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Respect for human dignity President Zuma's portrait - you know the one we're talking about - has kept Gail Schimmel awake. The issue, she says, is that the moment we decide that there is a certain category of person that deserves no dignity, we are on a slippery slope. The Sunday Times editor, Ray Hartley, is a man who wants answers - don't we all... It was claimed in court that the newspaper's journalists had accepted bribes in order to write slanted articles and Hartley - and the rest of us - would like to see the evidence. When it comes to one-to-one cross-media marketing campaigns, Chene Cundill has some pointers - and a question: "Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen, and some people wonder what happened. Which one are you?" South Africa has a rich music heritage and song has been a powerful weapon in driving social change, so it's not surprising that Tebogo Koena in a second of two opinion pieces, asks why are we not branding our local music?Finally, Virginia Hollis is leaving The MediaShop to go freelance - but her first client is... The MediaShop, and she will continue to work with the team for the next few months. Rod Baker, Content DirectorResponses to this column welcomed in our editor's column archive. Please send all South African marketing and media news to marketingnews@bizcommunity.com, opinion pieces to contributors-marketing@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. For more on how to contribute to Biz, go here. Also follow @Bizcommunity on Twitter and join us on Facebook. Top stories
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 [Gail Schimmel] Zuma's genitals kept me awake last night. Now there is a sentence that I never thought I would say. But I find myself struggling with this issue. Usually, my personal morality falls pretty much in sync with mainstream liberal opinions. And yet I find myself uncomfortable with the idea that, in the case of an artwork exposing Zuma's genitals, freedom of artistic expression triumphs over respect for human dignity. Read more >>
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 Bizcommunity.com's Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show is back and bigger than ever before! This time around we've teamed up with the highly successful and energetic internet radio station 2OceansVibe Radio and the multi-talented Brendan Jack to host the show every Wednesday 5pm-6pm via audio-streaming. The lineup on 16 May 2012, featured entrepreneur Rich Mulholland. Read more >>
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 Chris Botha announced on Friday 18 May 2012 that Virginia Hollis, one of the founding partners of The MediaShop, will leave the company at the end of June 2012 to go freelance. She returns to her first love, writing media strategy full time. Read more >>
Advertising
 The shining stars of the advertising industry were announced at the 2012 AdReview Awards which took place at the Sandton Sun Hotel last week. Gloo won Agency of the Year and is the first digital specialist agency to win the overall Agency of the Year Award. Read more >>
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 [Justin McCarthy] There is no doubt that South Africa has an alcohol-abuse problem. Alcohol-related problems such as foetal alcohol syndrome, physical and emotional abuse, drunk driving, severe medical conditions and a raft of social side effects are significant health and social concerns. Read more >>
 [Charisse Nel] Retainer has become an ugly word... say the word "retainer" in a client meeting and you feel the temperature drop, eyes are averted and you know you just said something wrong. Once retainers were the only ways that agencies operated; now it seems that fewer and fewer clients are willing to commit themselves to one agency for an extended period of time. Read more >>
 [Odette van der Haar] The requirements of the new 'food labelling' legislation, which became effective on 1 March 2012, presents an enormous opportunity for the advertising profession. Read more >>
Branding
 [Tebogo Koena] We seem to forget or perhaps don't want history to tap us on the shoulder now and then. When South Africa was in isolation, our people rose up against apartheid through music and chants, original music and chants; it is how we as South Africans give voice to our concerns and deliver a message. Read more >>
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 [Walter Pike] General Motors (GM), the third biggest advertising spender in the US, has announced that it would no longer be allocating any budget to Facebook advertising because paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers' car purchases, according to a GM official. This news has had the web buzzing with wildly differing views. Here's my take. Read more >>
Direct Marketing
 [Chene Cundill] It has now dawned on ad agencies, their clients and the marketing industry that people (potential customers/consumers) are more likely to respond to information and offers that are relevant to them and their specific interests and are communicated through the channels with which they are comfortable. It's the power of one-on-one communication. Read more >>
