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Defenders of the laws? Once again, those who should be upholding the law seem to be ignorant of it - or do they believe themselves above the law? On Friday, 4 February 2011, there were two illegal police attacks on press photographers in Pretoria and Bloemfontein and both the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF) and the Professional Journalists' Association of South Africa (ProJourn) have issued strong statements condemning the assaults and the ignorance of the police with respect to their own regulations (Standing Order 156), especially in the light of recent similar incidents.Standing Order 156 states, among other things: Police may "under no circumstances" verbally or physically abuse journalists and no cameras or other equipment may be seized, unless this is destined to be an exhibit in court; and police may "under no circumstances whatsoever" wilfully damage the camera, film, recording or other equipment of a journalist. (Source: Mark van der Velden, The ExtraOrdinary Editor, 2009). To quote ProJourn: "The assault is all the more disturbing following as it does a week of attacks and intimidation of journalists in Egypt, which ProJourn outright condemns. It also follows too many incidents of police intimidating journalists, arresting them for carrying out their duties, and obstructing them from doing their jobs over the past several years." Simone Puterman (@SimoneBiz) Managing editor Please send all South African marketing and media news to marketingnews@bizcommunity.com, international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com and opinion pieces to contributors-marketing@bizcommunity.com. Responses to this column welcomed in our online editor's column archive. Top stories
Special focus on media freedomSANEF condemns illegal police attacks on photographersCops ignorant of own regulations - ProjournNEWSWATCH: According to the Professional Journalists' Association of South Africa (ProJourn), police officers neither know nor understand their own regulations relating to media coverage of crime, reports Mail & Guardian, which also reports that the ANC is miffed and reckons the media is being mean to Jimmy Manyi. Meanwhile, Zuma asked for suggestions for his state of the nation address - and got them... in spades, reports Times Live. Read more >>AdvertisingBlueprint wins ANC's local elections accountAdvertising spat reveals new Vodacom sloganCastle Lite returns to JupiterSouth African Breweries (SAB) has moved its Castle Lite account from Ogilvy Cape Town to The Jupiter Drawing Room (Johannesburg), it was announced late yesterday, Tuesday, 1 February 2011. Read more >>BrandingSA banking brand values increaseCinemaGreek Film Festival this March in GautengIn association with The Lyceum Club of Greek Women under the auspices of the Greek Embassy of South Africa and assisted by the Federation of Hellenic Communities and Societies, Emperors Palace will be hosting a three-day Greek Film Festival at Nu Metro, 1-3 March 2011. Read more >>Spratt takes reins at Quirk agencyClickthinking bought by international networkConsumers bored, wall of authority crumbles - long live digital, social media [Issa Sikiti da Silva] As consumers become increasingly bored or unimpressed by the formulaic thinking or the status quo and flat screens are no longer flat and the wall of authority crumbles, society undergoes major changes and the revolution is here, seems to say Jason Knight, Brand Activation strategic planning director, who is hailing the dawn of unconventional wisdom and the explosion of digital and social media. Read more >>Direct MarketingPaarl Media buys Primedia@HomeEducation and TrainingEventingSA activation agency appointed for Cricket World CupMWASA pulls out of SABC turnaround strategy consultationsElection year in SA: media under ANC microscope [Issa Sikiti da Silva] It's election year in South Africa and, once again, the ANC will keep an eagle's eye on the media for signs of what insiders call "media conspiracy" against the ruling party. This comes five years after the mainstream media predicted that the ANC would not comfortably win the 2006 municipal