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Books, Media & Film, Media Production, Print Media

Taking A Journey Through KAZA

As the tourism industry takes stock after the devastation of Covid-19 lockdown, we’re excited to showcase a challenging, yet exciting project undertaken recently by Jive Media Africa.

The world’s largest trans-frontier land-based conservation area; the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) spans five countries and includes three UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Working with tourism authorities and tourism marketing agencies in the five countries, and travelling the length and breadth of the region to gather inspiring stories and breathtaking images, we are finally able to share “A Journey Through KAZA” – a beautiful brochure that reveals an appealing and accessible tourism destination, to promote trans-boundary travel and immersive natural and cultural experiences.

With more than 15 years behind us, of helping experts to strategise their messages for maximum impact, Jive Media Africa was thrilled to be part of the team revealing the hidden gems at the heart of Africa. Our journey through KAZA brought us into close contact with the colours, vibrancy, music, dance, food, and culture (not to mention the breathtaking natural splendour) of the region. These are the elements which we have chosen to feature in this brochure, a powerful tool in the hands of those who are tasked with marketing the region.

SADC/GIZ Transboundary Use and Protection of Natural Resources (TUPNR) Tourism Support together with Boundless Southern Africa, procured Jive Media to produce this brochure and position the KAZA TFCA as a distinct, multi-faceted, and attractive tourism destination which has the potential to boost socio-economic development and biodiversity conservation goals. This was done by identifying, developing, and packaging content related to KAZA TFCA’s biodiversity and cultural heritage story and tourism offerings (accommodation, activities, attractions, and natural and cultural heritage encounters).

The regions span the borders of five southern African countries – Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – covering an area of over 519000 sq km (200387 sq miles). It’s a treasure trove of natural and cultural wonders.

Click to view the final output of an awe-inspiring brochure

Jive Media Africa has continued to #ActivateAfricanKnowledge as we travelled through the five African countries in our quest to reveal the rich tourism potential of the KAZA region to the world.

Talk to us if you are also ready to play a part in visioning and realising a brighter future for Africa. 

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Books, Media & Film, Media Production

Story Press Africa

Jive Media Africa Shaka Rising

Announcing Story Press Africa:

https://storypressafrica.com/

Story Press Africa, an imprint of Catalyst Press (USA) and Jive Media Africa (South Africa), is a collaborative platform for sharing African knowledge.

Through the medium of stories (including graphic novels, young adult and children’s literature) we aim to place African knowledge in its rightful place among the knowledge of the world. We publish African stories for a global audience; authentic, challenging and frequently controversial visions of the continent that birthed humankind.

We debut this fall in the US with the graphic novel Shaka Rising: A Legend of the Warrior Prince, by Luke Molver which is the first in our African Graphic Novel Series. Watch this space…

March 7, 2017/by Jive Media
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Books, Media & Film, Media Production

Journeys of Discovery

Jive Media Africa

Where did human beings first begin to wonder, investigate and create? Growing scientific evidence now suggests that it was right here, under African skies. And this process, repeated over millennia, now continues in the creation of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope. Jive Media Africa is honoured and privileged to have worked with the SKA in South Africa on the creation of a book which aims to deepen and broaden public interest and engagement with the SKA project. The book, Journeys of Discovery – Stories of Human Innovation in Africa, positions the  SKA within a larger story of over 200 000 years of human history and innovation on the African continent.

The book highlights scientific and technological advancement on the continent by exploring themes as varied as imagination and innovation, the human odyssey, pyrotechnology, early chemistry and early engineering, with beautiful images of symbolic innovations and development in Africa. The book provides an overview of the SKA project and how its objectives and long-term scientific benefits link to the story of human innovation, and ultimately to our future as a species.

The book was researched, written and produced by Jive Media Africa, in association with leading archaeologists and origins researchers. The publication has been exceptionally well-received. Read the full book here.

“The products were brilliant and far exceeded expectations. The science communication experience and proficiency was of the highest standard. There are many highlights stemming from where the product was used.” – Mr Lorenzo Raynard, Communications Manager – SKA South Africa

Feature image: Ostrich eggshells covered with engraved geometric patterns found in Diepkloof Shelter, near the coast, north of Cape Town. Image credit: PJ Texier

 

 

February 14, 2017/by Jive Media
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Books, Media & Film, Media Production, Print Media

Get SET, Go!

