By Martin Chemhere – Johannesburg: Wembley to Soweto, an exhibition of 50 photographs shot in 2010 in South Africa ended its exhibition run in London on 24 July after opening to wide media and public admiration. A 42 minutes long award-winning documentary that screened during the same month at the British Film Institute completes the multimedia show. “The reaction to the exhibition and film surpassed our wildest dreams,” said David Westhead director of Wilton Pictures the producers of the show and film. The exhibition opened to the public for free from 7 – 24 July, 2011 and displayed the unexpected... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Sunday, July 24th 2011 |
By Martin Chemhere – JOHANNESBURG: On Sunday 17th July, 2011, Africa Heritage Society (AHS), based in South Africa salutes champions of freedom at a special gala and awards ceremony in Johannesburg. The event under the AHS’s Salute Freedom Award Programme has been themed Africa Heritage – Champions of Freedom, Justice, Democracy, and Equality Appreciation Day. Honourable guests at the awards, inaugurated in July 2009, include His Excellency, Dr. Bakili Muluzi, Former President of Malawi, Mr. Andrew Mlangeni (South Africa), International Ambassador Oscar J. Webb and Reverend Motlalepule Chabaku. All these special guests will receive the AHS salute awards on the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, July 16th 2011 |
“I am…my experience, my life and the life of those around me…we had a home, a place that gave us our identity, now we are guests in your home…” The body of work is a metaphor that embodies and expresses the excruciating vulnerability of African working class, poor, women and children…… brothers and sisters and the litany of organized and random assaults tearing away at the tissue of their lives. In my Africa ; Where life and dignity should be preserved and defended by those who have the power to determine and control governance and policy there is war for power, displacement... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, July 7th 2011 |
JOHANNESBURG, 6 July 2011 (IRIN) – With just weeks to go before a 27-month moratorium on deporting Zimbabweans living illegally in South Africa expires, the authorities are scrambling to complete a documentation process that will still leave hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans lacking the necessary permits to avoid arrest. The number of Zimbabweans who have fled the political and economic crisis in their country and moved to South Africa is unknown but estimates from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) range from 1 to 1.5 million. Before the government introduced the moratorium in April 2009, the authorities were deporting Zimbabweans... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Wednesday, July 6th 2011 |
The 32nd Durban International Film Festival, supported by the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (principal funder), National Film and Video Foundation, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Economic Development and Tourism and other valued funders and partners, kicks off on 21 July with the World Premiere of the South African film Otelo Burning, directed by Sara Blecher. Set during the last days of apartheid, the Durban-shot filmtells the story of a group of South African township youngsters who discover surfing as an empowering escape from the political violence of the times. There is drama, romance, rivalry, and tragedy in this convincing fulfilment of... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, July 5th 2011 |
