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Headlines
  • DRC journalists detained
  • Zimbabwe's battle of the brands
  • Zimbabwe's newspaper industry grapples with rising costs
  • Sierra Leone telecoms company gives the blind a shoulder to lean on
  • Race for fibre optic cable heats up
  • Covering Africa's elections and promoting press freedom by phone
  • Sudan's media laws not enough
  • Zimbabwean editor shot and seriously wounded in South Africa
  • Censoring kids' advertising
  • SA retailers rough it out in Zim
  • Are you up to the job?
  • Opponents demonstrate, journalist attacked
  • Hunger bites Zimbabwe's health and education sectors


  • Advertising
    SOUTH AFRICA
    Censoring kids' advertising
    [Vivian Warby] Retailers, manufacturers and fast food outlets will, by mid next month, have a self regulatory policy in place when it comes to advertising their products to children.


    Branding
    ZIMBABWE
    Zimbabwe's battle of the brands
    Zimbabwe's economy may be crumbling, but it's business as usual in the branding business.


    Digital
    AFRICA
    Race for fibre optic cable heats up
    [Zachary Ochieng] Africa will benefit immensely from competing undersea fibre optic cable networks linking Africa with overseas destinations.


    Education and Training
    AFRICA
    Hunger bites Zimbabwe's health and education sectors
    The effects of the government's month-old price-control policies, which have brought widespread shortages of basic commodities, are also beginning to tell in the education, health and social service sectors.


    SOUTH AFRICA
    USB-ED enhances its offering to business in Gauteng by opening a new office - USB-ED
    USB Executive Development Ltd (USB-ED), the executive education arm of the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB), recently celebrated the official opening of its new offices in Gauteng at a cocktail function at the Westcliff Hotel.



    Media
    AFRICA
    Sudan's media laws not enough
    New draft media laws will not improve dire situation for media, says media rights organisation.

    NORTH AFRICA
    Tunisian writer freed
    Mohamed Abbou has been freed after more than two years in prison. His ‘crime' was to expose torture in the country's prisons.

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    Mobile
    WEST AFRICA
    Sierra Leone telecoms company gives the blind a shoulder to lean on
    As part of their social responsibility, one of the leading mobile telecommunications companies in the country, Celtel, has dished out US$5,000 to the Milton Margai School for the Blind choir for a performance tour in the United Kingdom.

    KENYA
    Covering Africa's elections and promoting press freedom by phone
    Mobile phones have revolutionised communication in Africa - even during elections.


    Newspapers
    ZIMBABWE
    Zimbabwe's newspaper industry grapples with rising costs
    [Dumisani Ndlela] Escalating printing and newsprint costs are conspiring to create a nightmare for the newspaper publishing industry in Zimbabwe, battling to survive under a volatile economic environment and legislative controls largely considered draconian.

    ZIMBABWE
    Zimbabwean editor arrested, released, case postponed
    Magazine editor released after two days in detention, faces charges of practicing journalism without accreditation.

    MOROCCO
    Moroccan editor released – for now
    Detained editor receives provisional release, colleague sent to prison pending trial.

    WEST AFRICA
    Opponents demonstrate, journalist attacked
    A Cameroonian journalist has been attacked during opposition demonstration.


    Online Media
    ZIMBABWE
    Zimbabwean editor shot and seriously wounded in South Africa
    Abel Mutsakani, the editor of ZimOnline and former managing editor of the banned Daily News, is reportedly battling for his life in a Johannesburg, South Africa hospital after he was shot and seriously injured by a gang of three assailants on 23 July 2007.


    Retail
    EAST AFRICA
    Tanzania, Uganda keen to link with Malaysia
    Tanzania is keen to tap Malaysian expertise to help develop its palm oil industry, especially for the production of biofuels.

    AFRICA
    SA retailers rough it out in Zim
    [Desmond Walters] It is business as usual for South African retailers in Zimbabwe who are keeping a positive spirit despite the economic meltdown and political uncertainty in the country. Large South African retailers, including Massmart, Edgars, OK and Pick ‘n Pay have business interests in Zimbabwe, and indicated they are not about to jump ship despite the recent spate of arrests of business executives accused of not complying with government orders to cut down prices.

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    TV
    CENTRAL AFRICA
    DRC journalists detained
    Four state television journalists detained for "trying to destabilise RTNC".

    NIGERIA
    Are you up to the job?
    The Apprentice is one of the most globally recognized reality television franchises and the programme has, since it was launched in the US three years ago by Donald Trump, been replicated in 23 countries around the world.

    AFRICA
    Tackling HIV/Aids across borders: SA initiates regional partnership
    HIV and Aids knows no borders and Southern Africa has the highest HIV infection rates in the world. The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication, the largest HIV and Aids communication programme in the country, has over the past five years implemented a groundbreaking project to tackle the epidemic across borders.

    SOUTH AFRICA
    Cream of African music
    The Channel O Spirit of Music Video Awards will take place on 11 October 2007, at the Johannesburg City Hall, and once again they will be sponsored by Amarula Cream. The complete list of nominees will be announced during the first week in August.


    Business
    Race for fibre optic cable heats up
    Battle lines have been drawn as major players jostle for space in the hitherto uncompetitive international submarine fibre-optic industry. [Technology]


    Events to diarise
    A guide to trading in Africa IMM Graduate School of Marketing - Johannesburg, 17 September
    This two-day course is aimed at providing delegates with an understanding of the inside facts and finer details of how to export to an African country or a similar emerging market.
     
    2007 Africa SMME Awards and Conference Africa Growth Research - Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 October
    The Conference and Awards ceremony will be aimed at presenting latest trends in SMME development in the continent and recognising and presenting awards to successful SMMEs by sector.
     

    Upcoming events
  • Telecoms World Africa 2007 - Johannesburg, 31 July
  • 7th Annual BEN-Africa Conference BEN-Africa - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1 August
  • TotalPack Summit EMEA 2007 Aspire Events - Singapore, 5 August
  • TotalPack Summit EMEA '07 Aspire Events - Singapore, 5 August
  • Rural and poverty reporting NSJ - Swaziland, 6 August
  • The WiMAX Africa Development Summit 2007 Lab Epitomy - Sandton, South Africa, 6 August
  • Resource Centre Management MS Training Centre for Development Cooperation - Arusha, Tanzania, 7 August
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    Jobs offered
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  • DTP Operator/Designer - Strand
  • Internship - Retail Marketing - Fourways
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  • Copywriter - Johannesburg
  • Support Specialist - Cape Town
  • Advertising Sales Assistant/Advertising Executive - Cape Town
  • Advertising Sales – Lifestyle Magazine - Gauteng
  • Digital Finishing Foreman - Durban
  • Promotions and POP Manager - Randburg
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    Quotes
    "If you rattle a snake, you should be prepared to be bitten by it." - Kenyan proverb
    "One who relates with a corrupt person likewise gets corrupted." - African proverb
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