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SOUTH AFRICA
Put your start-up company on the road to success
[Linda Botha] You're the proud owner of a brand-spanking new business. You're all geared up with a killer idea and a sheaf of registration papers hot off the press. So what's next? Read more >>

[BizCareers] Do's and don'ts on your CV

Juliette Attwell

Not sure whether or not to include a photo of yourself on your CV? What's the minimum amount of time you should stay at a company to avoid looking like a job-hopper? We answer both these questions this week.

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Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards winners honoured

The Nigerian Broadcasters Merit Awards, which recognises broadcasters who have distinguished themselves as role models, mentors, and propagators of social change in the society, announced its 2013 winners earlier this week.

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Africa shines at CommsMEA Awards

The CommsMEA Awards took place at Jumeirah Emirates Towers in Dubai last week honouring those operators, vendors, regulators and professionals that stood out in the regional telecoms sector in the past year.

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Digital
AFRICA
Broadband still unaffordable for millions
A report from Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) highlights the unaffordable cost of broadband for the two billion people who live on less than US$2/day. Read more >>

Radio
GHANA
December declared Entrepreneur and Investment month
Management of Zaa Radio 99.3 FM, based in Tamale, have declared December as the Entrepreneur and Investment Month (EIM), reports Modern Ghana. Read more >>

Research
GHANA
Ghana: West Africa's brightest business gem

Issued by TNS South Africa

While Nigeria has long held the crown as the business capital of West Africa, a smaller African country is gradually gaining ground. Read more >>

Retail
AFRICA
More African consumers purchasing gifts online
DHL is noting an increase in online shopping in sub-Saharan Africa, with the increased availability of broadband access, more affordable data costs and consistent development of mobile devices. This bodes well for the upcoming festive season. Read more >>

TV
MOROCCO
Moroccan TV channels not to broadcast FIFA Club World Cup
Adnane Bennis, writing on Morocco World News, says that Moroccan TV channels are not allowed to broadcast the FIFA Club World Cup which will take place in Moroccan cities Agadir and Marrakech from this week. Read more >>


International

UNITED STATES
Facebook joins NYU in artificial intelligence lab
WASHINGTON, USA: Facebook unveiled plans about its partnership with New York University for a new centre for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data. Read more >>

GERMANY
Fifty free places up for grabs in Red Dot Award registration
ESSEN, GERMANY: On 11 December 2013, career-starters have 24 hours to apply for one out of 50 free registrations to the 2014 Red Dot Award: Product Design. Read more >>

CHINA
China issues 4G mobile licences
UNITED KINGDOM
Technology companies call on US to reform surveillance laws

More International


Government

SOUTH AFRICA
Pienaar recalls his greatest Madiba moment

Amukelani Chauke

Francois Pienaar, captain of the winning Springbok team that lifted the 1995 Rugby World Cup said his greatest Madiba moment was when the former President agreed to be a Godfather to his two sons. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Sombre mood hangs over SA
A sombre mood has been cast over South Africa this morning, 11 December, as South Africans begin lining the route where former President Nelson Mandela's body will travel from 1 Military Hospital towards the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
No room at the inn as SA readies for Mandela memorials
All available hotel rooms in Gauteng have been reserved ahead of a memorial service for former president Nelson Mandela‚ who died on Thursday, 5 December, at the age of 95. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
African leaders urge the EP to reject EU-Morocco Fisheries Protocol
SOUTH AFRICA
Cabinet approves measures to assist over-indebted

Linda Ensor


More Government news


Lifestyle

SOUTH AFRICA
Roam Rhulani

Brian Berkman

When Rolf Steiner and Marisa Silva, two Swiss Re executives working out of Sao Paulo, Brazil purchased Rhulani Safari Lodge in the Madikwe Reserve, near the South African border of Botswana, passion, not profit, was their motivation. Read more >>


New events to diarise

Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership
Rhodes University - 3 Dec 2013 to 31 Jan 2014 Grahamstown

Bay Harbour Market Launches Unity Music Festival
Bay Harbour Market - 16 Dec 2013 Cape Town

Power & Electricity World Africa 2014
Terrapinn - 11 Mar 2014 to 12 Mar 2014 Johannesburg

Journos' Writing Gym
Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 24 Mar 2014 to 26 Mar 2014 Johannesburg

Creative Current Affairs Reporting
Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 2 Apr 2014 to 3 Apr 2014 Johannesburg


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