Last week The Loerie Awards went live with its new website, along with the new theme for 2009 - “Feed your ego” - which is also featured prominently in the banner advertising on Bizcommunity.com. 23 Mar 2009
Tell us what you think of our new Bizcommunity.com site. 26 Feb 2009
Tickets for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Soccer tournament went on sale on Friday, 20 February. 19 Feb 2009
Rich Mkhondo has been appointed as chief communications officer, replacing Tim Modise, the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) announced on Friday, 28 November 2008. 1 Dec 2008
The SABC has been accused of ignoring the ANC gatherings in favour of Shikota, a new splinter group recently established by the ruling party's dissidents, according to yesterday's (Sunday, 2 November 2008) edition of The Sunday Independent. 3 Nov 2008
Last week, Talk Radio 702's playing of the control tower recordings after a light aircraft crashed, killing all on board, caused listeners to complain, saying the tapes shouldn't have been aired. 27 Oct 2008
Saturday, 19 October 2008 was Media Freedom Day in South Africa. 20 Oct 2008
Last night, Monday, 22 September 2008, the official mascot of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, the 14-year-old 'green-maned' young leopard Zakumi, was unveiled to the world. 23 Sep 2008
The 2008 Pendoring finalists have been released and according to various judges, this year "Pendoring entries are some of the best that have yet been received in the 14 years of this competition's existence” and "have topped that of previous years". 25 Aug 2008
While the Sunday Sun has apologised for Jon Qwelane's recent column concerning gay marriage after the press ombudsman found it in contravention of the press code last week, reports News24.com, a group of 17 gay rights organisations - whose spokesperson is PR man Mixael de Kock - are still calling for Media24 to axe the journalist, according to The Times Online.
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28 Jul 2008Jon Qwelane may follow the path of controversial columnists Deon Maas and David Bullard if the gay community and other concerned members of society have their way. 23 Jul 2008
As an example, Cell C has just launched a TV campaign highlighting the amount of electricity saved if one unplugs the charger after charging one's cellphone. 9 Jun 2008
“Communication by national, provincial and local government in response to the spate of what has become known as the ‘Xenophobia violence' has been nothing short of pointless and pathetic,” writes Chris Moerdyk, marketing and media analyst and Bizcommunity.com columnist, today, Thursday, 22 May 2008, and foreign media analysts have accused the South African Government of not cooperating with the media, nor knowing how the media operates, reports Issa Sikiti Da Silva from the International Media Forum South Africa, currently taking place in Bryanston, Johannesburg. 22 May 2008
Should the creative pitching process continue as is or is it doing too much damage to the industry? According to a recent article by Thendo Ratshitanga, exec chair of Tshirundu Communications, "Sadly, times have changed for the worse. 5 May 2008
Controversial Sunday Times columnist, David Bullard, was fired last week for being ‘racist' in his writings. 14 Apr 2008
IOL reported over the weekend that the SABC is Johannesburg will be exempt from load shedding as it is an "essential service", according to a newspaper source. 7 Apr 2008
YFM has released its 2008 lineup today, Monday, 31 March 2008, and the emphasis is on youth, youth and youth. 31 Mar 2008
Two Sundays ago [2 March 2008], Carte Blanche aired an insert on Web 2.0 which drew a lot of comment and fire last week in the South African blogosphere for alleged bad research and presentation [see Amatomu search results for more]. 10 Mar 2008
The racist Free State University video been all over the news, both locally and internationally. 3 Mar 2008
On Tuesday, 4 March 2008 at 8pm, 3rd Degree on e.tv will show the full racist video by students from the University of the Free State in which five university cleaners are forced to participate in inhuman and derogatory actions. 29 Feb 2008
A new organisation for ranking South African websites, the Website Association of South Africa (WASA), launched late last week amid controversy: the Online Publishers Association (OPA) of South Africa is now seeking legal action against WASA for publishing its members' Nielsen//Netratings rankings allegedly without permission. 25 Feb 2008
You/Huisgenoot have published a censored version of an article exposing the alleged sexual abuse of musician Robbie Klay after an interim court interdict was granted on Wednesday night, 13 February 2007, according to IOL. 18 Feb 2008