SOUTH AFRICA

The Loeries Travelling Exhibition visits Vega and CityVarsity

The Loeries Travelling Exhibition is at Vega, 8-14 April 2010 and at CityVarsity 17-24 April 2010. One of the exhibition's goals is to educate audiences, and Adobe will be hosting complimentary workshops at both venues. These deep dive sessions are an introduction to new and enhanced features in the product, hosted by Learning Curve, an authorised education reseller. The workshops are a must-attend for students, photographers and all creative professionals. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Design Indaba just keeps on growing

In just seven years, Design Indaba Expo has grown from a creative showcase to a multi-platform festival. Running from 26 to 28 February 2010, this year's expo flexed its muscles far beyond its primary location at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Read more >>

AFRICA

Restaurants get priority over soccer fans

[Michael Bleby] McDonald's, the fast-food chain that uses a clown and a yellow M to sell burgers, will not exercise its rights as a FIFA World Cup sponsor to provide food at the stadiums or official fan parks. Read more >>

AFRICA

SA artists unhappy with June 10 line-up

PRETORIA: Local musicians on Thursday, 1 April 2010 met Minister of Arts and Culture, Lulu Xingwana, and the Local Organising Committee to discuss their concerns about not being adequately represented in the line-up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup celebration concert on 10 June. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Survey finds Cape Town World Cup value for money

A month-long accommodation pricing survey, commissioned by the Minister of Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, to establish a clear picture of prices throughout the country, has found that Cape Town is set to offer the best value for money during the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The survey was carried out by Grant Thornton South Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

Maputo Ad Festival retains HMC Seswa

JOHANNESBURG: The Mozambican Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Association (AMEP) has appointed HMC Seswa Corporate Communications for the fourth consecutive year as its communications partner for the fifth Maputo International Advertising Festival. Read more >>

AFRICA

Pentawards 2010 now open

BRUSSELS: The 2010 Pentawards, the online competition exclusively for packaging design, was official opened for entries yesterday, 5 April 2010 until the deadline date of 21 May. The awards ceremony will be presented on 30 September 2010 in the European Pavilion of the Expo Shanghai 2010. Read more >>

AFRICA

IDC: 2010 a defining year for Africa telecoms

The sub-Saharan Africa telecommunications market is set to be characterised by regulatory developments and continued investment in broadband infrastructure by various submarine and terrestrial cable operators, International Data Corporation said on Wednesday (31 March), making 2010 a defining year for Africa's telecoms sector. Read more >>

AFRICA

Educating Africa winners announced

UK-based NGO Teach A Man To Fish has announced the winners of the Educatng Africa Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education 2009 earlier this week. The top three winners - House of Nations, Educate! and Mama Zimbi - were selected by a panel of international judges from a pool of 260 applicants from across Africa. Read more >>

NIGERIA

NIHEAS to be an annual event

The 2010 Nigerian Hospitality Excellence Awards and Seminar (NIHEAS), held late last month, was an inaugural ceremony that was held to encourage service excellence in the hospitality industry. The maiden edition was hosted by Finale Hotels Services in conjunction with Focal Point and endorsed by the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation - NTDC. Read more >>

CENTRAL AFRICA

US MCC engages Malawian journalists

[Gregory Gondwe] The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a foreign assistance tool of the US, has engaged the Malawi media to help it publicise a number of development projects lined up in the country under its Millennium Challenge Account (MCA). Read more >>

ZIMBABWE

Zim: Police summon freelance journalist for questioning

HARARE: Freelance journalist Stanley Gama was on 30 March 2010 summoned to Harare Central Police Station where he was questioned in connection with an article that appeared in the Zimbabwean edition of The Sunday Times published in South Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

World press condemns threat to press freedom in Estonia

Global and European press and journalist organisations yesterday, 30 March 2010, called on EU-member Estonia to drop a proposal that they believe would force journalists to reveal their sources, saying the move "poses a serious threat to freedom of the press." Read more >>

