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| | Headlines | Introducing the APEX judges
MTV's Best African Act nominees
Shopping sprees increase tension with Zim's neighbours
Gambian minister fired for challenging telecoms sale
Manto's 'lavish' ad campaign slammed
Uganda's best 2007 investors to be honoured
Zimbabwean grows UK's first white sweetcorn
Celtel remains African brand - MTC
Last call for entries to 2007 Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award
MTN and Moov networks resurrected in Benin
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Marketing | | AFRICA Economic integration vital for a better Africa - Manuel
South Africa's Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has emphasised the importance of economic integration to building a prosperous future for Africa.
MOZAMBIQUE SA, Mozambique build on relations
[David Masango] South Africa and Mozambique have taken their bilateral relations further, after holding a successful meeting on Tuesday, 18 September, where various issues of cooperation were discussed.
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2010 FIFA World Cup | | ZAMBIA Zambia and China sign pact to build stadium
The Zambian government has signed a contract with the Chinese government for the construction of a 40,000-capacity stadium in Ndola, the capital of Copperbelt Province.
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Advertising | | SOUTH AFRICA Introducing the APEX judges
The Association for Communication and Advertising (ACA) has announced a 14 member judging panel, chaired by renowned marketing and advertising consultant Andy Rice, to judge the 2008 Advertising Performance Excellence Awards (APEX).
SOUTHERN AFRICA Manto's 'lavish' ad campaign slammed
Advertisements placed in a number of national newspapers on Friday by the health department defending its minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang were a waste of taxpayers' money, the Democratic Alliance has said.
SOUTH AFRICA Last call for entries to 2007 Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award
Friday, 28 September 2007, will be the cut-off date and last call for entries for the 2007 Saatchi & Saatchi World Changing Ideas Award. Attracting a broad range of entries, these awards were created to recognise brilliant thinking, to bring it to the world's attention and to reward the most outstanding innovation with a prize package worth US$100,000.
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Branding | | AFRICA Celtel remains African brand - MTC
[Remmy Nweke] The MTC group has decided to continue trading under the name of Celtel for the foreseeable future in order to ensure certainty and continuity. The decision comes at the time when the MTC group is involved in rebranding its services on the African continent.
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Digital | | WEST AFRICA Gambian minister fired for challenging telecoms sale
[Musa Saidykhan] The abrupt 50% sale of Gambia's telecommunications company (Gamtel) and its subsidiary company Gamcel shares last month has been creating row within the government circles, with the government accused of pursuing the challengers of the deal.
AFRICA The future is wireless
[Ken Kenya] Telkom Kenya will directly compete with the two mobile phone operators soon after offloading its Safaricom shares.
UGANDA Uganda has highest phone tariffs in East Africa
[David Muwanga] Uganda is reported to be in the list of countries with the highest mobile and fixed line phone tariffs as compared to its neighbours. The report was compiled by the Makerere University's Faculty of Economics and Management.
WEST AFRICA SAT3 connects Togo
[Noel Kokou Tadégnon] Togo and Benin can now boast of a telecommunications link following the launch of a fibre optic cable linking the two countries.
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Eventing | | UGANDA Uganda's best 2007 investors to be honoured
[Walter Wafula] Companies that have made investments worth millions of dollars in Uganda will be recognised by the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), the body that licenses investors, in December this year.
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Mobile | | WEST AFRICA MTN and Moov networks resurrected in Benin
[Gérard Guedegbe] After two months of tough negotiations between the government and the two major GSM operators in Benin after their services were terminated by the Transitory Authority of Regulation of telecommunications on 13 July 2007, the 950,000 subscribers of Moov and Areeba/MTN are now re-connected again.
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Online Media | | NIGERIA Internet registration grows in Nigeria
[Remmy Nweke] The Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has increased the number of domain names in the country to over 3,000 in less than six months of its existence.
KENYA A new e-bill for Kenya
[Ken Kenya] Kenyans may soon realise e-commerce if both the Executive and Legislative arms of Government fast-track legislation expected to address several issues in the sub-sector.
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Out Of Home | | SOUTH AFRICA Linear Stand update - Right Stuff
 Right Stuff has developed the Linear Stand as a dynamic portable point-of-purchase display. This concept offers a unique, diverse and affordable product that is manufactured locally. It is the next generation of showroom stands, which doubles as a banner display as well as a brochure holder.
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Printing | | SOUTH AFRICA Paarl Print launches new Komori colour presses - Paarl Media
 Paarl Print, a member of the Paarl Media Group, recently launched its new Komori presses at a cleverly themed function at its plant, reflecting the Japanese origins of these state of the art machines. Invitations, titled “Got a Yen for quick top quality printing?”, set the scene with mini Zen gardens.
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Retail | | ZIMBABWE Shopping sprees increase tension with Zim's neighbours
It is early morning and groups of Zimbabwean women and men wrapped in blankets to ward off the chill are slowly waking from a night spent sleeping on the tarmac at a bus depot in Johannesburg, South Africa, waiting for the city's shops to open.
SOUTHERN AFRICA UN helps Lesotho with food security
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says buying maize directly from small farmers in Lesotho, is having a beneficial effect on local communities.
AFRICA Shares in record territories as Zim dollar falls
The current policy changes in Zimbabwe hardly constitute coherent economic policy. Although our economics have turned into that of ‘adaptation and survival', dynamic inconsistency provides a theoretical basis for discussions on policy clarity and credibility.
AFRICA Zimbabwean grows UK's first white sweetcorn
Zimbabwean farmer, David Mwanaka, has provided supermarket chain Sainsbury's with the first ever UK white sweetcorn. Usually grown in America, the white sweetcorn is sweeter than its yellow cousin; however this crop has been cultivated in the unlikely setting of rural Enfield, London.
NAMIBIA Strategic sectors in Namibia
Agriculture is one of Namibia's prime sectors and is currently among the biggest employers in the country creating an estimated 35,000 direct jobs and 150,000 indirect jobs to families who depend on the workforce.
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TV | | AFRICA MTV's Best African Act nominees
MTV Networks Africa has revealed the five African artists nominated for Best African Act at the 2007 MTV Europe Music Awards.
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