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 [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] We're getting used to seeing newspaper circulation figures taking a beating these days but the fact that a few can buck the trend also tells us that all is not lost. Among the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) figures for the first quarter of 2012 that were released on Thursday, 17 May 2012, the isiZulu newspapers are still on their incredible upwards trajectory. Read more >>
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 The finalists in the 17th CNN MultiChoice African Journalist competition were announced on 18 May 2012, by Ferial Haffajee, chair of the independent judging panel. This year the competition received entries from 42 countries across the continent, including French and Portuguese speaking Africa. Read more >>
Matt Rose, writing on Memeburn, says that comic-meme creation and consumption has taken internet culture by storm and seems to be only increasing in frequency and engagement. Read more >>
 NEWSWATCH: Tony Howard, chief executive of Independent News & Media South Africa (INMSA), has refuted the 'cost efficiencies' figure of R100m that has been circulating in INMSA newsrooms, reports IOL. Meanwhile, the competition tribunal has approved the merger between Media24, the Paarl Media Group and the Natal Witness, reports I-Net Bridge. Read more >>
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 In a front-page opinion article yesterday, the Sunday Times demanded the police hand over evidence that its journalists had accepted bribes. The weekly had made four applications under the Promotion of Access to Information Act on Friday to this end. Read more >>
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 Ray Hartley, editor of the Sunday Times has issued a statement following an allegation that some of the newspaper's journalists were paid by SAPS' Crime Intelligence division to write biased articles. The allegation was made in a document submitted as part of the FUL court application to have controversial police official Richard Mdluli removed from office. SANEF, meanwhile, has written to acting National Commissioner of Police, Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, requesting further information regarding the allegation. Read more >>
[Paul Vecchiatto] Staff of the country's largest English language publishing group Independent News & Media SA (INMSA) remains fretful over possible job cuts despite an opaque denial by CEO Tony Howard. Read more >>
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 According to Business Report, international and local media companies report that Facebook's share price was fixed at US$38 ahead of its initial public offering, giving the company a market value of $104-billion. Read more >>
 [Candice McGregor] These days we have technology at our fingertips. Smartphones mean that people have access to the internet wherever they are and the likes of Facebook and Twitter make sharing personal news with friends as simple as pressing a button, but users need to take care - what they send can spell trouble... Read more >>
Production
 [Romy Paull] I couldn't help but be grateful for what the birth of experiential marketing has done for our profession. From a production perspective, there is now global recognition of a specialised multifaceted skillset that allows us to transcend the basic associations of toolkits and tape measures. Read more >>
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 SAARF-RAMS has issued it first release for 2012, covering the period October 2011 - March 2012. Read more >>
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 [Peter Gilbert] What's the most influential factor in business-to-business sales? Surprisingly, it's you - the sales professional. Read more >>
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 CNBC Africa, the pan-African financial and business channel, will celebrate five years of continental business broadcasting across Africa on 1 June 2012. Read more >>
 NEWSWATCH: The SABC has announced that it has guaranteed the coverage of national soccer matches for the next three years, reports Business Day. Read more >>
 SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL: comScore, Inc, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released the latest insights on the display advertising market in Brazil from its comScore Ad Metrix service, which showed that 190.5 billion display ads were delivered to Brazil's Internet population during the first quarter of 2012. Read more >>
 LONDON, UK: A global survey undertaken by leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight, reveals 30% of people 'strongly distrust' Facebook with their personal data whilst 44% say they would 'never' click on Facebook sponsored ads, all of which indicates Facebook's advertising programme is facing an upward struggle. Read more >>
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 On 16 May Game handed over its 100th Amalunchbox mobile kitchen to 935 excited learners at Moriting Primary School in Tembisa, Johannesburg marking an incredible investment in changing the lives of an estimated 100,000 children across South Africa. Read more >>
