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[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] Content strategists, bloggers, vloggers, citizen journalists, opinionistas - every day, advertorial and promotional initiatives are launched into a wider pool of competing content providers. Content is currently the word on everybody's lips, with everyone from the existing media to brand owners and individuals being encouraged to become content providers. 18 Mar 2013 09:03

SA, Qatar strengthen relations

Infrastructure development between South Africa and Qatar is set to intensify in the future. This emerged after a meeting between President Jacob Zuma and Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani in Doha during a visit by Zuma, who stopped over in Qatar earlier this week while en route to the World Economic Forum, set to take place in Davos. 26 Jan 2012 08:16

Top 10 New Year's resolutions for employers

[Johan Botes] Here are some resolutions for 2013 for you that you, as an employer, may well find useful. Get them right now - and avoid any unpleasant surprises during the year. 31 Dec 2012 07:37

Zimbabwe, China sign electricity deal

HARARE, ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwe has signed a US$400m deal with China's state-owned SinoHydro to increase electricity production and ease daily blackouts. 21 Dec 2012 10:52

Uganda's pledge to repay the Irish

DUBLIN - Uganda has vowed to repay €4m in Irish aid misused by officials in the Ugandan Prime Minister's office, Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said on Monday. 9 Nov 2012 10:03

Burundi gets $2bn from donors

GENEVA - Burundi has secured $2bn in aid from international donors after asking for help in financing its development programmes due to be completed over the next four years, the United Nations said this week. 6 Nov 2012 11:17

Mozambique to build three gas-fired power stations

MAPUTO: Mozambique plans to build three new gas-fired power stations to generate 400 megawatts of power by 2014, said the Noticias newspaper on Wednesday, 25 July 2012. 26 Jul 2012 16:37

China proposes priority areas to boost Africa ties

Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, Hu said in the next three years, his government will take measures in five priority areas to support the cause of peace and development in Africa and boost a new type of China-Africa strategic partnership. 19 Jul 2012 12:26

Research Channel Africa website gets a revamp

In the early 2000s, South African-based media group Creamer Media leveraged the research and interactive abilities of the internet by creating a product that allowed users to quickly access information from the large archive associated with the Engineering News and Mining Weekly publications. 27 Jun 2012 14:40

Germany, SA initiative to boost local innovation

CAPE TOWN: A research co-operation initiative between Germany and South Africa can help South Africa develop more local innovations, the Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor said on Monday, 16 April 2012. 18 Apr 2012 10:20

Africa told to get moving on power generation

One of the biggest challenges facing sub-Saharan Africa is how to generate sufficient power to unlock its economic potential. Speaking at the recent annual Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) conference, Africa Dialogue 2012, Deloitte's director for power solutions, Shamal Sivasanker said the time had come to stop merely talking and start "doing". 17 Apr 2012 15:52

Can the telecom industry solve Africa's power problems?

Africa is plagued by unreliable, intermittent and often non-existent access to electricity, especially in rural areas. This is a huge inconvenience and a big obstacle to economic development. Can mobile operators be the unlikely saviours, bringing power to the people in rural Africa, asks Peter Karaszi*? 29 Feb 2012 07:16

Shared battery technology may up demand for electric cars

The McGill Daily reports that Hydro-Québec, a Montreal-based, government-owned public utility that is responsible for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity across Quebec, and Technifin, a subsidiary of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), have agreed to share the intellectual property (IP) rights to their respective lithium-based technologies. 2 Nov 2011 07:05