By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – As bonuses and parties bring full swing into the festive season, the world’s favourite family entertainment and media enterprise, Walt Disney Company has brought joy to the lives of 200 children who have had, or are awaiting for corrective facial surgery with donations of Christmas gifts and decorations for the children’s wards where these surgeries have been performed, as part of the Disney Smile Foundation Christmas Party initiative. The Walt Disney Company recently sponsored 200 Christmas presents, a host of festive decorations and a Christmas tree for each of the children’s wards of the... Continue Reading
Zwa Celeb Focus: Emma Obrien Celeb Focus is a column for African celebrities to tell their fans a bit more about their work, releases, events and updates. If you’d like to take part email us on zwange@shout-africa.com This week we interview legendary British photographer living in Johannesburg Emma O’Brien.(pictured here) She has two passions in life; people and photography. Emma started her UK photography business five years ago, which she continues to run by flying back regularly to see clients. She has now expanded that business to include the South African market and is looking forward to being just as... Continue Reading
Let them know it’s Christmas – help secure their home – In part of a rundown office building on the corner of 5th Avenue and 5th Street in Marlboro, Alexander, you’ll find Thuthuzela Aid Community Centre (TACC). At night, its 27 full time residents – abandoned, orphaned and vulnerable children ranging in age from four months to eight years – sleep in a single room upstairs; by day, 65 other children from the neighbourhood attend Thuthuzela, the crèche. Radiant Lighting and Electrical (Radiant), one of South Africa’s largest lighting and electrical manufacturers and distributors, thought to assist in a small... Continue Reading
Shout-Africa/ Sunday World – Nut-witted Zimbabwean-born ragga disk jockey, Jah Seed whose real name is Adrian Anesu Mupemhi, doesn’t take kindly to socialising with gays, the Sunday World reported yesterday. The highly pompous ragga and dancehall artist is reported to have allegedly bashed a woman who was with a gay friend at the Bassline in Newtown, downtown Johannesburg, last week–because they were becoming too friendly for his liking. Mupemhi who in 2002 was charged and deported from South Africa for being in country illegally, is not a stranger to controversy. The Sunday paper reports that club-frequenter Lineo Mofolo said she... Continue Reading
Wanjohi wa Makokha's Nest of Stones (ISBN 9789956578306) is the second book of poems, since the publication of Sitawa Namwalie's Cut off my...
