Official 2010 Loeries rankings

While there can be many ways of analysing any competition, this year the Loeries has introduced official winners rankings which aim to be a transparent mechanism for reporting the outcome of the awards. With the release of the printed Loeries annual, additional rankings will be published, including top 10 tables for all the individual credits, eg ECD, illustrator, writer and director, as well as post production/VFX, etc. 4 Oct 2010 12:38

Four Loerie Grands Prix this year

Four Grands Prix were handed out this past weekend at the 32nd annual The Loerie Awards, held for the second time at Good Hope Centre in Cape Town: King James once again in TV & Cinema Commercials for Allan Gray's 'Legend'; the VWV Group in Experiential: Live Events for the 2010 FIFA World Cup closing ceremony; Boogerman+ Partners Architects in Architecture & Interior Design for Soccer City aka FNB Stadium aka National Stadium; and Grid Worldwide Branding and Tonic Design in Design Mixed-Media Campaign for the Comair/British Airways SLOW Lounge. 4 Oct 2010 10:41

Loeries to launch Creative Week Cape Town

The Loeries Awards will, this year, launch the inaugural Creative Week in Cape Town as part of the annual festival. Creative Cape Town has partnered with the Loeries to boost the festival and awards and to involve the city's creative community in Creative Week Cape Town, 24 September - 3 October 2010. 13 Aug 2010 09:49

World cup closing ceremony details

The 30-minute night-time closing ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup will take place at 6.30pm on Sunday, 11 July 2010, at Johannesburg's Soccer City Stadium - ahead of the final. It will be broadcast live in 215 countries to an audience in excess of 500 million viewers, according to the Local Organising Committee (LOC), and will feature 780 cast members and some of South Africa and Africa's top musicians and dancers. 7 Jul 2010 16:00

Rhodes to host global conf on journ education

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The School of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, will host a three-day global conference on journalism education starting from 5 July 2010, head of school Prof Guy Berger told Bizcommunity.com. So far, 330 delegates - half of them from Africa - have already registered to attend the conference. 15 Jun 2010 09:43

FIFA finally joins the party... on Twitter

FIFA released a press statement yesterday evening, Thursday, 10 June 2010, informing the world that its president, Joseph S Blatter, has joined Twitter. 10 Jun 2010 18:42

Zuma welcomes teams, fans, hails legacy

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] President Jacob Zuma put aside his family troubles for a while yesterday, Sunday, 6 June 2010, to have a joyful moment with local and international journalists, whom he addressed at his Pretoria presidential guesthouse on the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup. 7 Jun 2010 12:21

'Confident' SABC announces 2010 broadcast plans

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The SABC, as the FIFA World Cup's official broadcaster, announced its broadcasting plans for the tournament on Thursday, 13 May 2010. Peter Kwele, 2010 projects GM, said the SABC is confident that it will deliver the World Cup as it has never been done before. 13 May 2010 14:25

Y&R MENA CCO appointed Loeries judge

Shahir Zag, chief creative officer at Y&R Middle East & North Africa (MENA) will join the Advertising and Integrated Campaign judging panels for the 2010 Loerie Awards. 5 May 2010 10:40

2010 Loerie tickets on sale

Sales of single evening tickets or a weekend pass for the 2010 Loerie Awards in Cape Town, 1-3 October 2010, are now open. For every two grand seats purchased, three gallery seats can be purchased. However, educational institutions can access gallery seats by contacting the Loeries office. 3 May 2010 09:17

Delayed by volcano

[Rod Baker] The eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano had a massive impact on many spheres - from the airlines, to events, to travel, to health, import and exports, and more, and its impact is likely to be felt for a long time - and that's even should the eruption cease completely - which it hasn't! 29 Apr 2010 09:00

Gearhouse SA

Gearhouse South Africa is a winner at the Kora Awards

Gearhouse South Africa supplied full technical production - including lighting, sound, rigging, AV, stage, set - and crew for the high-profile 2010 Kora All Africa Music Awards staged at the Palais de Sport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, West Africa. 28 Apr 2010 15:43

Freshlyground scores world cup anthem

[Theresa Mallison] It's been a long road from Mowbray Kaap. But now that Freshlyground is singing the 2010 FIFA World Cup anthem (with Shakira), it could just hit the big time. And maybe local artists will stop complaining about their lack of opportunities during the world cup. 19 Apr 2010 09:32

African JV to supply world cup temp power, temperature control

The Shanduka-Aggreko joint venture (JV) energy rental contract will see the JV provide temporary power and temperature control for broadcast and technical services for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 14 Apr 2010 08:24