 Using nature's beauty as a tourist draw can boost conservation in China's valued panda preserves, but it is not an automatic ticket out of poverty for the humans who live there, a unique long-term study shows. This study can also have relevance here in South Africa, where there are many projects to assist local communities in benefiting from local tourism attractions. Read more >>
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 The second annual Marketing Indaba Conference and Expo, which took place on 9 and 10 May at the CTICC, delivered on its promise to inspire and inform delegates and visitors. The theme of this year's conference was 'cutting through the clutter'. Read more >>As part the Yellow Pages product range, 10118, The Talking Yellow Pages, is revolutionising the way its users interact with the brand. Read more >>Bizcommunity.com and the African Access National Business Awards have partnered to celebrate South African companies that have implemented outstanding marketing strategies. Nominations for the Marketing Excellence Award are invited from Bizcommunity.com readers. Read more >>Advertising
Ireland/Davenport has been awarded Gauteng Agency of the Year for its performance in 2011 at Finweek's AdReview. Read more >>TBWA Cape Town was recently awarded the national account for the windscreen manufacturer, Shatterprufe. The account is worth between R8-million and R10 million. Read more >> [Ian Mann] Say goodbye to boring annual strategy retreats and pointless strategy documents that fail to grasp the uniqueness of your organisation. With the help of Strategy that Works, your strategy will become your organisation's culture - applicable, accessible and implementable by all. Read more >> With less than two weeks left until the 31 May entry deadline, ADreach is fully behind this year's Loerie entrants, sponsoring both the Street Pole Ad category and Integrated Campaign category. Read more >>Branding
[Nick Warren] Creative strategy is like conceptual architecture; it underpins the direction of a campaign, provides form, shape and function to an idea, and offers a blueprint for execution. Read more >>  The 34 Group team is chuffed at being awarded AdReview's Specialist Agency of the Year. Read more >>The swirling whirlwinds of our psyches house many natural mysteries, myths and conundrums, and so cannot be said to be fully understood. However, as we've become more conscious of the cognitive, we've learned a great deal about repeat associations, behaviours and attributes ever-present within our human 'thinking'. Read more >>Etiket, a multi-award winning, Irene-based advertising agency, will this year again be responsible for the audiovisual production of the industry's illustrious Pendoring Advertising Awards held for the first time - since its inception in 1994 - in Cape Town. Read more >>When SAB first approached Mann Made Media with the idea of creating a nationwide Tavern Rally aimed at promoting certain best-practise executions in these retailer outlets, they were excited by the opportunity to bring their commitment to their customers to life in a dramatic and engaging manner. Read more >>CSI
As part of its Quarterly CSR initiative, BMi Research and Timeless Land Scapers recently planted grass for the Ubuhle Day Care centre. Read more >> Women in Action (WiA), a group of pastors' wives from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), is proud and honoured to announce its membership of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). Read more >>Design
 The Design School Southern Africa (DSSA) announced the opening of two new locations this week where they will be expanding their creative offerings to in June 2012. Read more >> With more than 50 years of soup making tradition, Royco continues the promise of great tasting satisfaction with fresh looking packaging, exciting flavours, new pack formats and an exciting, market first, a kids' range innovation. Read more >>Digital
 South Africa's biggest Thai restaurant chain, Simply Asia, launched a compelling new marketing drive in April and May entitled "Think Thai For A Change". The campaign was conceptualised by Simply Asia's partner agencies, World Wide Creative (digital) and Bittersuite (TTL). Read more >> For the first time in the history of the AdReview Awards, a specialist digital agency has been named overall Ad Agency of the Year. Gloo was awarded the accolade, based on its performance across the last year, in the prestigious national review of communication agencies. Read more >> [Alison Treadaway] Alison Treadaway, managing director at Striata, a global leader in paperless communication, identifies seven ways to ensure your emails get read on mobile devices. Read more >> In a recent study Yahoo! Insights aimed to understand how marketers can capitalise on new digital creative canvases by understanding how ads resonate emotionally with consumers. Five best practices emerged for how advertisers can leverage larger online ad units to achieve their marketing objectives. Read more >>[Prakash Patel] Prakash Patel, CEO of Prezence Digital, thinks the current digital agency model needs to be consigned to history as it is no longer fit for purpose. Here he outlines the structure of Prezence Digital and gives his views on what needs to change in other agencies, clients requirements and why. Read more >> Digital media mobile app distribution