19 Nov 2012

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Media freedom triumphs

Media freedom came out on top this weekend as the Pretoria High Court ruled that "How Zuma got off the hook", a story produced by a Sunday Times investigations unit based on leaked documentation which shows that top prosecutors were convinced they had a winning case against Jacob Zuma, may be published and awarded costs to the newspaper. Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa has also conceded that the arrest of Sunday Times journalist, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, was wrongful and agreed to pay him R100,000 in damages and to pay the newspaper's legal costs.

It is, as pointed out by Sunday Times editor Ray Hartley, rather frightening to think such reporting would be illegal should the POI Bill be passed in its current form.

Publishing its voluntary trading update, Times Media has announced that it is currently engaged in a turnaround strategy, reviewing each of its business units in an effort to cut Avusa's debt. For the six months ended September 2012, its profit from operations was only R16m, compared to R74m last year.

The latest SAARF RAMS figures for October 2012 have been released showing overall stability in listenership. No significant changes were registered, apart from four commercial radio stations which posted audience levels that were significantly changed over RAMS Aug 2012: two up, and two down, and twice as many community radio stations as commercial posted significantly changed audience figures over RAMS Aug 2012, with only two of these changes being declines.

Lastly, congratulations to all the 2012 PICA winners!

Sindy Peters: Group Head, Content

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Aegis Thought Leadership Digibates


Ninth Thought Leadership Digibate on research that yield results
Aegis Media, in conjunction with Bizcommunity.com, will be hosting the ninth Thought Leadership Digibate that will focus on research that yield results in Africa. The event will be held on Friday, 30 November 2012, in Cape Town and will stream live on www.bizradio.co.za from 9.30am to 11am. Read more >>

Special focus on media freedom & right to know


Judge, police rules in favour of Sunday Times, Wa Afrika
Judge Nomsa Khumalo of the Pretoria High Court ruled that the NPA had failed to argue that there were grounds for an urgent interdict against the Sunday Times for wanting to publish "How Zuma got off the hook". Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa has also conceded that the arrest of Sunday Times journalist, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, was wrongful and agreed to pay him R100,000 in damages and to pay the newspaper's legal costs. Read more >>

High Court rules in favour of City Press journalist
The North Gauteng High Court ordered three private companies to allow a City Press journalist to view and make copies of the lists of shareholders or members of the companies. The South African National Editors' Forum (Sanef) welcomes the ruling which effectively ensures greater transparency in the country's business affairs. Read more >>

Camp-out for Openness with Right2Know
The Right2Know Campaign will be Camping Out for Openness, outside Parliament, day and night, from today, Monday, 19 November to demand that MPs act to defend our democracy. The organisation calls on all freedom-loving South Africans to join it. Read more >>

Marketing


Marketing for results
[Louise Robinson] You have a fantastic product or service. You have invested valuable resources into creating or acquiring an up-to-date, accurate and extensive database of prospective leads and clients for your company. So why aren't you seeing any results in terms of return on investment and sales? Read more >>

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Advertising


All the Loeries official rankings for 2012
Following on its release of the Loeries official rankings for brands and agencies at the end of October, the awards have released all the official rankings for 2012. New additions this year include a top ten ranking for the rest of Africa & the Middle East category, for countries from outside of South Africa and a ranking for educational institutions. Read more >>

Lessons from Marge Simpson and casinos
[John Laurence] In an episode of season 5 of The Simpsons cartoon, the townsfolk of Springfield decided to legalise gambling in order to boost the town's flagging coffers. Marge, the mom, develops a gambling addiction after putting a loose coin in a slot machine. She becomes permanently glued to the machines, feeding in coins in a zombie-like fashion and consequently neglecting her family, who proceed to stir up all sorts of unconstrained mayhem. Read more >>

Branding


The importance of building shared values
[Ben Wagner] In a highly-connected world where social media savvy-consumers expect greater transparency from the companies whose brands they use, the absence of shared values is becoming an imposing threat to companies' triple bottom lines*. Read more >>