elections owing to "lack of delivery", "dissatisfaction" and "discontent" but the electorate thought otherwise... Read more >>The media's open secret: planning for Mandela's passing [Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] There's nothing as unseemly as a pack of hacks competing for angles and quotes on a tragic story and last week many people - including some journalists I know - were offended by the gang of reporters camped out at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg while former president Nelson Mandela fought off a respiratory infection. Read more >>Who does not want to control SABC News?Artslink to reward art writers Artslink.co.za has announced that, for the next six months, it will pay a R1000 reward to the best original article on any topic related to the arts on its ArtSpoken platform. The first recipient will be chosen at the end of March 2011. Read more >>New appointment at OFM drives repositioning The radio-station-turned-media-group, OFM, which is planning on widening its media offering in the short term, has appointed Sandra Coetzee Mulder as group commissioning editor to drive its 'content-first' repositioning strategy. Read more >>Apply now! SABC seeks new CEOZoopy changes courseSix million South Africans on mobile web [Herman Manson: @marklives] Research firm World Wide Worx revealed details of its Mobility 2011 research project in Johannesburg this morning, Wednesday, 2 February 2011, showing that 39% of urban South Africans and 27% of rural users are now browsing the Internet on their phones. This means at least six million South Africans have Internet access on their phones. Read more >>NewspapersSowetan editor on special leaveNews24 feels the heat [Candice Jones] Initial reports suggest alarms monitoring heating in the Johannesburg data centre housing 24.com's entire web presence was to blame for the downtime experienced by News24 and other high-profile websites this past weekend. Read more >>Out Of HomeNew branding conserves environment Until recently, Europcar used vinyl decals for branding vehicles at events, such as sponsorships, discarding the decals once the event was over. In a search for a more eco-friendly solution, the marketing team discovered Car Skins, a 100% polyester fabric that stretches around the bonnet of the car, using an elastic chord. Read more >>Govt spokesman: new Manyi on the block NEWSWATCH: Jimmy Manyi is replacing Themba Maseko as government spokesman, reports News Time, and it's not a move that has been met with unalloyed joy... The DA condemned the appointment, reports Business Day, while the Black Management Forum, not unexpectedly, endorsed the new appointment, reports Eyewitness News. Read more >>ProductionLineup changes at Talk 702A question of trust [Herman Manson: @marklives] A new survey on levels of trust between the public and governments, business, NGOs and the media has just been released. The Edelman 2011 Trust Barometer tries to gauge the attitudes regarding the state of public trust in these institutions across 23 countries. Although the survey does not extend to Africa, it does draw some interesting conclusions on how, why and when people trust. Read more >>SponsorshipProteas kitted out by adidasThe ADHD generation
ICIJ accepting entries for Daniel Pearl AwardsCall for entries - the world's best 100 marketing campaignsBest in digital advertising to be awarded NEW YORK, US Submissions from around the globe have been flooding the New York headquarters of The One Club, the non-profit organisation dedicated to elevating creative work in the advertising industry. Now, after a week of intense judging, the One Club is ready to announce third quarter finalists for One Show Interactive - their award show celebrating the best in digital advertising and new media. Read more >>The right navigation system for every application NUREMBERG, GERMANY: According to findings of a GfK survey on usage behaviour, both pure navigation devices and mobile phones with navigation features will continue to hold their own in the future. Consumers tend to opt for whichever device is best suited to the intended use. Read more >>More International news...
