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Celebrate World Radio DayToday, the 13th February, is a date proclaimed by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), as an occasion to draw attention to the unique value of radio, which remains the medium to reach the widest audience and is currently taking up new technological forms and... read more 13 Feb 2012 Last call to enter IABC African Gold Quill awardsThe Gold Quill, the International Association of Business Communicators' (IABC) global awards competition recognising outstanding achievement in communication, is still open for entries and the final deadline is this Friday, 10 February 2012 by the close of business. All entries should be submitted... read more 6 Feb 2012 A-EXIM set for Kenya in June 2012A-EXIM, a trade fair focusing exclusively on the export and import industry will take place at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 15-18 June 2012. The trade fair reflects the global market in every sector - from ICT to infrastructure, agribusiness, transport... read more 1 Feb 2012 POWER-GEN Africa 2012 call for papers deadline extendedPOWER-GEN Africa 2012, the conference and exhibition that covers topics within the power and energy industry and focuses on sub-Saharan Africa to provide global technology for local solutions, and takes place from 6-8 November 2012, Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa. The... read more 31 Jan 2012 ICC confirms charges against Kenyan journoCharges against a Kenyan journalist, Joshua Arap Sang, have been confirmed by the International Criminal Courts (ICC) in the Hague, Netherlands. Sang who made history as the first Kenyan journalist to face charges at the ICC is among five other Kenyan politicians and senior government officials said... read more 23 Jan 2012 Exclusive interview with Oprah on Africa PrimeIn an hour long special on Africa Prime, exclusive to CNBC Africa, Godfrey Mutizwa will chat to Oprah Winfrey about her Leadership Academy for Girls which opened its doors in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2007. Winfrey was recently in South Africa to celebrate the graduation of the first group of... read more 17 Jan 2012 Continental Outdoor wins Superbrand awardContinental Outdoor Media (Zimbabwe) was awarded 2nd prize in the Best Media House category in the 2011 Superbrands Awards at an awards ceremony last night, at the Rainbow Hotel in Zimbabwe, hosted by The Marketers Association of Zimbabwe. The award comes just after six months of Continental Outdoor... read more 12 Dec 2011 Survey: Determining the importance of CSR/CSITribalfish, a strategic creative agency, is conducting a survey relating to corporate social responsibility (CSR)/corporate social investment (CSI). The purpose of the questionnaire is to determine the importance of CSR/CSI within organisations, what organisations look for and prefer within CSI... read more 7 Dec 2011 Primedia Africa expands management teamPrimedia Africa has increased the management team with the appointments of Ant Cowling as operations and development manager, Tamara Van Eeckhoven as financial manager and Liz Pillay as marketing and marketing insights nanager 25 Nov 2011 Media accreditation open for Design IndabaMedia interested in applying for accreditation for the 2012 Design Indaba Conference (29 February - 2 March) are advised to familiarise themselves with the guidelines on the website, before applying. The organisers state that, due to the high demand for tickets to the conference, there are only 20... read more 23 Nov 2011 Record attendance for AfricaCom 2011The Cape Town International Convention Centre in South Africa will open its doors to over 6 450 pre-registered attendees for this year's annual AfricaCom event, a significant increase on 2010. Organisers of Africa's largest ICT, media and telecoms conference, Informa Media & Telecoms,... read more 8 Nov 2011 Max du Preez brings out new book on MandelaA fresh, honest overview of the life story and the impact of Nelson Mandela has been compiled by author and columnist, Max du Preez (@MaxduPreez), and published by Penguin for release this month,The Rough Guide to Nelson Mandela. It assesses the influence of his rural, traditional childhood on his... read more 3 Nov 2011 New fresh look for iafrica.comIn response to web design improvements and the need to optimise or remove specific content sections to reflect how both readers and advertisers use the site, iafrica.com has completed a design refresh. Along with the reorganising of content and the optimised advertising targeting, visitors will... read more 1 Nov 2011 PromaxBDA Africa 2011 announces programmeThe 2011 PromaxBDA Africa, sponsored by M-Net, DStv and SABC, taking place at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday 28 October 2011 under the theme 'Connect 3.0' has released the full programme schedule. Download the full programme or go to www.promaxafrica.tv for more.... read more 25 Oct 2011 2011 Tech4Africa starts this weekTech4Africa, the continent's only web and emerging technology conference begins this week. The two-day conference takes place from Thursday 27 October until Friday 28 October 2011 at The Forum in Bryanston, Johannesburg, South Africa. Tickets are still available and registration for the conference... read more 24 Oct 2011 Algerian writer wins peace prizeBoualem Sansal, a writer