There’s an air of expectation in the Johannesburg City Hall as the audience settles down prior to the arrival of the evening’s star attraction, Sergei Nakariakov. An attractive dark-haired young man in trendy clothes, Nakariakov looks as if he could be a contestant in Idols. But he is no short-term pop sensation. The young Russian trumpeter has been hailed as a musical genius in the class of Paganini and Caruso.
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/ 3 December 2002
At first glance, the computer room at Optima College looks like any other computer room at schools around the country. Young adults sit in front of a row of computers with standard keyboards. Their teacher, Deena Moodley, moves attentively between them.