During August (Women’s Month), South Africa’s leading dancers, singers and fashion houses will create spectacular one-night-only concerts in two South African cities. The events entitled Winds of Change will raise funds to vaccinate children against of Cervical Cancer. The performances promise to be dazzling: Act 1- dancers of different genres interpret sections of Astor Piazzolla’s magnificent Four Seasons (Cuatro Estaciones Portenas); Act 2- Dance Meets Fashion (dancers dressed by The Platinum Group: Jenni Button, Hilton Weiner, Vertigo, Aca Joe and Urban Degree) with live singers and musicians, directed by stellar choreographer Adele Blank. This culminates in the Grand Finale. Featured... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, May 28th 2011 |
By Ray Maota -International Nelson Mandela Day 2011 was recently launched in Johannesburg, with a panel of tertiary students at the event expressing their views on what the celebration means to them. The UN-recognised day was launched at the premises of the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, on 23 May. Mandela Day was first introduced on 18 July 2009, the former president’s birthday, to encourage people to dedicate 67 minutes of their time to make the world a better place. The date was internationally recognised by the UN in November of the same year. The slogan for this... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, May 28th 2011 |
Wits Journalism invites you to a Seminar Mini-Series: Wednesday, 1 June: Franz Kruger: News broadcasting on SA community radio How well is community radio meeting the expectation that it should tell the local story? Kruger, Director of the Wits Radio Academy, presents new research findings Wednesday, 8 June: Markus Brauckmann: Web TV for Political Parties Brauckmann managed Angela Merkel’s internet video re-election campaign in 2009 Wednesday, 15 June: Lesley Cowling: In the Firing Line: Commentators in the media The recent firing of columnist Kuli Roberts (and before her David Bullard) demonstrated that the media failed to recognise that they had... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Saturday, May 28th 2011 |
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. African countries are increasingly engaging in the development of ICT-based solutions for education and training, according to Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal, Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania. Opening Africa’s leading conference on ICT-supported education, eLearning Africa, in Dar es Salaam on May 25, Dr Bilal said, “We are now witnessing increasing investments in ICT on our Continent, the enthusiasm of the youth in adapting new technologies and bridging the geographical barriers brought by fast changing converging technologies. These initiatives attest to the fact that Africa is now moving from being a spectator to a... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Friday, May 27th 2011 |
The Professional Journalists’ Association of South Africa (ProJourn) is deeply saddened to hear of the death of our friend and colleague, South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl, last month in Libya. News of Hammerl’s death broke only late last night when American journalists Clare Gillis and James Foley were interviewed by the GlobalPost after crossing into rebel-held Tunisia, having been released after six weeks in Gaddafi-loyalist custody in Tripoli. Gillis and Foley said they and Spanish photojournalist Manu Brabo were captured by loyalist forces on the outskirts of Brega on April 5. Hammerl suffered serious gunshot wounds to the abdomen during... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, May 26th 2011 |
