Future bodes well for Africa![](https://biz-file.com/b/1002/40002.jpg?1) It seems the African markets' ability to withstand the economic crisis of last year will hold the continent's emerging markets in good stead during the decade to follow. According to a report released recently by Business Monitor International, emerging markets will see a sharp rise in consumer spending power and by 2018 should equal the developed world's GDP, contributing 50% to world GDP. While these figures may apply more to BRIC countries these findings do bode well for the African continent as it too develops and grows into an industrial-based entity. While Africa may have it's ups and downs on the business front with Zimbabwe's newsprint plant, Mutare Board and Paper Mills remaining inactive, but South Africa's Oasys expanding into the West African turf of Nigeria, we still have many lessons to learn in corporate governance before playing with the rest of the powerhouse nations. ICTs have and will play a huge role in our development and have influenced many of our lives not just in business, but personally as well. eLearning Africa is hosting an online-based photography competition asking people from the continent to enter their images that reflect how ICTs affect their daily lives. So get snapping if you want to win! Sindy Peters, content manager
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JOHANNESBURG: South African-based brand and reputation intelligence company, Ornico has entered the Nigerian market through a joint venture partnership with Lagos-based investment group, AData. Established in 1984 by Oresti and Spero Patricios, Ornico has offices in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town and Nigeria. Read more >>2010 FIFA World Cup
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/44038.jpg) PRETORIA: The fourth round of ticket sales for the 2010 FIFA World Cup will kick off on Tuesday, 9 February 2010, with over 400,000 tickets available on a first-come, first-served basis. Read more >> [Janine Erasmus] South Africa's national football squad Bafana Bafana will become part of broadcasting history when their opening game of the 2010 FIFA World Cup is filmed and screened in 3D. Read more >>Advertising
[Gregory Gondwe] The Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA) has decried the Malawian government's decision to withdraw state advertising from certain media institutions in Malawi. In a letter addressed to the Information and Civic Education Minister Leckford Thotho, JUMA president Levi Zeleza Manda has appealed for government to rescind the advertisement ban in some private media institutions. Read more >> Branding
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43810.jpg) According to the International Communications Agency Network (ICOM), Africa is an important region to the network's clients who are looking to expand in fast-growing markets. In addition, advertising and promotional activity is expected to increase in South Africa this year as the country hosts the FIFA World Cup in June. It has therefore appointed Gullan&Gullan Advertising as its exclusive South African member. Read more >>AFRICA Avnic Trading renamed Garmin Distribution AfricaJOHANNESBURG: Avnic Trading, the official distributor of Garmin products in Southern Africa, has changed its name to Garmin Distribution Africa with immediate effect. According to Richard Fearon, CEO of the company, the organisation will continue to operate with its existing organisational structure in place, and no changes will be made to the executive team. Digital
[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. Read more >>Eventing
LONDON: The organisers of Africa Gathering, the results-driven meeting series, have announced 2010 dates and launched a new website. The event hosts technophiles, entrepreneurs and innovators who discuss positive change in sustainable development, technology, social networking, health, education, environment and good governance in Africa. Read more >>Media
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Collins Chabane, minister in the presidency in charge of performance monitoring and evaluation, and government spokesperson Themba Maseko last night, Thursday, 4 February 2010, made an impassioned plea to South African journalists to participate in the SADC Media Awards competition, saying it promotes regional integration and togetherness through excellent journalism. Read more >>The heads of 17 Nigerian media organisations have called for ailing president Umaru Yar'Adua to formally transfer power to vice president Goodluck Jonathan within seven days or resign. The owners of the country's top newspapers and media organisations issued a joint statement on Wednesday, 3 February 2010. Read more >>Two Ugandan journalists were arrested on Wednesday, 3 January 2010, and charged with libelling President Yoweri Museveni. Read more >> [Walter Wafula] Various African presidents and ex-presidents have confirmed their presence at the inaugural Pan African Media Conference that will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, 18 - 19 March 2010, to mark the Nation Media Group's 50th anniversary. Read more >>Authorities in Sudan have called in seven chief editors of newspapers to question them over news reports about dumping hazardous electronic waste. The move has prompted fears that the press could be censored ahead of the country's first democratic elections in 24 years due in April. Read more >>![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43882.jpg) The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have condemned the sentencing of two Burmese journalists to long prison terms and called on the country's military junta to immediately release them and end its continuing attacks on the media. Read more >>NEW YORK: An Ethiopian judge sentenced a journalist to prison on Friday, 29 January 2010, in connection with a January 2008 column that criticised Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's statements about religious affairs in Ethiopia, according to local journalists. Read more >>![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43780.jpg) The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) ealier this week issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings, including 32 victims of a single massacre in Maguindanao, the Philippines, last November. Read more >>Mobile
