
CNBC Africa, a CNBC International franchise owned by Africa Business News, has entered into a joint venture with Mozambique's state broadcaster, Televisão de Moçambique (TVM), and will open a bureau in Maputo. CNBC Africa's country bureau representative will be Sunnyboy Mshengu.
24 May 2012 11:35
The finalists in the 17th CNN MultiChoice African Journalist competition were announced on 18 May 2012, by
Ferial Haffajee, chair of the independent judging panel. This year the competition received entries from 42 countries across the continent, including French and Portuguese speaking Africa.
18 May 2012 11:49
CNBC Africa, the pan-African financial and business channel, will celebrate five years of continental business broadcasting across Africa on 1 June 2012.
16 May 2012 11:42
Gateway Communications, the supplier of pan-African telecommunications services, continues with its plans to bring sub-sea connectivity inland across the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The most recent country to benefit from this initiative is Botswana, with capacity from SAT-3 being brought into Gaborone securely via South Africa.
14 May 2012 12:09
South Africa's technology publisher, ITWeb on wednesday, 9 May 2012, launched its new ITWeb Africa website which will provide news, insight and analysis for Africa's ICT sector, at the Hyatt Hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa.
9 May 2012 13:41
[Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] Cherilyn Ireton, a highly respected journalist and manager from titles such the
Sunday Times and
Business Day, took over as the
executive director of the
World Editors Forum that falls under
WAN-IFRA, in January 2012. She tells Bizcommunity.com of the challenges of the Parisian-based job, the biggest problems and opportunities facing editors across the globe and how she wants to connect editors to try find solutions.
20 Mar 2012 11:12
The Women in News (WIN) programme, a leadership programme for African women working in media and launched by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) in 2010, is now accepting applications from women media professionals from either the business or editorial side of newspapers in Botswana, Namibia and Zambia.
18 Jan 2012 11:04
Airtel, yesterday, 17 January 2012, announced the launch of its 3.75G platform in the country. This promises significant changes to how subscribers experience the web on 3.75G-enabled devices. The improved technology will enhance multimedia functionality, high speed mobile broadband and internet access, allowing users to make video calls, watch live TV, send and receive emails and download music from the devices.
17 Jan 2012 14:13Zambia values highly professional and well trained media personnel that will positively contribute to national development, Information, Broadcasting and Tourism minister Given Lubinda has said the government would therefore promote media training partnerships as they were in line with the Patriotic Front's agenda to have a vibrant media able to provide checks and balances.
21 Dec 2011 12:52Information, broadcasting and tourism minister, Given Lubinda has urged the media to be professional and avoid conduct that is likely to corrupt public morality.
19 Dec 2011 14:07
[Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi] The Malawian government has faulted Zambian president Michael Sata for granting the former president of Malawi a television broadcasting licence.
27 Oct 2011 16:03
[Gregory Gondwe: @Kalipochi] Malawi's former president Bakili Muluzi's aspirations to run Joy-TV alongside Joy FM radio, which were thwarted when Malawi government switched off the television broadcasting, has been given a lifeline by Zambian government.
18 Oct 2011 10:04Chief Simamba of the Tonga speaking people of Siavonga District in Southern Province has called on President Michael Sata's government to consider granting a full radio operation licence to Kariba FM Radio Trust.
17 Oct 2011 12:48
Fresh Living, the food magazine on South African shelves, continues to expand on its African footprint as it goes on sale this month in Mauritius.
10 Oct 2011 11:27