What are your options as a young scientist in South Africa? GET – SET – GO is an exciting and accessible guide to Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) careers and opportunities.

Jive Media Africa is proud to have worked with the South Africa Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) to complete the design and layout of this important publication aimed at high school learners.

SAASTAs intention was to produce a publication containing comprehensive information on careers and study opportunities in the fields of SET in South Africa, with an emphasis on areas experiencing skills shortages and the grand challenges facing the science, engineering and innovation system.

” Thanks, Jive Media for an excellent and very attractive careers publication.

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I believe it will serve a good purpose in creating awareness of careers in the science sector, as well as excitement about the possibilities. The end product really exceeded my expectations. ” Ina Roos, Editor, Corporate Communication: South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA)

For more information contact SAASTA.

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Books, Media Production, Print Media

Men and Masculinities in South Africa

Jive Africa produced the following books for publishing by the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA) and Sonke Gender Justice Network, “Men and Masculinities in South Africa is a three-part series comprising stories, analysis and faith based resources. Its aim is to mobilize positive changes in the ways that men and women understand male identity in South Africa”. Daniela Gennrich (Editor).

“Gender transformation work is critical to sustain our country’s democratic process.

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PACSA and Sonke Gender Justice Network share the ambitious aim of bringing about fundamental social change that includes the prevention of domestic and sexual violence, achieving gender equality, responding to HIV and AIDS and deepening democracy and human rights”. Daniela Gennrich

The book was launched on the 29th November 2013 as part of PACSA’s 16 Days of Activism Campaign against gender violence. PACSA’s men and gender focus influenced the book as a project which began in 2010.

If you would like to read and download the book as a PDF or e-Book format, click here

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December 20, 2013/by Jive Media
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Books, Media & Film, Media Production, Print Media

Ethical & Counselling Guidelines for HIV Testing of Children

Jive Media Africa was privileged to be part of the productions of a series of manuals, implementation guidelines and legal guidelines for the HSRC entitled the “Legal, ethical and counselling issues related to HIV testing of children”.

Here is an extract from an article that can be found here where the guidelines are also available for download:

“A significant number of children in South Africa live with HIV. According to figures provided by the Department of Health, an estimated 32 940 children under 15 years of age were living with HIV and AIDS but were not on treatment. These facts highlight that every effort must be made to facilitate HIV testing in this population within the framework of applicable legislation and policy. Once tested, children can be placed on treatment, and linked to care and support.

The HSRC, through the SA National AIDS Council (SANAC), was commissioned to provide technical support to the Department of Health to ensure implementation of the goals for voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) as set out in the 2006-2011 National Strategic Plan on HIV, STIs and TB (NSP).

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided the funding for this initiative.”

Jive Media Africa’s production of the 4 books included the overall design concept, layout and illustration, and took the 4 products to completion/ print.

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The Maloti Drakensberg Experience

The Maloti Drakensberg Experience – Exploring the Maloti Drakensberg Route

… was launched by Ministers of Tourism from both Lesotho and South Africa.

..

Jive Media Africa was commissioned by the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Project (MDTP) to produce this book, which we then conceptualised, researched, wrote, edited and co-published.

The book aims to promote sustainable tourism as a livelihood in the Maloti and Drakensberg Mountain region – spanning Lesotho and three provinces in South Africa.

Read a review of The Maloti Drakensberg Experience from The Witness…

Sample Chapter Spreads:

Review:

Going to the Berg

•Wed, 19 Sep 2007


By Margaret von Klemperer

“GOING to the Berg” is a regular part of life for many people in KwaZulu-Natal. Most of them head off to places they already know, or that friends have recommended. But there is a new book, The Maloti Drakensberg Experience, which should make them have another think — it covers the Maloti Drakensberg Route, both in South Africa and Lesotho, and is full of suggestions of places to go and things to do in an area that covers the mountain kingdom and extends from Elliot in the south to Bethlehem in the north, Howick in the east to Wepener in the west.

The book has come out of the Maloti Drakensberg Transfrontier Project which itself grew out of the Giant’s Castle Declaration, signed 10 years ago by the governments of the two countries, looking for ways in which they could work together to safeguard the beautiful mountain region from a conservation and development point of view.

