25 Jan 2012

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AFRICA
AfricaScope purchases Tracklocate
AfricaScope, the decision-makers with strategic information for market and socio-economic development of people in Africa, have purchased TrackLocate, a company that provides a self-tracking solution that uses innovative technologies to track personal assets real time using the internet. Read more >>

AFRICA
[2012 trends] 5 African digital trends for 2012
[Dawn Rowlands] Africa is a mobile-first digital environment with 55% of the continent's 1 billion people having mobile phones. In South Africa mobile internet penetration is 70%, whilst desktop internet penetration sits at only at 11%, whereas in Nigeria mobile and desktop penetration are both over 20%. Read more >>

GABON
CNBC Africa launches satellite bureau in Gabon
Business news from Gabon scores an opening goal on CNBC Africa with the official opening of the channel's live satellite bureau in Libreville, West Africa, the same week which sees the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations kick off. Read more >>

Education & Training


SOUTH AFRICA
Intl students essay competition for meetings industry
As part of the ten year celebration of IMEX, the global meetings, events and incentive travel industry trade show, the organisers, together with research partners, Fast Future Research, are inviting students from all over the world to enter an essay competition as part of its new 'Power of 10' research study. Read more >>

Media


MALAWI
Local newspaper questions MACRA
[Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi] Sunday Times newspaper, owned by Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL), has through a recent issue, questioned the conduct of the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA). Read more >>

Mobile


AFRICA
Cross-border telephone remittances increase in Africa
[Anna McGovern] More people in Africa's poorest countries have mobile phones than have bank accounts. That reality is spurring mobile service companies to explore how they can capture a share of the potential banking market by enabling migrants from these countries to transfer funds back home to their families. Read more >>

Newspapers


UGANDA
Ugandans get common Suggestion Box
[Walter Wafula] Finally, there's a publication which gives Ugandans more space to express their views and frustrations on just about anything in a bigger way. Read more >>

Retail


AFRICA
Tullow Oil launches African business initiative
Tullow Oil plc, an independent oil company in Africa, has launched a new business initiative aimed at attracting and facilitating further investment in the continent. Read more >>

TV


AFRICA
BBA 7 brings double housemates
[Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi] Multichoice Malawi announced on 24 January 2012 that the Big Brother Africa housemates of Season 7, will go in the house in pairs, where they will choose whether to pair with spouses, friends or family. Read more >>


International
UNITED STATES
SA on the jury for 37th annual One Show
NEW YORK, US: Fifty-six of the advertising industry's most acclaimed professionals from around the world have been selected to judge the 37th annual One Show, One Show Design and One Show Interactive Awards. Ross Chowles of Jupiter Drawing Room, Cape Town, is on the jury. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
NYF International Advertising Awards: Additional 2012 Executive Jury appointments
NEW YORK, US: New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has announced additional appointments to the 2012 Executive Jury. This panel of prominent worldwide chief creative officers will convene in New York from 28 April through to 1 May. Read more >>

FRANCE
AMC Networks' Josh Sapan to give keynote at MIPTV 2012
PARIS, FRANCE: Josh Sapan, president and CEO, AMC Networks Inc, will deliver a Media Mastermind keynote address on 2 April at MIPTV 2012 (1-4 April). Read more >>

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Raja Trad: Dubai Lynx Advertising Person 2012 Award
DUBAI, UAE: The Dubai International Advertising Festival, one of the leading awards for creative excellence in advertising and communications in the Middle East and North Africa, has announced that Raja Trad, CEO of Leo Burnett Group MENA and member of the Leo Burnett Wordwide Global Leadership Council (GLC), will be presented with the Dubai Lynx Advertising Person 2012 Award. Read more >>

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Government
SOUTH AFRICA
Minister briefs NCOP on Info Bill
[Francis Hweshe] State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele says the Protection of State Information Bill is aimed at stamping out rising espionage cases as well as the business of peddling state information. Yesterday Cwele briefed the National Council of Provinces' ad hoc committee, which is handling the Bill. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Dept strives for faster ICT delivery
Three months into her appointment as Communications Minister, Dina Pule has assured South Africans that her department will strive to deliver information and communication technology (ICT) services to the people on the ground. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Chaotic university admissions need attention
[Nomboniso Gasa] During a radio interview on education in January last year, the director general of basic education assured listeners that the problems associated with matric results and chaotic university admission were but teething problems that were receiving urgent attention. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Warning: Beware bogus sellers
Government has appealed to South Africans to refrain from buying land from bogus sellers as they will not only lose their money, but they could be evicted and charged for illegally occupying the land. The warning from Rural Development and Land Affairs comes in the wake of recent and ongoing land invasions in Walmanthsdall, north of Pretoria. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Six dead in Mpuma floods
[Cobus Coetzee, Thabisile Khoza, Yvonne Silaule] The Mpumalanga provincial government has started mop-up operations and repairing damaged infrastructure after heavy rains wreaked havoc in the Lowveld last week. Read more >>

More Government news...


Motoring
SOUTH AFRICA
Peugeot revitalising its image
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] As part of Peugeot South Africa's plans to boost the brand's image, service and sales during 2012 it is introducing for the first time in the French carmaker's history a full five-year maintenance plan for its entire passenger car range. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Hyundai H1: The Big Easy...
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Hyundai South Africa is destined to ruffle a few opposition brand feathers again - this time with the introduction of its new H1 Multicab six-seater which cleverly blends the practicality of a workhorse with the comfort, space and drive quality of a leisure vehicle. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
FF+ lodges complaint over toll tags
The FF+ has complained to the Consumer Commission about Sanral's advertising of electronic toll tags for sale while tariffs are not fully available. Read more >>

More Motoring news...


Travel
SOUTH AFRICA
Travel and tourism business performance improves in last quarter of 2011
The latest results of the TBCSA FNB Tourism Business Index (TBI) show a marked improvement in business performance for the last quarter of 2011. TBI registered a performance index of 87.3 in quarter four of 2011, against an expected industry index of 80.7 and an actual index of 70.0 for the previous quarter. This report also marks the first anniversary of the index. Read more >>

More Travel news...


BizLounge
SOUTH AFRICA
Final line-up announced for Cape Jazz Festival
The final announcement of artists for the 2012 Cape Town International Jazz Festival, on 30 and 31 March, 2012, has been made. The headline acts reflect the festival's philosophy of broadening audiences' perspectives of jazz. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
A confusing comedy at Maynardville
[John Cooper] Some serious Googling the day before and then a quick read of the programme notes just before "curtain-up" (not that there is a curtain, but you know what I mean) were essential prerequisites for my being able to follow the riotous twists and turns of William Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors, this summer season's offering at the Maynardville open-air theatre. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
Probing beneath the surface
[Eugene Yiga] The word "disturbing" doesn't even being to describe The Skin I Live In, a new movie by Pedro Almodóvar. While the legendary Spanish director has been known to push cinematic boundaries (previous works like Bad Education and Volver come to mind), his latest creation is something else entirely. Enter at your own risk. Read more >>

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