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Today Dr Nikolaus Eberl asks if hotel greed will kill South Africa’s tourism brand beyond 2010 and wonders whether SA will take the high road - using 2010 as a foundation on which to build tourism in the future, or the low road, which will virtually guarantee that the industry will be hammered. He paints [...]

The short answer is: a great deal.
Peter Vundla, who resigned from the SABC board back in May, took the opportunity following Khanyi Mkhonza’s resignation on Thursday last week to say what he reckons is wrong with the SABC. Among the mildest things he says is his opinion that the broadcaster is like an employment agency; [...]

Last week saw top stories in the media relating to the jostling for editorial positions at various South Africa’s news publishers. At the Mail & Guardian, Ferial Haffajee’s shock resignation for the City Press sees Nic Dawes becoming the newspaper’s incoming editor-in-chief and at the Cape Times, Alide Dasnois, the former deputy editor, has become [...]

The GSMA Mobile World Congress is currently happening in Barcelona, Spain (16 - 129 February 2009). Apart from a live video feed on the front page of its site, there’s a dedicated online media room.
But for raw on-the-ground reporting, you may following the following South Africans media and mobile media professionals on Twitter:

Simon Dingle, technology [...]

I think we can all heave a sigh of relief that President Motlanthe has returned the Films & Publications Amendment Bill back to Parliament unsigned, much against the wishes of the ANC. This is a great step forward towards upholding our media freedom in South Africa, which will be featured later this year on Dutch [...]

I hope you’ve enjoyed our two-week series of 2009 trends reports as much I’ve enjoyed editing them. It’s been a fascinating process, seeing the same trends pop up again and again - integrated campaigns, online and digital advertising and marketing, collaborative partnerships, social media, social networks, niche, creativity, production innovation, values, ethics, sustainability, CSI, the [...]

Welcome to 2009 - the countdown on a New Year has begun and it’s time to get ready for a bumpy ride from which I’m confident we’ll all emerge stronger by year end (there are 354 shopping days left to Christmas). Here at Bizcommunity.com we’ve planned an eventful year in which we aim to retain [...]