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RUTH COOPER
Travel writer and earth advocate Dawn Jorgensen shares her #LockdownLessons and predictions on how travel will shift to a more authentic, climate-friendly and sustainable focus post Covid-19... read
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The Baxter Theatre Centre has introduced Baxter Radio in light of the Covid-19 lockdown in South Africa. Baxter Radio is aimed at recording school set-works, children's books, new South African works and classics - which will be made directly accessible to the Baxter's subscriber database and to community radio stations....read
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RUTH COOPER
We chat to Darren Sandras, director and co-owner of entertainment marketing and communications agency One-eyed Jack about how he, his company and the SA entertainment industry, in general, is navigating and responding to the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent nationwide lockdown...read
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DANIEL DERCKSEN
Daniel Dercksen chats with Tertius Kapp, who wrote the screenplay for Griekwastad, the true story of the cruel acts which shook the world to its core in 2012...read
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The Eat Out Restaurant Relief Fund, in partnership with Community Chest, aims to support an industry in crisis as they provide hope and kindness to needy communities... Read
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In light of the Covid-19 lockdown, TicketPro has introduced a new online streaming platform for musicians, comedians and other artists, Covid-Zero... Read
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SmartWage and Clanstival have collaborated on a financial solution to help artists who may be suffering from financial constraints due to the Covid-19 lockdown... Read
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Music
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ISSUED BY KAYA FM 95.9
The world has found itself in an unimaginable moment of a global standstill. Although the devastating outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic sees us existing within great distance from each other, music as a universal language is powerful in bringing people together... Read
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One Love SA will host a livestream benefit concert on Facebook with the aim of raising R1m for Covid-19 relief efforts. The #UnlockLoveSA concert will go live on Facebook on 30 April 2020... Read
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MARTIN MYERS
Donovan Copley, frontman of Cape Town Afro-pop band Hot Water, delivers a heartwarming lockdown music video for the brand-new single "Home" to raise funds for the Covid-19 Feed a Child Coalition... Read
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Art
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ISSUED BY BUSINESS AND ARTS SOUTH AFRICA
UJ Arts and Culture, a division of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (Fada) at the University of Johannesburg, has announced a partnership with Business and Arts South Africa NPC (Basa), for a provocative new project, UnFestival SA... Read
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Food & Wine
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The sale of cigarettes and alcohol will remain prohibited... Read
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ISSUED BY BURGER KING
Burger King has come to realise that tempting its customers with salacious pictures of its delicious treats when no one can have them is simply not fair... Read
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Film
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ISSUED BY SHOWMAX
The Guptagate documentary How To Steal A Country is now streaming first on Showmax, just in time for the Freedom Day long weekend, with early reviews calling it "An excellent documentary, one of the best ever made in our country"... Read
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The fourth episode of Texx Talks features Ryan Murgatroyd, who chats his early
days with Soul Candi, to owning his own imprint, to the cultural phenomenon of electronic music. View
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Matthew Mole releases the official music video for "Keep It Together". View
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Die Heuwels Fantasties ft. Ampie release the music video for new track, 'Ons Moet Leef'. To make the video during the lockdown period in South Africa, DHF turned to social media to ask their fans to send home videos for consideration for use in the storyline. View
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Soweto's Finest and Kokota hitmakers, Kaygee DaKing & Bizizi, release the official music video for hit song, "Tikoloshi". View
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Dream Pop duo EMERGER (Emma de Goede and Gerry Matthee) release their debut official music video for their track "Urban Wilderness." The music video is directed by De Goede and Matthee, who collaborated with cinematographers, Kyle Wesson and Hugo Brand. View
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December Streets release the lyric video for new track, 'Haters'. View
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
#LockdownLessons explores the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on businesses... Read
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In his announcement on easing South Africa's Covid-19 lockdown from Level 5 to Level 4 on 1 May 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa painted a broad strokes picture of how the country will return to work... Read
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