2010 helping hands on deck![](https://biz-file.com/b/0908/31225.jpg?1) South Africans are eager to lend a helping hand during the FIFA 2010 World Cup with 47,251 applications already processed through FIFA.com. There are specific functional areas in which volunteers will serve. Applications are still open until 31 August 2009, so if you feel you could assist in one or more of the areas, feel free to apply. With 290 days left until kick-off, the 2010 Organising Committee is going to need plenty of hands on deck. Another big event happening on the continent in 2010 is the inaugural Green Business Africa Summit and Expo 2010, otherwise known as GBASE2010. Now is the time to start thinking green with climate change and global warming threatening to jerk us out of our comfort zones. African businesses need to get in the loop as well, with sustainable development and involving themselves in green CSR projects. This event is bound to supply plenty of useful ideas. Africa did well this past week in the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics hosted in Berlin, Germany, finishing off with 23 medals. Kenya came in third place with 11 medals - four of them being gold. Congratulations to all those who represented Africa in this world-class event! Cheers! Sindy Peters, Content manager Send all your Africa marketing news to africanews@bizcommunity.com. Today's top stories
2010 FIFA World Cup
![](https://biz-file.com/c/0908/35390.jpg) PRETORIA: People from all over the world are responding in their numbers to the call for volunteer applications for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. With little over a week left to submit applications, 47,251 applications have been processed through FIFA.com since the volunteer programme opened on 20 July 2009. Read more >>CSI
![](https://biz-file.com/c/0908/35393.jpg) KENYA: Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) will keynote at the inaugural Green Business Africa Summit and Expo 2010 (GBASE2010). Kenya, Nairobi will host the event to be held from 2 - 4 June 2010. Read more >>Digital
[Walter Wafula] Evolution Technology Labs, a new training-needs service provider, has set up an ICT Lab at Santa Lucia Basic School in Uganda through a partnership with the Wakiso district-based school. The beneficiaries are trained in using computers and other IT hardware and software applications including Microsoft Office, the Internet and Typing Master. Read more >> Media
![](https://biz-file.com/c/0908/35395.jpg) The SAMRO (Southern African Music Rights Organisation) Endowment's Overseas Scholarships competition (SENA), concluding on 29 August 2009 at UNISA's ZK Matthews Hall, South Africa, will see 12 semi-finalists - 11 pianists and one organist - competing in the Western Art and Jazz/Popular Music categories. Read more >>Mobile
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Mobile advertising is proving to be an excellent tool of marketing as research shows that it has strong brand recall, is a place for activity, is needs-driven and reaches a huge number of consumers, compared to traditional media, according to Brett St Clair of AdMob. Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] Since the advent of mobile marketing, the world has seen a dramatic increase in unethical practices by ‘reckless' companies looking to make a profit by all means, even if it means ‘violating people's privacy'. One expert from the US has slammed such companies, saying that their careless practices can backfire to the detriment of all. Read more >> Retail
[Titus Kaloki] A bid by East African Breweries Limited (EABL) to end its partnership with competitor, South African Breweries Miller (SABMiller), and join another brewer was put on hold by a UK court. In a ruling passed on Tuesday, 18 August 2009, Diageo - majority shareholder in EABL with a 50% stake - and SABMiller were ordered to begin an arbitration process. Read more >> ![](https://biz-file.com/c/0908/35399.jpg) Universal Africa Lines (UAL), a specialist shipping service to the West African oil and gas industries, has opened a South African branch and launched a fortnightly shipping route to supply West African oil and gas exploration and production bases from SA. Read more >>[Nthambeleni Gabara] JOHANNESBURG: The African continent must develop ways through which Africans abroad and African Diaspora structures will be able to support the African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Read more >> TV
[Gregory Gondwe] Thousands of Malawians who were able to access South Africa's e.tv and CNBC Africa television stations through the free-to-air digital satellite have cried foul over the blackout of the stations for three weeks now. Read more >> ![](https://biz-file.com/c/0908/35397.jpg) LAGOS: The University of Ibadan, winning one of the semi-final contests in the ongoing International Inter-University Battle of Brains, the Zain Africa Challenge, has placed Nigeria in the finals. Read more >>![](https://biz-file.com/c/0908/35392.jpg) Discovery Networks EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), a division of Discovery Communications, has announced a new sponsorship agreement between Discovery Channel and Volvo Cars in South Africa. Volvo Car South Africa plans to sponsor Discovery Channel's motoring show, Fifth Gear, as well as the pop science series, Prototype This. Read more >> "A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise the skills of the others." - Norman Shidle
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