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Digital

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Pay attention to mobile as email marketing channel
[Richard Mullins] Email is still one of the most important and widely-used communication channels that marketers have at their disposal, but the way that many organisations use it is still surprisingly unrefined. Nowhere is this clearer than in the lack of attention many marketers pay to the mobile device as a channel for email marketing. Read more >>

Could companies function without email?
[Daryn Smith] 12 months ago, Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos, set out an 18-month plan to ban internal email. Thousands of people have since commented on this announcement, some supporting it, others not, and many like me, who thought it wasn't possible. There are six months left to go on his roll-out plan, and I wonder how things are going. Read more >>

Direct marketing


All the 2012 Assegai Awards winners
The winners for the 2012 Assegai Integrated Marketing Awards was announced at Sax Arena in Centurion yesterday, Thursday, 15 November 2012. The event recognises excellence in direct and interactive marketing. Read more >>

Education & training


Events & conferencing


Exhibitions


Magazines


2012 PICA Awards winners announced
The 2012 PICA winners were announced late last week at the annual awards ceremony held at Emperors Palace in Joburg. Hosted by MPASA, celebrating the achievements of the magazine and publishing industry, the emcee for the evening was SA celeb Katlego Maboe. Read more >>

Wertheim Aymés snapping up Stuff
[Gill Moodie: @grubstreetSA] What a coup for Gisèle Wertheim Aymés to have snapped up Stuff magazine's licence - and it's also heartening news for independent publishers and media owners. Going with Wertheim Aymés is Stuff editor Toby Shapshak, who has overseen the growth of this little star of a magazine since its launch in SA in 2007. Read more >>

Time to produce proof for print
[Sumien Brink] Here's a challenge to the print industry and its award bodies: if the medium is to grow again, print needs to take a leaf out of digital's book and prove its ROI. And industry awards need to reward this. Read more >>

Media


Times Media aims to cut Avusa debt
Times Media, the listed entity that owns Avusa, says it will focus on reducing the group's debt and improving revenue and operating margins following a trading update on Friday, 16 November 2012, that revealed a very subdued performance. Read more >>

FXI, SABC joint statement on CCC hearing
After appearing before the Complaints and Compliance Committee (CCC) yesterday, 12 November 2012, the Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) and the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) issued a joint press statement concerning their finalised settlement negotiations. Read more >>

Mobile


Windows 8 - mobile alternative?
[Lex Faure] Microsoft has committed a very large chunk of its development budget to make Windows 8 the product which will firmly establish Microsoft as a dominant player in the computer and mobile market. Read more >>

Out-of-home


PR & communications


Managing clients' expectations
[Lucinda Boddy] There are a significant number of misconceptions as to what exactly a PR strategy entails and how it adds value to business. This presents a considerable challenge for practitioners in the PR space, particularly with regards to the management of client expectations. Read more >>

Publishing


Radio


SAARF RAMS figures for October 2012
The latest RAMS figures (October 2012) has been released and the South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF) says that overall, radio has maintained the stability seen in previous releases. Read more >>

Where are women voices in talk radio?
[Talifhani Munzhedzi] Having been a fan of talk radio for a number of years, what worries me is a lack of women voices - not as presenters, but as contributors to programmes. This is not healthy in a democracy such as ours, which guarantees the freedom of expression Read more >>

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International
Google's Android is eating Apple's lunch
SAN FRANCISCO: Smartphones and tablets powered by Google's Android software are devouring the mobile gadget market, eating into Apple's turf by feeding appetites for innovation and low prices, analysts say. Read more >>

WAN-IFRA, IPI call for investigation into Mexican journalist's murder
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the International Press Institute (IPI) have demanded that Mexican federal and state authorities immediately investigate the murder of a freelance journalist in the central Mexican state of Puebla. Read more >>

New global digital publisher created
[Marjorie Scardino] UK: By merging their respective book publishing interests held in Random House and Penguin Books, Bertelsmann and Pearson will create the world's first global consumer publishing company. It will lead - by a long way - in terms of size, geographic diversity and its range of authors and titles. Read more >>

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Company news

The Loerie Awards


Loerie top tens for Platypus in production, post production and editing - Platypus
In the official Loerie Awards rankings, Platypus Productions featured in a remarkable three separate categories, coming third as a post production company, sixth as an editing company, and seventh in the film production company category. Read more >>

