GHANA

Origin8 Saatchi & Saatchi wins four Gold Gong-Gongs

Saatchi & Saatchi¹s Ghana office, Origin8 Saatchi & Saatchi won four Gold Gong-Gongs at the 7th Gong-Gong Awards held in Accra earlier this month. It the highest number of gold trophies won by any agency this year, taking home five silver awards as well. Read more >>

KENYA

Kenya hosts first Open Source Awards

The Linux Professional Association of Kenya and ICT Consumers Association of Kenya will be hosting Kenya's first Open Source Awards. The ceremony will be held at the Panafric Hotel, Nairobi, on 27 May 2009. Read more >>

AFRICA

Youth Pioneers Conference at 11th African Renaissance Festival

The 2009 Youth Pioneers Conference, a regular feature of the African Renaissance Festival will take place at the ICC in Durban, South Africa on Tuesday, 26 May 2009 from 9am - 4pm. The conference focuses on issues relevant to young people in Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

State of media freedom in Zim discussed in CT

Wilf Mbanga, editor and publisher of The Zimbabwean, will be speaking on the UCT campus in Cape Town on Thursday, 21 May 2009, on the state of media freedom in Zimbabwe. Read more >>

AFRICA

Women'sNet/Girls'Net launches new campaign

A new campaign was launched in Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday, 15 May 2009 that aims to ensure that young people use their cellphones and the Internet for positive self expression. The campaign was launched by Girls'Net, a daughter project of Women'sNet. Read more >>

KENYA

Telkom Kenya sales agents rewarded

Telkom Kenya on Monday, 18 May 2009 awarded its top leading sales agents and dealers from across the country for their sales performance during the ‘ShikaMore' phone bundle promotion that ran from September 2008 to January 2009. Read more >>

AFRICA

Kate Bapela presides over African PR conference

South Africa's chief electoral communicator, Kate Bapela, will preside over the 22nd All Africa Public Relations Conference to be held in Gambia from 24 -27 May 2009 at the Sheraton Hotel. Bapela is the first female president of the Africa Public Relations Association (APRA). Read more >>

AFRICA

Hat-trick for MS&L

MS&L South Africa, a member of the Leo Burnett Group, has been awarded the Elecrama India account, hot on the heels of winning the Brand South Africa and Bafana Bafana accounts. These wins come after an 18-month repositioning of the agency, including its adoption as the hub for Africa for the global MS&L network. Read more >>

NIGERIA

Banking innovation, regulation go together says expert

Speaking at AITEC's Banking & Payment Technologies Conference held 4 - 6 May 2009 in Lagos, Barry Coetzee, head of iVeri from South Africa, told delegates that it was crucial for regulation to maintain a level playing field while at the same time allowing innovation to take off. Read more >>

AFRICA

Sales director appointed for CNN Africa

CNN International has appointed Reme Al-Saiegh to the position of sales director for Africa and the Middle East region, based out of CNN's international headquarters in London. Al-Saiegh is responsible for overseeing CNN's sales teams across Africa, the Middle East and the UK as well as a network of representatives throughout the region. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Alliance Media goes Shaggy! - Alliance Media

Orange, the global cellular brand, is bringing the popular singer ‘Shaggy' to Botswana for a concert on the 21 May 2009. Orange Botswana will be using outdoor advertising for the promotion of the concert and many of Alliance Media's Botswana outdoor advertising sites have been chosen for the campaign. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Vision Africa kicks off MediaMetrics 2009 - Vision Africa

On 29 April 2009 Vision Africa began with the fieldwork for MediaMetrics, a product developed to provide large and medium organisations with affordable, reliable and accurate information about their target audiences' viewing, listening and reading habits and preferences. Read more >>