By Novell Zwangendaba – JOHANNESBURG – Solidarity Peace Trust will this Friday launch the Zimbabwe Report, A Fractured Nation, at Devonshire Hotel, in Braamfontein. The report is an assessment of the effects of Operation Murambatsvina (OM) five years on. It looks at the combined effects of OM and the economic meltdown in the years that followed on the livelihoods and movements of Zimbabweans both within the country and in the diaspora. The findings show the continuing devastation of that operation and the meltdown of the years that followed and indicates the extent of the damage that needs to be addressed... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, July 27th 2010 |
A new website for domestic workers has been launched in South Africa. The aim of this website is to help you find a domestic worker, gardener other other related service provider in your city.
Publish Date: Monday, July 26th 2010 |
By Shout-Africa Own Correspondent – SAMRO Endowment for the National Arts (SENA) has announced the four young composers who will be competing for two R170 000 scholarships to further their music studies overseas. The finalists in the two categories are: Keith Moss and Angela Mullins (Western Art Music) and James Bassingthwaighte and Kingsley Alexander Buitendag (Jazz/Popular Music). Their compositions will be performed during the final round of the competition, at the University of Johannesburg Arts Centre on Saturday, 28 August 2010. The SAMRO Overseas Scholarships Competition rotates between instrumentalists, singers, keyboard players and composers over a four year cycle. André... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 26th 2010 |
JOHANNESBURG – Arts Alive 2010 programme promises to be the best yet. From the cool sounds of local Jazz , to the rhythms of the clubs and the urban beat of the hip-hop culture to the rich sounds of the classics, this year’s Joburg Arts Alive festival has it all. Giving voice to the Joburg Arts Alive festival – provocative and powerful, the spoken word artists, the slam poets, the performance artists engage the senses, stir the mind, delve into the social and emotional consciousness. In 2009 Edition of teh ever-growing festival, South African dramas explored the social milieu, while... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 26th 2010 |
JOHANNESBURG – The Film and Publication Board (FPB) in partnership with the Family Policy Institute (FPI) has renewed calls for urgent action to protect children from exposure to pornography. Citing research carried out by Doctors for Life (DFL) linking contact with pornography in young children to deviant behaviour, the FPB’s CEO Yoliswa Makhasi has urged greater responsibility at all levels of society to protect children from exposure to pornography and other forms of undesirable content. “We believe those who should know better are not taking the care they should to protect our children,” says Makhasi, referring to two recent incidents... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 26th 2010 |