Marketing


Living Your Brand introduces tothePOINT Small Business Marketing Seminars - Living Your Brand
Living Your Brand will be hosting the first tothePOINT Small Business Marketing Seminar to be held in Cape Town on 10 December 2012. tothePOINT has been specifically designed for small business owners who are looking to improve their marketing efforts. Read more >>

34Woman and Clover lift the Clover Aardklop National Arts Festival to new heights! - 34
Tasked with developing an insightful, relevant marketing campaign that would connect with the festival's target audience, 34Woman used the classic knock-knock joke (or klop-klop grap, in Afrikaans) to give this year's Aardklop festival more gees. Read more >>

Advertising


Morrisjones creates risky ad for rubybox that gets tongues wagging - Morrisjones
Described as "inappropriate, awkward and awesome" the new YouTube ad for rubybox is already an internet sensation. Read more >>

Purify your mouth - Billads
[Craig Segal] You know it was an awkward night when the highlight of my evening was receiving the bill. No, seriously! Inside my bill folder was a sentence that perfectly summed up my day: 'So you got the waiter who took away your ribs while you were in the bathroom?' My date didn't have a sense of humour but my bill folder did! Read more >>

Ireland/Davenport find an opportunity in the Amazon - Ireland/Davenport
What do you do when a client asks you for a truly unique and captivating concept for a campaign? Where do you look for something genuinely beautiful and out of this world? When Investec Asset Management gave this challenge to Ireland/Davenport they found their answer in the Amazon. Read more >>

Call for participation in the Constructus Masterclass - The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town
The Jupiter Drawing Room (Cape Town) has announced details of its Constructus Masterclass 2012 and has invited small local creative enterprises to participate. The annual event was started last year in an effort to support local majority black-owned creative entrepreneurs and transform the local industry. Read more >>

Cinema


Nu Metro Montecasino's major makeover - Popcorn Cinema Advertising
Popcorn Cinema Advertising's flagship cinema, Nu Metro Montecasino, has undergone renovations over recent months and now boasts sleek and modern décor that is illuminated with multi-coloured lighting creating a contemporary ambience throughout the cinema. Read more >>

CRM


WNS South Africa captures four BPeSA Awards - Fusion
WNS South Africa (formerly Fusion Outsourcing), a leading provider of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, received four prestigious awards at the 2012 BPeSA Western Cape Awards held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Saturday, 10 November. Read more >>

CSI


34 Mo-Sistas and Clover Mmmilk support Movember - 34
Clover, one of South Africa's leading dairy suppliers and 34Woman, a division of AdReview's Specialist Agency of the Year, 34, developed a campaign to drive consideration and purchase of Clover's vanilla-flavoured Mmmilk, all whilst supporting a cause that resonates with the whole family. Read more >>

Giving back is the best way forward - 60 CSI - 60 layers of cake
The newly established 60 CSI, a specialist Corporate Social Investment unit headed by collaborative communication agency 60 layers of cake's new Creative Partner, Liezl-Mari van Rensburg, has taken on another new client - the second since its inception in July. Read more >>

Design


Function over form with Blue Moon's Head of Design - Blue Moon
Craig Belnick, Head of the formidable Design department at Blue Moon, is known for his grace under pressure and top design work. Find out more about the man behind the cool façade... Read more >>

Digital


Conn Bertish to lead the ranks at Quirk Cape Town - Quirk
Conn Bertish, famed Cape Town creative director, surfer and art provocateur will be joining Quirk Cape Town, in January 2013 as its new Executive Creative Director. Read more >>

The 2012 South African eCommerce Award Winners - Jump Shopping
The seventh annual South African eCommerce Awards sheds some light on how far eCommerce in South Africa has come. Websites are in tune with the increasing demands of this growing industry and are raising their standards year on year. Read more >>

Don't lose the plot, focus on the customer in the digital age - NATIVE
Web 2.0 and spectacular innovations in mobile technologies have opened-up a world of opportunities for companies and their brands to interact with a diversity of customers, regardless of where in the world they may be. Read more >>

