The venue was a church located in Harare's south eastern suburb of Waterfalls, but it was not usual church business taking place here this particular Sunday of February 2008. It was a meeting to educate church members on how to guard their savings and overcome hyperinflation. 16 Jul 2008
The Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) yesterday, Tuesday, 15 July 2008, released its Global Code of Conduct, designed to provide guidelines that all mobile marketers should consider and build their mobile marketing initiatives around. 16 Jul 2008
What might have been if Dr Martin Luther King Jr. had faced his audience in the hot summer of 1963, not with the words, “I have a dream,” but instead, “I have a … PowerPoint presentation”? Or Winston Churchill read, “We shall fight them on the beaches, and the rest of the areas on this slide.”? The world would probably be a very different place. 16 Jul 2008
In the fourth of our interviews with Loeries committee members before the fast-approaching 30th annual Loerie Awards festival weekend, we ask Peter Carr, executive director of Velocity Films, a few questions - some of them professional, some of them personal - to help you understand what makes the Loeries committee tick. 16 Jul 2008
Quick, think of something you wish you could do to manage your relationships with your customers better. Offer them more self-service options? Remind them tactfully and cheaply when bills are due? Get more useful feedback about their experience of your product or service? Make sure whoever deals with them always has access to all the relevant information and is properly empowered to deal with whatever issue comes up? 16 Jul 2008
Global creative media provider SAE Institute is hosting a series of industry sessions for those interested in the fields of animation and audio engineering. Whether you're an animation aficionado, a dynamic bedroom DJ or an amateur enthusiast, the SAE Industry Sessions should provide creative food for thought and an educational debate around contemporary issues in both these fields. 16 Jul 2008
2010 FIFA World Cup sponsor Continental has appointed Gareth Passmore marketing manager of Continental Tyre South Africa, effective beginning of July 2008. Passmore has been stationed at Continental AG's Germany head office for the past 14 years, recently as head of sales and marketing of the Middle East, Near East and North Africa region. 16 Jul 2008
BREAKING NEWS: 94.7 Highveld Stereo and 94.5 Kfm presenter Mark Pilgrim was admitted to hospital following a sudden heart attack. In a statement released by 94.7, station manager Ravi Naidoo said, “Mark is being treated for an obstructed coronary artery and will be in hospital for the rest of the week.” 15 Jul 2008
Thirst bar tenders are renowned for their abilities behind the bars and the numerous awards they have won both locally and internationally. 15 Jul 2008
Uganda's National Social Security Fund has announced a profit of UGX131bn for the financial year ending June 2008 boosted by accumulated capital gains from equity investments. The record earnings represent a 22% growth in profits from last year's financial results when NSSF registered profit worth UGX107bn. 15 Jul 2008
Celtel Malawi, part of the Zain Group, last Thursday announced that it has chalked a million subscribers. The company has also just scooped the award for the Best Telecom Operator in Africa in the 2008 Business in Africa Awards held in London recently. 15 Jul 2008
Journalists who wished to participate in the Lorenzo Natali Prize but had not made it in time now have a few more weeks to participate. The opportunity follows the extension of the deadline for submission of entries, to 31 July 2008 from 30 June this year. 15 Jul 2008
Sports TV Uganda Limited is a privately owned television station, broadcasting sports programs from around the world, as a part of Setanta Africa Sports Network. The station is set to broadcast 24/7 and is free to air. 15 Jul 2008
NEWSWATCH: SABC group CEO Dali Mpofu has failed to have his third suspension overturned by the Johannesburg High Court, according to various media reports. Judgement was handed out yesterday, Monday, 14 July 2008, in the first of a three-part application. The saga will continue next month on 5 August. 15 Jul 2008
On Saturday 12 July 2008, following a call by CIVICUS: World Alliance For Citizen Participation, Amnesty International (AI) and the Global Call for Action Against Poverty (GCAP), citizens of Africa united to express their solidarity with the people of Zimbabwe who are suffering persistent violations of their rights. 15 Jul 2008
Chris Botha and Donald Liphoko have been appointed directors of The MediaShop in recognition of the contributions they are able to add to the deliberations of the board of directors, it was announced yesterday, Monday, 14 July 2008. 15 Jul 2008
The Media Monitoring Project (MMP) has called on the South African media to refrain from presenting a biased, prejudicial and unfair reporting around the issue of legal abortion as set out in the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (TOP) Act of 1996. 15 Jul 2008
Our socio-cultural environments are the breeding ground for how we make meaning out of the world, and marketers who don't take note of how different markets are ‘coded' risk damaging their brands with unsympathetic or inappropriate messages and symbolism. 15 Jul 2008
As of 1 August 2008, SABC Africa will no longer be available on the DStv bouquet. The SABC released a statement yesterday, Monday, 14 July 2008, stating that negotiations between Multichoice and the public broadcaster had not yielded results, hence the discontinuation of the channel on DStv. 15 Jul 2008
South Africa's first commercial radio station, Springbok Radio, is back on air by popular demand. The Springbok Radio Preservation Society of South Africa, a non-profit organisation based in Johannesburg, resurrected the old radio station by launching a fully fledged Internet radio service earlier this month. 15 Jul 2008
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