By Novell Zwange – MPUMALANGA – The Transnet Foundation in South Africa and Roche this month unveiled the better version of a refurbished health clinic aboard the Phelophepa health-care train, a primary health facility on rails. Phelophepa, (which literally translates to good, clean health) is a remarkable success story of how public-private sector partnerships can be used to transform lives of communities through social entrepreneurship. The Transnet owned train provides primary health care services to South Africa’s most remote rural areas, and these include eye and dental care, psychiatric support, cancer, diabetes and hypertension screening, as well as health education... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, September 6th 2010 |
On Saturday, 4 September 2010, Penguin Books announced the non-fiction and fiction winners of the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing. This award seeks to highlight the diverse writing talent on the African continent and make new African fiction and non-fiction available to a wider readership. “We were overwhelmed by the number of entries for these two awards and, after hearing from the judges and readers who read the submissions, encouraged by the writing talent coming out of our continent. Congratulations to the two worthy winners,” said Alison Lowry, CEO, Penguin Books South Africa The Penguin Prize for African Writing... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, September 6th 2010 |
By Shout-Africa Correspondent – The second round of “Afrika Kommt!”, an extensive and practically-based professional business internship program in Germany has been announced. The initiative by German industry is aimed at young professionals and junior executives from sub-Saharan Africa. Applications for the 2010-2012 program will be accepted for consideration until October 31, 2010. After its successful start in 2008, the Afrika Kommt! program has returned. After training 19 participants in Germany’s top firms, the initiative of German industry for future leaders from sub-Saharan Africa will hold another long-term training from March 2011 through late June 2012. Similar to the first... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, September 6th 2010 |
The German artistic foundation kunst:raum sylt quelle, in cooperation with the Goethe Institut South Africa, have announced their 2010 competition for southern African artists. The competition is open to artists of all disciplines from Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Swaziland. The competition asks how Southern African writers, artists, choreographers, musicians and theatre-makers see their art in the context of the society they live in? What are the fundamental issues of their countries, and what ideas do they have for solving them. The winner of the “Sylt Quelle Cultural Award for Southern Africa” will receive 10,000... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, September 6th 2010 |
JOHANNESBURG – There was no shortage of input from delegates at yesterday’s conference sessions on the second day of the 2010 Moshito Music Conference and Exhibition. One of these was the session on Needletime. Sub-titled ‘The SA Industry’s Copyright Dilemma’, the breakaway session at Museum Africa saw panelists field tough questions from artists, producers and more. Speakers Kadi Petje of CIPRO and David Du Plessis of SAMPRA (South African Music Performance Rights Association) outlined the current position from each side, followed by a Q and A session which saw heated comments from delegates around the delay in artists seeing much-needed... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, September 4th 2010 |
