AFRICA

Philips lights up Africa

Philips has launched an initiative, which will see the installation of 100 "light centres" across rural Africa by 2015. These are areas of approx 1000m² which are lit using a new generation of highly efficient solar powered LED lighting. The idea is to create areas of light for rural communities which live without electricity thus effectively 'extending the day' and creating numerous opportunities for social and economic activities in the evening. Read more >>

AFRICA

CDMA operators plan merger

Three Nigerian Code Division Multiple Operators (CDMA), Multilinks, Starcomms and MTS are currently wrapping up a merger arrangements that would produce a mega CDMA network in the country. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Nashua at Johannesburg Africa Print Expo this week

Following its involvement at the Cape Town and Durban legs of Africa Print Expo, where Nashua won awards for Best Exhibition Stand (Large Category) at both events, the company is taking part in the Johannesburg show on this week from 22-24 August 2012 at the Sandton Convention Centre. Read more >>

AFRICA

Nigeria frets over Kenya ICT

[Duncan McLeod: @mcleodd] TechCentral wraps up the week's major technology news from around the African continent. Read more >>

KENYA

Kenya has become a media lab

[Aly Khan Satchu] I always marvel at the popularity of my newspaper seller. The appetite for news in Kenya is simply off the charts. And that has been the case for as long as I can remember. Read more >>

NIGERIA

RIM trains Nigerians on BlackBerry apps

[Henry Ifeanyi] Research In Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry smartphones has trained 70 Nigerian youth enterprenuers on how to develop mobile applications in its BlackBerry 10 developer training forum. Read more >>

AFRICA

Airtel Pan-African youth tourney kicks off

The Airtel Africa Championships officially kicked off today in Nairobi, Kenya. The soccer tournament which brings together Africa's best talent in the boys and girls under 17 categories began on 21 August and will continue until 25 August 2012. Read more >>

MALAWI

Airtel splashes K1.1m in SMS promotion

[Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi] Airtel Malawi has reportedly spent K1.1 million in the ongoing 'Yabooka SMS Promotion'. In the third draw, expected to reach a grand finale in October, a lucky subscriber will cart home a grand prize of K5 million. Read more >>

AFRICA

Barclays, Absa to combine African operations

Barclays Bank and its subsidiary, Absa, say they are engaged in negotiations to combine the majority of the Barclays Africa operations. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Six European football matches per week on ESPN in sub-Saharan Africa

ESPN has reached an agreement with SuperSport for rights to televise two matches per week from Spain's La Liga, two matches per week from Italian Serie A and two matches per week from the German Bundesliga. The agreement means that ESPN will now feature six live top European football matches per week for viewers across sub-Saharan Africa on DStv channel 230. Read more >>

AFRICA

Enews Channel Africa launches in UK

South African independent television news network eNews Channel Africa (eNCA), formerly known as eNews Channel, has gone global, offering UK viewers African news coverage and content through the Sky pay-TV platform. Read more >>

GERMANY

African media development turns notion of Africa on its head

PARIS, FRANCE / DARMSTADT, GERMANY: "You can never have a conversation about Kenya these days without talking about the mobile revolution," begins a recent op-ed column written by Dickens Olewe of The Star in Kenya, reflecting one of the most promising media development success stories on the continent. Read more >>

GERMANY

Countdown to Content Conference Hamburg begins

HAMBURG, GERMANY: The digital entertainment content provider Mondia Media presents, in cooperation with BITKOM and Hamburg@work, the first Content Conference Hamburg. The new format is a one-day conference with great industry-renowned speakers, inspiring impulse presentations and lively panel discussions on an international expert level. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Marikana memorial service to be held tomorrow

A memorial service for the Lonmin mine workers will be held on Thursday at the same place where the tragedy took place. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

SA working to include IPPs

Government is working around the clock to ensure that the electricity regulatory regime is conducive to increasing private sector participation in the country's energy mix, the Department of Energy said on Tuesday. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Infrastructure development key to stimulating growth

Infrastructure development is an important part of raising South Africa's potential growth rate while at the same time, it should not be seen as an easy way to make money out of government, Deputy Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene says. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

IMC commits to engaging CCMA to find solution to Marikana dispute

The Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC), appointed by President Jacob Zuma, has pledged that the government will assist the communities affected by the Marikana tragedy by helping to identify the remaining six deceased persons and engaging the services of the CCMA to find a resolution to the dispute. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Gigaba calls for sincere leadership across all sectors

Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba has called for sincere leadership across all sectors of society, while also conveying his condolences to the families of those killed in Marikana last week. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Walk with cheetahs at Nambiti Private Game Reserve

Get really up close and personal some of KwaZulu-Natal's most beautiful cheetahs at the Le Sueur Cheetah and Wildlife Centre in the Nambiti Private Game Reserve. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Once upon a hill

[Ruth Cooper] Oppikoppi virgins we are no longer; that intimidating hulking dusty beast that is Oppi had his way with us and, like most first times, sometimes things were sweet and sometimes not so. Casualties there were a few, but these seem well worth the discomfort for the chance to celebrate Oppi's coming of age 18th birthday with 20 000 of his closest friends upon the Northam plains. Read more >>