With five more weekly newsletters to go, and just a few more sleeps until you find yourself pushing and shoving in a crowded shopping mall searching for that one last gift, the news flow is yet to slow! All
26 of our industry newsletters are jam-packed with what's what with the who's who.
The annual
Checkers/Shoprite Toy 4 Toy campaign launched this week, so if you have any new or used toys laying about that little Susie's outgrown, why not donate them to a less fortunate child. The campaign runs until early December.
After Randall Abrahams handed over the SAMA CEO baton to Nlanhla Sibisi, the
2013 MTN South African Music Awards is now open for entries. Look out for a few category changes here and there, and have your entries in by 30 November 2012. As my father recites whenever buying his
tata ma chance ticket, you have to be in it, to win it...
Still on the topic of winning, well done to the KZN-based African Centre for Crop Improvement for
scoring its first award! Conferred by A Green Revolution for Africa for "exceptional contributions to food security in Africa", the ACCI received its award from Nobel peace prize laureate Kofi Annan.
Lastly, in an endeavour to keep our coasts clean and our marine life protected, the Western, Northern and Eastern Cape coasts will soon have
bins in which fishermen can discard broken or used line. The project, successfully implemented along the Overberg's Gansbaai shoreline, uses PVC pipe as bins for fishing line. According to John Kieser, sustainability manager of Plastics|SA, the project has received plenty of support from the public and fishermen have also welcomed the initiative. Well done to all involved!
Sindy Peters: Group Head, Content
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Theatre companies are invited to apply for the family component of the Out the Box Festival of Puppetry and Visual Performance 2013. Applications is open until 15 December 2012. 
The visual arts magazine, The SA Artist is celebrating its first birthday with the release of the seventh issue - Nov/Dec 2012. 
Two innovative fundraising campaigns have raised an incredible R35 000 in individual giving for visual theatre company FTH:K. 
Two years ago, the South African Post Office released a series of stamps featuring artworks executed in traditional African beadwork. The original beadwork pieces selected and the newly issued stamps can be seen at the exhibition entitled The 8th Definitive Series of Stamps: The luminous beauty of South African beadwork on Stamps at the Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town until 11 November 2012. 
The second annual Finest DJ Mix Competition has opened on Ligwalagwala FM to promote Mpumalanga's young and up-coming local DJs, and Capricorn FM's annual Limpopo Music Festival will be held at the Polokwane Cricket Club on Saturday 24 November 2012. 
The Ithuba Arts Fund (IAF) has identified six up-and-coming Johannesburg-based artists who will be exhibiting their works at the opening of the gallery. 
Entries are open for the 2013 
