Good News

BULLETIN 14 May

Good afternoon, here is your Good News:

# The HUB Gallery in Cape Town is currently hosting an exhibition titled, 30 Years the Occupants. It brings a collection of photo essays from Matthew Willman’s Mandela Heritage Collection, together with a selection of works from the Spier Collection, a contemporary Southern African collection. The exhibition encapsulates three decades of democracy that represent a multiplicity of post-apartheid narratives. The Mandela Heritage Collection features a series of photographs taken over several years that capture Nelson Mandela’s journey and key elements of the struggle.

# The eThekwini Municipality says Africa’s Travel Indaba, currently underway at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, will boost the metro’s economy significantly. Around nine-thousand delegates from over 25 countries are attending the four-day Indaba, which concludes on Thursday. The metro says the event will inject a projected 439-million-rand into the eThekwini’s gross domestic product, with 796 jobs expected to be created within this period.

# Tshwane University of Technology student, Asithandile Nicolene Dyantyi, will receive the International Federation of Environmental Health Roy Emerson Award. She won the award for an essay titled, Environmental Public Health Workforce Modernization: Utilising Technological Advances Available in the Digital Age, to Help Prepare for Tomorrow’s Challenges, Today. Dyantyi will be presented with the award at the 17th World Congress in Perth, Australia, next week.

# Poet laureate doctor Harold Edward Owen graduated from the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Humanities with a PhD in Creative Writing. The 74-year-old’s poetry focuses on the natural world, and through his words, he hopes to highlight the unprecedented extinction of wildlife and ecosystems. His most recent publication, his ninth collection of poetry, is titled Thicket: Shades from the Eastern Cape. The university’s professor, David Medalie, says Owen is a remarkably skilful poet, one whose deft use of language delights and enthrals the reader.

# And finally: Alice Childress’ witty and thought-provoking play, Trouble in Mind, will open at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town today and runs until the first of June. Starring the likes of Thembi Mtshali-Jones, Antony Coleman, and Royston Stoffels, the play grapples with racism, sexism, hypocrisy, and multi-generational conflicts in America. Under the direction of the award-winning Mdu Kweyama, the production is made possible by the City of Cape, the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust, and the National Arts Council.

Stay tuned for more news………….