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Marketing | | WEST AFRICA Vast opportunities in for SA in West Africa
South Africa is looking to realise the vast opportunities and huge potential for mutually-beneficial growth with West Africa, home to some of the world's top oil producers such as Nigeria, writes Shaun Benton.
ZIMBABWE Desperate times bring desperate measures in Zim
A new breed of entrepreneur has evolved in Zimbabwe's ever-deteriorating economy, adapted to take advantage of an environment characterised by food shortages and increasingly scarce basic commodities.
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2010 FIFA World Cup | | BOTSWANA Botswana's supporting role in 2010
When South Africa won the bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, this presented an opportunity for Botswana to position itself and take advantage of the many football spectators, tourists and potential investors that are expected to visit southern Africa during that time.
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Digital | | ZIMBABWE No throughway for VoIP in Zimbabwe
[Dumisani Ndlela] The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) has failed to come up with regulations to govern Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), raising fears this could be a deliberate attempt to protect state-owned telephone operator, TelOne, whose fortunes have crumbled since the advent of the mobile networks 10 years ago.
NIGERIA Schools to benefit from Nigeria's USPF
[Remmy Nweke] A total of 109 primary and secondary schools have been selected as beneficiaries of the first phase of the 'Schools, University Access Programme to Digital Lifestyle' project of the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), an initiative of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
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Education and Training | | WEST AFRICA Senegal: New efforts underway to educate in local languages
With formal education systems crumbling in much of sub-Saharan Africa, educationalists are looking more to informal systems of education taught in local languages.
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Online Media | | AFRICA 10 Great SEO Tips, Part 2
[Paul Korzeniowski] Garnering the attention of the search engine vendors requires a delicate balance. While there are some steps that companies can take to improve their ranking, there are other items that lower the company's search rankings, and can even result in them being blacklisted in some cases. Consequently, they need to maintain a proper balance.
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Production | | SOUTH AFRICA Creative Vision's animators pull out all the stops for the MTN Sony Ericsson Pink concert - Creative Vision
 When Metropolitan Republic approached Creative Vision to do a three-minute animation in the short space of just five working days, it was well aware that it was actually a three-week job. The brief was to do the best possible with the limited time available.
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Retail | | ZIMBABWE Bull run on the ZSE: heads you win, tails you win
Financial markets, previously in a form of paralysis, were relieved to see the back of the Supplementary budget presented by the Minister of Finance last Thursday. Significantly, the budget indicated that the country's domestic debt has soared to Z$8,1 trillion largely due to high interest payments, which at 6.1 trillion accounted for 75,4% of total debt.
SOUTHERN AFRICA Limited supplies, biofuel demand push maize prices up
Increased global demand for biofuel has pushed up the already buoyant price of maize in South Africa, forcing aid agencies to procure food from elsewhere to feed an expected more than six million food-insecure people in southern Africa.
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Sponsorship | | AFRICA Denmark contributes $2.4 million to ITC trade programme
Denmark has contributed nearly $2.4 million (13 million Danish kroner) to fund International Trade Centre development programmes across Africa, Asia and Latin America in 2007, with over 20% of the total earmarked for efforts to expand exports from poorer countries of organic products.
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TV | | SOUTH AFRICA MTV Networks Africa takes sales in-house
Pan-African entertainment platform MTV Networks Africa is to expand its in-house commercial sales team, delivering more integrated and targeted solutions to maximise value for its growing list of blue-chip clients. On top of its existing pan-African remit, the expanded in-house team will also take over responsibility for managing airtime sales in South Africa.
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