Mzansi's growing "klout" - Wetpaint Advertising
It seems that digital marketing is the buzzword of the moment. Every tech-savvy analyst and advertising exec is repeating the message, to the point of it being an industry mantra, that a marketing strategy with its sights set on success needs to put the digital platform at the forefront of its tactical mix. Read more >>

Utilising social media in your beauty brand's marketing strategy - Digital Fire
Social media is by now considered to be an integral aspect of any brand's online marketing mix, and while social media can be used to boost any brand's profile there are certain brands that excel at the social networking game. Read more >>

DigitLab takes on the Cloud with Fat Budgie Cloud PBX - DigitLab
DigitLab is thrilled to welcome a new client, Fat Budgie, one of South Africa's leading providers of Cloud PBX and VoIP telecom solutions, to the DigitLab 'flock'. Read more >>

ClickMaven wins silver Bookmarks Award in Paid Search Campaigns category - ClickMaven
While ClickMaven's a little shy about tooting their own trumpet, it's impossible for them to remain coy about their silver Bookmarks Award which they won in the Paid Search Campaigns category. Read more >>

So Interactive wows with the women of WiEBE - So Interactive
Creative digital agency, So Interactive, has delivered a new online community platform designed specifically for WiEBE, Women in Engineering and the Built Environment, an organisation committed to the ongoing support and development of women pioneering a path of gender equality in the engineering industry. Read more >>

DQ&A Media Group introduces DoubleClick Search - DQ&A Media Group
DQ&A's portfolio of services is very complementary: adtech and operations, trading desk, performance marketing, tech solutions, yield management and monetisation. And now, for their existing DoubleClick for Advertisers (DFA) clients, they offer DoubleClick Search and can set up, monitor and report on search accounts. Read more >>

Direct marketing


Boomtown wins silver in the CLIO Healthcare awards - Boomtown
Boomtown Strategy Brand Agency secured a silver at the 2012 CLIO Healthcare awards in New York for its direct mail campaign for Africa Health Placements, an organisation that places doctors from the US and Europe in public service roles across Africa. Read more >>

Education & training


TSiBA Eden gets a perfect 10 - TSiBA Education
Ten TSiBA Eden students were recently interviewed for an amazing training programme venture between Unilever and Smollans. Each and every one of the students made it onto the programme. Read more >>

Master of Arts degree programme to be offered by Vega in 2013 - Vega School
The Vega School of Brand Leadership (Vega) is set to be the first private tertiary-education institute in South Africa to offer a new and specialised approach to brand education, with the launch in January 2013 of the Master of Arts in Creative Brand Leadership programme. Read more >>

Safeguarding creations of the mind - UCT Graduate School of Business
More intellectual property is being generated in emerging economies, yet thought leaders in these areas are not as adept at protecting it as their developed world counterparts. Read more >>

Wits Business Journal continues to grow - Wits University
Having recently hosted the 30th Annual MANEX awards, The Wits Business School and The Wits Business School Journal congratulates Mark Lamberti on his achievement. He joined other captains of industry like Maria Ramos, Johann Rupert, Trevor Manuel and Pravhin Gordon as a winner of the award that celebrates excellence in management. Read more >>

Events & conferencing


Coming February 2013, SALESGURU Live Events present: Get Inspired for Success in 2013 - SALESGURU
SALESGURU brings you the Get Inspired for Success in 2013 event, with two great speakers who will inspire you to be your best in the year ahead, including Adventurer Peter Van Kets, and Black Sheep Vusi Thembekwayo. Read more >>

Social media fraud risks (Insights in 140 characters or less) - Mzanzi Training
In what has been dubbed as the 'First in Africa', some of the leading experts in social media, branding, corporate governance, fraud investigation and fraud prevention will together put the 'FraudScape' (Fraud Landscape) into context within this ever-changing social media environment that all organisations find themselves in. Read more >>

A launch in technicolour - Rain Productions
The Rain Productions Aurorae range of LED furniture has finally arrived and received rave reviews at its launch on 13 November 2012. Read more >>

