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| Ogilvy takes home top honours at second African SABRE ceremony as the African public relations industry celebrates the best campaigns...read |
| | Louise Marsland The need for accelerated social progress and purpose-driven communications is at an all-time high, especially in Africa...read |
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been voted Africa's most reputable and ethical individual, while Gift of the Givers and Botswana were recognised as the most admired organisation and country on the continent...read | 
Pieter Bensch The six steps that African businesses can take to comply with new European Union data privacy laws...read | 
Louise Marsland Africa's new digitised youth population, Generation Z, will define Africa's digital future and these are the skills they will need to do it...read |
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 | With video content and streaming influencing viewing habits on the African continent, TV Connect Africa has evolved into the Africa Video Forum stream... read |
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 | Mastercard and Unilever break down barriers to growth for micro entrepreneurs with first-of-its-kind digital lending platform... read |
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 | The wine consumer has evolved over the years. Wine producers are no longer able to rest on their laurels and expect the same wines to remain popular for years to come... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant Grid Worldwide launched its #HopeJoanna campaign on Freedom Day (Friday, 27 April) highlighting the highs and lows of the past 30 years in an effort to convey a message of hope and a sense of optimism to all South Africans... read |
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 | Call for papers for the 19th PAMRO All Africa Media Research conference... read |
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 | Issued By Nielsen In stark contrast to preceding quarters of decline, consumer sentiment in Kenya is on the rise in the latest Nielsen Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) results for Q1, 2018, having gained eight points to 102... read |
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 | Greg Morris People across Africa face considerable challenges - many of them existential. But, without the right devices, connectivity, and skills, those who badly need their problems solved often can't access available solutions... read |
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 | According to Waspa, the ongoing shift to mobile and Android's open source appeal has seen increasing attacks on mobile users through malware and ransomware inadvertently downloaded at app stores... read |
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 | South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya make up the top three of the 2018 EDI "digitagility" ranking in Africa which measures the ability of countries to go digital... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Ten startups from across Africa have been selected to take part in the inaugural Disrupt Africa Live Pitch Competition, which takes place in Nairobi next week... read |
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 | UN experts urge immediate release of detained Mauritanian blogger eligible for release on time-served... read |
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 | iflix capitalises on Egypt's exceptional opportunity with exclusive new partnership and newly established regional hub... read |
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 | Actors and directors from the African diaspora in Europe fight for a place in the film world... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Startupbootcamp Africa has signed a formal partnership with the Google Cloud Startup Programme, which will offer startups selected for the Cape Town-based accelerator more than $20,000 worth of tech support... read |
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 | Glenn van Eck Organising events in other countries poses challenges in innumerable forms and can develop into situations which often require diplomacy and tact... read |
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 | Ninety years ago, in 1928, the first Coca-Cola was sold on the continent in Cape Town, South Africa... read |
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 | Employers have an obligation to ensure their employees are skilled to adapt to the displacement being triggered by the fourth industrial revolution... read |
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 | To coincide with Europe Day, the European Union will launch the second film festival in Liberia... read |
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 | Juanita Pienaar Everyone is creating online video nowadays and by doing this, bypassing traditional channels, serving hundreds of millions of people their lively forms of content. At a recent Heavy Chef event, Danilo Acquisto shared some secrets of creating successful online video strategies... read |
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 | Publiseer, a Nigerian digital book publishing platform, and StreetLib, an Italian ebook aggregator, have concluded a partnership that will see more African literature and non-fiction books published... read |
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 | Gil Sperling How virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies are reshaping how consumers experience brands and the world around them... read |
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 | Anjana Susarla When Zuckerberg told congress Facebook would use AI to detect fake news, he wasn't particularly specific about what that meant... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews There's no denying Africa is the place to be. Business is booming, international investors are interested, and there are deals for the taking, if you know how to secure them. Here's how to do so, effectively, from both the corporate/sponsor and startup perspective... read |
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 | Nicole Biondi From 16 to 20 April, I joined over 1,000 people from more than 59 countries (majority Global South) in Nusa Dua, Bali for the 2018 International Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) Summit... read |
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 | Warren Green The internet of things (IoT) is a digital revolution that not only has the potential to impact how we live but also how we work... read |
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 | South African creative director Wes Phelan recently picked his favourite African advert for Africa.film, a new site showcasing Africa's best videos... read |
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 | Mastercard, with Pick n Pay and FoodForward SA, has committed to donating 1.2-million meals to South Africans in need... read |
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 | Burundi ordered a six-month ban on the broadcast operations of international networks, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the Voice Of America (VOA)... read |
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 | United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and INTL FCStone announce landmark structured trade seminar in Africa... read |
