Internet fraudsters are making increasing use of small job boards -- such as those advertising jobs teaching English as a foreign language -- to practice their scams. To match their increasing sophistication, internet security firms also are trying out some new tricks. 21 Jul 2008
The Sophiatown sisters - Staci Lyons, Miranda Mokhele, Phumza Mtila and Funeka Pepeta, are all graduates of the AFDA Johannesburg campus. They performed at Nelson Mandela's birthday celebrations in Bangkok last month. 21 Jul 2008
Posted on the "This is Zimbabwe" blog, they show charred, lacerated limbs and blank eyes staring out from the face of the official, Gift Mutsvungunu, frozen in a death grimace. A note accompanying the pictures says the picture quality is bad because the photographer was shaking with fear. 21 Jul 2008
Hopewell Rugoh-Chin'ono, from Zimbabwe, has been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2008 Awards ceremony. 21 Jul 2008
Mike Abel, Ogilvy South Africa COO, will be leaving the South African full-service communications network group at the end of September 2008 to move to Sydney, Australia, it was announced late on Friday afternoon, 18 July 2008. “We are very sad that Mike is moving as he has been the fabric of our company for a very long time,” said Nunu Ntshingila, CEO of Ogilvy SA. 21 Jul 2008
Saatchi & Saatchi South Africa has received Lighthouse Agency status within the group's global agency network comprising 153 international offices. This positions Saatchi & Saatchi SA in the same league as only eight other Saatchi & Saatchi units, including London, Dubai, Paris and Frankfurt among others, and will see the local operation play a pivotal leadership role within its European, African and Middle Eastern network. 21 Jul 2008
The Olympic Games, as much about entertainment as they are about sport, begin on 8 August 2008 and SuperSport on DStv will be there to bring subscribers all the action from Beijing 2008. SuperSport's multi-channeled coverage starts with the opening ceremony from the National Stadium in Beijing at 2pm (on SuperSport 5, 6 and 7/10) through to the closing ceremony on Sunday, August 24, again at 2pm on the same three channels. 21 Jul 2008
The 30th annual Loeries festival weekend is almost upon us and we're still trying to find out what makes the Loeries committee tick. It's the turn of Gerry Human, chief creative officer of Ogilvy South Africa, to be asked a few questions - some of them professional, some of them personal - in this, our sixth interview. 21 Jul 2008
AgencyCentral.co.za, the first online directory concentrating exclusively on the recruitment industry, launched went live last week Friday, 18th July 2008. The site seeks to promote the smaller developing agency and the more specialized niche recruiter, by creating a one-stop showcase of this sector of the industry. 21 Jul 2008
Times are a-changing at 5FM, what with the launch of its WAP portal on Friday, 18 July 2008 - coinciding with birthday celebrations of former president Nelson Mandela - and its marketing manager Aisha Mohamed moving on to MTV Networks Africa next month. 21 Jul 2008
NEWSWATCH: Siphokazi Sowazi, chief executive of Mafube Publishing, owners of Enterprise magazine, has been accused of plagiarising various of her editorial columns, and the Press Council of South Africa has ruled in favour of The Weekender reporting that controversial author Ronald Suresh Roberts is also guilty of plagiarism, writes the Sunday Times. 21 Jul 2008
Heading up the team of Pendoring judges this year is Leon Jacobs, executive head of Saatchi & Saatchi in Hongkong and this advertising group's regional creative head for Pampers in Asia. Apart from being the chairman of the judging panel, he is also this year's foreign judge. 21 Jul 2008
Cape Town web strategy agency Clickthinking recently took the top spot in the international Web Analytics Championships 2008, beating numerous global companies. Hosted by the US-based Web Analytics Association (WAA), a global custodian of the online marketing and analytics profession, the competition is aimed at web analysts reviewing site and traffic data while extracting value from web data. 21 Jul 2008
Online business news source Moneyweb has launched a lifestyle section on its flagship website. MONEYWEBlife, which went live on Friday, 18 July 2008, is led by former broadcast journalist and award-winning brand marketer Mandy de Waal. 21 Jul 2008
Presented by the Newtown Management District with the support of the Johannesburg Development Agency, the Newtown Celebrates Women's Day weekend festival will take place at venues located in the Newtown Cultural Precinct, 6 - 10 August 2008. Here, visitors will be able to enjoy a feast of live music, dance, theatre, film, photography, street performance, storytelling, poetry, workshops, crafts, family activities and late-night parties galore - all with a feminine flavour. 21 Jul 2008
From Mobility Media (a joint venture with the publishers of Delivery, South Africa's biggest circulating magazine reaching the public sector) comes a new public-sector title... 18 Jul 2008
Research indicates that a massive 70% of the working population are neither engaged nor committed1. To put this in other terms if this were the Springbok rugby team then only about three of the squad are ready to get out onto the field and play their hearts out. 18 Jul 2008
Namibia is happy that the UN body charged with monitoring trade in endangered species has approved China's plea to buy more than 100 tons of elephant ivory from four Southern African countries, the Director of Scientific Services in the Ministry of Environment told The Namibian yesterday. 18 Jul 2008
In an exclusive interview, the former UN secretary general says he is ready to help Zimbabwe through its crisis but warns against judging the whole of Africa. 18 Jul 2008
Brussels: The European Commission backed a plan on Friday to give 1bn euros to farmers in Africa next year to help tackle high food prices and boost output, despite opposition by many EU states. 18 Jul 2008
