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Well done Loeries finalists! Congratulations to all the 2010 Loeries finalists; we in Cape Town look forward to hosting the lot of you! While I sincerely preferred Loeries in the quaint holiday town of Margate, I suppose Cape Town has its pluses. Hopefully the weather is gorgeous over that weekend so all you tourists can enjoy the beautiful city to the max when you're not off celebrating your wins and toasting to knocking the competition out.
Special congratulations go to finalists outside of South Africa which includes a number from the UAE region, but more specifically, DDB Mozambique and Kenya's Scanad. Good luck, I'll be holding thumbs for you. Winning a Loerie is a great feather to have in any agency's cap. The Shuttleworth Foundation recently launched the Yoza m-Novel Library - a database of short stories, accessible via mobile phones, for teenagers aimed at encouraging reading and writing amongst the youth in South Africa. The great part of the project is that there are expansion plans for the rest of Africa. It's a no-brainer that the ability to read and write in today's world is the first step to great achievements, and Africa can use all the literate children it can get to boost development and lead their nations toward a progressive future. It's always nice to know that people care! Cheers, Sindy Peters, Africa editor Responses to this column welcomed in our online editor's column archive. Send all your Africa marketing news to africanews@bizcommunity.com. Top stories
Special focus on media freedom
ADDIS ABABA: The media has been invited to attend a workshop on the safety and protection of African journalists to be held from 2-3 September 2010 at the headquarters of the African Union Commission (AUC) in Ethiopia hosted by the Division of Communication and Information (DCI) of the AUC, in collaboration with the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ). Read more >> |
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has expressed concern over the implications of a proposed Protection of Information Bill currently before the South African parliament. The world media body, along with the World Editors Forum, recently issued an 
DDB Mozambique and Kenya's Scanad are finalists in the 2010 Loerie Awards. All the finalists were revealed late last week and are available on the 
The Loerie Awards released the finalists in this year's event, excluding Student, this morning, Thursday, 26 August 2010. All winners will be announced at the festival weekend, 1 - 3 October at the Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. 
There are still six weeks left to submit your advertorial and editorial and feature your company in this bumper edition of Best of South Africa Vol 6 - the book for 2011 with a three-year lifespan. The book will be representing South Africa as part of a global series worldwide with strong links in Africa as the showpiece for other countries to follow. 
According to MTN, the company has registered over 1,8 million SMS petitions for the 1GOAL: Education for All campaign after its subscribers across its footprint in Africa and the Middle East responded to a call to support the FIFA-endorsed campaign to accelerate universal access to education. 
ALGIERS: Several Algerian writers and intellectuals have signed a petition denouncing organisers of Algeria's international book fair for banning books from Egypt in a dispute over football. 
LOS ANGELES/PARIS: Organisers of sub-Saharan Africa TV market, Discop Africa, which takes place 1-3 September 2010 at the Hilton Nairobi in Kenya, have announced that the Africa Media Rights Watch initiative, an anti-piracy body monitoring the region, will officially launch in 2011. 
The Shuttleworth Foundation, as part of its m4Lit (mobiles for literacy) project, launched a new library of cellphone stories - also known as mobile novels or m-novels in South Africa. Over the next six months the plan for Yoza is to build a library of cellphone stories of multiple genres that are available to teens not only in South Africa, but throughout Africa. 
Researchers said on Thursday (26 August 2010) that distributing drought-resistant varieties of maize to smallholder African farmers could earn the continent between US$900 million and US$1.53 billion by 2016. | International news |
UNITED KINGDOMWidening of North-South divide - a myth
[Published by Datamonitor] Claims that the North-South divide widened during the recession have been called into question by new research from the independent market analyst Datamonitor. Read more >>UNITED KINGDOMDigital prose and the brand conversation
Alicia Navarro, CEO and co-founder of Skimlinks discusses why blogging and Twitter represent a golden branding opportunity. Read more >>JAMAICAUsain Bolt renews Puma deal
KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Jamaican to play lead role in sportlifestyle brand's global marketing activity as world record holder and Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt announces he has renewed his contract with global sportlifestyle brand and long-term sponsor PUMA until the end of 2013. Read more >>UNITED KINGDOMSlow growth hits UK housing market
UNITED KINGDOMQuark sponsors Digital Magazine Awards
UNITED STATESQuark names Gavin Drake vice president of marketing
UNITED KINGDOMUK consumers happy to endorse the cult of celebrity
UNITED KINGDOMDining out despite economic pressures
UNITED KINGDOMCream Insight Report: Planet versus profit
UNITED STATESGfK rebrands itself in US
UNITED KINGDOMThe time consumers spend using media and communications
UNITED KINGDOMCOI announces redundancy programme
UNITED KINGDOMCafé culture outpacing boozy Britain
UNITED KINGDOMStudents opt for training schemes
FRANCESexy silhouette
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Research
SOUTH AFRICAAre you spending large sums of money on advertising, yet you get no results? - Vision Africa
MediaMetrics was developed by Vision Africa to assist advertisers on deciding when and where to advertise their products or services. It is a cost-effective medium that helps advertisers obtains more insight into their target audience's reading, listening, viewing habits and preferences. Read more >>| Motoring |
SOUTH AFRICALean, mean, clean - and green
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Aren't hybrid cars supposed to be ugly, boring and constipated? Well, if that's the case then Honda definitely got it wrong with their CR-Z hybrid just launched in South Africa - because not only is it a cockily cute good-looker, it's also quite zippy and it handles amazingly well. Read more >>More Motoring news...
| Travel |
SOUTH AFRICARwandAir acquires second Boeing 737-500
RwandAir recently acquired its second Boeing 737-500 at a ceremony held at Kigali International Airport. The two-class configuration aircraft has 12 business class and 90 economy class seats. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAOut of Africa sends Berkman up a tree
| BizLounge |
SOUTH AFRICAMore dance and less drama at the Baxter Dance Festival
[Debbie Hathway] The sixth Baxter Dance Festival offered an entertaining opening-night line-up, featuring South African dancers, renowned British contemporary dance duo Anthony Missen and Kevin Turner for Company Chameleon, and a commissioned work by Carolyn Holden. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAColours of the Kalahari launched
[Ilva Pieterse] Wildlife and nature photographer Hannes Lochner recently embarked on a nationwide launch of his second book, Colours of the Kalahari. At the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rosebank, Lochner shared some of his most treasured photographic experiences with guests at the Johannesburg launch on 20 August, 2010. Read more >>More BizLounge news...
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| New events to diarise |
- Ard Matthews and friends - Cape Town, 9 September
- Your amazing race through lIfe FULLIFE Coaching - Johannesburg, 11 September
- Dynamic social media for business Niche Training - Durban, 14 September
- Advanced feature writing IAJ - Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - Johannesburg, 15 September
- Internal communication seminar Knowledge Resources - Johannesburg, 22 September
- My career choice exhibition 2010 Bass Entertainment - Durban, 22 September
- Second Annual My Career Choice Exhibition 2010 Bass Entertainment - Durban, 22 September
- Government media: essential tools Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership - Grahamstown, 27 September
- Businesswomen's association celebration - Cape Town, 29 September
- Object-orientated analysis and design with UML Faculty Training Institute - Cape Town, 11 October
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