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Marketing
TANZANIA
Google gets on board for Kenya's tourism industry
[Carole Kimutai] Kenya's struggling tourism sector will receive a boost following an announcement by Google to promote tourism in Africa through online marketing tools by providing free advertisement vouchers to African organisations to market their businesses in an online environment.


Advertising
AFRICA
Zim advertising competition attracts surprising number of entries
[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's annual advertising competition attracted significant interest, despite an economic crisis that has stunted growth and limited new advertising campaigns in a once vibrant sector.


Design
SOUTH AFRICA
Real African images from Great Stock! - Great Stock!
Get the full spectrum of authentic African imagery from the renowned aFRIKA Collection: exquisite photography and footage, rights managed and royalty free, captured all over this beautiful continent.


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Media
SOUTH AFRICA
Calling Africa's journalists
Attention African journalists: the deadline to apply for the 2008 Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in HIV/AIDS Reporting in Africa has been extended to March 14, 2008.


Public Relations
SOUTH AFRICA
The year of personal improvement: 2008 - Quo Vadis Communications
Quo Vadis Communications will be running its communications courses in Johannesburg and Cape Town during March, April and May 2008.


Retail
ZIMBABWE
Now Zimbabweans have to queue to queue
[Mary Revesai] A study conducted in the United States more than a decade ago estimated the cost to the American economy of alcohol abuse and alcoholism at US$246 billion. With queuing having become an almost enforced addictive activity in Zimbabwe, where ordinary people spend hundreds of hours in queues to do things that are routine in other countries such as shopping, depositing or withdrawing money from the bank etc, it would be interesting to quantify its impact on productive pursuits.

ZIMBABWE
Bulawayo runs out of money
The municipality, one of Zimbabwe's second city's largest employers, has not paid its employees since December - and that means less money is in circulation, and fewer purchases from retailers.



TV
AFRICA
Apprentice Africa - let the business begin
Touted as the ultimate job interview, Africa's own version of the popular reality TV series The Apprentice launched on Tuesday, 26 February 2008.

 

Jobs offered
  • Mid/Senior Sales Representatives - Sandton
  • Experienced 3D Studio Max Operator - Johannesburg
  • Account Executive - Rivonia
  • Corporate Editor - Pretoria
  • Sales Co-ordinator - Bedfordview
  • Senior Sales Manager - Media/Destination Marketing - Johannesburg
  • Logistics Co-ordinator - Bedfordview
  • Corporate Communications Manager - Johannesburg
  • Mid-level to Senior Journalist/Sub-editor - Johannesburg
  • General Manager - Finance - Cape Town
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