By Novell Zwange – JOHANNESBURG – As bonuses and parties bring full swing into the festive season, the world’s favourite family entertainment and media enterprise, Walt Disney Company has brought joy to the lives of 200 children who have had, or are awaiting for corrective facial surgery with donations of Christmas gifts and decorations for the children’s wards where these surgeries have been performed, as part of the Disney Smile Foundation Christmas Party initiative. The Walt Disney Company recently sponsored 200 Christmas presents, a host of festive decorations and a Christmas tree for each of the children’s wards of the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, December 9th 2010 |
By Own Staff Writer Kalk Bay Books & Jacana Media invite you to draw the year to a close with a smile on your face (albeit a wry one!) Join them for launch of two books on Wednesday 15 December & What’s So Funny? by Andy Mason, and Just for Kicks The Year in Cartoons edited by John Curtis & Andy Mason. Andy Mason embarks on a fascinating journey through the history of South African cartooning, tracing a vigorous lineage of satirical art that begins in the colonial period and continues unabated to this day. For hundreds of years, democratic... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, December 7th 2010 |
By Own Correspondent – Johannesburg, South Africa – One of Africa’s best loved actresses, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, is set to delight the little ones this festive season with a series of wonderful storytelling events, being held as part of Disney Channel’s Christmas extravaganza at Sandton City, Johannesburg, from 10-24 December. Surtie-Richards will take to the stage at 10am from 15-19 December at the Fountain Court in Sandton City where she will read various Disney Mickey Mouse Clubhouse stories for preschoolers and interact with the children. Each day, after the story, kids will have the chance to take part in Disney’s famous Hot... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, December 7th 2010 |
Let them know it’s Christmas – help secure their home – In part of a rundown office building on the corner of 5th Avenue and 5th Street in Marlboro, Alexander, you’ll find Thuthuzela Aid Community Centre (TACC). At night, its 27 full time residents – abandoned, orphaned and vulnerable children ranging in age from four months to eight years – sleep in a single room upstairs; by day, 65 other children from the neighbourhood attend Thuthuzela, the crèche. Radiant Lighting and Electrical (Radiant), one of South Africa’s largest lighting and electrical manufacturers and distributors, thought to assist in a small... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, December 7th 2010 |
Shout-Africa/ Sunday World – Nut-witted Zimbabwean-born ragga disk jockey, Jah Seed whose real name is Adrian Anesu Mupemhi, doesn’t take kindly to socialising with gays, the Sunday World reported yesterday. The highly pompous ragga and dancehall artist is reported to have allegedly bashed a woman who was with a gay friend at the Bassline in Newtown, downtown Johannesburg, last week–because they were becoming too friendly for his liking. Mupemhi who in 2002 was charged and deported from South Africa for being in country illegally, is not a stranger to controversy. The Sunday paper reports that club-frequenter Lineo Mofolo said she... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, December 6th 2010 |
