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Happy birthday Madiba!Wednesday, 18 July 2012 marks the 94th birthday of South Africa's living legend, Nelson Mandela. After many health scare rumors earlier this year, largely due to the lack of communication to the media and public by those who represent him, we're glad to be celebrating yet another special occasion with the icon. In response to the Nelson Mandela Foundation's call for people to contribute 67 minutes of their time towards a charitable cause on Madiba's birthday, also referred to as Mandela Day, people and organisations around the country are participating in activities including helping out at orphanages and homes for the elderly, walking homeless dogs that are kept at shelters, donating money and food to charities etc. You may ask, why 67 minutes? The simple answer is that Madiba is said to have given 67 years of his life fighting for human rights - 67 minutes each year suddenly seems insignificant in comparison, but if all citizens participate in the campaign, this could leave a lasting effect on society. To find out more information on Mandela Day, and how you can get involved, go to www.mandeladay.com. On behalf of everyone at Bizcommunity, Happy birthday, Madiba! Evan-Lee Courie @evan1985Responses to this column welcomed in our online editor's column archive. Send all your Africa marketing news to africanews@bizcommunity.com and opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com, also take a look at our guide "How to contribute to Bizcommunity, from op-ed pieces to news". Follow Bizcommunity on Twitter @Biz_Africa and join our Facebook page. Today's top stories
Marketing & Media
Volcano Group, which represents the international global marketing communications ad agency network in sub-Saharan Africa, is now a member of the global independent advertising and marketing communications network, ICOM+IN, as two leading global indie networks join forces to form a stronger international resource for clients. Read more >>
Special focus on media freedom & right to know
 Article 19 condemns the sentencing on Friday, 13 July 2012, of six Ethiopian journalists including Eskinder Nega, a prominent journalist and blogger for conspiring with rebels to overthrow the government. Read more >>
Advertising
 [Carole Kimutai: @CaroleKimutai] Buzeki Dairies 'Molo Milk' television commercial is the most effective in the Kenyan market. This is according to a recently unveiled advertising effectiveness evaluation tool - SPOT ON - launched in Kenya by Ipsos Synovate. Read more >>
Branding
 Sun International together with their digital agency filmed a series of experiences especially targeted at African based consumers. The campaign centres around a secret agent played by Ghana actor and model, Lentei Bannerman who is on the search for the key to Sun International's Million Thrills. The key is a metaphor for the group's online booking engine. Read more >>
Digital
 Businesses, institutions and consumers in Lesotho are set to experience faster, reliable and significantly more affordable internet connectivity as Africa's carriers' carrier WIOCC brings additional broadband capacity into Lesotho. Read more >>
Education & Training
 [Walter Wafula] The International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) in Germany has opened applications for the Reporting Politics: Good Governance, Investigating Policies, Covering Elections to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 17 October 17 to 2 December 2012. Read more >>
Events & Conferencing
 The Cartier Women's Initiative Awards, an annual international business plan competition to accompany and guide initiatives by women entrepreneurs, has announced the 2012 finalists. This entrepreneurship competition aims to support creative, financially sustainable and responsible women-led start-ups, in all countries and industries. Read more >>
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Media
 iROKO Partners is reportedly taking legal action against Afrinolly, a self-styled mobile phone app focused on Nigeria's entertainment industry, Nollywood. The app has built its business model on showing Nollywood feature films and trailers. The issue is that Afrinolly has never spoken to or been granted any rights to do so by iROKO Partners, whose entertainment library is in excess of 5 000 Nollywood movies. Read more >>
Mobile
 Thinking about a career change? Well, you should probably think more about mobile, and less about Facebook and SEO, according to an article on Memeburn. Read more >>
 Amazon is testing a new smartphone that may be launched later this year or early next year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Read more >>
Online Media
[Russell Southwood] LONDON, UK: Video streaming will be the next big wave of online content use in Africa. There are still considerable network challenges but... the level of existing use shows that once these issues are resolved, the volume of users will be in the millions. Russell Southwood spoke to the biggest player in the market, Google's YouTube. Elijah Kitaka explained how it sees the potential of video streaming being realised. Read more >>
 [Nerushka Deosaran] Last year one media personality threatened to sue another media personality claiming that her tweets were defamatory to their brand. The tweets included the adjectives "young hoe" and "drunk." The target's lawyers sent a letter requesting a halt on the tweets, an apology and damages in the amount of R85 000. Read more >>
Worries about a link between depression and the amount of time spent on Facebook or other social media sites are probably unfounded, a US study said this week. Read more >>
Out Of Home
Z-Card Africa, Middle East, India and Turkey (ZAMI) launched Z-CARD Kenya as its PocketMedia hub for East Africa in October 2011, after entering into a distributor agreement with Kenya-based Ramco Printing Works Ltd. Read more >>
Retail
 GTBank has been named the best bank in Nigeria for 2012. This is the fourth consecutive year that Guaranty Trust Bank has been recognised as Nigeria's best bank. This year's award was held in London by Euromoney magazine, a monthly periodical, published by Euromoney Institutional Investor. Read more >>
 NEW YORK, US: Nielsen, a leading provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, today announced the launch of the Nielsen Innovation Lab, a program designed to spur pioneering ideas and better, faster advancements in the area of advertising effectiveness. Read more >>
 LONDON, UK: The effectiveness of advertising on Facebook is being called into question following revelations from the BBC that its 'VirtualBagel' experiment, an imaginary business which it started in a bid to test it, received 1600 'likes' in just 24 hours despite the fact that the 'VirtualBagel' page offered no products or interesting content. Read more >>
More International...
Branding
Fast-growing marketing communications group By Design has announced a new corporate identity and new name - By Design Africa. Read more >>Education & Training
 The Training Shop provides a number of workshops in Africa as in-house or as public training courses. Read more >>
 [Chris Bathembu] The Southern African Development Community (SADC) exploded with jubilation following news on Sunday night that South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma had won her bid to become the first woman to lead the powerful African Union Commission. Read more >>
PARIS, FRANCE: Emerging powerhouses China and India will lead the way in churning out university graduates by the end of the decade, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says. Read more >>
 [Khulekani Magubane] The role of accountants has become more important to general society in the current economic times‚ says Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan. Read more >>
More Government news...
 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] South African Car of the Year title-holder Hyundai continues to strengthen its grip on the local car market with a continuous flow of good-looking, well-equipped and extremely competitively priced vehicles - so it comes as no surprise that its newly unwrapped i30 hatchback is also bang on target and breathing right down the necks of the European carmakers. Read more >>
More Motoring news...
 Several roads in the country were closed to motorists on Saturday following heavy snowfall and rain, including the N1 north of Beaufort West and the N12 near Victoria West in the Western Cape. Read more >>
More Travel news...
 [Daniel Dercksen] If ever you felt misunderstood or alone, or not sure of where you fit into the scheme of things, the German film Vincent Wants To Sea will rejuvenate your belief in life and friendship. If life's a journey then Vincent Wants To Sea is a great way to map out an adventure that begins with a dubious meeting between strangers that leads to a life-changing and unique exploration of differences that separate and ties that bind. Read more >>
 [Daphne Cooper] Sunday Morning is a gentle, funny, poignant, intimate play that is given enchantment and tenderness in the hands of James Cunningham, who performs this one-man show. Read more >>
 [Johann M. Smith] Oh, Mondays! The restart of commerce culture's tyrannical conformity cycle: a nine-to-five, strike-the-clock drag that supposedly improves your life more than it ruins it. Better start seeking the beauty in the invisible, or become a chain-smoking heartless bastard. Read more >>
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