company, Afrozaar, has just celebrated its second birthday, and can already boast an impressive client list, including the likes of Media24, Old Mutual, Deloitte SA, Hummba, Afrikan Dust Media Group, Liberty Properties, and most recently a leading international newspaper publisher. Read more >> The IMC Conference team is giving delegates the opportunity to post questions to all selected speakers prior to the conference, ensuring that everyone attending the conference will experience a tailor-made package and take home the answers they're looking for. Read more >>Do you remember the days when you would search through the job section of the newspaper? Are these days gone? Are online job posts on advertising career websites still effective in attracting the right talent? Should HR professionals be educating themselves on the new buzz words - social recruiting? Read more >> MediaMind has been officially certified to run VAST In-Stream ads via YouTube. This means that their customers can now benefit from third-party tracking and reporting while advertising on the world's largest video publisher. Read more >>[Richard Mullins] Data about customers is perhaps one of the most fiercely contested and important resources in today's marketing environment. Everyone wants it, customers are wary of sharing it, and yet few marketers are really using it to its full potential. Read more >> Creative digital agency, So Interactive, is the design power behind the newest shopping Mecca that is whirlpooling around South Africa's big cities. 24hoursonly.co.za is a fully integrated e-commerce site that makes buying a range of gadgets and gizmos easy, fun and affordable. Read more >>The recent unveiling of the new Pizza Perfect website, is an online reveal to be hailed as something of a trio triumph by So Interactive, the digital media design agency having also launched, simultaneously, the websites of Pizza Perfect's sister brands, Burger Perfect and Chickin Tyme. Read more >>Education & Training
 Teams of learners from just over forty schools across the country will descend on Vega School of Brand Leadership campuses in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town on Saturday, 19 May, to take part in VIBE (Vega Interschool Brand Experience). Read more >>To many managers, managing people is one of the most problematic areas in their skills set to acquire. And in South Africa with our diversity of people and cultures a manager needs to have hair on his, or her, teeth to cross the cultural minefield without stepping on toes or alienating half the workforce and causing a riot or a strike through some inadvertent remark. Read more >>Community business leaders can access the knowledge and experience of world-renowned leaders by attending the 2012 Satellite Chick-fil-A Leadercast at The Forum in Johannesburg, CTICC in Cape Town, Sibaya Casino and Entertainment Kingdom in Durban and Summerstrand Hotel in Port Elizabeth. Read more >>During a recent intervention in Tanzania, the Learning Theatre was called upon to use all their combined skills to defuse a difficult situation that had developed in the company between expats and locals. Read more >>Events & Conferencing
 Wits Art & Literature Experience (WALE) took place 9-12 May at Wits University. The festival is known for its diverse and top class artists, showcasing the best Wits has to offer in dramatic arts, film, music, literature, theatre, dance and more. Read more >>Advertisement:
 At this year's Mining Indaba hosted at Cape Town ICC, Standard Bank was presented with an interesting challenge. As a supporting sponsor of the annual event they wanted to create an impactful Standard Bank presence with a balance between functionality and appeal to the audience. Read more >>South African digital marketers and publishing executives are invited to participate in Acceleration's inaugural Digital Ignition Symposium taking place in June. The event, to be held at Le Franschhoek in the Cape Winelands, features presentations by some of the world's leading digital thinkers, including Google and Adobe among others. Read more >> Basil Read launched a new development on 22 March at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Rosebank. The new development, Rolling Hills Estate, is just two hours from Johannesburg, near Dullstroom. Read more >> Developed by Olympic Gold medalist Ryk Neethling and endorsed by Commonwealth Games and world champion, Chad le Clos, Virgin Active's latest training innovation, SWIM, is a coaching programme designed for just about every one - young, old, fit or unfit. Read more >> With winter approaching, Thirst Bar Services has been actively present at several events and functions, including Taste Festival Cape Town, Danny K's wedding and the Sandton Skye launch. Read more >>Exhibitions |  |
 Exhibition and display specialist, Scan Display, launched its online shopping platform this month. Visitors to the website can now browse available products at their leisure, view the cost, and place an order through a simple process of three steps. Payment can be made by credit card or EFT. Read more >> The Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) has appointed exhibition specialist Scan Display to be a preferred supplier for electrical services. Read more >> The industry pulled it together last week and delivered a knock out Tourism Indaba, this despite the build-up time being shortened by one day for stand contractors and two full days for the Expo Solutions team. Read more >> Over the past four years MamaMagic, The Baby Expo has formed many strong partnerships, one of which has been with e.tv and its parenting show, Great Expectations, South Africa's premier show for new and about-to-be mums. Read more >>Magazines
