AFRICA

FIFA OC concludes 2010 stadium inspection

JOHANNESBURG: A 50-member delegation from the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) and FIFA yesterday, 30 September 2009, completed an inspection of the five newly-built stadiums and the upgraded Soccer City stadium. After travelling to six cities in six days the operational experts concluded that preparations are on track for all stadiums to be completed by the end of the year. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

MTN rolling out Standard Bank's network infrastructure

Standard Bank South Africa has awarded MTN Business, a wholly owned division of MTN, the contract to rollout the African network infrastructure footprint. The bank, which under Stanbic has a presence in 17 countries across the continent, required the successful provider to ensure maximum uptime and low latency and guarantee data delivery back to South Africa without interruption to business operations. Read more >>

AFRICA

BT Digital Music Awards to run in 2010

BT announced yesterday, 1 October 2009, that it will be running its BT Digital Music Awards in 2010 after a short break in 2009. The awards recognises the best uses of digital technology in the music world: from blogs and podcasts to digital radio stations and digital-friendly musicians. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

Media survey faults Malawi's health ministry

[Gregory Gondwe] The Malawi chapter of the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA-Malawi) has faulted Malawi's Ministry of Health for failing to allow the media access to information in the public health sector. Read more >>

AFRICA

MTN signs major deal with IMImobile

MTN and IMImobile, an India-based software and managed services provider linked to 350 content providers worldwide, have entered into a strategic partnership to address the growing demand for content in emerging markets. The deal will entail providing MTN's 21 markets access to a repository of content through various delivery platforms. Read more >>

AFRICA

Value in traffic from Google questioned

The opening session of the 2015 Newsroom Conference, organised by the World Editors Forum at PPF Media's Futuroom complex in Prague, took place on Thursday, 1 October 2009. The event was launched with a debate bringing into question the value of the massive traffic Google drives to newspaper websites. Read more >>

AFRICA

African Film Library launched

Late last week, M-Net launched the African Film Library - the largest electronic library of feature films, shorts and documentaries from 50 years of African film production. Over the past three years, M-Net has been negotiating the rights to almost 600 works in English, French, Arabic and Portuguese and digitising them. Read more >>

ZIMBABWE

New milk supply arrangements for Nestlé Zimbabwe

The Dairy Board of Zimbabwe yesterday, 1 October 2009, informed the Gushungo Dairy Estate and the seven other farms with whom Nestlé Zimbabwe began working on a temporary basis in February 2009, that it is now in a position to resume purchasing their milk. Nestlé Zimbabwe therefore will no longer be receiving milk from these eight farms from Sunday, 4 October 2009. Read more >>

NAMIBIA

Interest builds ahead of Bidvest Namibia's listing

Interest is building up in the planned stock exchange listing of Bidvest Namibia ahead of distribution to prospective investors of the listings prospectus. Sebby Kankondi, Windhoek-based CEO of Bidvest Namibia, reports that interest has been huge and staff have fielded constant enquiries since listing preparations were advertised in local media. Read more >>

ANGOLA

IMF to loan millions to Angola

The International Monetary Fund has drawn up a preliminary agreement with Angola to grant up to US$890 million in loans. The deal, announced on Tuesday, 29 September 2009, will help alleviate the country's immediate cash flow pressures, the IMF said. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

10 flying banners for less than US$2 a day! - Big Eye Branding

When you next think about buying branding equipment, work out the real cost of the investment by working out how long the products will last divided by the cost. Read more >>