CT to host 2011 Freedom to Create Prize Awards ceremony

Freedom to Create is an international organisation supporting artists worldwide who use the arts to inspire social change in the face of oppression, discrimination and socio-economic challenges. The organisation's annual Prize Awards ceremony is to be held in Cape Town on 19 November 2011. Read more >>

JM Coetzee archive heads to US

[Ray Maota] The archive of South African literary giant and Nobel laureate JM Coetzee has been bought by the Harry Ransom Centre library at the University of Texas in the US. The collection of work covers the life and career of the author, spanning more than five decades. Read more >>

SWAT team confiscates movie weapons

A Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team raided a warehouse in Budapest that contained props for a new horror movie and discovered 85 weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles and sniper rifles, which all contained live ammunition. Read more >>

Idols star has a heart for animals

Jason Hartman, 2009 Idols winner, will be the celebrity face of the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF), the non-profit organisation that aims at combating poaching on a global level through recruiting, training, equipping and deploying rangers to protect our wildlife. Whereas there is a frontline in place with highly skilled and trained rangers to meet poaching head-on, Hartman's involvement will be at community level. Read more >>

Music piracy - is the tide turning?

[Stephen Hollis] The internet has created a platform which allows artists to reach worldwide audiences and gives these audiences the ability to access their music directly from their homes. It has also spawned a direct distribution system of content to consumers and created a competition monster for music retailers and distributors. Read more >>

Coldplay makes music video in Western Cape

International rock group Coldplay, which has been touring in South Africa, has filmed a new music video in Cape Town and the Klein Karoo according to the Cape Town Film Commission's chief executive Denis Lillie. Read more >>

EXCLUSIVE: New Brand Council of SA announces office bearers

The board of the new Brand Council of South Africa (BCSA) has elected HKLM's Sean McCoy as chairman, and Interbrand Sampson's Jeremy Sampson and Brand Leadership's Thebe Ikalafeng as joint vice chairs. The BCSA, incorporates the Brand Design Council (formerly known as THINK), was constituted after extensive debate around the need for a collective voice to represent, strengthen and advance the interests of the wider branding and design industry in SA, and it. Read more >>

Rolling Stone South Africa: the first in-depth interview

[Johann Smith] "Rolling Stone" - it was the writing on the wall found backstage at Rocking the Daisies. It was a hint, a secret, that the writer wanted musicians to know first, before anyone else. There is no way of saying it better: Rolling Stone magazine is coming to South Africa in November 2011. Johann Smith and Ruth Cooper of Bizcommunity.com's BizLounge speak to Miles Keylock, editor-in-chief of RS SA. Read more >>

South Africans are overweight - survey

South Africans weigh in as the third fattest nation on earth. A survey done in 2010 by Glaxo SmithKline has found that 61% of the South African population are overweight or morbidly obese. In addition to this survey, a study done by the Medical Research Council in 2007 found that 56% of adult women and 29% of adult men in South Africa were overweight or obese. Read more >>

Unions to picket at Wal-Mart/Massmart hearing

The Congress of SA Trade Unions' (Cosatu) and the SA Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) on Monday announced their intention to embark on "mass pickets" at the Wal-Mart-Massmart appeal hearing in Cape Town set for Thursday and Friday, 21 - 22 October 2011. Read more >>