MarketingLove is in the Flair with February 2011 - Living Your Brand Living Your Brand has taken 2011 by the horns, as the planning for this year's sequel Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) Conference has started with a bang - with higher expectations, bigger topics and larger audiences. Read more >>Fashion to the fore - South African TourismFashion Tourism is becoming of the many reasons for visiting South Africa and South African Tourism sees the fashion arena as a promising niche market. Read more >>AdvertisingLimelightSA launches 2011 with new Level 1 BEE score - LimelightSAThe latest Sera-awarded Broadbased BEE score for LimelightSA is a Level 1 - with a total score of 102, giving the agency a B-BBEE recognition level of 135%. Read more >>Howzat! ABF hosts Family Cricket Day - Advertising Benevolent FundAs the first of the upcoming annual fundraisers for 2011, the ABF is hosting a Family Cricket Day on Sunday the 6th February. Read more >>BrandingPositioning and managing your brand - Knowledge ResourcesPositioning a brand, or a portfolio of brands, in today's turbulent and constantly evolving marketplace is crucial to a successful brand strategy. Join Knowledge Resources and Patrick Collings from Sagacite for a workshop on this import aspect. Read more >>Online Insight Communities - a proactive social network - Columinate Online Insight Communities give you the opportunity to gain profound insight into your brand's consumers, their social networking habits, their expectations of online marketing, and what they demand from your brand. Read more >>CSIFirst CSI radio talkshow in SA seeks corporate sponsor - IMPACT SASouth Africans could be tuning into their first corporate social investment talk show, called IMPACT SA, on Radio Tygerberg this year, if the radio station is able to secure a corporate sponsor to fund this initiative. Read more >>DigitalCasual gaming platform off to a cracking start - SkillPod MediaSkillPod Media is going from strength to strength, having recently completely a redevelopment of their online- and Facebook casual games platforms. Read more >>Justin Spratt takes over as CEO of Quirk Agency Group - Quirk eMarketing Just six months after Justin Spratt bid farewell to Internet Solutions to join Quirk as Managing Partner of the Johannesburg Quirk agency, Rob Stokes has handed Spratt the top job in the agency. Read more >>Time to value of technology adoption speeding up - Realmdigital[Wesley Lynch] Luddites* of the enterprise world increasingly getting left behind. Read more >>Education and TrainingMind your Business! - CoreXalance The first CoreXalance workshop exclusively aimed at advertising practitioners will be held on 17 February 2011, aptly named: Mind your Business! The workshop is aimed at small- to medium-sized practitioners, both accredited and unaccredited. Also invited are business owners, company directors, members of a CC and senior management. Read more >>Call Centre Conference 2011 - improving your customer experience - Knowledge ResourcesKnowledge Resources is hosting a two-day contact centre conference and a pre-conference workshop on sensory intelligence for call centre scheduled for 22 - 24 February 2011. Read more >>AFDA at the SAFTA'S - AFDA films nominated for The 5th South African Film & Television Awards 2011 - AFDA AFDA has once again been nominated at The 5th South African Film & Television Awards. This year a total of five AFDA films were selected in three different categories. Read more >>AFDA does it again! - AFDA Three AFDA 2009 graduates will be flying to Ouagadougou for the 22nd Edition of the Panafrican Film & TV Festival (FESPACO), where they will represent AFDA and the films which they have written and directed. The films were selected and shortlisted for the official competition in the category. Read more >>Empowering Entrepreneurs competition - GetSmarterTo encourage new entrepreneurs, GetSmarter and the University of Cape Town are offering one lucky person a place on the UCT (Law@Work) Start and Manage a Small Business course in the Empowering Entrepreneurs competition. Read more >>EventingA look at eventing in 2011 - Eventworx [Kim Winstanley] If 2010 was a bit like trying to eat an ice cream cone while riding a wild rollercoaster - a combination of periods of slow burn followed by exhilarating thrills but with the occasional messy moment - 2011 promises to be a bit like catching a high speed train - the destination and direction will be easier to predict but timing the jump will be everything. Read more >>True Colour Events start 2011 on the right track - True Colour EventsTrue Colour Events has recently completed