SOUTH AFRICA

The best time to send an email
[Aaron Smith] The email messages you send out will be much better received if they arrive at a time when the recipient is more likely to be in the right frame of mind to read them. If they arrive at any other time - particularly if they arrive along with a raft of other messages - there is a good chance they will end up being deleted ... unwanted and unread.

AFRICA

Zimbabwe's MDC pulls out of run-off
Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of Zimbabwe's violence-wracked presidential run-off Sunday, declaring that the election was no longer credible and the loss of life among his supporters was simply too high.

ZIMBABWE

Global ad agency dumping Zim firm over Mugabe campaign?
[Dumisani Ndlela] Global marketing and advertising agency Young & Rubicam (Y&R) is to sell its stake in Zimbabwean associate Imago Young & Rubicam (Imago Y&R) after the Zimbabwean agency's involvement in an election campaign for President Robert Mugabe.

November 1 lands Mascom Wireless account and joins Africa's young emerging business leaders - November 1
November 1, the up and coming Johannesburg-based branding group, has landed the Mascom Wireless account. Mascom Wireless is the leading cellphone operator in Botswana, with its network coverage now spanning 80% of the population.

Malawian journo pulled from China media tour
The Chinese Embassy in Malawi has removed Wisdom Chimgwede, Zodiak Broadcasting Station (ZBS) editor, from the list of journalists travelling to China on a media tour it sponsored after receiving instructions from Malawi's Ministry of Information and Civic Education. The visit was slated to begin on 21 June 2008. The ministry had earlier on accused the journalist of writing negatively about the government.

ZIMBABWE

Zero defect of the worst kind haunts Zim networks
[Dumisani Ndlela] The outbreak of zeros on the country's struggling currency has caught up with Zimbabwe's mobile networks, with Net*One saying escalating tariff charges had hamstrung the production of airtime vouchers.

Moroccan daily ordered to stop publishing
On 19 June 2008, a Rabat court ordered the Moroccan Arabic-language daily Al Jarida Al Oula to stop publishing hitherto unpublished testimony about repression under the late King Hassan II, which senior officials gave to an official truth commission called the Equity and Reconciliation Panel (IER).

It's a wrap!
If you want to make your mark in Botswana, then the largest outdoor advertising boundary wrap in the country will do it!

SOUTH AFRICA

Intl leaders discuss high oil prices
An energy meeting, focusing on rocketing oil prices, concluded Sunday, 22 June 2008, in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea city of Jeddah, with a statement calling for "improved" transparency and regulation in oil production and financial markets dealing in crude.