Yellowwood helps take the Rand Show to the next level - The Rand Show
Expo Centre Johannesburg and Dogan Exhibition & Events have brought in brand consultancy, Yellowwood, to help strategise the next step in their ongoing quest to rebuild South Africa's oldest exhibition brand - the Rand Show. Read more >>

UCKG hosts "Where U going?" event encouraging young people to transform their lives - Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God's "Where U going?" event, held at Cenacles of the Holy Spirit in Durban, Cape Town and Soweto, posed the question: "Are you sure where you are going is where you belong?" Read more >>

Exhibitions


Give your expo stand more impact - Scan Display
Making your exhibition stand 'stand out' in an exhibition hall isn't easy. This is why Scan Display, designer and supplier of exhibition and event infrastructure, is constantly searching for innovative new products for its clients. Read more >>

Plascon renews sponsorship of Decorex SA for the 20th year - Thebe Exhibitions
Decorex SA is proud to announce that for the 20th consecutive year, Plascon will once again be the headline sponsor of Decorex SA in 2013. This renewed partnership confirms the synergy between two of South Africa's best known, trusted and well-loved décor brands. Read more >>

Oasys scoops international contract - Oasys Innovations
The China Sourcing Fair will again be hosted at Gallagher Convention Centre from 28 to 30 November. This is the last leg of the 2012 global road show following major successes in Hong Kong, Dubai, Miami, Sao Paulo and Mumbai. Oasys Innovations was contracted for the third successive year to build the show. Read more >>

Wedding industry partnership supports PinkDrive - The Wedding Expo
The Wedding Expo has joined forces with PinkDrive to provide free clinical breast cancer tests at its 2013 shows, and to promote the Pink Bride competition, which helps spread breast cancer awareness and education. Read more >>

Magazines


New Media continues winning streak - New Media
New Media has continued their award-winning streak of 2012 at the PICAs, scooping top honours in the Visual Production of the Year category for Plascon Spaces, hauling in nine Highly Commended accolades for their consumer and customer titles. Read more >>

Russell Simmons: Magnate with a mantra on the cover of Destiny Man - Ndalo Media
Destiny Man's November-December issue transports its readers into "the zone" - the space where everything falls into place under the spell of the "magnate with a mantra". Read more >>

Mobile


Mobile and digital solutions provider launches in South Africa - Brainstorm Mobile Solutions SA
Brainstorm Mobile Solutions SA, specialists in mobile and digital integrated communications, has launched in South Africa and is poised to assist South African companies connect their brands with their customers. Read more >>

Online media

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Targeted, measurable online advertising now a reality in South Africa - JustPlay
Increasing use of the Internet, led primarily by the explosion in the availability of mobile handsets, is being accompanied by a revolution in the use of the worldwide web by marketers looking for targeted, measurable results for their marketing investments. Read more >>

Out-of-home


Alliance Media successfully launches airport advertising - Alliance Media
After having been awarded the exclusive advertising rights for Botswana's SSK International airport in Gaborone, for another consecutive term, Alliance Media Botswana has successfully installed a number of key sites within the new airport. Read more >>

We've proved it... size does matter... Reg Lascaris - TBWA\South Africa
Big ideas are rare. So if you are going to go big, go really big; let's say 22 metres high by nine metres wide. That's the size of the new Doom billboard up in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Read more >>

Graffiti gets Guess styling with new branded vehicles - Graffiti
Vehicle wrapping and transit media expert, Graffiti, recently gave the Guess brand a stylish new look on board the well-known Guess Limousine and 15 Johannesburg school buses. Read more >>

Isilumko Media's Wellness TV extends its footprint - Isilumko Media
Below-the-line activations and experiential media company, Isilumko Media (powered by Studentwise), has announced that its Wellness TV product has extended its footprint to include provincial health clinics in Gauteng. Read more >>

Production


Picture Tree goes double for summer - Picture Tree
Commercials production company, Picture Tree, has kicked summer off with the new TVC for Vodacom and their "If it's nice, you get it twice. Double your summer" campaign. Featuring almost all of South Africa's best-loved twin celebs, it plays on the notion of having double of everything. Read more >>