[Dumisani Ndlela] Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris' Orascom Telecom-controlled Telecel Zimbabwe is earmarked for a listing on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) in a move meant to raise additional capital and broaden the shareholder base. Read more >> [Gregory Gondwe] Zain Malawi has announced that its mother company Zain, has been shortlisted in the Global System for Mobile communications Association's (GSMA) new category for its annual GSMA awards. The winner for the award will be unveiled at the mobile communications event, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, 16 February 2010. Read more >>![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43786.jpg) According to the 4th edition of Portio Research's report ‘Mobile Messaging Futures', despite the recent worldwide economic downturn during the last two years mobile messaging revenues continue to rise and the sector as a whole looks to be in excellent health. Read more >>Newspapers
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/44060.jpg) The Lebanese Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, will open the World Newspaper Congress, World Editors Forum and Info Services Expo 2010, to be held in Beirut, Lebanon, from 7 - 10 June. The congress is themed "In search of the new business model," while the theme of the forum is, "The new information ecosystem: Link, share, cooperate or die." Read more >>[Walter Wafula] Yampe, a new local dialect newspaper in Uganda is set to increase its circulation to 5,000 copies per month this year to meet increasing demand from its readers, according to the proprietor. Yampe is named after the Lufumbira language word for “informer.” Read more >> Printing
[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's sole newsprint producer, Mutare Board and Paper Mills (MBPM) will remain inactive due to the low prices of paper, forcing newspaper publishers to import from South Africa. Read more >>Production
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/44025.jpg) LUSAKA: eLearning Africa has launched an online photography competition inviting people from Africa to submit images that show how they live, learn and work with information and communication technologies (ICTs). Read more >>![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43949.jpg) African filmmakers are invited to submit documentaries relating to the theme of the 2010 Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival to be considered for inclusion in the October festival at the Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland. The theme of the fifth festival is “Celebrations”. Read more >>Research
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/44051.jpg) According to a newly released report, Emerging Markets Take Centre Stage: A Dramatic Shift in Purchasing Power, from country risk specialists Business Monitor International (BMI), the next decade will see a dramatic rise in the spending power of the emerging markets (EM) consumer. Read more >>Retail
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/44073.jpg) The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) is hosted in Bulawayo and draws about 100 000 visitors over three days. Brian and Kevin Kennedy, respectively chief executive and managing director for Oasys Innovations signed a joint agreement with Daniel Chigaru, ZITF general manager, naming Oasys as the preferred infrastructure provider for the fair. Read more >>Recent rainfall in Kenya boosted by the El Niño phenomenon is expected to result in a bumper maize crop from mid-February. The latest report from the Kenya Food Security Steering Group anticipates a strong harvest in the country's coastal and south-eastern regions. Read more >>![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43884.jpg) The World Bank has vowed to join efforts with China to invest in the development of a manufacturing sector in Africa that could boost industrialisation and create employment opportunities for local people. Read more >>[Gregory Gondwe] Government, through its office of the director of public procurement (ODPP) has set up new procurement procedures, which will support small-to-medium enterprise (SMEs), other local manufacturers and producers. Read more >> ![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43784.jpg) MUSCAT: The Autumn Trade Fair (ATF) in Oman will take place from 24 March to 2 April 2010 at the Oman International Exhibition Centre. ATF 2010 currently has over 400 confirmed exhibitors from countries including Pakistan, Syria, UAE, Egypt, Yemen, Kuwait and Malaysia. Read more >>![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43761.jpg) BRUSSELS, BELGIUM: Kampala, the capital city of Uganda, has been announced as the host city for the 2010 edition of the AgriBusiness Forum. The EMRC Agribusiness Forum 2010 will focus on the theme of “Food Security: a Business Opportunity” with the overall aim of boosting the African agro-food sector through the design, planning and implementation of diverse agricultural projects. Read more >>[James McKerrell] The extent to which companies in Africa have complied with information archiving, retrieval and management to meet statutory requirements will become more apparent as the continent measures the impact of a more mature tax system. Read more >> Sponsorship
[Nthambeleni Gabara] PRETORIA: A Chinese renewable energy company, Yingli Green Energy, has joined the list of prestigious 2010 FIFA World Cup sponsors. In a statement released jointly with world football's governing body, FIFA, the company said it was the first Chinese company to seal a global sponsorship deal with FIFA. Read more >>TV
![](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/43733.jpg) BBC World News have launched three news programmes aimed at Middle East and African audiences, set to air on the channel from February 2010. The Hub with Nik Gowing, World News Today with Zeinab Badawi and Business Edition with Tanya Beckett will focus primarily on Middle East and African audiences. Read more >>Media Law course Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) - Johannesburg, 9 February "Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." - Martin H. Fischer "Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch." - J. B. Priestley "Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before." - William Bernbach
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