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| MISA Malawi's new website promotes the right to information and free speech... read |
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| PrideTV, Africa's only LGBTQ video-on-demand (VOD) channel, has launched a second tier of streaming video content to cater for its growing audience... read |
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| Nick Hodge Programmatic advertising has been growing in strength each year and can have some big advantages. Here are reasons why it's back on the menu... read |
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| Nomahlubi Jordaan and Ernest Mabuza Former talk show host Redi Tlhabi's book Khwezi: The Remarkable Story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, an account of the life of President Jacob Zuma's rape accuser, has been an instant hit... read |
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| Taschica Pillay Spending on internet access contributed to the growth in South Africa's entertainment and media industry... read |
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| New United Nations report reveals the momentum for digital payments in Ghana could save over GHS 1 billion within next four years... read |
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| Sifelani Tsiko With a food import bill of Africa hovering around $35bn per annum, can Africa feed itself? read |
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| Deutsche Welle launches its Africa programming as Live Radio on Facebook... read |
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| The Ugandan authorities must stop threatening to close media outlets simply for doing their job, said Amnesty International... read |
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| According to John Lucas, country manager of DHL Express South Africa, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) need to make supply chain management part of their business plan if they want to succeed... read |
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| Newspapers must find inventive ways to retain and attract advertisers and community newspapers may have the answer, as they have not followed the declining print trend... read |
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| Tom Jackson Aaron Fu, the new managing director (MD) of pan-African entrepreneurial training programme, seed fund and incubator Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST), has big plans... read |
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| The Tanzanian government has drafted sweeping regulations to tighten its grip on online content producers and users across popular social media platforms... read |
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| Justin Probyn A little-known fact about Dutch beer-brewing company and global brand, Heineken, is that it sources half of its raw materials from local, small-scale farmers for its African operations... read |
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| The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre at the University of Johannesburg is hosting a seminal exhibition of powerful images by renowned African photojournalist, Priya Ramrakha... read |
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| End of road for low-commitment investments in Africa: South Africa no longer automatic country of choice... read |
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| Danette Breitenbach When it comes to data consumption video dominates, taking the lion's share, with web browsing, social networking, communications and music, attracting far lower and fairly equal shares for the remainder of the data consumption... read |
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| Lisa Steingold Given the rise of mobile, social algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) and their impact on both advertising and how we engage, the way advertising campaigns are run has changed... read |
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| Jamie Matroos Clothes, patterns and evocative prints had always held meaning for Mozambican entrepreneur Wacy Zacarias... read |
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| Garth Meier The harsh reality is that local retailers are still very early on their journeys towards leveraging big data... read |
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| Currently in pilot phase at the Welgevonden Game Reserve in Limpopo, MTN's Connected Wildlife Solution aims to tip the scales in favour of endangered species like rhinos and those working to save them... read |
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| Issued by Grey This year has been one of taking on unchartered African territory with the expanding Grey Africa Network set to acquire even more of a stake in the continent... read |
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| Issued by Bizcommunity.com Join us in celebrating the courageous innovators, in small businesses and large, in South Africa and the rest of Africa, who take the risks that create new revenues, models and livelihoods, as we designate October and November as Entrepreneur Month across 18 industries on Biz... read |
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| Gabriella Mulligan Nigerian ridesharing platform GoMyWay has announced its closure at the end of October, citing lack of funding to continue operations... read |
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| Andy Walker Twitter's 140-character limit may soon be a thing of the past. The microblogging network announced plans to extend its arbitrary but now-familiar 140-character limit to 280 characters... read |
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| WE Communications' inaugural Brands in Motion study, conducted across South Africa, China, the UK, the US, Germany and Australia, examines rational and emotional drivers that motivate customer choices within today's environment... read |
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| The world's best product packaging was displayed at the Pentawards 2017 in Barcelona this past week... read |
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| This new seaweed harvesting business will be collecting washed up seaweed, and processing it to extract the organic matter in liquid form... read |
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| Farming and rural non-farm-based activities still have untapped potential to generate employment opportunities for the rising youth population in Africa... read |
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| For months now, Africa's rough diamonds have been increasing in value but the sale proceeds do not reach the people... read |
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| Sage has appointed Pieter Bensch as executive vice president for the Africa and Middle East region... read |
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| Jannine Adams Seamless travel and personalisation are two trends that are predicted to continue to disrupt the travel industry in the next decade, according to Amadeus' latest study... read |
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| As part of its African network expansion, British Airways will be starting its services to the Seychelles, offering more flights to Mauritius, with more seats on other routes... read |
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| Theuns Ehlers Renewable energy has journeyed from the subsidised fringes of electricity supply to become an integral part of the power landscape... read |
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| Nedbank has launched its first solar branch in Mncwasa in the Eastern Cape using SolarTurtle... read |
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| Lindsay Samson The waste upcycling company is creatively solving one of Nigeria's most pressing issues - waste management... read |
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| Kenya, stripped this weekend of the right to stage the 2018 African Nations Championship (CHAN), has vowed to continue with a stadium construction project... read |
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| Viwanou Gnassounou Roughly $140bn worth of fish is traded globally per annum, with millions of people relying on jobs in fishing and fish-farming, not to mention the seafood industry... read |
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| Sindy Peters More than 20 years since its inception, the low-tech Hippo Roller continues to have a profound impact on communities facing water insecurity... read |
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| France has assigned magistrates to investigate allegations that banking giant BNP Paribas was complicit in the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi minority in Rwanda... read |
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| Mauritius Telecom has signed an agreement as an anchor tenant for ultra high-speed internet connectivity on the new IOX Submarine Cable System scheduled to go live in 2019... read |
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| The rising copper price will see renewed mining interest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)... read |
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| Kingsley Jeremiah The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has indicated readiness to deploy its 40 tank wagons for distribution of 1.8-million litres of petrol nationwide if contacted by marketers... read |
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| Omolade Adunbi The rise of ethnic and religious nationalism in Nigeria in the last decade has led to such high levels of tension that it's prompted people to ask if it will survive as a country... read |
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| Dereshin Pillay The digital revolution is not just apparent in the design and build of cars themselves, but digital tools are reshaping the automotive industry's customer buying and after-sales environments as well... read |
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| According to Samuel Oguah, an energy specialist with the Energy and Extractives Global Practice at the World Bank, “The Linking up: Public-Private Partnerships in Power Transmission in Africa report has a very simple message... read |
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| The 2017 Tusk Conservation Awards will be held in Cape Town on 4 October, recognising conservationists who share a passion for African wildlife and the protection of its delicate ecosystems... read |
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| Cape Town will host the third annual Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) from 5-6 October at the Century City Conference Centre... read |
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