Promotions


Havas Worldwide Johannesburg wins Autopax account - Havas Worldwide Johannesburg
Havas Worldwide Johannesburg has recently been chosen for Autopax's new campaign to promote the cashless purchase of tickets for their City to City bus line. In addition to generating a completely cash-free environment, the campaign is also aiming at increasing usage of the City to City services. Read more >>

Research

Southern African Marketing Research Association

South African online consumer confidence increases by one point to 78 in quarter three 2012 - The Nielsen Company
Online consumer confidence in South Africa increased by one point to 78 in the third quarter of 2012 but remains flat when compared year-on-year (Q3 2011) according to global consumer confidence findings from Nielsen, a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy. Read more >>

Millward Brown opens in Cairo, Egypt - Millward Brown
Leading market research firm Millward Brown has officially opened its newest office in Cairo, Egypt to serve the North Africa market. This is the third office opened by the global firm in the Africa and Middle East region this year. Read more >>

Retail


Sober Up - Keeping your mind and body alert! - Sober Up
Sober Up is Biogreen Technologies' first in-house product. This innovative, exciting product, promoting human health and general wellbeing in S.A, assists with the reduction of alcohol from the body, relieving hangovers and digestion. Read more >>

TV


e.tv dismayed over unacceptable comments by Communication Advisor Roy Kruger - e.tv
Free-to-air broadcaster, e.tv, is dismayed by comments made by Communications Minister Dina Pule's technical advisor, Roy Kruger, about the broadcaster's commitment to DTT. Kruger's reckless remarks were directed at e.tv's lawsuit against the Minister's appointment of Sentech to manage conditional access to set-top boxes. Read more >>



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Government
Efficiency key in spending govt money: Motlanthe
PRETORIA: Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says institutions such as Parliament, provincial legislatures and councils must play their oversight role to ensure public resources are allocated and used in accordance with policy priorities, and that there is efficient spending and value for money. Read more >>

SA municipalities face operational and financial challenges
Though notable progress has been made with respect to the roll-out of basic services and infrastructural developments across the municipal sector in recent years, resulting in generally stable credit rating outlooks across the entire sector, various operational and financial challenges will continue to persist into the future. Read more >>

President Zuma says govt did not pay for his house
[Dennis Cruywagen] CAPE TOWN: President Jacob Zuma has told Members of Parliament that his family, and not government, paid for his private home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. Read more >>

Premier Zille urged to work with ministers
PRETORIA: The Presidency has urged Western Cape Premier Helen Zille to work with her colleagues, the ministers in the relevant portfolios, to discuss the assistance she needs to resolve the strikes by farmworkers in the province. Read more >>

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Travel
Abalone House, you'll hardly want to leave
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] With its white-washed houses and ubiquitous blue shutters, Paternoster fancies itself part of the Greek Isles. Don't hold this against this charming West Coast seaside village as it punches way about its weight in the restaurants worth eating at and interesting shops at which to spend your money stakes. Read more >>

Sail into the sunset at La Pirogue
[Rod Baker] La Pirogue, named for the traditional Mauritian twin-sailed fishing boat, bills itself as the most authentic Mauritian resort. Its individual chalets are also modelled on the traditional Mauritian thatched house. What it also has is seemingly acres of rolling lawns, and the tranquillity of a Trappist monastery. Read more >>

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BizLounge
Casper de Vries' heavenly hell
[Daniel Dercksen] Although Casper de Vries has titled his latest show Vark in Hel (Pig in Hell), it's a heavenly experience that should not be missed. Read more >>

Breaking a yawn!
[Daniel Dercksen] If there's one highlight on the big screen this year (and a sigh of relief), it's that the never-ending Twilight saga comes to final conclusion with the lifeless and dull The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 2). What started out as an amusing saga fizzles into thin air. Read more >>

Lots of LOLs in FBPK
[Eugene Yiga] Comedian Martin Evans, recently seen on Comedy Central and the South African edition of Come Dine With Me, gets up close and personal in FBPK. If you want to know why his new one-man show won a Standard Bank Ovation Award at the National Arts Festival (or what FBPK stands for in the first place), it's now on at Cape Town's Kalk Bay Theatre. Read more >>

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