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Alliance Media awarded Superbrand status

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:24:00 +0200

Alliance Media has recently been awarded Superbrand Status by Superbrands, the world's largest independent arbiter of branding. The award has been made for the period 2012 - 2014.
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Airtel creates borderless network

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:10:00 +0200

Bharti Airtel, the global telecommunications services provider with operations in countries across Asia and Africa has introduced the ONE AIRTEL service which will further ease the burden of roaming costs whilst travelling.
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For better quality education in Africa

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:37:00 +0200

Amid continuing calls to increase primary school enrolment in Africa, a new report urges greater emphasis on the quality of what students learn. The Africa Progress Panel, a policy think tank chaired by Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general, noted in September that "many of the children in school are receiving an education of such abysmal quality that they are learning very little."
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Tanzania digital tech crawling

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:31:00 +0200

The Tanzania government is still grappling with its insistence that the county switch from analogue to digital broadcasting before most of the country was ready on 31 December last year.
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Strat planning for client service and non-planners: Cape Town, 10 April

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:12:00 +0200

The role of client service is a challenging one. It begins with a client brief that needs to be translated into a creative brief which results in the work presented to the client. It's an ideal scenario for the 'broken telephone' effect, making the client service role a stressful one that can easily degrade into "being the best messenger you can be". But that's not what you're employed to do - your job is to add value - and enjoy doing so.
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Telecoms emerge as leading advertisers

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:44:00 +0200

Telecoms and brewers are among highly competitive industries in the country, a factor that forces them to scramble for adverts space in newspapers and airtime in radio and TV stations, the latest report by Push Observer shows.
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Pamoja launches vision to cultivate cloud services market for Africa

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:42:00 +0200

In what is a step closer to establishing a premier cloud services marketplace for Africa, Pamoja, the cloud services business unit of Pan-African ICT enabler SEACOM, has launched its go-to-market strategy to partners and customers at a presentation recently held in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Media owners want review of migration to digital technology

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:33:00 +0200

Media Owners Association of Tanzania (MOAT) has advised on the need to review the decision to allow realistic preparations to migrate from analogue to digital TV broadcasting, as the exercise has left many viewers in the 'dark'.
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TEF to investigate Kibanda attack

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:17:00 +0200

The Tanzania Editors' Forum (TEF) has formed an independent five-person commission to investigate last week's attack on TEF chairman Absalom Kibanda, Tanzania's Daily News reported on Saturday, 9 March 2013.
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Chairman of Tanzania Editors Forum attacked

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:21:00 +0200

ARTICLE 19 is deeply concern about escalating levels of violence against journalists in Tanzania, following a brutal attack on the chairman of the Tanzania Editors Forum, Absalom Kibanda.
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