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 | SES increases reach in Nigeria to over 11 million TV homes, reaching 30 million homes across the continent... read |
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 | Cameroon military court orders radio journalist to be held for at least six months... read |
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 | The first of two award nights for One Show 2018 is done and dusted, having taken place at the Ziegfeld Ballroom earlier on Wednesday, 9 May, with Africa bringing home 1 silver, 4 bronze and 12 merit awards... read |
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 | The study outlines a number of key findings and trends among millennials who demand more adventurous travel experiences... read |
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 | The colours of the 515 winners of the 97th global ADC Annual Awards were revealed on the first evening of the One Club for Creativity's Creative Week, held on 7 May 2018 at Industria in New York's Meatpacking District, with a Silver Cube coming home to SA... read |
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 | Ann Nurock As The One Club for Creativity's Creative Week 2018 gets underway, I sit down with CEO Kevin Swanepoel for a catch-up on their developments over the past year... read |
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 | Healthcare is getting more high-tech - from electronic medical records and patient self-tracking to informatics and minimally invasive procedures - and nurses are at the forefront of using these innovative solutions to improve patient care in Africa... read |
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 | Chikwe Ihekweazu At least 17 people have died in an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the north-west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the town of Bikoro. Ebola is endemic to the country. But the number of deaths in a short period is cause for concern... read |
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 | Syriacus Buguzi A new report has revealed how children as young as seven years of age are lured into small-scale mining activities in the country... read |
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 | Haji Mtumwa The Pemba Airport will undergo a major facelift so it can handle bigger planes, the revolutionary government of Zanzibar has said... read |
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 | The second edition of the African Forum of Territorial Managers and Training Institutes targeting local and regional governments was held at the Be Live hotel in Saidia, Morocco last week, where delegates participated in the creation of the Local Africa HR-Net... read |
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 | Peter Leon Three new laws, enacted by the country's national assembly in July 2017 under a certificate of urgency, will have a profound impact on Tanzania's resources sector... read |
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 | Yusef Waghid, Faiq Waghid and Zayd Waghid What happens when African philosophies and practices are placed at the centre of learning? How can teachers and students on the continent use the concepts of ubuntu (human interdependence) and ukama (relationality) to come up with homegrown solutions for societal and educational concerns? read |
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 | The conservation of South Africa's biodiversity is a critical component in securing the future of tourism, an industry many South Africans depend on for their livelihood... read |
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 | FNB has launched a mini-ATM that uses biometrics as a means of validation for consumers, making it the first bank in South Africa to use this technology for everyday consumer banking... read |
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 | Sarita Pillay Land debates are reverberating across South Africa... read |
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 | Rebecca Campbell Diamond group De Beers has reported that its total production increased by 15% to 8,5 million carats during the first quarter of this year... read |
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 | Cape Town has been named as the number one meetings destination in Africa for the tenth consecutive year... read |
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 | Natalia Rosa There's an energy and dogged determination one feels when visiting Nigeria for the first time. It's that palpable can-do, roll-up-your-sleeves, hurry-up-and-wait atmosphere that is simply intoxicating... read |
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 | The awards recognises pioneering utilities, projects and people in the energy and water industry... read |
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 | Through the fourth industrial revolution's converging technologies, South Africa has the opportunity to become an early adopter, accelerating its agro-processing development... read |
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 | Kenya and Uganda are at advanced stages of bringing in at least 300 doctors from Cuba to ease staffing shortages in rural health facilities and deal with increasing threats of industrial action by disgruntled local medical practitioners... read |
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 | "We currently have 25 operating hotels across eight countries in Africa, and we are looking at expanding our presence further by more than 27%, in three to five years." read |
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 | These programmes focus on combating diseases related to poverty, such as rheumatic heart disease, pericardial disease, cardiomyopathy and heart failure... read |
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 | Underpinning Africa's Travel Indaba is tourism which energises economies and fuels the economic transformation of countries on the continent. Its benefits range from livelihoods improvement to export diversification... read |
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 | Michael Zahariev The African continent is the last frontier for the global car sales industry. According to the 2015 International Organisation of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers' report Vehicles in Use, an estimated 44.8 million cars were in use across the continent that year... read |
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 | Pep has launched a new service called Paxi (as in 'parcel taxi') which allows consumers, agents, suppliers, and institutions to send, collect, and return parcels to over 2,000 Pep store Paxi collection points... read |
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 | A General Electric (GE) led consortium has signed an interim phase agreement with the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) for the Nigerian narrow-gauge railway concession... read |
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Benjamin Disraeli "Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke." David Attenborough "The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about." Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." |
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Media Law and EthicsIAJ - Institute for the Advancement of Journalism - 22 May 2018 to 23 May 2018, Johannesburg |
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