AFRICA

FAJ congress concludes in Zim

The second continental congress of the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African regional organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), concluded Sunday, 28 March 2010 in Harare, Zimbabwe, on a call for a stronger and more united journalist movement in Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

Brandsh Media reveals African mobile figures

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] There are 63 million mobile subscribers in Nigeria out of a population of 149.2 million, 44 million in South Africa, and 15.3 million in Kenya, Brandsh Media founder Angus Robinson revealed yesterday, 30 March 2010, highlighting the need to turn these numbers into business opportunities and improve lives. Read more >>

AFRICA

Bharti appoints lieutenant to head African venture

NEW DELHI: The boss of Indian telecom group Bharti Airtel has appointed his top lieutenant to oversee his new African business, bought in a US$10.7-billion deal from Kuwait's Zain, a company official said on Wednesday (31 March 2010). Read more >>

AFRICA

Bharti shares edge up on expected Zain deal signing

NEW DELHI: Shares in top Indian mobile firm Bharti Airtel edged higher on Tuesday, 30 March 2010, on reports it will sign a US$10.7-billion deal to acquire the African telecom assets of Kuwait's Zain later that day. Read more >>

AFRICA

Shaping newspaper business model - World Newspaper Congress

Mark Contreras, senior vice president of E.W. Scripps Co., and Tim Brooks, managing director of Guardian News and Media Ltd., will be sharing the stage at the 63rd World Newspaper Congress in Beirut looking at new business models for the future of newspapers. The congress will be held in Lebanon from 7 - 10 June 2010. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Mahala - Kif or K*k?

[Sindy Peters] There's a new entrepreneurial kid on the online magazine block and according to its founder, Andy Davis, it has been growing exponentially since its birth in April 2009. Mahala is a youth-orientated publication that provides a different perspective on current affairs, popular culture and just about anything sparking conversation in South African social circles. Read more >>

KENYA

Kenya: Facebook group aims to tackle fake medicines

Kenya's pharmacy and poisons board has set up a Facebook account for people to report pharmacists who give them fake drugs. Kenyans can use the social networking site to report adverse reactions to drugs as well as suspected counterfeit drugs and unregistered pharmacies. Read more >>

AFRICA

Footballers support Comic Relief campaign

African and English footballers have lent their support to a series of public education films produced on behalf of Comic Relief, the UK-based charity, being broadcast across Africa. The series of 10 short films featuring teams or individual players focus on malaria, HIV/AIDS and education. Read more >>

EAST AFRICA

Somalia: Traders help keep the country fed

NAIROBI: Despite the insecurity and the lack of a formal banking system, the private sector is alive and well in Somalia - and helping feed the country. Read more >>

AFRICA

Ernst & Young launches Africa Business Centre

Ernst & Young, currently present in 26 African countries, has announced the launch of its Africa Business Centre (ABC). The ABC's aim is to coordinate its resources across Africa and provide its clients with a single point of contact. Read more >>

AFRICA

Cachalia cancels CNBC contract

[Sibongakonke Shoba] Gauteng economic development MEC Firoz Cachalia has cancelled a US$3m-a-year contract that international business channel CNBC Africa had signed with the Gauteng Film Commission (GFC). Read more >>

AFRICA

Paladin Africa provides entertainment for miners

[Gregory Gondwe] Multichoice Malawi has enlivened the bushes where Paladin Africa has its Kayelekera Uranium mine by installing 250 television units. The mine found in northern Malawi is situated 40km west of Karonga Town settlement where over 3,000 workers had little entertainment. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Fabtex frame by Display Mania International - Display Mania

Switch your branding in your showroom or store by simply changing the fabric face. The Fabtex frame, available through Display Mania International, is a a dye sublimated printed fabric framing system which can be supplied as an illuminated frame, a freestanding unit or simply a wall mounted frame. Read more >>