Virtualization for the African Enterprise
As virtualization picks up traction across the globe, companies like Sun Microsystems and VMware stand to gain, and Microsoft stands to lose.

In Africa, Scrabble is a serious matter
Dakar: To compete in the Scrabble competition, 32-year-old Elisee Poka spent five days in a bus traversing Africa's potholed roads. His competitors from France arrived by plane.


Knight's 2009 scholarships for Rhodes University's Media Leadership Institute
The Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (SPI) at Rhodes University's School of Journalism and Media Studies invites applications for three scholarships from Southern African students who wish to register for the SPI's Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management (PDMM) in 2009.

African Vibes magazine to launch digital edition
African Vibes Communications Inc will be launching the digital edition of its flagship publication, African Vibes magazine, with a free special digital issue of the magazine.

Media21 Global Journalism Network offers global media workshop
Experienced journalists are invited to apply for Media21 Global Journalism Network's global issues media workshop, which will focus on the challenges of migration in the 21st century from November 24 to December 7.

WEST AFRICA

Senegal ruling party calls for anti-media campaign
Dakar: Senegal's ruling party wants to crack down on media critical of the government by blocking advertising revenues, checking they pay their taxes and urging supporters to cancel subscriptions to newspapers.

NIGERIA

1st Africa Media Literacy Conference
The Youth Media and Communication Initiative (YMCI) in collaboration with the National Film and Video Censors Board (NFVCB) and the British Council, Nigeria, began its first Africa Media Literacy Conference yesterday, 29 July 2008.

Link Research appoints Advanced Media its distributor in UAE
Advanced Media, a major supplier of video equipment and accessories in the UAE, Middle East and Africa, has been appointed by Link Research as its UAE distributor. The company supplies professional video equipment and accessories and delivers solutions for broadcast production, post-production, studios and TV stations.

SOUTHERN AFRICA

Changing Lives: Making research real
Journalists love 'human interest' stories - because audiences love them. But finding the human interest stories in long-term research programmes is often rather tricky.

Social Security Fund doubles savers interest rates
[Walter Wafula] Uganda's National Social Security Fund has doubled the annual interest rate at which it pays its members, to 14% in a bid to reward them with the fund's enormous profit.

South Africa-Zimbabwe: Sex for soap, salt and sugar
The border between South Africa and Zimbabwe is more than an international boundary; it also determines the method of payment for sex workers, because on one side cash is taken, while on the other, goods are bartered.

AFRICA

Calls to reduce taxes and controls on food aid
The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a call by the World Bank for a UN resolution to scrap taxes and export controls on food aid purchases, but experts say there is little chance of such a resolution being effected.

Experiential marketing guru Bernd H. Schmitt in SA - Exp
Founder and director of Columbia Business School's Center on Global Brand Management, Bernd H. Schmitt brings his wealth of expertise to South Africa at the 2nd African Experiential Marketing Summit in September.

South Africa to view live televised open heart surgery - The Heart and Stroke Foundation SA
In a move it hopes will motivate South Africans into taking preventative action, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of South Africa has announced it will make history by televising a live broadcast of a two-hour single bypass open heart surgery on national television on Saturday, 2 August 2008.