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| [Louise Marsland] As a former MTV and Channel O presenter and filmmaker with renowned Hollywood director, Spike Lee, FleishmanHillard's latest key appointment, Mimi Kalinda, brings a wealth of media and communications experience to her new position of Director: African Lead for the global communications consultancy. Read more >>
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The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) says it is shocked at the sudden resignation of Makhudu Sefara as Editor of The Star. Read more >> | Danette Breitenbach Many women enter the media and media-related industries, but there are still very few at the upper and board levels in the sector. This is set to change with the launch of WIN South Africa. Read more >> | Ed Herbst 'Editorial independence was not a figment; it was practised. Sparks, who served as head of television news, refers to Zwelakhe's tenure as the SABC's own Prague Spring. It's all gone up in smoke now.' Read more >> |
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 | BMW has come under fire for placing a controversial Mini Cooper billboard advertisement near the spot where jailed hip-hop star Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye and a friend ploughed into a group of Soweto schoolchildren while drag racing in Mini Coopers. Read more >>
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 | The Creative Circle Ad of the Month results for May 2014 have been announced. Read more >>
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 | The WDC Design Policy Conference, 'Make a Plan', is a two-day global exchange of design strategy that takes place at the Cape Town Stadium 17-18 October 2014. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Lima Bean PEP, South Africa's largest single brand retailer, approached leading full-service digital agency, Lima Bean, to reimagine their web presence and devise a long-term effective digital strategy representative of the accessibility and amiability associated with the brand. Read more >>
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 | Issued by RecruitGroup Thursday 27 June at the Hyatt in Rosebank was abuzz with excited students and even more excited talent acquisition managers from some of South Africa's largest corporates. RecruitGroup was there to provide career guidance and advice. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Hummingbird Group Pollen & Hey!Fever, under the direction of creative director Graeme Carr, were recently commissioned by comedian and local personality, John Vlismas, to create a staggering amount of content for this years FNB leadership conference. Read more >>
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 | The 2014 brandhouse Responsible Drinking Media Awards have been presented and Ina Skosana and Madelene Cronje were joint winners of the Journalist of the Year Award for their story 'Violence, pregnant teenagers and booze at De Aar'. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Habari Media Habari Media has relaunched Habari Exchange as hbx, providing South African advertisers with a world-class programmatic media buying service that places them on par with their international counterparts in the competitive real-time digital media buying space. Read more >>
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 | Using cellphones to make purchases at markets, restaurants and convenience stores is growing in popularity, particularly through SnapScan. Read more >>
|  | Issued by Mobile Marketing Association The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has announced the addition of 13 new industry leaders to its MMA South Africa Board of Directors serving for a one-year term from 1 August. Read more >>
|  | Issued by AAT - Always Active Technologies A new USSD number that works across all South African cellular networks could make things a little easier in the future. Read more >>
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 | Glenn Jeffery, Issued by Grey As the hashtag in the title may suggest, I went on a digital course the other day. As one does these days. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Bytes Document Solutions At FESPA Africa 2014, Bytes Document Solutions will focus on providing the digital printing industry with relevant technology and services to take their businesses to the next level of profitability. Read more >>
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 | Celebrating 2014 Sunday Times Literary Awards, presented in association with Exclusive Books at a dinner held at Summer Place in Sandton, first time fiction writer Claire Robertson and political correspondent and commentator Max du Preez were awarded top honours. Read more >>
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 | Issued by OFM Radio Rihanna is taking over OFM with her own theme weekend, while Mondays glisten with the Atwork Network Gold and listeners' requests from the 60's, 70's and 80's. Read more >>
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 | The SME Survey 2014, sponsored by the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA), Business Connexion and Microsoft, has released its 2014 results that indicate that SMEs are steadily moving to the cloud and have a generally positive perception of government services. Read more >>
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|  | WASHINGTON, USA: Cyber-attackers, possibly even state sponsored, have been targeting energy operations in the United States and Europe since 2011 and were capable of causing significant damage, security researchers have claimed. Read more >>
|  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Facebook said that the World Cup has kicked up more action at the leading social network than any other event in history. Read more >>
|  | The African online television service, PanaTV has signed an exclusive deal with Soda Pictures, acquiring the rights to subscription VOD for Nigerian film Half of a Yellow Sun. (video) Read more >>
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More International
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|  | Kingdom Mabuza North West Premier Supra Mahumapelo's pledge to allocate all state-owned farms in the province to community and youth cooperatives has been greeted favourably, but details on how this will be implemented are sketchy. Read more >>
|  | Evan Pickworth The Treasury published its 2014 budget update on retirement reforms on 14 March but the deadline for the first two policy documents has been missed‚ as a rigorous consultation phase within the industry continues. Read more >>
|  | About 220,000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) workers in the steel and metal sector are downing tools in a nationwide strike that starts today. Read more >>
| Susan Meyer and Nazeera Mia | | Promoted content |  | ONE.org's Do Agric petition, which calls on African leaders to recommit to spending at least 10% of national budgets on effective agriculture investments, has gathered more than two million signatures of support from African citizens across the continent. Read more >> |
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More Government news
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|  | Digital Sales Executive Needed for a top media owner Read more >> |
 | A leading wealth management company is looking for head of brand to take responsibility for CI development, alignment, consistent brand application and best practice implementation of the company's corporate identity. Read more >> |
 | Front-end developer wanted to build outstanding user experiences on desktop and mobile platforms at Promise Digital. Experience required in HTML, CSS 2.1, jQuery, Ajax, HTML5, CSS3. Read more >> |
The Red Phone has an exciting role for a senior graphic designer who wants to be involved in everything from developing and designing ideas, to making them come alive. Read more >>EXP is looking for an experienced account director to manage a cycling sponsorship portfolio. Must be strategic, proactive and passionate about the industry. Read more >>International publishing company is looking for an enthusiastic assistant product manager.
You must have marketing, analytical and project management skills. Previous experience in direct marketing, seminars and web marketing. Read more >>HKLM, a leading brand and communication design consultancy, has a vacancy for a financial manager. Read more >>A suitably qualified and experienced publishing operations coordinator is needed for a contract position at Oxford University Press in the Cape Town area. Read more >>
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| SEO strategyAAA School of Advertising - 21 Jul 2014 to 25 Aug 2014 Cape Town |
| STOKVELEX 2014 - 3 Jul 2014 to 6 Jul 2014 PretoriaThe STOKVELEX 2014 is a Premiere show targeting Stokvels, cooperatives and individuals around the Gauteng region. Read more >> | |
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