This year, more than 700 journalists from over 40 African countries are expected to attend the 12th edition of Highway Africa - the world s biggest gathering for African journalists - which will take place on 8 - 10 September 2008 in Grahamstown, near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape, Prof Guy Berger, head of Rhodes University s School of Journalism, told the media yesterday, Wednesday, 27 August 2008, during the event launch at the SABC headquarters in Auckland Park, Johannesburg.
The cost of bank cards could possibly fall dramatically in the next few years as banks leverage off a new wholly South African-owned R25-million EMV card personalisation facility outside Cape Town.