2010 helping hands on deck South Africans are eager to lend a helping hand during the FIFA 2010 World Cup with 47,251 applications already processed through FIFA.com. There are specific functional areas in which volunteers will serve. Applications are still open until 31 August 2009, so if you feel you could assist in one or more of the areas, feel free to apply. With 290 days left until kick-off, the 2010 Organising Committee is going to need plenty of hands on deck. Another big event happening on the continent in 2010 is the inaugural Green Business Africa Summit and Expo 2010, otherwise known as GBASE2010. Now is the time to start thinking green with climate change and global warming threatening to jerk us out of our comfort zones. African businesses need to get in the loop as well, with sustainable development and involving themselves in green CSR projects. This event is bound to supply plenty of useful ideas. Africa did well this past week in the 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics hosted in Berlin, Germany, finishing off with 23 medals. Kenya came in third place with 11 medals - four of them being gold. Congratulations to all those who represented Africa in this world-class event! Cheers! Sindy Peters, Content manager Send all your Africa marketing news to africanews@bizcommunity.com. Top stories
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[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Angola is Africa's fastest-growing economy, with more than 10% growth over the past eight years slowing down to 6.2% in 2009 due to the global economic recession. Twenty-seven years of armed conflict had created a country of multiple challenges, but some SA companies currently operating there believe that the investment rewards far outweigh the difficulties. Read more >> NAIROBI: Kenyan Tourism Minister Najib Balala and his South African counterpart, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, have signed an agreement on modalities to encourage tourism investment in both countries. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
 PRETORIA: People from all over the world are responding in their numbers to the call for volunteer applications for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. With little over a week left to submit applications, 47,251 applications have been processed through FIFA.com since the volunteer programme opened on 20 July 2009. Read more >> [Proffesor Ndawonde] JOHANNESBURG: The Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) is to play a pivotal role in intensifying the government's communication strategy for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, says the department's CEO, Themba Maseko. Read more >> Numerous upgrades and construction projects, training centres and community driven initiatives are being implemented in the city of Durban in prerparation for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. Women have played an active roll in these preparations working in the building industry. Read more >>Branding
 [Richard Mukoma] The current political standoff and intolerance is threatening to erode the major economic gains that Kenya has achieved over the past five years. Not only is the situation affecting logistics within the country, it is also affecting our hard-earned international image. Read more >> [Lumkile Zitha] Markets can be harsh, brutal places, but a lot of the time a radical reinvention of the brand is not the best way forward, even when conditions in the marketplace are deteriorating. Brand managers need to consider the advantages and disadvantages of brand evolution versus brand revolution before jumping to implementing solutions. Read more >>[Walter Wafula] Stanbic Bank Uganda has changed its slogan - “Inspired. Motivated. Involved”, to “Moving forward” in a bid to recognise its customers and serve them better. The bank made the change last week in Kampala, making Uganda the third nation in which the new tagline has been adopted. Read more >> CSI
 KENYA: Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) will keynote at the inaugural Green Business Africa Summit and Expo 2010 (GBASE2010). Kenya, Nairobi will host the event to be held from 2 - 4 June 2010. Read more >>Digital
[Walter Wafula] Evolution Technology Labs, a new training-needs service provider, has set up an ICT Lab at Santa Lucia Basic School in Uganda through a partnership with the Wakiso district-based school. The beneficiaries are trained in using computers and other IT hardware and software applications including Microsoft Office, the Internet and Typing Master. Read more >> JOHANNESBURG: The closing date for nominations for the 2009 ICT African Achievers Awards is approaching - Friday, 28 August 2009. The awards was founded by ForgeAhead, a specialist ICT research and consulting house in Africa in partnership with the Department of Communications of South Africa. Read more >>Eventing
The Institute of People Management (IPM) will be hosting its annual African convention from 1 - 4 November 2009 at Sun City, Johannesburg, South Africa. The theme of the convention is: "Business leadership for the new reality". Read more >>Media
 [Colleen Lowe Morna & Pat Made] Based on findings from 126 media houses and representing 23 678 employees, "Glass Ceilings: Women and Men in Southern African Media" shows great strides forward when it comes to gender equality in media, but also how much work remains to meet commitments outlined in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Protocol on Gender and Development. Read more >> [Kubi Rama, Dumisani Ghandi & Rochelle Davies] One of the thorniest and most uncomfortable workplace issues in media houses is sexual harassment. Recent research released by Gender Links, a South African non-governmental organisation, suggests that sexual harassment continues to be a problem in southern African media houses. Read more >>HARARE: MISA-Zimbabwe held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Harare on 15 August 2009 during which its chairperson, Loughty Dube, urged the inclusive government to fulfil its obligations as required in terms of regional and international instruments that protect media freedom and freedom of expression. Read more >> The SAMRO (Southern African Music Rights Organisation) Endowment's Overseas Scholarships competition (SENA), concluding on 29 August 2009 at UNISA's ZK Matthews Hall, South Africa, will see 12 semi-finalists - 11 pianists and one organist - competing in the Western Art and Jazz/Popular Music categories. Read more >>Activists have expressed concerns that Tunisia's largest journalism union is being controlled by a group of pro-government reporters. The organisation, Reporters Without Borders says the move, which undermines the independence of the union, will damage reporting in the forthcoming presidential elections in October 2009. Read more >>HARARE: The Parliamentary Standing Rules and Orders Committee (SROC) on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 said it had endorsed 12 persons whose names have been submitted to the president for appointment to the statutory Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) contrary to media reports that the process had been put on hold. Read more >>PARIS: Over the last 29 years UNESCO's International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) has been providing support to developing countries for projects related to freedom of expression, media pluralism and community media. The number of applications for IPDC funding from East African countries has increased since the last two years. Read more >>Mobile
