Culture and history
African film awards honour SA
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- 24 April 2009
One of Africa’s most prestigious film awards, The African Movie Academy Awards, recently honoured two young South African actors.
SA items in World Digital Library
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- 21 April 2009
An 8 000-year-old South African rock painting of an injured antelope is the oldest item in the archives of the World Digital Library, which goes live on 21 April 2009.
SA singer is new T-Mobile voice
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- 21 April 2009
South African singer/songwriter Baz Corden has been snapped up by major European mobile provider T-Mobile as the voice of their latest advertising campaign.
Art for all at Joburg Art Fair
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- 27 March 2009
This year the Joburg Art Fair, a major event on South Africa’s cultural calendar, aims to make art more accessible to the wider public and includes a new and important educational dimension – for both adults and children.
South Africa scores double ton
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- 27 March 2009
South Africa has become the hub of the cricket world almost overnight, with two major international tournaments shifting from India and Pakistan to the southern tip of the continent amid fears for the safety of players.
Whose tradition is it anyway?
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- 23 March 2009
I love those moments, even in the now not-so-new South Africa, when I picture the architect of apartheid, that evil old pig-dog Hendrik Verwoerd, turning in his grave, writes Bridget Hilton-Barber.
The shades of the Rainbow
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- 16 March 2009
South Africans from immigrant stock have more or less retained the culture of their forebears, even those who have never stepped foot outside Africa. But this cultural stickiness shouldn’t be criticised, it should be celebrated. We are the Rainbow Nation, with all its subtle gradations, writes Mary Alexander.