a B-BBEE verification audit and is very pleased to announce that they have achieved a Broad Based BEE status as a Level 4 Contributor. Read more >>Speakers Inc presents Brand Pretorius - Speakers Inc Speakers Inc announces their collaboration with well-known businessman and Leadership speaker, Brand Pretorius. Read more >>Ice sculpture - Ice Elephant found at Kirstenbosch! - Ice Art 16 blocks of ice down and two full days of ice carving later, the Ice Elephant was born... a magnificent ice sculpture for Amarula at the Kirstenbosch NYE concert. This Nellie, although not life size compared to a fully grown African elephant, still weighed in at an impressive 600kg and had to be moved to the location in three parts...! Read more >>ExhibitionsExpo Solutions completes their national footprint in Durban - Expo Solutions Expo Solutions has announced that the transition from Kagiso Exhibitions and Events Solutions to Expo Solutions is almost complete for their Durban branch, located at the Durban Exhibition Centre. Read more >>Afronaut at DI2011 - Design Indaba Catch Mark Shuttleworth speaking at the 2011 Design Indaba Conference from 23 to 25 February. Read more >>369 Designs January 2011 Update - 369 designs Exhibition tips and a handy events listing from 369 Designs. Read more >>MagazinesPopular art competition open for kids - 8 Ink Media NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS opens entries to this year's Young Artists Competition, with title sponsor Bostik on board for the second consecutive year. Read more >>MediaThank you Mr. Themba Maseko (outgoing GCIS CEO) and best wishes in your new appointment - MDDAThe MDDA extends its words of thanks to the former Cabinet Spokesperson and CEO of the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS), Mr Themba Maseko for his support and professional way in which he related with the MDDA during his tenure as the Accounting Officer of the GCIS from June 2006. Read more >>Aegis Group acquires leading South African digital search and performance agency - CaratGlobal media communications and market research group Aegis has signed an agreement to acquire Clickthinking Online (Pty) Limited in South Africa. Read more >>Deputy Minister Dina Pule welcomes new board member at the MDDA - MDDAMs Dina Pule recently gave a speech at the welcome dinner on the occasion of the swearing in of new MDDA Board members, Ms Louise Vale, Ms Phelisa Nkomo and Ms Nadia Bulbilia. Read more >>Online MediaMyBroadband breaks 900,000 unique monthly visitors - MyBroadband In January this year MyBroadband.co.za exceeded 900,000 monthly unique visitors. The latest audited Nielsen Online statistics reveal that MyBroadband served 4,459,760 pages to a total of 933,367 unique visitors. Read more >>Beauty Bulletin launches Beauty Bloggers Network - Beauty Bulletin Beauty Bulletin is launching a new Beauty Bloggers Network and is calling for participants. Read more >>PR & CommunicationsBookings for QVC's courses are open, book your seat now! - Quo Vadis CommunicationsGet all the training you will need this year to improve your communication and presentation skills through the exciting courses offered by Johannesburg-based, marketing communications company, Quo Vadis Communications. Read more >>New appointments February 2011 - Lange Strategic CommunicationsBernice Crichton has been appointed Business Manager for Lange Strategic Communications and Andile Zibi as Account Executive. Both staff members will be based in the company's Johannesburg office. Read more >>ProductionLuma's Bun&Bunee animated series receives US KidScreen Award Nomination - Luma Luma's animated short series Bun&Bunee has received a nomination for the Best Animated Series: Family Category at the KidScreen Awards in the USA. Read more >>Malo 8 of Frieze Films shoots for some of SA's biggest agencies and brands - Frieze Films Brought on board by some of the country's biggest agencies to collaborate on commercials for South Africa's favourite brands, post-World Cup, Frieze Films' Malo 8 shot Kiwi Shoe Polish's first TVC as a new client at Ogilvy Cape Town, Cuddlers for Grey Advertising, and Doom and Ace for TBWA Hunt Lascaris. Read more >>Bioscope shoots 'The Big Chill' for Steers - Bioscope Films Director Hylton Tannenbaum has just completed the latest Steers commercial for TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris. The ad is about Steers' free ice cream offer - an offer that is very bad news for ice cream men around South Africa. Read more >>Ola!Films keeps Twinsaver spot sugar free - Ola!Films In the newTwinsavers Luxury 2 Ply spot forTBWA, Amy Allais has pulled off a pretty impressive