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Turner's Upfront reveals brand new look, slate, and local partnerships for its African markets... read
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AFRICA
The 2018 AfricaCom Awards were announced at a colourful and festive Mardi Gras themed event in Cape Town last night...read
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AFRICA
NTOMBI MHANGWANI
As new ideas, digital technologies and business models penetrate the marketplace in Africa, the ability to disrupt is becoming more and more of a necessity...read
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AFRICA
Cartoon Network's Creative Lab winners of its search for the next African animation talent, have been announced...read
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AFRICA
Lesela, meaning cloth or fabric in Sesotho and Swahili, is a new mobile app that provides access to African fashion designers... Read
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AFRICA
AfriDocs: Migrant stories changing the narrative on migration... Read
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AFRICA
The Ladima Foundation: women of influence panel discussion DISCOP Joburg... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Ventureburn 2018 Startup Survey results are out and it uncovers the nuts and bolts of the SA tech startup sector... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MIKE BEUKES
Mike Beukes lists a few important things he thinks we need if we want an industry that is appealing to entrepreneurs... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
The final two sessions of the 2020 track of AfricaCom - focused on how the 'smart feature phone' will revolutionise the digital landscape in Africa and what will happen when 1bn Africans are connected to the internet... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
In order for Africa to leap into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, industry players must re-calibrate their telco strategy... Read
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NIGERIA
Juliet Anammah, CEO of Jumia Nigeria, has described the recent tripartite motion to develop a framework to regulate the activities of e-commerce platforms in Nigeria as a round peg in a round hole... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
On the second day of AfricaCom 2018, Indranil Das, VP and head of Ericsson digital services for EMEA explained the importance of asking if the customer experience exceeds the customer expectation... Read
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AFRICA
ISSUED BY PROVANTAGE MEDIA GROUP
Global Out Of Home Media, which provides advertising solutions across Africa, continues to expand its footprint of quality sites following the renewal and extension of its contract with the Urban Community of Yaoundé, Cameroon... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY SHIFT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Africa's leading Shared Value event is coming to Nairobi, Kenya, for the first time in 2019. Taking place from 23-24 May 2019, the event will focus on the importance of building Shared Value ecosystems in Africa to drive both economic benefit and social development at scale... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
It's becoming harder than ever to 'kill the story' in these technologically advanced times... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
One of 75 local finalists shortlisted across 15 categories, Workshop17 was named Best Coworking Space - South Africa, at the recent Southern Africa Startup Awards... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
Jennifer Thomas, an award-winning, veteran American broadcast journalist, was invited by the United States Embassy (South Africa) to address the Cape Town Press Club on media coverage of elections in the age of fake news late last month... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GARETH HAWKEY
Mobile represents an unparalleled opportunity for savvy retailers to reach customers in more personalised, efficient and powerful ways... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DANETTE BREITENBACH
We are entering the digital era. In 2022 voice commerce sales is projected to be US$40bn in the US alone. Does this mean marketers should abandon long-term branding?... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KYLE ROLFE
The Edelman Barometer confirms that trust in our world is at an all-time low. Whether it's trust in the media in an age of fake news, trust in corporations and their marketing promises, or trust in politicians to act in the best interests of their constituents, trust in general is a scarce commodity... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As secrets go, the fact that technology has fundamentally changed the face of business has to be the worst kept... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JOHN LAURENCE
Have you ever wondered how your brain prioritises what you pay attention to?... Read
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AFRICA
An online portal has been launched that will consolidate, validate and disseminate energy data and insights across Africa's energy value chain, covering generation, transmission, distribution, regulation and policy. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The 21st edition of AfricaCom kicks off today, 13 November 2018, in Cape Town and is shaping up to be an impressive event... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
"I never subscribed for that, now all my data is gone!" It's a common call centre complaint, and also the basis of a highlight of the AfricaCom 20/20 track: The keynote address by Dimitris Maniatis, head of Secure-D at Upstream, who revealed the scary reality of smartphone data fraud... Read
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AFRICA
HANS ZACHAR
Acceleration of digitisation raises the bar for companies to innovate - or be left behind... Read
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SENEGAL
StarTimes inked a 10-year deal with Senegalese Professional Football League... Read
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AFRICA
Joburg Film Festival opened on Friday with Kenyan feature film, Rafiki... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANGELA QUINTAL
Muthoki Mumo and I embarked on a 10-day visit to Tanzania, primarily as a networking and fact-finding mission to gauge media freedom in Magufuli's Tanzania. We had nothing to hide, and even had a letter of invitation from the government-recognised press regulator. But then I heard a knock on my hotel room door... Read
