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If you're on holiday, does it mean your target market is too?

A presence on Bizcommunity.com communicates to our readers and your prospects that African digipreneurs are open for business, open 24/7, open to opportunity.

Bizcommunity has got some exciting things for you this holiday season, including a selection of the year's top stories on our site, the most tweeted and shared, as well as special content from key contributors - aiming to provide our audiences with more than enough must-read content to tide them over the "silly season".

In other news, Danette Breytenbach says mobile internet key in Africa as she chats to Vicki Myburgh, Entertainment & Media Industries Leader for PwC Southern Africa, about the fourth annual PwC South Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook that was launched recently.

Last but not least, in BizCareers, Juliette Attwell advises readers on December leave woes and resignation blues.

Our final newsletters of the year will go out on Wednesday, 18 December, and we look forward to welcoming you back to work next year with our first newsletters on Tuesday, 7 January 2014.

29 days until the end of the year, make every day count!

Have a fabulous week!

Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)

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Today's top stories
SOUTH AFRICA
Just because you're on holiday doesn't mean your target market is
[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] The digital media never sleeps. Content on Bizcommunity.com's industry web and mobisites is archived and accessible by our community and your prospective audiences 24/7, 365. Read more >>

Mobile internet key in Africa

Danette Breitenbach

The fourth annual PwC South Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook was launched recently and I caught up with Vicki Myburgh, Entertainment & Media Industries Leader for PwC Southern Africa.

Read more >>

Huawei to roll out 4G network in Ethiopia

Selipha Kihagi

Huawei Technologies has been picked by the Ethiopian state-run mobile operator Ethio Telecom to roll out a high-speed 4G network across the country's capital, Addis Ababa.

Read more >>

[BizCareers] December leave woes and resignation blues

Juliette Attwell

Make it a happy holiday: in this week's BizCareers Column, your leave woes are answered and we advise on how to face those December resignation blues - will you lose your bonus or not.

Read more >>


Cinema
NIGERIA
Bringing cinema closer to customers through mobile
MTN Nigeria and dobox have entered into a partnership to provide customers with access to the latest blockbusters, premiers and exclusive movies on their mobile devices, reports Ventures Africa. Read more >>

Digital
AFRICA
African ICT development to accelerate through CPCIF
The Convergence Partners Communications Infrastructure Fund (CPCIF), an infrastructure fund that is dedicated solely to the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in Africa, was launched this week by Convergence Partners. Read more >>

Mobile
NIGER
Niger cuts third of mobile connections
Niger has deactivated a third of its mobile phone connections to curb anonymous phone calls used for criminal activity, the country's telecoms regulator has announced. Read more >>

TV
KENYA
StarTimes, Equity Bank join forces
TechMtaa reports that StarTimes Media and Equity Bank have partnered to give the bank's customers access to soft loans to enable them to acquire approved digital television set-top boxes from StarTimes. Read more >>


International

UNITED KINGDOM
Cameron tweets in Mandarin on Weibo for China trip
LONDON, UK: British Prime Minister David Cameron has joined Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, and posted his first message ahead of a visit to Beijing, Downing Street said. Read more >>

FRANCE
Posh for Paris Vogue
PARIS, FRANCE: Ex-Spice Girl turned fashion designer Victoria Beckham has guest-edited the Christmas edition of Paris Vogue magazine, the publication said on Friday. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
US eyes phase-out of old telephone network

More International


Government

SOUTH AFRICA
Thembekile Makwetu appointed auditor general
The Presidency has announced that Thembekile Kimi Makwetu has been appointed Auditor General with effect from 1 December 2013. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Campaign launched to medically circumcise one million men

Gabi Khumalo

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says government will over the next year strive to medically circumcise one million men through its Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) campaign. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Lives at risk as ARV stocks fall say NGOs
The Department of Health has rubbished reports that several health facilities have run out of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) or have allowed stocks to diminish. Read more >>


More Government news


Jobs offered




New events to diarise

Media Management Scholarships at Rhodes University
Rhodes University - 28 Nov 2013 to 9 Dec 2013 Grahamstown

Strategic Thinking for Newsroom Leaders
Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 3 Dec 2013 to 5 Dec 2013 Johannesburg

Soweto Festival of Light
Imagineering Corporation - 13 Dec 2013 to 22 Dec 2013 Soweto

Food and Drink Technology Africa
MMI South Africa (Pty) Ltd - 18 Mar 2014 to 19 Mar 2014 Johannesburg

FIDIC
Alusani Skills & Training Network - 24 Mar 2014 to 25 Mar 2014 Johannesburg


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