| | | Today's headlines | IRB about to score an own goal?
Egypt: media barred from Brotherhood trials
Nigerian author bags Orange for fiction
Virgin introduces fourth African route
Mobile's non-voice is a new voice in East Africa
Tunisian newspaper harassed
New African magazine launched
SuperSport confirms live coverage of Super Four matches on DStv
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Marketing | | AFRICA Africa's most powerful business leaders
When Business in Africa set out to list the continent's top business leaders, they assumed the exercise would be fairly straightforward. Little did they know that top talent in the continent is not as obvious to us in Africa as, say, the captains of industry in Europe and the United States...
AFRICA New African magazine launched
African Banker, a new quarterly magazine on banking and finance in Africa, has been launched.
ZIMBABWE Menace to society
[Kumbirai Mafunda, Senior Reporter] Despite the industry's best efforts in promoting what should be one of Zimbabwe's major earners of foreign exchange, police brutality in that country continues to ruin tourism recovery efforts.
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Eventing | | AFRICA 'Raise the Bar' with the World Economic Forum on Africa
Over 700 high-level delegates are expected to participate in the 17th annual World Economic Forum on Africa, to be held in Cape Town from 13 - 15 June 2007.
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Media | | NIGERIA Nigerian author bags Orange for fiction
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Nigerian author, has won the twelfth Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction with her second novel Half of a Yellow Sun (Fourth Estate).
AFRICA IRB about to score an own goal?
The International Press Institute (IPI) claims that the International Rugby Board (IRB) is trying to restrict media coverage of upcoming World Cup. If so, could it backfire?
EGYPT Egypt: media barred from Brotherhood trials
The proposed military trials for Brotherhood leaders are flawed say human rights groups, as the media have been barred from observing the trial.
AFRICA International newspapers flag press freedom restrictions
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) currently meeting in Cape Town has issued a number of resolutions highlighting restrictions to press freedom around the world and how this could be dealt with.
AFRICA The scourge of Africa
The absence of press freedom is inhibiting development on the continent and depriving millions of Africans of their rights, the President of the World Association of Newspapers has said.
CENTRAL AFRICA Justice at last for murdered DRC journalist?
Eleven months after his death, the alleged killers of independent journalist face trial.
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Mobile | | EAST AFRICA Mobile's non-voice is a new voice in East Africa
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), a non-voice value-added service that allows information to be sent and received across a mobile telephone network, is proving to be a very useful supplement to today's circuit switched data and short message service for cellular phone users in East Africa.
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Newspapers | | NORTH AFRICA Tunisian newspaper harassed
In a campaign to increase pressure on the Kalima newspaper, police are preventing journalists from the entering premises to work.
NORTH AFRICA Tunisian journalist under house arrest for five years
Rights group HRinfo has called on the Tunisian government to release journalist who has been under house arrest for five years.
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Out Of Home | | SOUTH AFRICA Right Stuff at the Durban Beach Festival - Right Stuff
 Right Stuff was recently awarded the 2007 Durban Beach Festival branding and activation contract. The brief is to brand the area, to bring the event into focus to make it more streamlined and eye-catching, ensuring that it is less intrusive than in previous years and giving prominence to the Beach Festival throughout the entire event area.
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Public Relations | | AFRICA China's PR battle in Africa
[Martyn Davies] Political risk, conflict, government corruption, bureaucracy, infrastructure bottlenecks, underdeveloped capital markets, cultural and linguistic differences and the lack of skilled labour are all challenges of operating in Africa. Local, multinational and Chinese firms alike face these challenges.
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Radio | | NORTH AFRICA Concerns over arrested, fleeing Eritrean journalist
Rights organisation is concerned as to the fate of a public radio journalist who was arrested as he tried to flee across the Eritrean border and into Ethiopia.
WEST AFRICA Chopper crash claims pioneering female journalist
The Togo helicopter crash on Sunday claimed the life of journalist Olive Messan Amouzou, the first woman to head a radio station in Togo.
AFRICA US unhappy over Somalia FM station closures
The Somali government has closed down three main FM stations in the capital - Shabelle Media Network, Horn Afrik and IQK (The holy Quran Media). The US is concerned at the move.
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Research | | SOUTH AFRICA Synovate launches new market potential solutions - Synovate
Synovate has introduced a suite of models and simulators for quantifying the market potential of a product or service, coinciding with the creation of Synovate MarketQuest, evolved from its Product Design & Development specialist division.
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TV | | NIGERIA SuperSport confirms live coverage of Super Four matches on DStv
SuperSport, the leading, all-inclusive sport broadcaster on the African continent, has announced that it will, for the second year running, provide live coverage of all the six matches at this year's Super Four league competition. Coverage will be throughout Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA CNBC – global outlook, African flavour - CNBC Africa
More and more there is an acceptance that we live in a global village, and that much of what happens in the world will affect what happens locally. “To understand, therefore, what is happening locally, it is necessary for the media to track global trends and interpret them for local use,” says Peter Ndoro, Head of Corporate Communications at CNBC Africa.
SOUTH AFRICA Welcome, CNBC Africa! - CNBC Africa
The fledgling democracy at the southern tip of the African continent is about to take another step towards going global. On 1 June 2007, CNBC Africa, the first 24-hour, live international business channel in sub-Saharan Africa, began broadcasting from Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| | Business | | | Virgin introduces fourth African route [Business travel] |
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| | People | | AFRICA New president takes the helm at IFJ - more info | | More... Submit a Person | | |
| | Events to diarise | Securex 2007 Securex - Johannesburg, South Africa, 20 June
Visitors will be exposed to a wide range of security, safety, fire and protection solutions available in South Africa, including high-tech surveillance solutions. | | | Sign Africa 2007 & The Africa In-store Show SignAfrica - Johannesburg, South Africa, 5 September
The international event will be an opportunity for all suppliers and manufacturers of all means of visual communication including signage, display, POS, road signs and outdoor advertising mediums to present their latest products, designs and trends to the public. | | |
| | Upcoming events | MediaTech Africa 2007 MediaTech - Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 June The 3-Day MBA Astro Tech - Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 June Face the media with confidence The Communication Academy - Cape Town, 13 June | More... Submit an event | | |
| | Jobs offered | | Contract Designers and Developers - Johannesburg | | Legal Age Channel Executive - Johannesburg | | Head - Market Research and Information - Cape Town | | Account Manager - Pretoria | | Account Executive - Hyde Park - Johannesburg | | Copy Editor/Proofreader - Pretoria | | Retail Planner/Buyer - Cape Town | | Finished Artist/Specialist/Typesetter - Cape Town - CBD | | Branding and Training Representative - Johannesburg | | Freelance AM and Senior Account Director X2 - Sandton | | | |
| | Quotes | | | "Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped." - African proverb | | More... Submit a Quote | | |
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