JOHANNESBURG – CheapOair, a top ten rated online travel agency, in partnership with South African Airways and Lonely Planet, has announced that they will hold a 10-day contest via Twitter. Starting on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 and ending on Monday, August 30, 2010, participants will have the opportunity to enter the contest where they can win a grand prize of airfare to South Africa. For 10 days, @Cheapoair will tweet a South African themed question to its followers. Individuals can respond to the question using the hash tag #COASA. A daily winner will be randomly selected and rewarded with a... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
You are invited to a weekend filled with questions, boiling down to a single one… In their year-long study project 80*81, Georg Diez and Christopher Roth, in collaboration with artists, astrologers, philosophers, psychologists, writers, film directors and actors, research a central question: What actually happened? At that time, 1980, when Reagan was elected President, when Pope John Paul II met with Lech Walesa, as Andy Warhol met William Burroughs for dinner at the Chelsea Hotel, when John Galliano was a Blitz Kid? And what happened in 1981, when Ayatollah Khomeini’s hostages were released, five minutes after Reagan became president? When... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
Kalk Bay Books & Penguin SA invites you to a discussion Lyndall Gordon in conversation with Finuala Dowling on Gordon’s highly-acclaimed biography of Emily Dickinson “Lives Like Loaded Guns.” South African-born Lyndall Gordon will be in Cape Town on a personal visit and has graciously agreed to join us at Kalk Bay Books to discuss her book with fellow poet, author and fan, Finuala Dowling. Though in her lifetime only 10 of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published, her death revealed 1,789 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
The 2010 Joburg Arts Alive International Festival has struck gold with the signing of world jazz maestro Mulatu Astatke to perform at the city’s cultural festival for one show only. Mulatu’s South African debut takes place at the Wits Great Hall on September 10th and is presented by Badia Productions with the support of the National Arts Council, Arts Alive, Ethiopian Airlines, Wits University and Unisa. The event will also include the showcasing of a book about Mulatu’s rich, music inspired life titled ‘Mulatu Astatke: The Birth of Ethio-Jazz’. Mulatu and his musical genre – Ethio Jazz – was described... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, August 18th 2010 |
By Novell Zwange (JOHANNESBURG) — Last night I went to Niki’s Oasis in Newtown to attend the memorial service for the late South African saxophonist, Ezra Nyaniso Ngcukana, born in Port Elizabeth on August 25 1954 who died on Sunday night of 9 August this year. Up till now the cause of Mgcukana’s cause death is not yet known. The event was a highly remarkable one as scores of top south African artists, politicians, and trade-unionists descended on Niki.s Oasis to pay their homage to one of the great musicians of our time. The line-up of artists and notable performers... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, August 17th 2010 |
