29 Jan 2013

Arts & Entertainment

 

Beware the angry jobless...

We're all aware of the unemployment problem in this country, but other than thousands and thousands of words, the issue has not seen any great change, but now a warning has been sounded... Evan Pickworth, addressing an economic conference last week pointed out a stark warning on the potential threat we face in the form of rebellion by a jobless youth, desperate and frustrated.

We need to sit up and take notice - and then actually do what is needed to defuse what could be a very explosive situation.

On the mobile front, Mark Schefermann looks at the future of the mobile voice.

So why were they closed in the first place? After years of calls from various quarters to re-open the teacher training colleges, which the government closed soon after taking power, the Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande has now announced that teacher training colleges are to re-open. Many might say, about time, but too late... the education system is already a shambles.

Don't you wish you were a consultant to a government department? Well, perhaps you are...if so, you should be happy with your share of the R24.6bn spent on consultants in a three-year period - yes, that's R24,600,000,000. Now the Office of the Auditor General has called for stricter controls on the use of consultants by government. To put this into perspective: if you spent R10,000 a day, every day, to spend this amount of cash would take you 2,460,000 days - or six thousand, seven hundred and fifty eight years and three months. Happy spending!

Onto some good news...Kruger has reopened roads, camps and picnic spots.

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Cultural group writes own history
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Churches slate porn TV
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SA artist donates artwork to stop child hunger
South African artist Riaan van Zyl has donated an artwork to Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa (SHNSA), with the wish that the painting be given to a donor partner who has assisted the organisation in achieving its vision of stopping child hunger. Read more >>


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FilmFest offers creative prelude to Design Indaba
The Design Indaba FilmFest 2013 is happening every evening at 2030 from 17 February to 3 March 2013, on the rooftop at The Bank in the Fringe District, Cape Town, as a prelude to Design Indaba. Read more >>

F.I.L.M Sallywood interns introduce Kwaai City
The Film Industry Learner Mentorship's (F.I.L.M) Sallywood interns from the 2012-2013 Sallywood MICT Seta Internship, is producing a fun and funky web-based program called Kwaai City. Broadly speaking Kwaai City features 'What's Hot' and by omission, 'What's Not' in the Kwaai City of Cape Town. (video) Read more >>


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Carstens disputes blood test results
The blood tests of local musician Arno Carstens are being disputed in his drunk driving trial in Cape Town, it was reported on Thursday (24 Janaury). Read more >>


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Zuma congratulates Theron on WEF Crystal Award
PRETORIA: President Jacob Zuma has congratulated South African-born Hollywood star, Charlize Theron, for scooping the WEF Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum. Read more >>

Performing arts master class application deadline extended to 4 February
Teachers, producers and directors of musicals for developing performers and youths in the Eastern Cape are invited to apply to attend a master class, which aims to equip participants with information, knowledge and tools to put together a musical successfully, from beginning to end, with good production values, even on a tight budget. Read more >>

First Improv Festival for Cape Town
The Kalk Bay Theatre will be the venue at which ImproGuise, players of Cape Town's longest running, award-winning and most popular live show, TheatreSports, presents Cape Town's first Improv Festival, which will run from Tuesday to Saturdays at 8pm, from 29 January until 9 February, 2013. Read more >>


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Rob van Vuuren and the Three Little Pigs
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Madame Zingara's Miracle Tour
[Eugene Yiga] Madame Zingara's Theatre of Dreams has been delighting South African audiences for the last several years. Now, after a year of sold-out performances, the travelling dinner cirque extravaganza is back in Cape Town for the farewell Miracle Tour. Celebrating the miracle of life and the magical journey we're all on, this unforgettable experience is a feast in every sense of the word. Read more >>

Flawless Argo
[Daniel Dercksen] Malicious reality and redundant fear can easily imprison us, but as Argo shows, it's the fantasy of our imagination and unwavering optimism that can set us free and resolve unthinkable dilemmas. Read more >>

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