balancing act. By finding the wry humour in a script that is jam-packed with cute children, bunnies, kittens and fluffy slippers, she's somehow managed to steer clear of cavity-inducing sweetness. Read more >>Cross Colours and Sasol bring delight to 'back to school' - Cross Colours As young learners prepared to return to school in the New Year, integrated advertising agency Cross Colours made their task easier with Sasol's Back to School campaign. Read more >>NetFlorist announces South Africa's 12th official language... - NetFlorist With Valentine's Day fast approaching, leading flower and gifting company NetFlorist has revealed South Africa's 12th official language - isiFlower. The new language reveals the true meaning and hidden messages behind each flower to make sure you're sending the most meaningful message to your special someone. Read more >>RadioHeart 104.9FM hosts on-air reality wedding show where the groom marries the best man - Heart 104.9FMA very interesting 8-week journey of love and romance is set to soon unfold live on Phat Joe's daily breakfast show (6-9am). Read more >>Recruiting? - Recruit online. Are you an unprepared job seeker? - Here are some guidelines. - Get Work or Staff The do's and don't of online recruitment and a few pointers on preparing for a job interview. Read more >>OUTsurance celebrates R1 billion in cash OUTbonus payments - OUTsuranceOUTsurance this week reached a record total of R1 billion in cash OUTbonus payouts to almost 300 000 clients. Read more >>SponsorshipOUTsurance celebrates R1 billion in cash OUTbonus payments - MSCSPORTS OUTsurance this week reached a record total of R1 billion in cash OUTbonus payouts to almost 300 000 clients. OUTsurance introduced the concept of paying a cash OUTbonus to clients if they remained claim free for three years to counter the notion that paying for insurance was only really of benefit to those who claimed. Read more >>
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Volvo's new sizzle-wagons [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] If there is still any doubt about Volvo's ability and determination to produce exciting cars please note the Swedish brand has just dumped the last remains of its stodgy, fuddy-duddy image on the scrapheap with the introduction of one of the most exciting sports-wagon ranges yet to arrive in this country. Read more >>New car sales up againMore Motoring news...
Smart travel options from Air Mauritius Today, 2 February 2011, Air Mauritius launches its Travel Smart Program, aimed at enticing more South African visitors to this tropical paradise in the low, cool seasons through value added benefits such as increased luggage allowances, free trips for children and discounts for honeymooners. Read more >>Long Beach Hotel offers opening specials The brand new Long Beach hotel opens on the east coast of Mauritius on the Belle Mare Peninsula in April 2011 and is offering special deals for anyone who loves luxury a pace or two from the beach. Read more >>More Travel news...
Fleur du Cap nominees announced Fleur du Cap has announced its 2010 nominees for the Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards, which are given to outstanding individuals for theatre excellence. The annual awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, 20 March, 2011, at 6pm, at the Artscape Theatre, Cape Town. Read more >>The Inventiveness of Richard III [Daphne Cooper] The Tragedy of Richard III is performed with great ingenuity and resourcefulness at Artscape's Arena. Eighteen characters are handled by three actors and two puppets, made by Hillette Stapelberg. David Dennis, Marcel Meyer and Anelisa Phewa handle the many roles with the aid of masks, and bosoms (for the women) - made by Izelle Grobler. Read more >>Screamingly funny musical showcase [Debbie Hathway] If you're up for some bellyaching laughs and great musical talent, don't miss Gino Fabbri and Donna Africa in Completely Nuts at On Broadway in Cape Town until 12 February. It's a comedy review that sets out to prove that "madness, like stupidity, is an entirely subjective affair". Read more >>Large larger largest [Ilse van den Berg] One of the biggest highlights on the South African horse-racing, social and fashion calender took place on Saturday, 29 January. The J&B Met celebrated its 34th anniversary this year and took place at Kenilworth Racecourse in Cape Town. It's a well-known fact that this is the one day in the Mother City when you are guaranteed to be blown away by super-spontaneous personalities and stunning designer outfits. Read more >>More BizLounge news...
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