Jo’burg’s leading symphony orchestra the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra is to get a R500 000 shot in the arm from the corporate sector.
We asked some of South Africa’s hottest celebrities about their best and worst moments and their favourite acquisitions over the past year.
Bad sex, betrayal, over-spending and hate speech were some of the low-lights of the cultural year.
The voices of local poets are about to be heard beyond the confines of smoky downtown clubs, writes Riekje Pelgrim.
The hit United States television drama about life in a fictional White House, <i>The West Wing</i>, will end its seven-year run in May, losing its battle against declining audiences. Marc Lavine reports.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera has set a theatrical record, becoming the longest-running show in Broadway history.
Just four weeks ago Themba Sibanda — who is HIV-positive — was brought to Mpilo government hospital almost lifeless after suffering from a severe bout of malaria. A doctor quickly prescribed a chloroquine course that had Sibanda on his feet after just two days. But Sibanda’s luck ran out this week when he returned to Mpilo. He was turned away because there were no doctors at the hospital,
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Israel will continue its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas until two soldiers are freed and rocket strikes end, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday told United Nations envoys. Israeli jets hit Lebanese army bases and flattened homes in a deadly new blitz of air strikes on Tuesday, the seventh day of an assault that has killed at least 240 people.
The supreme leader of Somalia’s increasingly powerful Islamist movement said on Tuesday that easing a 14-year-old United Nations arms embargo on the lawless nation would be a ”fatal mistake.” A day after a United States-created diplomatic body recommended ”urgent” modifications to the embargo, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys warned the move would plunge Somalia into new chaos.