from Algeria, was awarded the Peace Prize at the annual German Book Trade 2011 for his struggle for democracy in his homeland. Sansal accepted the US$35 000 prize in Frankfurt yesterday, 16 October 2011. German news agency, dapd reports the author says he hopes the Arab... read more 17 Oct 2011 Online press conference today - African Economic Conference 2011Mthuli Ncube, chief economist of the African Development Bank; Pedro Conceiçao, chief economist of the Regional Bureau for Africa of the United Nations Development Programme and Emmanuel Nnadozie, director of Economic Development and NEPAD division at the United Nations Economic Commission for... read more 14 Oct 2011 SatNav East Africa appoints MapITSatNav East Africa recently appointed South African digital mapping company, MapIT, as its Mapping Data Provider for East Africa. Established in 2011, the company is Uganda's pioneer in Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and GPS based consumer electronics. "We are very pleased to be working... read more 15 Sep 2011 New communications manager at AccessKenyaAccessKenya Group, a corporate data and infrastructure provider in Kenya, has appointed Kevin Keya as the new group communications manager following the departure of Nancy Imunde a few months ago. Keya who brings over five years experience in media and public relations joined AccessKenya after... read more 12 Sep 2011 WAITEX 2012 - an export opportunityFollowing the success of the 2011 edition of Africa's Big Seven (AB7), Exhibition Management Services announced the launch of a new event, The West African International Trade Exhibition (WAITEX) which will take place from 8-10 May 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria. WAITEX follows a combined format of the AB7... read more 31 Aug 2011 PromaxBDA Africa Awards extends deadlineThe 2011 PromaxBDA Africa Awards which recognizes excellence in on-air promotion, branding and advertising has extended its deadline to Friday 26 August 2011. Awards are open to satellite, cable, broadcast television, radio stations and associated new media, their agencies and production houses who... read more 24 Aug 2011 ITNewsAfrica Innovation Dinner secures sponsorsThe bi-monthly ITNewAfrica Innovation Dinner series, a gathering for IT executives across Africa and designed for ICT professionals, entrepreneurs and senior business people to network have announced that HP, Ericsson and the MTN Group are the main sponsors for the dinner to be held on Wednesday 31... read more 19 Aug 2011 Loeries Travelling Exhibition off to North WestThe Loeries Travelling Exhibition sponsored by Adobe will visit North-West University, 25 August -2 September 2011, for its fifth consecutive year and will be hosted by the Potchefstroom Campus' Graphic Design Subject group. The exclusive exhibition will display work across all areas of brand... read more 15 Aug 2011 Continental Outdoor Media, eighth best SME in Tanzania - surveyContinental Outdoor Media has been ranked eighth out of 100 SME's in Tanzania in a survey conducted by Synovate in East Africa. The survey, the brainchild of KPMG and The Citizen (in Tanzania), ranked Tanzania's businesses with a turnover of between Sh1 billion and Sh20 billion and was based on... read more 27 Jul 2011 Kenya: Consumer Options launches ENGAGEKenyan-based market research company Consumer Options launched one of its home grown tools: ENGAGE, late last week. ENGAGE aims to allow companies to immerse themselves into their consumer's lives, understand their world and real situations which in turn could translate into opportunities to grow... read more 19 Jul 2011 SADC Summit 2011 to be held in LuandaRedPepper PR, an associate of GVPedia.com African Division - publishers of the Best of book series in Africa - is to manage and produce the SADC Summit Report 2011. The report will also be available as an electronic report (e-report) on its international websites. Go to www.futureoftrade.com for... read more 11 Jul 2011 Coca-Cola relaunches "Mystery Shoppers" in LagosCoca-Cola Nigeria has relaunched the Mystery Shopper campaign activation as part of its 125 years celebrations which was held recently. First held in 2010, the campaign uses experiential marketing tactics where several Mystery Shoppers around town surprise anyone found drinking Coca-Cola products... read more 20 Jun 2011 Continental Outdoor wraps up WindhoekContinental Outdoor have erected a Trustco billboard with extensions on the Robert Mugabe Eros Bridge in Windhoek, Namibia as well as a 4m x 30m building wrap in the Windhoek CBD for Telekom.... read more 20 Jun 2011 Egyptian speaker for 10th annual iWeek ConferenceRamy Raoof, online media officer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, is one of the speakers at the 10th annual iWeek conference, to be held in Pretoria, South Africa from 21-23 September 2011. The Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA) and UniForum SA (the co.za... read more 14 Jun 2011 New African features 100 influential AfricansThe June 2011 issue of pan-African magazine New African features its list of the top 100 influencers in Africa. Isha Sesay (Sierra Leone), Ferial Haffajee (South Africa), Tariq Ramadan (Egypt), Trevor Ncube (Zimbabwe), Ndesanjo Macha (Tanzania), Emna Ben Jemaa (Tunisia), Amadou Ba (Senegal), Branko... read more 6 Jun 2011 |
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