AFRICA

Festival of media announces MIPTV partnership

The Festival of Media and MIPTV have partnered to offer a special package for delegates wishing to attend both events. Read more >>

AFRICA

Ster-Kinekor branches out into Lesotho

Ster-Kinekor Theatres is opening its first cinema multiplex in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, as part of the company's strategy to expand into Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africa Rural Connect kicks off 2010 ideas competition

After successful first year, National Peace Corps Association program to help rural Africa launches its second annual contest to generate online discussion. Read more >>

AFRICA

GIBS announces Entrepreneurship MBA Scholarships;invites applications from Africa

Four entrepreneurs who aspire to build and develop their business skills will be fortunate enough to access scholarships which have been made available to study the 2010/11 Entrepreneurship MBA at the University of Pretoria's Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS). Three of these scholarships are being offered to exceptional individuals from sub-Saharan Africa through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (Danida), while the fourth will be made available by GIBS to an exceptional South African female. Read more >>

NIGERIA

Nigeria must protect journos following hostage release - WAN-IFRA

WAN-IFRA and IASN have welcomed the release of kidnapped South African sound engineer Nic Greyling and Nigerian commentator Bowie Attamah in Nigeria but remind the Nigerian authorities that it is the duty of the state to provide an environment in which journalists are able to carry out their professional duties without fear of violence. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Women photojournalists called to enter international competition

Since 2000, the Association des Femmes Journalistes and Canon France, in partnership with the international Visa pour l'Image festival, and with the support of Figaro magazine, have awarded an annual prize for women photojournalists. Women photojournalists worldwide are welcome to enter the competition, for which there is no age limit. The €8000 (about R81 000) award enables the winners to finance their projects and have their work exhibited at the festival in Perpignan and later in Paris at the Cosmos Gallery. Go to www.canonafjaward.com for more information.

AFRICA

Europe's online success story

Leading-edge news publishers join World Newspaper Congress programme. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Namibia rides out recession

According to Monica Pienaar, manager for JHI property services company in Namibia, the commercial property market has remained stable and resilient over the past year, probably because of its stricter credit laws and an economy less affected by the recession than South Africa. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

IMM Africa Association of Marketers launched - IMM Graduate School of Marketing

In reinstating the concept of the original Institute of Marketing, the IMM Africa Association of Marketers has been launched - a body that will embrace marketers and organisations across the continent and provide benefits to a membership base that wishes to align itself with the ideals of a new and dynamic marketing association. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Post-recession marketing trends - Gullan&Gullan

[Desirée Gullan] I have a deep respect for those in the industry that did - and are still - surviving the recession. Necessity truly is the mother of invention as survivors were forced to innovate, re-invent and think more strategically. Here are some trends that Gullan&Gullan believes have come about as a result of the recession. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

AdExpo workshops aim to transfer marketing skills - CADEK Media

The Mega Media AdExpo will be staged from 23-25 March 2010 at Sandton Convention Centre and is a must for all serious marketers and advertisers. The show will be a hub of activity and many last-minute 2010 advertising and promotional deals will be clinched here. Read more >>