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                <![CDATA[ HR director Nomfundo Vilakazi nominated for 2026 CHRO Awards ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 25 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Nomfundo Vilakazi has been nominated for the 2026 CHRO Awards for her role as people & culture director at Dis-Chem Pharmacies. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ The ABC of employee experience and why care is the Big C ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 24 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ The missing ingredient in many employee experience strategies is often the simplest one of all: Care. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ ArcFinder takes Gold partnership for 2026 HR Indaba ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 23 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ ArcFinder has joined as a Gold partner for the 2026 HR Indaba, set to take place on 20 October. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Russell Coleman takes the people lead for Sub-Saharan Africa at Mondelēz International ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 22 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Mondelēz International has appointed Russell Coleman as senior director, people lead for Sub-Saharan Africa. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ HR chief Jonathan Muthige leads with a voice that cancer cannot silence ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 21 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Jonathan Muthige, chief human capital and transformation officer and CEO for the Growth Markets division at Alexander Forbes, had spent much of his career looking after people. Then a stage-three prostate cancer diagnosis forced him to confront what happens when the person who has spent most of his career responsible for caring for others suddenly finds himself needing care too.
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                <![CDATA[ The next HR transformation is bigger than technology ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://chro.co.za/articles/the-next-hr-transformation-is-bigger-than-technology/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 21 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ A successful HR transformation used to mean getting the technology right, embedding new processes and reaching go-live. Today, that is only part of the story. The real challenge is building an organisation that can continue to adapt long after the project is complete. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ HR director Meko Magida in the running for 2026 CHRO Awards ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://chro.co.za/articles/hr-director-meko-magida-in-the-running-for-2026-chro-awards/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 18 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Meko Magida has been nominated for the 2026 CHRO Awards for his role as executive director of HR at the University of the Western Cape. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ CHRO Webinar: Can HR help employees break the debt cycle? ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 17 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Employee financial wellbeing is becoming increasingly difficult to separate from mental wellbeing, productivity and the wider employee experience. That was one of the key messages from Discovery Corporate employee benefits expert Jay Babshet during a recent CHRO webinar, where he unpacked Discovery’s Debt Reset Benefit and how it aims to help employees manage short-term debt without sacrificing their long-term retirement savings. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ College SA takes Silver partnership for 2026 HR Indaba ]]>
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            <![CDATA[ https://chro.co.za/articles/college-sa-takes-silver-partnership-for-2026-hr-indaba/ ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 16 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ College SA has joined as a Silver partner for the 2026 HR Indaba, set to take place on 20 October. ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Dr Angie Ontong joins list of nominees for the 2026 CHRO Awards ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ 15 September 2026 ]]>
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                <![CDATA[ Dr Angie Ontong has been nominated for the 2026 CHRO Awards for her role as director of HR development, human resource planning, strategy and information management at the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic). ]]>
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