Crisis management is one of the cornerstones of public relations —and rightfully so, as this profession is centred on enhancing and building client reputations. This being said, to manage a disaster you need the right team: The ‘crisis management Avengers’, if you will.

Hisense has announced that, for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it will be striving to raise funds for non-profit company PinkDrive, which provides breast cancer education and early diagnostic support to South Africans. 

Creative solutions agency Machine has announced the appointment of Jabulani Sigege to its Cape Town team. Sigege will take over from PJ Eales as executive creative director as of Monday, 1 November. After almost seven years at the agency, Eales moves onto a new challenge at fintech start-up Ozow.  

Kfm 94.5 and LottoStar have announced that they will present Your Month of Millions, which will see cash prizes up for grabs every weekday until Friday, 5 November. Listeners are encouraged to enter on the radio's website and wait for Kfm 94.5 to call them. If called back, listeners will win R2 500 in cash. 

The Shoprite Group has announced that it is going to recycle wipes from its 1 328 supermarkets nationwide. The wipes are green to identify them as 100% recyclable polypropylene, and are used to sanitise baskets and trolleys and are sent for recycling after use. The bucket container and all stickers on the bucket are also 100% polypropylene and recyclable.

Media monitoring services are used by many brands. Businesses from all industries (and all sizes) have seen the value of it for reputation management, competitor analyses and proving return on investment. So, what are the industries that definitely need media monitoring services? The team at Newsclip media monitoring is here to shed some light.

The Effie Awards South Africa has announced its 2021 winners. The most effective marketing communications campaigns of the past year were announced on Thursday, 14 October at the gala event, which was held at The Galleria conference and event venue in Sandton. 

Skynamo, a South African sales tech provider, has announced that it has appointed integrated communications agency Hook, Line & Sinker. The appointment will see the brand's accelerated adoption of its field sales app and management platform to both local and global markets. 

LMX, a subsidiary of the Moving Walls Group and a leading provider of ad-tech in Out-of-Home (OOH), has partnered with Primedia Outdoor in the launch of a study. The initiative aims to enable detailed audience measurement across Primedia Outdoor's Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) inventories in seven markets across Africa. 

The Epica Awards has announced that editor and entrepreneur Claire Beale will be the president of its 2021 jury. The online awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, 9 December and the entry period has now been extended until Friday, 22 October.