandhead was born from his frustration with generalisations and false assumptions made by marketing companies about black (and township) consumers. Motshwene was born in Soweto...