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Ethiopia clamps down on independent media

AfricaWatch: The Ethiopian government is clamping down on independent media, claims HRW, as reported by Mail & Guardian (Video)...

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Political billboards a security threat?

AfricaWatch: A Ghanaian researcher reckons billboards (in Ghana) depicting Nigerian political personages, are a threat to security...

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Have we left the media freedom debate too late?

Leigh Andrews

If you thought the murder of French media workers had little impact on the South African media landscape, Right2Know suggests you think again - prepare to take action with your pens and laptops...

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Biz Takeouts
SOUTH AFRICA
[Biz Takeouts Podcast] 119: Careers24 Sandcastle campaign and Mike Sharman
On the last Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show, host Warren Harding interviewed Nadia Boucher Coombe and Mike Sharman... read more>>
Design
SOUTH AFRICA
Guild international design fair to boost design exports in Africa, South Africa
A leading supporter of design-driven economic growth, Southern Guild is putting the spotlight on the continent with Guild, Africa's only international design fair, in Cape Town from 25 February to 1 March... read more>>
Mobile
SOUTH AFRICA
Movement of mobile money market in Africa
Frost & Sullivan has released its executive summary, 'Mobile Money Market in Sub-Saharan Africa - Selected Countries'... read more>>
Online Media
AFRICA
Ghana opens probe after government websites hacked
ACCRA GHANA: Ghana launched a probe on Wednesday after most of the West African government's websites fell victim to hackers... read more>>
International
UNITED STATES
Email scam nets $214m in 14 months: FBI
WASHINGTON, US: An email scam which targets businesses with bogus invoices has netted more than $214m from victims in 45 countries in just over one year... read more>>
UNITED STATES
Netflix eyes empire as internet TV battle heats up
WASHINGTON, US: Netflix is ramping up efforts to conquer the world with its streaming video service, even as competition is heating up in the growing market for Internet television... read more>>
SOUTH AFRICA
South African National sentenced to death in Malaysia for drug-related offences
UNITED STATES
YoungGuns - the ones to watch; enter now
UNITED STATES
WhatsApp adds messaging from Web
UNITED STATES
Microsoft debuts hologram goggles
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Government news
SOUTH AFRICA
National key points - the list they didn't want you to see
NEWSWATCH: A bid by the SA History Archive (Saha) and Right2Know Campaign has paid off. Here's The List, reports Mail & Guardian... read more>>
SOUTH AFRICA
SAA to receive government guarantee
National carrier South African Airways (SAA) is to receive an additional R6.488bn guarantee, the Ministry of Finance said on Thursday, 22 January... read more>>
SOUTH AFRICA
Africa wants its own air transport market by 2017
African Ministers of Transport have declared their full support for the African Union Commission's proposal for the establishment of a single African air transport market by 2017... read more>>
SOUTH AFRICA
Drop first-year fee demands, SRC tells Wits
The Wits Student Representative Council has demanded that Wits University revoke its decision to charge first-year students awaiting financial aid half of the R9,340 registration fee... read more>>
SOUTH AFRICA
Muthambi vs Davis... Shock, horror, race
Minister Faith Muthambi has responded to an article on 19 January in Politicsweb by Gavin Davis, DA Shadow Minister of Communications... read more>>
SOUTH AFRICA
Mpumalanga Education raises the bar for 2015
SOUTH AFRICA
Rural KZN school receives solar PC lab
SOUTH AFRICA
KZN sugar industry hard hit by drought
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Travel news
SOUTH AFRICA
Hey, this is the hotel for you in Washington DC

Brian Berkman

The Hay-Adams, a historic boutique hotel and Leading Hotel of the World, in Washington, DC has The White House, Lafayette Square and St. John's Church as immediate neighbours... read more>>
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