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Mobile advertising is proving to be an excellent tool of marketing as research shows that it has strong brand recall, is a place for activity, is needs-driven and reaches a huge number of consumers, compared to traditional media, according to Brett St Clair of AdMob. Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] Since the advent of mobile marketing, the world has seen a dramatic increase in unethical practices by ‘reckless' companies looking to make a profit by all means, even if it means ‘violating people's privacy'. One expert from the US has slammed such companies, saying that their careless practices can backfire to the detriment of all. Read more >> [Issa Sikiti da Silva] From the year 2005, when cellphone banking had little international interest, was uncertain and disputed and therefore not used, the service has massively grown by 2009 to become one of the largest electronic channels in South Africa, with more than 3000 new FNB customers registering every day to make use of the service. Read more >> Production
Organisers of the Aluta Film Festival, a South African township cinema event, are calling for entries from South Africa and international filmmakers for seventh edition of the festival in 2010. Entries close on Monday, 30 November 2009, and winners will be screened at the festival in Kimberley, Northern Cape, 22-28 February 2010. Read more >> The Film and Publication Board's 2008 banning order on Argentinian film "XXY" has been overturned. Out In Africa (OIA) plans to present "XXY", director Lucía Puenzo and actor Inés Efron, at this years OUT IN AFRICA South African Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The event takes place in Johannesburg from 3 - 13 September 2009 and in Cape Town from 10 - 20 September 2009. Read more >>Radio
 The International Federation of Journalists (FIJ) called on Thursday, 20 August 2009, to lift the suspension meted to Sky One, a private radio station broadcasting from Yaoundé, capital of Cameroon. Read more >>Retail
[Titus Kaloki] A bid by East African Breweries Limited (EABL) to end its partnership with competitor, South African Breweries Miller (SABMiller), and join another brewer was put on hold by a UK court. In a ruling passed last week, Diageo - majority shareholder in EABL with a 50% stake - and SABMiller were ordered to begin an arbitration process. Read more >>  Universal Africa Lines (UAL), a specialist shipping service to the West African oil and gas industries, has opened a South African branch and launched a fortnightly shipping route to supply West African oil and gas exploration and production bases from SA. Read more >>[Nthambeleni Gabara] JOHANNESBURG: The African continent must develop ways through which Africans abroad and African Diaspora structures will be able to support the African Union (AU) and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). Read more >>  NJORO: Two months before harvest time, the maize in Kenya's Rift Valley should be tall, lush and green, bursting with life. Instead, crops in the province's Lare division are stunted, barren fields of parched browns and pallid yellows. Read more >>[Amy Lieberman] Water scarcity left 1.4 billion people living in “closed basin” regions in 2008, though that number is expected to grow to 1.8 billion by 2025, according to Worldwatch Institute, an independent research organisation that focuses on global sustainability issues. Read more >> [Gregory Gondwe] Malawi has hailed the establishment of a regional procurement market for the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) which is scheduled to be launched next month. Read more >> [Stanley Kwenda] HARARE: Zimbabweans like to believe that there is strength in numbers, which is the idea behind a local non-governmental organisation's attempt to organise small-scale rural cotton farmers in cotton producer associations. Read more >> Alcohol producer and distributor Distell is spearheading a viticultural initiative in Tanzania expected to enable wine farmers in the Dodoma highlands to double their crops within three to five years — and may yet be developing a feasible model for rolling out vineyard productions across sub-Saharan Africa. Read more >>[Amy Lieberman] Women cultivate more than half the food that is grown in sub-Saharan Africa, but generally receive less than 10% of the financial credit awarded to smallholder farmers, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). Read more >> TV
[Gregory Gondwe] Thousands of Malawians who were able to access South Africa's e.tv and CNBC Africa television stations through the free-to-air digital satellite have cried foul over the blackout of the stations for three weeks now. Read more >>  LAGOS: The University of Ibadan, winning one of the semi-final contests in the ongoing International Inter-University Battle of Brains, the Zain Africa Challenge, has placed Nigeria in the finals. Read more >> Discovery Networks EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), a division of Discovery Communications, has announced a new sponsorship agreement between Discovery Channel and Volvo Cars in South Africa. Volvo Car South Africa plans to sponsor Discovery Channel's motoring show, Fifth Gear, as well as the pop science series, Prototype This. Read more >> On 22 August 2009, BBC World News plans to launch the Africa Business Report, a new show featuring the triumphs and challenges of doing business in Africa. Presenter Komla Dumor will travel the continent meeting new entrepreneurs and the international companies shaping the economic environment. Read more >>AFRICA Discovery Channel launches Everyday Heroes Discovery Networks EMEA, in September 2009, will launch the first season of Everyday Heroes on the Discovery Channel. To promote the Everyday Heroes season, Discovery has created an on-air campaign which focuses on five Everyday Heroes - a logger, construction worker, oil rig worker, verminator and trawlerman - and the experiences that accompany their unorthodox occupations, compared to average day jobs. Public Relations
Bookings are open for the Cape Town leg of the Organisational Communications course which will be held in September and October. Run by Quo Vadis Communications, the course has been specifically tailored to meet the needs of both the corporate and civil society sectors. Read more >>
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