South Africa's largest township got its own community television station this month, as SowetoTV started broadcasting from the Tloreng Primary School in Orlando West, Soweto.

Network BBDO won South Africa's first Outdoor Grand Prix at the 2007 International Cannes Advertising Festival for a solar-powered billboard offering "power to the people" - literally, in the form of electricity generated for a nearby school.

South African internet usage is surging, a report by Nielsen/NetRatings finds, with the potential for even faster growth in the country's online African language market.

Magic Cellar, a multiple award-winning South African-Canadian production based on African folk tales, has been acquired by Home Box Office, becoming the first African animated television series to be acquired by a major American network.

Foreigners are not only visiting South Africa by the planeload, they're also a strong presence in South African cyberspace, significantly boosting the traffic of the country's news websites.