 YOU Exam Help! Accounting for Grade 12 is filled with the basic knowledge that will help students to not just learn, but fully understand complex concepts and practices in the world of accounting. Read more >> In appreciation of 25 years advertising support, HOMEMAKERS commemorate Hardrock Drilling for achieving this quarter-of-a-century milestone. Read more >> Marketing analyst and Bizcommunity Chairman Chris Moerdyk has cited an excerpt from the just-unpacked May/June edition of Health Intelligence to reinforce his sceptical viewpoint on the new food advertising regulations. Read more >>Media
The MDDA/SANLAM Local Media Awards 2012 includes the inaugural Rantho/Letsebe Community Media Achievement Award and will be presented at a gala dinner at the Coastlands Umhlanga Hotel, Durban, on Friday evening, 18 May. Read more >>Mobile
In 2011 the Bookmarks approached Strike Media to build and host the Bookmark Awards' mobisite, due to Strike Media's expertise and understanding of mobile internet and the specific idiosyncrasies of browsing the web from a handset. Read more >>Online Media
Primedia Online has announced the launch of a new business unit dedicated to the provision of bespoke "made to order" content intended for resale and syndication. This new service will include the provision of topical and current content which is optimised for use across online and mobile platforms. Read more >>Quirk Education is proud to present the Content Marketing for Business workshop, a vital addition to its growing range of online courses and specialised workshops. Read more >>The team at BBC.com is proud to announce the launch of a recently refreshed and reinvigorated sports section. The revamp provides sports fans with better coverage of the top global sports and big sporting events, as well as improved promotion of what's coming up, plus up-to-the-minute breaking news via a continuous news ticker. Read more >>Out Of Home |  |
 Graffiti Student Media recently got student travel specialist, Student Flights, on the move with an eye-catching branded vehicle doing the rounds on the streets of Stellenbosch. Read more >> No longer can brands rely on the loyal, regular and rational customer; in fact, products are likely to be bought by a disloyal, irregular and emotional customer. Essentially, companies need to totally rethink their marketing strategies. So said Pip Hainsworth, guest speaker at Continental Outdoor Media's first Continental Conversations function. Read more >> Cape Town-based Tractor Outdoor has been awarded a Silver Obie Award for their "Emirates Vertical Garden" campaign in Kloof Street, Cape Town. This was announced at the 70th Annual Outdoor Advertising Association of America's awards ceremony at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. Read more >>PR & Communications |  |
 [Desirée Gullan] According to the 2010 Social Media Marketing Report, 67% of marketers planned to increase their use of social media channels including blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. As more brands integrate social media into their marketing and communications plans, a social media strategy has never been more vital. Read more >>Printing
Colourtone Aries points out that, while the digital age is well and truly entrenched in the global market and gaining significant momentum in South Africa, it is dangerous to assume that traditional print direct mail or marketing campaigns are no longer effective. Read more >>Production
 Fresh Eye Films has had a busy first quarter - not only have they signed up promising young director, SuPa, but they have had cameras rolling across a host of different projects. Read more >> At this year's Clio Awards held in New York, Velocity's Greg Gray won Gold for Cadbury's Lunch Bar "Sweeper", and a Silver for M-Net "Birth," while Tristyn von Berg's "Leila" for Orgon Donor took home a Silver and Bronze. Read more >>Bouffant has scooped up two wins at the annual Clio Awards in New York: Director Dean Blumberg's Santam Campaign won Silver and Erik Van Wyk's spot "Old Couple" for KFC took home a Bronze. Read more >> Propeller Films are pleased to announce that Paulo Henriques is back in the hood. Well, not quite his old Bez Valley hood where he grew up, but South Africa generally. Read more >> Verushka Vogt filmed scuba diving, horses and babies as part of directing five hilarious Net#work BBDO spots for AA Insurance and a sweet Ogilvy Johannesburg advert for Huggies. Read more >>Promotions |  |
 Tradeway Promotions, leaders in the recruiting, training and managing of resources for experiential brand activations for some of the world's leading brand names, has announced the launch of a dynamic new website with the aim of bringing innovation and service excellence to its business model. Read more >>Radio
 Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk have announced that Eyewitness News (EWN) senior political reporter, Stephen Grootes, will be taking over the Midday Report as of September. Read more >>Recruitment
 [Sandra Swanepoel] Payroll software is a mission critical function to any business, says Sandra Swanepoel, a director of Softline VIP, part of the Sage Group plc. Read more >>Research
Black consumer insight agency Foshizi has unveiled a new interactive which not only makes surfing through it a pleasurable experience but also leaves the reader better informed about the market research company. Read more >>In 2009, Joseph Ntuli was an unemployed volunteer with the Ubuhle Centre in Bronkhorstspruit. Today, he owns Zabeswa Transport, which, thanks to international donors and the initiative of private sector partners, BMi Research and 4PL Group, is on the way to commercial success. Read more >> Over the past five years, South Africa had witnessed a strong growth in the proportion of 'Middle Class' LSM 5-7 households and concomitant nosedive in the 'Bottom of the Pyramid' LSM 1-4 segment based on material gains in consumer durable goods, according to the latest Analytix BI report, "South Africa Segment Report: LSM 1-10 Demographic Trends". Read more >>Good news for research practitioners and other stakeholders wishing to come up to speed with the latest research developments, practices and trends, is that the deadline for early bird bookings for the 2012 SAMRA conference (Southern African Marketing Research Association) has been extended until 21 May. Read more >>Sponsorship
 The deadline for South Africa's prestigious arts and business awards has been extended to Friday, 25 May. Read more >> Thanks to its annual Business Day BASA Awards supported by Anglo American, Business and Arts South Africa hopes to encourage all sections of the media to take an even more vital role in promoting various arts initiatives above and beyond giving them publicity. Read more >> Business and Arts South Africa (BASA) hopes to encourage and reward South African businesses who support the arts. The annual Business Day BASA Awards' Small Business Award acknowledges vital support given to the arts by a small company with one to 200 full-time employees and an annual turnover of less than R10 million. Read more >> As part of the 2012 Yellow Pages Series two competitions were revealed where one spectator and one sport media journalist could win an all-expenses-paid trip to London. In a press conference held earlier this month, Trudon, the publishers of the Yellow Pages, unveiled the winners. Read more >>
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La Vierge Wine Estate hosts an Italian evening at Luca's Ristorante
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 National Consumer Commissioner Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi believes that she has a good chance of being reappointed even though she has cocked a snoot at her political boss Trade & Industry Minister Rob Davies. Read more >>
 The postponement of the e-toll system creates an element of unpredictability in government finances. Kristin Lindow, senior vice-president and lead analyst for SA at Moody's, said last week the ratings agency is paying attention to this unpredictability. Read more >>
 The Eastern Cape Provincial Government is expected to hand over uMthatha Airport to the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) in order to use it for training and other military exercises. Read more >>
 The Minister of Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana, says women should not be prevented from voicing their opinions during the Traditional Courts Bill public hearings currently underway. Read more >>
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 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] In this day and age of impersonal "likes" and distant Facebook "friends", light beer, political correctness and over-enthusiastic environment prophets it is a real treat to come across something real for a change - a car that loves to rip off its Ralph Lauren Blue Label suit and to slip on a pair of tatty jeans and T-shirt to party big time. Read more >>
 [Riaan Kriel] Daytona Group is having a road show of their Best of British brands in South Africa, and I was at the One & Only to drive the Aston Martin Virage and the McLaren MP4-12C. These are supercars that will make you stop and look whenever you see one, but getting to drive both of these beauties was a dream come true and I realise that these are truly brands of distinction. Read more >>
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 South African Airways has launched another new route from its Johannesburg hub to an African destination, this time to Cotonou in Benin. Read more >>
 IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), reputed to be the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, has worked with some of the most influential hospitality experts and travel commentators to identify key global trends that will have potential impact in 2012 and beyond. Read more >>
 Thousands of travel professionals from across the globe gathered in Durban, South Africa, this weekend for Indaba 2012, Africa's largest travel trade show that aims to demonstrate there is more to destination marketing on the continent than luxury safaris and adventure tourism. Read more >>
