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12 October 2004
Bicycle-powered cell phones and other media-ICT oddities
In past years, the annual Highway Africa conference in Grahamstown felt a bit like ‘Highway South Africa’, or maybe ‘Highway SADC’, or perhaps ‘Highway English-speaking Africa’. But not this year.

12 October 2004
Media and Gender Summit: Seeking the balance
Gender-related jokes were rife after two days of talking about women in the media. "I won’t sit down at this table, too many men, we need greater balance," a journalist from Zambia muttered while his eyes roamed the restaurant looking for a table with more women.

12 October 2004
Radio Maendeleo expands its reach in eastern Congo
Of the 10 radios or so broadcasting in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Radio Maendeleo is one of the few that has the full confidence of its listeners. This is no mean feat and is due to the professionalism of its journalists and other staff, its coverage of a broad variety of subjects, the 80 radio clubs that tune in regularly and technical wizardry that keeps the station on air 24/7.

12 October 2004
Brand atheists, beer and white guilt
In their own words as recorded in the courts recently, Justin Nurse and five of his friends are "conscientious objectors to mass-market mediocrity" who grew up "to be brand atheists". Last month a South African court ruled that their company, Laugh it Off Promotions, could not sell T-shirts that parody the Carling Black Label trademark of South African Breweries (SAB).

12 October 2004
African investigative journalists join forces
Investigative journalists in eight African countries are now in constant touch with one another through a website run by FAIR: the Forum for African Investigative Reporters. The site (www.fairreporters.org) has several functions, the most important one being the linking of journalists.

12 October 2004
Mokgósi, the only newspaper fully in Setswana
When a group of Batswana started toying around with the idea of establishing a Setswana newspaper way in 1999, they had lingering doubts about its acceptability, let alone its viability. Their concern was borne out of the continuing erosion of the national language, a language which is part of one of Africa’s largest linguistic groups, Sotho-Tswana spoken in Lesotho, South Africa and Botswana, but which has been neglected by the government since Botswana became an independent republic 38 years ago.

12 October 2004
'ICT’s for Democracy' and 'Techno-Hype or Info-Hope?'
On behalf of the Media Programme of the Netherlands institute for Southern Africa (NiZA), Chris Armstrong examined two projects in the media and communications sector in Angola. Aside of that, he also wrote an accessible report on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

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