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/ 23 January 2007

Outdoor kicks off

With the 2010 Soccer World Cup on our doorstep, South Africa’s outdoor advertisers are displaying increasing levels of creativity, ready to compete for a huge slice of the advertising revenue. However, city councils seem unprepared for the outdoor rush. Matebello Motloung reports.

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/ 23 January 2007

Saving SAPA

Although the South African Press Association is an indispensable news provider to newsrooms countrywide, budget constraints are stifling it slowly but surely. The news agency has recovered from major financial losses in 2000 and its board is next month set to make some important decisions about its future. Fienie Grobler reports.

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/ 23 January 2007

Thousands of Iraqi refugees seek asylum

Thousands of Iraqis who have fled the violence in their country are stranded in Lebanon seeking asylum, according to a senior United Nations official. Having not signed the UN’s convention relating to the status of refugees, introduced in 1951, Lebanon does not grant asylum to any refugees, despite the presence on its territory of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.