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News site for grant makers, NGOs

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:02:00 +0200

Tshikululu Social Investments, the non-profit company that manages social investment grant making for Anglo American, De Beers, the FirstRand Group and Discovery, among others, has launched a new website to serve as an information and opinion resource for the local corporate social investment (CSI) industry.
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Wits offers dual degree in journalism

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:51:00 +0200

A new dual-degree programme, beginning in August 2010, will allow students to study journalism in both New York and Johannesburg, announced the Wits Department of Journalism and the Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University on Wednesday 3 February 2010.
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SADC Media Awards 2010 launched

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:18:00 +0200

<>Collins Chabane, minister in the presidency in charge of performance monitoring and evaluation, and government spokesperson Themba Maseko last night, Thursday, 4 February 2010, made an impassioned plea to South African journalists to participate in the SADC Media Awards competition, saying it promotes regional integration and togetherness through excellent journalism.
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SABC: staff cuts on the horizon?

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 07:13:00 +0200

<>NEWSWATCH: A number of observers have commented in the past that SABC is overstaffed, and now the Minister of Communications has announced the report findings by the ministerial team he tasked last year with finding ways in which the SABC could cut its expenditure - and it may not be good news for some SABC and Sentech staff, as well, reports Times Live.
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COPE: Minister ‘eroded' SABC, ICASA independence

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:22:00 +0200

<>The Congress of the People has launched a scathing attack on communications minister Siphiwe Nyanda for ‘eroding' the independence of the public broadcaster and communications regulator ICASA.
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Design Indaba extends Superstars deadline, opens media registration

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:34:00 +0200

<>The search for 11 South Africans to represent our country creatively has been extended to 10 February 2010, and media registration is now open.
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Spa association now a media source

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:53:00 +0200

The South African Spa Association aims to assist the media wherever possible with its inquiries on statistics, comments on articles, editorial and lists of accredited spas.
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Free downloadable digital content

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:22:00 +0200

Every month 1Africa releases free digital specialist programming for affiliate radio stations on its FTP site for rebroadcast. These focus on various issues such as health, family and community. Please contact us for more information, to get our FTP details or to become an affiliate, contact Tracy: (021) 950 6900.
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FIFA accused of ‘bullying', dictatorial' tactics

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:15:00 +0200

<>Local journalists have accused world football governing body FIFA of acting as a bunch of ‘bullies' and ‘dictators' with a neo-colonialist mentality, following what analysts see as ‘unreasonable' media restrictions on the 2010 FIFA World Cup coverage. Meanwhile, the South African media accreditation deadline is being extended.
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Newspapers will survive the Internet, says Google exec

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:33:00 +0200

<>The print medium is not going to die and newspapers will continue to be a feature of the media landscape well into the future.
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