“They were looking for ways to balance the needs of everyone who lives in or comes to the area,” says Robert Inglis, one of the editors of the book. It was not only a case of conserving the natural environment, but of guaranteeing the continuity of one of the region’s greatest assets — water. Already it supplies 50% of Gauteng’s water — a proportion that is set to rise over the next 20 years.

Livelihoods

Early on in the project, it was realised that tourism was going to be an important way of creating livelihoods in the region. Leonore Beukes came on board as the tourism specialist, and decided a book would be a great tool to get people into the area and to market all that it offers. Jive Media, the company Inglis runs with his wife, Hilary Kromberg, was approached to handle the book and they brought in a number of specialist writers and contributors for the various fields covered. It is a highly visual book, with photographs from a number of top photographers, and it prompted the Lesotho Minister of Tourism to say at the launch that she had not realised how beautiful Lesotho was until she saw the book.

“We decided the best approach was thematic,” says Inglis. “Selling a mountain area is about niche markets — the hikers, fly-fishers, birders, adventure tourists and so on. But they often don’t have a good idea of the region as a whole. So we had to make it easy for someone who has gone there for pony trekking, say, to find out that there are rock art sites nearby.”

He and his team have produced a book that offers what a coffee table book offers visually, but is portable, and carries important information, attractively packaged in sidebars and captions, about conservation and community development. It ranges from basic information (for the tourist in a hurry) — to in-depth information for those who really want to learn about the area. “We had to take a softly softly approach,” says Inglis. “Tell people how to be eco-friendly fishermen — catch a couple for supper and put the rest back, and so on. It’s about being sensitive to the environment.”

Inevitably, in any tourist guide, things change and regular updates are needed. There is a directory section at the back of the book that covers activities and places to stay, eat and shop. There is also a section on festivals that range from the Roof of Africa rally to Splashy Fen and the Ficksburg Cherry Festival. Inevitably, restaurants come and go, places to stay change and there will always be additions and subtractions to be made. There are plans to keep the book regularly updated and perhaps even to have the directory section online and changed as and when needed.

Above all, this is an attractive publication that encourages tourists, whether local or from overseas, to move off the well-known and well-used paths and try something a little different in the whole Lesotho and Drakensberg area.

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Books, Media Production, Print Media

Journeying for Justice

What moves ordinary people to risk their comfort for the sake of others? What keeps people hopeful in times of despair? Why would people to take great risks to act against their oppression?

Journeying for Justice gives insight into these questions by recounting the real-life experiences of men and women who have felt compelled by faith and circumstance to keep working for a just society.

These are the stories of those who have worked with, and inspired the Pietermaritzburg Agency for Christian Social Awareness (PACSA). The book tells the story of 30 years of faith-based social justice work in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa. These are stories of faith in action.

“For a change preachers can take a rest from their preaching and allow ordinary people to come forward to share their stories. Stories will bring about healing.”
Fr Buti Tlhagale (now Archbishop), PACSA AGM, 1996

Produced by Jive Media Africa

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Books, Media Production, Print Media

Emthonjeni: Come to the Wellspring

Marilyn Aitken

A journey of discovery for young women

Testimonies about the effectiveness of the materials in this book, from those who know:

“The programme sends women to find in themselves the gold, the diamonds, the wealth that lies in a woman. And then you work with yourself and become what you were destined to be.”
AGGIE

“As young people we need to participate in building our future. Emthonjeni builds powerful leaders who empower other people, loving leaders who listen to and address the needs of the people and the Earth.”
SBONGILE

Produced by Jive Media Africa

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Books, Documentary, Film, Media & Film, Media Production, Print Media

Palaeontology and Archaeology

Jive Media Africa completed a tour around South Africa visiting the prehistory sites that have shaped world knowledge on the evolution of life – and more recently human life – on our planet. These palaeontological and archaeological sites create a wonderful opportunity to share science with the public. They take us back to humankind’s African Origins.

Jive Media Africa produced 3 books about the sites, specifically a learner guide, a tourism guide and portfolio of research activities.
Nonhlanhla Vilakazi, a palaeo-herpitologist (studies fossilized reptiles), came along for the ride and recorded her experiences (in words, images and video clips) on a weblog.

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Video Blog:

  • Nieu Bethesda
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  • Maropeng / Cradle of Humankind 1
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  • Nelson Bay Cave
  • Game Pass Shelter
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