# A collaboration between Read with Wimpy and Ladles of Love literacy has seen the gifting of over one-thousand-200 brand-new books to just over 600 children across 17 early childhood development centres in Johannesburg. This collaboration tackles two urgent issues: hunger and illiteracy. Each child receives two carefully selected books, one in their mother tongue […]
# A total of 303 learners from 35 regions across South Africa and 16 international participants will take part in the Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair in Gauteng next month. Participants from South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mexico, Ireland, India and Russia will showcase their science projects. Eskom’s Parthy Chetty says prizes include […]
# Filmmaker Spike Lee, Warner Bros. CEO Pamela Abdy, film composer Nicholas Britell, and screenwriter Will Tracy are some of this year’s Montclair Film Festival Honours. Lee will be honoured with the Filmmaker Tribute, while Adby will receive the Visionary Award, focusing on her career by highlighting films such as Sinners and Weapons. Britell will […]
# Two Rhodes University Fine Art Department students, Snelihle Maphumulo and Sarah Volker, are winners of the Sasol New Signatures Visual Arts Competition. The competition provides an entry point for emerging visual artists to gain national exposure, professional validation, and a foothold in the competitive art world. Maphumulo received the Merit Award for her work, […]
# Dit is vandag Internasionale Countrymusiek-dag waarop een van die wêreld se gewildste musiekgenres gevier word. Countrymusiek het sy oorsprong in die landelike suide van Amerika en sy wortels is in blues, kerk- en Amerikaanse volksmusiek. Dis ook vandag Hank Williams se verjaarsdag. Hy is een van die invloedrykste countrymusiek-kunstenaars van die 20ste eeu. Sy […]
# Today is International Country Music Day, celebrating one of the world’s most popular music genres. Country music has its origins in the rural southern United States and its roots in blues, church, and American folk music. Today is also the birthday of Hank Williams, one of the most influential country music artists of the […]
# Mzansi Jikelele, ʼn groep bekende plaaslike kunstenaars, sal Suid-Afrika Saterdag by die InterVision-musiekkompetisie in Rusland verteenwoordig. Die groep, wat aansluit by deelnemers uit 22 ander lande in hierdie multikulturele viering, sal ʼn oorspronklike komposisie opvoer met die titel, Home. Suid-Afrika se teenwoordigheid word verder versterk deur Ntsiki Mazwai, ʼn beroemde sanger, digter en aktivis, […]
# Die Tshwane Universiteit vir Tegnologie se Departement van Uitvoerende Kunste se senior dosent en bekroonde jazz-pianis, Roland Moses, is uitgenooi na die Villa-Lobos Instituut by die Federale Universiteit van die Staat van Rio de Janeiro. Hy sal meesterklasse, slypskole, gemeenskapsprojekte en ʼn konsert aanbied. TUT sê die meestersklasse sal handel oor Suid-Afrika se musiekerfenis, […]
# Drie bewaringbestuur-studente van die Nelson Mandela Universiteit se George-kampus het by die Suid-Afrikaanse Natuurlewe-bestuursvereniging, SAWMA, se konferensie erkenning gekry. Elizabeth Kennedy Overton is vereer vir die beste PhD Speed Presentation vir: Spoorsny jagluiperds: kwantifiseer jagsukses deur ʼn oeroue spoorsnymetode. Die beste MSc Full Talk-toekenning is toegeken aan Yasmin Markides vir: Modelleer funksionele verspreidingsroetes na […]
