Clover Mama Afrika has provided its quilters with a refresher's course on how to enhance a 'skew' log cabin quilt with hand embroidery. Alida Sharpe, who is teaching this technique, says that she is confident that this type of quilting can sell easily for them as they can apply it to handbags, cushion cover and even small wall hanging.

Sanlam Group has appointed Machine, a brand experience agency, as its internal communications partner. The appointment intends to see the delivering of communications to Sanlam's 30 000+ staff and key stakeholders across Africa.

Communications agency Clockwork Media has appointed financial PR veteran Penny Motsamai as its business unit director for its Standard Bank account. Clockwork took the reins of the bank's consumer PR business in the second quarter of 2019.

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'Our Beaches are not Ashtrays' is the message of a public awareness drive, which is targeting Cape Town beachgoers over the festive season. The campaign is supported by the City of Cape Town and the Clean C NGO, which runs regular beach-clean-ups along the coastline on the first Saturday of every month.

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The campaign, titled 'Boys Do What Men Teach Them', aims to look at the normalisation of gender-based violence depicted in men's actions, including locker room talk, rape jokes and the objectification of women. The campaign also aims to create awareness that people are not speaking out against it when they see these actions.

Christel House South Africa will be welcoming 60 new grade R learners to the school in January 2020. The school has appealed to the public to support their '#GiveaHandUp' campaign to help raise funds for school supplies for the new learners.

The festive season is here and has been informed by conscious movements sweeping the globe —  including drinking trends, which see people minimising their alcohol intakes, says the team at The Glass Recycling Company (TGRC). The team says that environmentalism is also on the festive season to-do list and 2020 New Year resolutions.

While there is still going to be a demand for hard copy publications, the number of new media — which are going to be launched digitally — is going to increase exponentially, says Lisa Schneider, managing director at the Digital School of Marketing. Schneider says that this is good news for PR executives.