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248 days and counting Fans of football worldwide, but most particularly in Africa, are counting down the days to the kick-off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. With just 248 days to go, everything seems to be running smoothly and all systems are a-go. The 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee SA and FIFA recently completed an inspection of the five newly built stadiums and the upgraded Soccer City stadium and seemed more than happy with progress all-round. The South African transport minister also sounds positive about preparations for the event after launching the 570-odd "state-of-the-art" Translux luxury buses that will be used to convey officials and fans during the World Cup. He also noted that the BRT system is now running smoothly, a month after launch. More great news surrounding the 2010 FIFA World Cup is that Rowelna Venter, a Nelson Mandela Metropolitan graduate, will take up her new position as media relations co-ordinator for the World Cup as of next month. At 24 years old this is a great opportunity for Venter and we wish her all the best during her 10-month term. During the early stages of construction and development, the question of whether South Africa would be ready for 2010 arose on numerous occasions. The answer to that question at this point in time is an emphatic yes! Yes we can! Cheers! Sindy Peters, Content manager Send all your Africa marketing news to africanews@bizcommunity.com. Top stories
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Based on the success of the Intra-Africa Business Executive Breakfast Meetings, a platform created a year ago aiming to better inform South African-based businesses about trade and investment opportunities on the continent, Upbeat Marketing has announced the launch of the Intra-Africa Business Symposium. Read more >> |
JOHANNESBURG: A 50-member delegation from the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) and FIFA yesterday, 30 September 2009, completed an inspection of the five newly-built stadiums and the upgraded Soccer City stadium. After travelling to six cities in six days the operational experts concluded that preparations are on track for all stadiums to be completed by the end of the year. 
With continued airport expansion and high levels of customer traffic expected at South Africa's airports during 2010 and beyond, Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) has focused on providing critical IT network services 24/7 for all its SA airports to ensure services run efficiently. 
Standard Bank South Africa has awarded MTN Business, a wholly owned division of MTN, the contract to rollout the African network infrastructure footprint. The bank, which under Stanbic has a presence in 17 countries across the continent, required the successful provider to ensure maximum uptime and low latency and guarantee data delivery back to South Africa without interruption to business operations. 
MTN and IMImobile, an India-based software and managed services provider linked to 350 content providers worldwide, have entered into a strategic partnership to address the growing demand for content in emerging markets. The deal will entail providing MTN's 21 markets access to a repository of content through various delivery platforms. 
The opening session of the 2015 Newsroom Conference, organised by the World Editors Forum at PPF Media's Futuroom complex in Prague, took place on Thursday, 1 October 2009. The event was launched with a debate bringing into question the value of the massive traffic Google drives to newspaper websites. 
A reminder to newspaper printing companies to enter the WAN-IFRA 2010-2012 International Newspaper Color Quality Club competition, which close online at the end of December 2009. 
The French government's decision to give free nationwide subscriptions, from 1 October 2009 are part of new subsidies to the French press totalling €600 million over three years. The publishers provide the newspapers free and the government pays for distribution. The campaign is aimed at boosting newspaper readership in the youth market. 
The Asian edition of World Press Trends, released last week to coincide with Publish Asia 2009 held in Chennai India, shows that newspaper circulation in Asia grew 3.44% in 2008 over the previous year, despite the global downturn and has grown 17.52% over the past five years. 
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Wednesday, 30 September 2009, released free software that lets website operators automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages. 
Seven short films by young African filmmakers have been shortlisted for the 2nd annual Africa in Motion (AiM) short film competition. All shortlisted films will be screened on Monday, 25 October 2009 as part of the Africa in Motion Film Festival, which takes place from 22 October - 1 November 2009 at the Filmhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland. 
Late last week, M-Net launched the African Film Library - the largest electronic library of feature films, shorts and documentaries from 50 years of African film production. Over the past three years, M-Net has been negotiating the rights to almost 600 works in English, French, Arabic and Portuguese and digitising them. 
The Dairy Board of Zimbabwe yesterday, 1 October 2009, informed the Gushungo Dairy Estate and the seven other farms with whom Nestlé Zimbabwe began working on a temporary basis in February 2009, that it is now in a position to resume purchasing their milk. Nestlé Zimbabwe therefore will no longer be receiving milk from these eight farms from Sunday, 4 October 2009. 
In its second year, the MTV Africa Music Awards, with Zain, showcases the wealth of musical talent that Africa has to offer and provides the ultimate vehicle for young Africans to salute the African and international artists that rock their worlds. The 2009 winners will be unveiled on 10 October 2009 at the Indoor Arena, Moi International Sports Centre, Nairobi, Kenya. 
Responding to a survey promoted across the DStv bouquet, radio and internet campaigns, All Africa Poker (AAP) TV will be located on channel 112 from 1 October 2009. It will be accessible to HD, dual view and DStv compact subscribers from 10.30pm , offering six hours of local and international poker content, along with give-aways and competitions, to its 1.6-1.8 million viewers a month. | Company news |
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