The SA Blog Awards for 2010 nomination phase is open. It’s that time of year again when the bloggers of South Africa ask their readers to vote for their blogs. 2010 sees a new CEO with Cape Town Businessman and radio personality JP Naude at the helm. Naude says “The blogosphere in South Africa has grown tremendously with our statistics showing more that 9500 registered bloggers currently ranked with Afrigator, our official blog statistics measuring company”. The 2010 SA Blog Awards supported by News24 this year has 25 categories including the overall SA Blogger of the year category. The awards... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, August 19th 2010 |
By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG -This weekend, Life Beats, a collaborative project by Drama for Life/Sex Actually Festival and the HIV/AIDS and the Media Project, is organising a workshop designed to bridge the gap between traditional health journalism and arts journalism when reporting on the human drama that relates to HIV. The workshop offers participants a closer understanding of both the performing and visual arts (particularly those dealing with HIV) and the HIV epidemic as a news story. With its two-pronged approach, Life Beats has something to offer to both news journalists wanting to access the arts as well as... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
SOUTH AFRICA – With just 2 weeks to go, the 2010 Soweto Wine Festival, happening on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th September, is being hailed as the ‘Bumper Issue’ of all wine festivals when all the glamorous people of Gauteng descend upon the most happening place in Soweto, the Soweto Wine Festival. Visitors will enjoy Soweto ‘home-grown’ restaurants with the tastiest foods from la Kitchen Eatery, Roots, Asidle Gourmet, Masekeng Pub and Divine Caterers; VIP entertainment; your favourite Kaya FM DJ’s on the floor; a business lounge for the ambitious; Norman Goodfellows wine shop to buy your favourite wines by... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
PARKER – With over 178 quality entries submitted this year, Mohamed Soliman of Cairo emerged victorious as the winner of the 2010 WorldNomads.com Travel Documentary Scholarship. Documentaries were submitted from places like Africa, India, Alaska, South America, South East Asia and Papua New Guinea, but Soliman’s piece on Northern Uganda touched the judges more than the others. Mohamed’s video documented the strife in Northern Uganda through the eyes of a teenager — poignantly showing the loss he suffered and the way in which this extraordinary young man is learning to embrace life again. Judge Trent O’Donnell commented, “One of the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
JOHANNESBURG -The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has joined the debate on media reforms in the country, and said it has serious reservations about the proposed introduction of new regulatory measures for the South African media. An Associate Director of SA Jewish Board of Deputies said, “The proposed Media Tribunal clearly has the potential to become a vehicle through which State interference in the ability of the media to operate freely and without fear of reprisals to become entrenched in our society. This in turn would seriously undermine the basic democratic freedoms on which South Africa’s future well-being... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
