The 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa (OC) took another important step in the organisation of the tournament when it announced the appointment of eight of the 10 Venue Managers required for the event. The Venue Managers are responsible for managing all the events and building key relationships. 7 Aug 2008
2008 marks the show's 20th birthday and to celebrate this milestone in cutting edge journalism, Carte Blanche has embarked on a charity campaign called “Making a Difference” to highlight the plight of welfare organisations which focus on the needs of children. 7 Aug 2008
What first strikes you about Nairobi is the vast number of outdoor advertising sites visible. The city is littered with outdoor, positioned at every roundabout, in every neighbourhood and on most streets. These are not just small or average-sized billboards either, they are all huge. 7 Aug 2008
Africa will soon get a new dedicated 24-hour independent news channel. In the spirit of CNN, Al Jazeera, the BBC, and South Africa's own recently-launched eNews channel, A24 will bring news from the African continent delivered from an African perspective. The Nairobi-based initiative is the brainchild of Kenyan Salim Amin, the son of renowned cameraman Mohamed Amin, who died in a plane crash in 1996. 6 Aug 2008
As South Africans we are all only too painfully aware of the tremendous disparities of those living in wealth to those in abject poverty. The plight of the poor and homeless in KZN is one that has been close to the hearts of East Coast Radio and its listeners, as thousands already bracing the cold winter were further plagued by recent floods and widespread shack fires. 6 Aug 2008
With business leaders feeling the crunch under increasing pressure, the UCT Graduate School of Business (GSB) is offering a course to help leaders reinvent themselves for the 21st century's growing challenges and complexity. 6 Aug 2008
An auction company, Hammer and Tongues Auctioneers has introduced a new barter trade system for its car auction, as the Zimbabwe dollar remains under assault from rampaging inflation. 6 Aug 2008
In the last decade or so, investment in Africa's ICT infrastructure has improved significantly. However, marked deficiencies persist in the backbone networks across the continent. 6 Aug 2008
A new report by global trade experts is shedding light on ways in which the World Trade Organisation (WTO) can evolve to better resolve trade troubles. The UCT Graduate School of Business this June played host to a special roundtable to discuss the findings of the Warwick Commission's report on the state of the global trade system. 6 Aug 2008
Multichoice Malawi, a local digital satellite television service provider, has introduced new facilities, which its sales and marketing officer, Chimwemwe Nyirenda said would make it stand above its competitors in Malawi. 6 Aug 2008
Kenya is boosting the budgets of its tea and coffee boards to help them compete more effectively in the global marketplace, a senior official said yesterday. 6 Aug 2008
As the electronic media deploys new technologies in the industry, there is enough evidence that print media's audience is rapidly shrinking. In order to maintain their share of readership, the latter is now striving to cope with the emerging alternative mass media communication technologies. 6 Aug 2008
Gorgan: The Ugandan Ambassador to Tehran, Mohammad Ahmad Kissule announced earlier this week that Uganda can be an appropriate gateway for Iranian investors to enter African markets. 6 Aug 2008
Marketing is under threat. First it was tobacco, now it is alcohol and food, next it will be motor vehicles, carbonated beverages and fast food restaurants. It is not the damage that these products are capable of that worries me; it is the attack on marketing as the cause that should concern the industry. 6 Aug 2008
The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals. 6 Aug 2008
Bristol: EBL and Mallory International are delighted to announce a joint initiative to promote and develop the sale and access of ebooks into libraries in Africa. Innovative pricing and delivery models, appropriate to the region, are being developed jointly, to give institutions effective access to the latest content and e-book technology. 6 Aug 2008
In a three-way pitch with two other well-known agencies, Net#work BBDO has triumphed to win the BDFM account, comprising the titles Business Day, Financial Mail and The Weekender. Previously the account was split between two agencies. 6 Aug 2008
Industry regulator ICASA has issued Telkom Media with a pay-TV licence, it was announced yesterday, Tuesday, 5 August 2008. While the licence was granted last year, the actual delivery of the licence means that the Telkom Media may now operate a commercial subscription TV broadcasting service. 6 Aug 2008
Ingrid Corbett has taken over the reins as editor of Real Simple, effective 1 August 2008, publisher 8 Ink Media announced yesterday, Tuesday, 5 August 2008. Kerryn Fischer, who held the position since the launch edition in December 2005, remains with 8 Ink as editorial director and editor of National Geographic Traveler, which will launch locally in October this year. 6 Aug 2008
Space shuttle Columbia orbited the earth for two weeks with an unknown hole in the wing due to a foam strike (the latter which NASA did know about). The craft burned up on re-entry, killing the entire crew. It also killed PowerPoint at NASA. These are the six cognitive traps that PowerPoint is so good at - and all six appear in a key slide that was used in a presentation by Boeing while Columbia was damaged but still flying. 6 Aug 2008
