SOUTHERN AFRICA

Southern Africa Direct, SATSA enter marketing partnership

Southern Africa Direct and the Southern Africa Tourism Services Association (SATSA) have entered into a marketing partnership that aims to provide SATSA members with access to an international marketing platform. Southern Africa Direct is a 24-hour travel TV channel for Southern African travel, tourism, lifestyle, business and cultural experience. Read more >>

AFRICA

African politicians turn to Z-CARDs

The Zimbabwe Research Initiative (ZRI), an initiative established by disaffected Zimbabweans to determine the impact events and developments has on the country, produced a "Vote MDC" Z-CARD that encouraged people to vote for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in the country's elections held early last year. Using the influence soccer has on people living in the country, ZRI created cards that used soccer rules to communicate the message. Read more >>

NAMIBIA

Loeries exhibition to visit Namibia

The Loerie Awards Travelling Exhibition will be hosted at the DV8 Saatchi & Saatchi office in Windhoek, Namibia from 4 - 13 April 2009. The Loeries Travelling Exhibition showcases the winners from the 2008 awards. It is making its way around southern Africa, visiting educational institutions, agencies and festivals along the way. The aim of the exhibition is to inspire creativity and educate students about the creative industry as a career path. Read more >>

MOZAMBIQUE

A glance at the Mozambican ad industry

[Mário Manuel dos Santos Ferro] The Mozambique advertising industry has, over the last ten years, undergone very significant change both in qualitative and quantitative terms. The current overall volume of advertising business in Mozambique is valued at approximately $US120 million annually. Read more >>

AFRICA

Transitions Optical TV ad shot in Africa

Transition Optical is launching a TV ad called the ‘Live Your Vision' ad in South Africa in April 2009. The commercial, conceptualised by Saatchi & Saatchi New York and shot in Africa will also be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel in Europe and Africa. The ad is part of Transitions Optical's global campaign creating awareness of the harmful effects of UV rays. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Gartner's Twitter recommendations for businesses

Twitter is aimed at personal users, but Gartner says that companies must wake up to the positive implications of employees' tweets, which are to their own advantage. Read more >>

AFRICA

South African to sit on Blue Ribbon Panel

Daniel Munslow, Newsclip's executive strategist is apparenty the first South African in nearly a decade to sit on the Blue Ribbon Panel, which judges the final tier of the annual Gold Quill Awards, hosted by the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The IABC 2009 Gold Quill Awards ceremony and dinner will take place in San Francisco on Monday, 8 June, 2009 as part of the IABC World Conference. Read more >>

ZAMBIA

ZAMBIA: Media resists calls for state regulation

[Kelvin Kachingwe] LUSAKA: After almost a decade of fighting for self-regulation, the Zambian media may finally have its wishes entrenched with constitutional protection. The new draft constitution of the country prohibits legislation that would undermine media freedom and administrative behaviour that could hinder the development of the sector. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

Kunda urges journalists focus on corporate governance

[Gregory Gondwe] Zambia's Vice-President George Kunda on Tuesday, 25 March challenged African journalists to hold fast to issues of good corporate governance principles as one way of ensuring sound economic management when covering business stories. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

UN Council's Defamation of Religion resolution slammed

PARIS: Attempts by Islamic countries to have a “defamation of religion” resolution passed at the UN's Human Rights Council have been criticised by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the World Editors Forum (WEF), which believe that such a resolution could be misused by authoritarian governments. Read more >>

NAMIBIA

Mobile-XL provides Nairobi Stock Exchange access

LOS ANGELES: Mobile-XL, a mobile technology company, on Saturday, 28 March 2009, announced that it is partnering with Rich Management, Nairobi Stock Exchange Authorised Data Vendor, to provide real-time stock prices to mobile audiences. Consumers can use Mobile-XL's XLBrowser to receive stock quotes. Read more >>

KENYA

Orange offers new migration service

[Carole Kimutai] The battle for a share of Kenya's growing mobile phone subscribers continues to intensify with Telkom Orange launching a migration service for new Orange Mobile subscribers from other networks. The new service christened Gura, (Swahili word that means moving houses), allows new Orange subscribers to automatically alert callers free-of-charge via a personalised SMS. Read more >>

AFRICA

Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters creates Africa division

Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters, a recruitment company in South Africa has expanded its operations to West, East and sub-Saharan Africa. Managing director, Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, says her company has formed an Africa division in the wake of increasing demand from multi-national corporate clients in the banking, retail, FMCG as well as construction, telecoms and petroleum sectors. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

Trade and Investment Africa Project focuses on Central Africa

The Central African Focus Seminar was held at the Michelangelo Hotel, in Sandton, on the 20 March, 2009. The seminar looked at issues such as the impacts of mining on utility and support services, infrastructure development, and trade and investment in Central Africa. Other issues included the influence of African communal networking on trade and investment and whether there is still room to successfully do business in what is perceived as a war torn region. Read more >>

SOUTHERN AFRICA

SADC leaders suspend Madagascar

MBABANE: Southern African leaders have suspended Madagascar from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for what they describe as an unconstitutional change of government. The member states further called on Andry Rajoelina to step down and vacate the President's office as a matter of urgency or face the consequences. Read more >>

AFRICA

BUSA calls for G20 leaders to commit to market stability

[Bathandwa Mbola and Neo Semono] JOHANNESBURG: South African business expects the Group of 20 countries meeting in London later this week to renew their commitment to enhancing the stability of global financial markets. This is important for developing countries in particular, said Business Unity SA chief executive officer, Jerry Vilakazi, who was briefing the media ahead of the summit. Read more >>

ZAMBIA

A better meal than maize-meal

SAMFYA: As food prices soar and stocks continue to fall, Zambians are finding it increasingly difficult to depend on maize and are being urged to look at a cheaper, drought- and pest-resistant alternative that already puts food on the table in the north of the country. Read more >>