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 PRETORIA: Premier Soccer League (PSL) and Moroka Swallows veteran striker, Siyabonga "Bhele" Nomvethe, 35, has been included in the Bafana Bafana team to face Ethiopia on the 2014 World Cup qualifier. Read more >>
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 Classical artist André Rieu has added another show to his forthcoming SA Tour. Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra will now also perform at the Coca-Cola Dome on Saturday, 18 August, 2012. Tickets are now on sale. Read more >>
 [Kelly-Eve Koopman] At first glance, the bustling, buzzing crowd outside the Erdmann Contemporary Gallery made it look like a Long Street club on a Friday night. But the ironic wearing of Doc Martens, the selection of anachronistic hats, the brocade waistcoats, and raised glasses of red wine soon identified the crowd as artists, art students and art fundis gathered for the grand opening night of Barbara Wildenboer's Canaries In The Coal Mine. Read more >>
 This weekend marks the beginning for the annual Road2Rock event taking place on Saturday, 19 May 2012 at the DKH Estate & Resort, just outside Cape Town. The lineup features Taxi violence, The Plastics, Mr Cat & the Jackal, and more. With organisers promoting a quality experience, expect quality sound, quality lighting, quality visuals and quality bands. Read more >>
 [Sarale' Bock] To those who have been and experienced the life-changing transformation that occurs in this space, it is referred to as the "AB" or "The Burn". And it burns all right; it burns all day and all night with the most culturally diverse, creative and conscious beings, all there to share a beautiful space and with the intention to gift. Read more >>
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Searching for the lesser-spotted creative director. Seldom found in the over-populated habitat of the greater-spotted creative director, this rare animal is most unusual and mystifying. Read more >>International publisher, Fleet Street Publications, is looking for an experienced direct marketing manager for their investment publications. Skills in writing, research and product development a definite advantage. Read more >>A leading marketing systems and analytics company based in Claremont (Cape Town) requires a professional and dynamic marketing communications manager to strategise, develop and actively manage our market presence. Read more >>An excellent opportunity in the engineering sector for a dynamic sales and marketing manager with a strategy orientation. 300-500kpa, minimum five years related experience in the engineering sector essential. Read more >>Red Crown, a strategic design agency specialising in packaging design, is looking for a dynamic, innovative, hard working, passionate and creative graphic designer with a minimum of five years experience. Read more >>Experienced PR account manager needed for vibrant and dynamic PR agency in Rivonia. Must have sense of humour, good work ethic and established PR and people management skills. Read more >>Go-getter with sense of humour and established strategic and leadership skills needed for full-time PR freelance services five month contract (August 2012). Read more >>The Scan Group of companies has a position available for a young, creative graphic designer to be based in Cape Town. The incumbent must be proficient in Adobe products. Read more >>If you enjoy a fast-paced environment have a passion for sales, then read on. A leading experiential agency seeks an outstanding sales person to join their passionate, talented team. Read more >>Promise Digital is searching for a new digital account manager to join their fast growing digital team in Johannesburg. Read more >>Responsible for the management of the inputs and outputs of specific projects. Ensure that accurate brief is taken from client services team. Accurately set project costs (based on cost briefings). Read more >>Take responsibility for all administration and e-Tabs within the Telkom Client Service team. Effectively and efficiently produce and maintain automated reports through e-Tabs Enterprise. Read more >>Provide personal and administrative support to the director: new business and senior advisor and be responsible for all administration related to tender queries; compiling of all information around budgets. Read more >>Responsible for the management of the inputs and outputs of specific projects. Ensure that accurate brief is taken from client services team. Accurately set project costs (based on cost briefings). Read more >>Are you an experienced copywriter looking to move to a fresh, new advertising agency? Read more >>Leading agency Exp is looking for an experienced account director to run sponsorship properties for a major account. Join an established and experienced team. Read more >>Looking for maternity cover. Minimum three month contract to work on
blue chip accounts. Skilled professional wanted with past agency experience. Read more >>Suitable for mid-senior web designers with a strong portfolio of past work in online field. Salary negotiable. Based in Rivonia working at Afrihost. Read more >>
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