THE MUST SEE FILM OF THE YEAR! THE END OF THE LINE – The World Without Fish in cinemas October 2010. The film stunned audiences in the UK and US. After seeing THE END OF THE LINE: * International deli chain Pret a Manger chief, Julian Metcalfe, took unsustainable tuna out of his sandwiches and sushi. * UK retailers Waitrose and Marks & Spencer have already stopped selling bluefin tuna, swordfish and skate. * Marks & Spencer has claimed that it is switching to using pole and line caught tuna in its entire food range. * Celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 13th 2010 |
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 13th 2010 |
By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today named South African actress Hlubi Mboya as its National Ambassador Against Hunger. “I come from a family with a legacy of helping those in need. Let us all as a South African family stand united against hunger,” said Mboya, adding that in 2009 WFP had made record purchases of maize in South Africa to feed millions of hungry people across Africa. “Almost all the world’s undernourished people live in developing countries with 239 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa,” Mboya said. “Through all our efforts, we... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 13th 2010 |
By Novell Zwange – PRETORIA – UNESCO organized a one-day consultative meeting with the four South African universities designated as centres of excellence/reference in journalism education. The meeting took place yesterday and was hosted by the University of Fort Hare at its East London campus. It focused on the implementation of one of the modules of the Reporting Africa syllabus, based on UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education. Participants of the meeting shared ideas on how the four institutions, namely Rhodes University, Stellenbosch University, Tshwane University of Technology and Walter Sisulu University, could implement the module, Indigenous Language Media and... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 13th 2010 |
By Novell Zwange – CAPE-TOWN – The 2010 AfricaCom Congress and Exhibition, to be hosted this year from 10 – 11 November in Cape Town, South Africa, has received a staggering 75% increase in pre-registered attendance; with 618 companies already represented. Firmly established as Africa’s leading telecoms event, AfricaCom will gather more than 4,000 attendees from across the African continent and beyond for two days of contact building, learning and buying. African telecoms is undergoing a new phase of growth that requires innovation from every corner of the continent’s ICT Industry. Mobile operators are transforming their business structures so as... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, October 13th 2010 |
