AFRICA

Alcatel-Lucent partnership connects Southern Africa and the global community

Alcatel-Lucent and Angola Cables, a consortium of Angolan telecommunications operators, are to expand the availability of high-speed internet access and data services throughout Angola and to the rest of world. Read more >>

AFRICA

MISA trains journos on child reporting

[Gregory Gondwe] The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) has trained Malawi journalists on child reporting. An initiative MISA programme specialist for Media Freedom Monitoring and Research, Levi Kabwato describes as an on-going effort towards empowering journalists to report informatively and positively on children and child rights. Read more >>

GHANA

TE Connectivity joins IT Leaders West Africa Summit

The annual IT Leaders West Africa Summit will take place from 28-29 November 2012 in Accra, Ghana. The summit is produced by international business-to-business conferencing company, Kinetic Events. Kinetic Events is proud to confirm summit Silver Solution Provider, TE Connectivity on board for the IT Leaders West Africa Summit in November. Read more >>

AFRICA

AfricaCom Awards 2012 winners

Winners of the AfricaCom Awards 2012, which acknowledges the growth and importance of the telecoms and digital sectors across the African continent, were announced on Wednesday 14 November 2012 at an awards ceremony which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. Read more >>

MALAWI

Malawi to host 7th AIMS Summit

[Gregory Gondwe] Malawi will host the seventh annual African International Media Summit (AIMS) from 17-18 November 2012 at the Bingu International Conference Centre in Lilongwe, Malawi. This year's theme "I am African" is in tune with the African Union's (AU) new campaign launch encouraging participation in the global initiative. Read more >>

KENYA

Kenya PR firm awarded for social media campaign

[Carole Kimutai] Kenyan public relations firm, Gina Din Corporate Communications (GDCC) has won two global public relations awards for the 'Kenyan for Kenya' social media campaign. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africans eager for new ways of accessing TV content

Independent production house Rapid Blue says there is an abundance of television content opportunities waiting to be seized on the African continent - especially in the digital sphere. This emerged after the company participated in the recent DISCOP Africa film and television market. Read more >>

AFRICA

CNBC Africa reaches 500,000 viewers in SA

CNBC Africa has been on a high for the past month as the channel's South African viewership peaked at 600,000 viewers in the first week of October, according to data from Multichoice's DStv-I - past seven day viewership. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

VH1 Classic replaces VH1, celebrates golden oldies

Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Africa, behind MTV, MTV Base, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET, will offer a new music channel from this week. Replacing VH1 on the DStv platform with VH1 Classic, Channel 323 will offer all-time music hits and legendary artists from the '70s, '80s, '90s and early '00s. It will be available in Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

UNITED KINGDOM

New global digital publisher created

[Marjorie Scardino] UK: By merging their respective book publishing interests held in Random House and Penguin Books, Bertelsmann and Pearson will create the world's first global consumer publishing company. It will lead - by a long way - in terms of size, geographic diversity and its range of authors and titles. Read more >>

INDIA

World's press support locked-out news agencies in cricket dispute

The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have joined the protest against Indian cricket authorities who have locked out reputable photographic news agencies from the high-profile India-England cricket series that began on Thursday, 15 November 2012. Read more >>

UNITED STATES

New York Festivals 2013 International Advertising Awards open for entries

NEW YORK, NY: The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has announced its call for entries for the 2013 competition honouring the "World's Best Advertising". Based on feedback from the 2012 executive jury, NYF restructured the International Advertising Awards competitions and categories to reflect the current work being produced globally. Read more >>

VIETNAM

Effective Measure secures partnership with Vietnam's Ambient Digital Network

SINGAPORE: Effective Measure, the digital audience profiling and measurement agency for emerging markets has secured a strategic alliance with Vietnam's digital advertising network Ambient Digital. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

President Zuma says govt did not pay for his house

[Dennis Cruywagen] CAPE TOWN: President Jacob Zuma has told Members of Parliament that his family, and not government, paid for his private home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Premier Zille urged to work with ministers

PRETORIA: The Presidency has urged Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to work with her colleagues, the ministers in the relevant portfolios, to discuss the assistance she needs to resolve the strikes by farmworkers in the province. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Craft sector supports govt priorities

PRETORIA: The South African craft sector supports government's priorities like women empowerment and rural and urban development, Deputy Trade and Industry Minister Elizabeth Thabethe says. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

SA ploughs R798m into National Research Foundation

PRETORIA: Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom has approved the transfer of R798 million to the National Research Foundation (NRF) for human resource development for the next three years. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Abalone House, you'll hardly want to leave

[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] With its white-washed houses and ubiquitous blue shutters, Paternoster fancies itself part of the Greek Isles. Don't hold this against this charming West Coast seaside village as it punches way about its weight in the restaurants worth eating at and interesting shops at which to spend your money stakes. Read more >>