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TANZANIA
The Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC)'s will launch a Tanzania Safari Channel in December... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The inaugural Africa Rising International Film Festival (Ariff) will be as part of the Global Festival Week in South Africa from 26-29 November 2018... Read
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AFRICA
GRB Studios has inked a multiyear licensing and distribution deal with Black TV and will be collaborating with the African channel, led by actor and producer Thomas Gumede... Read
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AFRICA
The Canal+ Group announces the distribution and sale of audio-visual content in Africa and internationally... Read
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AFRICA
Experienced journalists, industry experts to adjudicate submissions for 2019 Pan African Re/Insurance Journalism Awards... Read
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GLOBAL
2018 Epica Awards Grand Prix winners from the United States, Italy, Ireland, Germany and Japan have all been announced... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
A new report from Juniper Research has found that the IoT payments market will grow at an average of 75% per annum... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Predominantly, macadamias are consumed in kernel form as a snack, and specifically in China, in-shell. Appetite from the ingredients sector is expanding rapidly... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Coworking spaces are designed to be dynamic by offering functionality and flexibility and are particularly well-suited for companies and entrepreneurs who want to grow their businesses... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EUGENE YIGA
Eugene Yiga talks to the curator of Radisson RED in Cape Town, Dale Simpson, about the new hotel... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Africa can draw lessons from the European Union's path to integration, economic and political union, and achieving social progress, says President Cyril Ramaphosa... Read
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AFRICA
Meeting on the eve of major global biodiversity talks in Egypt, scientists warned African ministers that the threat today to the continent's plants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and large mammals is unprecedented... Read
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KENYA
A new triple drug therapy with the potential to reduce the time to treat and break transmission of lymphatic filariasis (LF) from at least five years down to two years is being piloted in Kenya... Read
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KENYA
The Habitat for Humanity Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter's ShelterTech Accelerator programme is making its Africa debut in Kenya... Read
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ANGOLA
Angola has joined the GECF, the organisation at the forefront of promoting the use of natural gas as an affordable and sustainable fuel of choice for sustainable development.... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MILLS SOKO
The collapse of Steinhoff International, the multi-billion dollar global business group, has been rightly described as the biggest corporate scandal in South African history... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
STUART SCANLON
As implementation of new EU General Data Protection Regulations continues, many South African companies are finding themselves unprepared and likely to face stiff penalties if they don't seek compliance as a matter of urgency... Read
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NAMIBIA
HENNING MELBER
Thirty years of German settler colonialism in South West Africa - from 1884 to 1914 - paved the way for continued apartheid under South Africa... Read
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AFRICA
AKANI CHAUKE
There are a number of sub-Saharan African countries where the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned debt servicing costs were becoming a burden, especially in oil-producing countries... Read
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AFRICA
BARBARA VAN KOPPEN
A new study has found that outdated, colonial-era water permit systems across Africa are unintentionally criminalising millions of small farmers who can't obtain permits... Read
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MOZAMBIQUE
In August this year, Choice Diesel Mozambique became the first and only independent sales and service dealer of FAW trucks in Mozambique... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
What do Tim Modise, the late Rowena Baird, Stephanie Ruhle, and Oprah have in common? They serve as inspiration for the new news and social media anchors of OpenView's Open News... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
RentMyRide is empowering locals by giving them the tools for a low-touch small business and creating competition for conventional car rental companies... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Cisco South Africa announced the launch of a R10m incubation hub to help develop SMMEs in the digital age... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
African banks, insurance institutions and investors have been challenged to relax their stringent requirements for the funding of emerging agribusiness ventures on the continent... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Datacentrix recently focused on the topic of digital adoption within the local agriculture sector, at its second annual Agri Indaba... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Community-based tourism has received a massive boost with the recent launch of WowZulu, an initiative that seeks to create inclusive tourist destinations that serve as a best-case South African model for the sector... Read
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KENYA
Plans are underway for South Africa and Kenya to introduce a 10-year multiple entry visa for businesspeople to ease movement between the two countries... Read
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MOROCCO
Honoris United Universities has acquired École d'Architecture de Casablanca (EAC) in Morocco, another key milestone in the private pan-African higher education network's expansion... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
For Africa to realise its full potential, the continent needs to invest in the skills, capabilities and well-being of its citizens... Read
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