Editorship of The Star is one of several new appointments.

"MADIBA has big hands. You can see they've been through a lot, but at the same time they're

Zubeida Jaffer, the award-winning South African journalist and author, was recently featured as the 14th icon of 21 ICONS.

I believe that I am part of a common humanity. One South Africa, one world, one universe. I'm a child of God. I've got identities, but I am not prepared to accept that I'm one thing only.

Algoa FM has partnered with its weekend lunch presenter Tové Kane to open the School of Broadcasting in the Eastern Cape.

Pretoria – The Presidency has announced the appointment of Lakela Kaunda as the Chief Operations Officer (COO) with effect from 1 November.

FOUNTAIN Vineyard Christian Fellowship pastoral team members Natalia and her husband Ricky Venter celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary last month.

GoTrendSA sits down with trendy blogger and professional mulitasker, Leigh Crymble, also known as her online presence, Le1ghLo! Over the past couple of months we’ve gotten to know Leigh and we just HAD to share her with all of you!

ORANGE GROVE - An Orange Grove author Marilyn Cohen de Villiers launched her novel entitled Beautiful Family which has similar scenarios as the Pistorius case.

My Brilliant Career Vuyo Sokupa, head of programming at Mzansi Magic Channels, tells Margaret Harris that once the TV bug bit she could not resist it What do you do at work each day?

Weddings are a big deal. Rightly so – apart from consolidating love and all that, the wedding market scoops up a massive US$50-billion in the US alone.

SENIOR Intelligence officials are expected to descend on East London this weekend to pay their final respects to former Umkhonto weSizwe commander and State Security Agency colleague, Luthando Bez a. Beza died at his home in Nelspruit on August 27 after sustaining injuries in a car accident.

Billie Zangewa will be appearing in the next episode of Brand South Africa's Play Your Part TV series on Sunday, 31 August at 9pm on SABC2.

DAISY Spencer is an actress, singer, choreographer and director, who has been working professionally in theatre for the past 11 years.

Cohen de Villiers' fictional work of sexual abuse in a Jewish family raises eyebrows SEXUAL abuse in Johannesburg's Jewish community seems an unlikely topic for a debut novel, but this one is hard-hitting and has the pace and verve of a thriller.

EAST London-born jazz muso Babs Kakaza has performed on stages across the world but then fell pregnant and moved back home to settle down.

Best-selling author Wilbur Smith’s latest novel, Desert God, will be published in South Africa ahead of the rest of the world.

A weekly round-up of South Africa's creative community and projects, by Between 10and5.

Kagiso Media Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Vincent Maher as chief innovation officer (CINO) at Kagiso Media Limited, a Kagiso Tiso Holdings company.

Prizewinning short-story writer Nick Mulgrew questions fellow success story Efemia Chela about her work and the future of local writing.

ASTROLOGER Linda Shaw moved to Johannesburg from her native Wales when she was a teenager. Now nothing will drag her away from 'the best city in the world'.

The Ruth First Scholarship is intended to support candidates whose work is in the spirit of the life and work of Ruth First, whose research poses difficult social questions, and who are interested in linking knowledge and politics and scholarship and action.

Novelist Alexander McCall Smith last year penned the lyrics for an operetta, Fergus of Galloway, which was staged in Edinburgh.

Dylan Martin has made a 'miraculous' comeback after a serious car crash left him in a coma for weeks, writes Mamela Gowa.

Jacana Media is pleased to present Richard de Nooy’s latest novel, The Unsaid: Newshound JR Deo has spent his life pursuing tragedy to the darkest corners of the globe, reporting on places like the Killing Fields and the Middle East.

JANNIE van Heerden portrays all kinds of cuisine from Indian, Chinese and Thai to French

Quick, healthy and wholesome recipes for students, young adults and beginner cooks.

Handing flowers to the queen of England at the age of six and dreaming of "helping people like Elizabeth did", Mbali Ntuli began her path in life with good intentions.

TWO years ago, Elan Lohmann was an overweight chain smoker in a pressured corporate job, propelled by adrenalin and propped up by caffeine and nicotine.

Queen of bling Ayushi Chhabra sparkles as brightly as her costume jewellery when the camera is on her.

ARCHITECT and art lover Theresa Hardman is hosting a vibrant and very special exhibition of the works of the late Deon Lemmer to officially open her new art and design studio in Main Road, Walmer.

WOODRIDGE College headmaster Craig Neave plans to have a blast in his last week at the college, before jetting off to head a school in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal.

Amita Makan pays homage to three influential divas, her mother and herself in her latest embroidered exhibition.

Fiction is the most truthful form of writing, says Angela Makholwa, a participant in the Time of the Writer festival starting in Durban today The 38-year-old Joburg public relations director is considered the first black crime fiction writer in South Africa and one of the few women in the male-dominated genre.

TWO young, highly educated intellectuals — with masters’ degrees and a PhD in political science in spite of growing up in shacks — share a deep determination to see South

A Jo’burg ‘cycologist’ thinks electric bicycles will change the way you see your city – and the world.

Young mother Surinda du Preez stood transfixed, barely able to breathe.

Award-winning broadcaster Siki Mgabadeli is as comfortable on radio and television as she is behind the wheel of her Mini, writes Edwin Naidu.

Clarke thrilled by nomination for WasterChef SA

PIETERMARITZBURG Girls High School has appointed Valerie Fowler as its new principal.

THE term creative genius often gets used loosely, but in the case of Julie Coetzee nothing could be a more accurate description. Being an entrepreneur all her life Coetzee, 30, was born and grew up in Port Elizabeth

WHEN, as a first-year student at Rhodes University in 2000, Rebecca Hodes and a friend established an association called SHARC

On Wednesday, Fulbright Scholar and Hubert H. Humphrey International Fellow Mfundo Mlilo spoke at Macalester about the present and future state of Zimbabwe and its international role. The presentation, titled "Zimbabwe, a Failed Post-Colonial African State: from Breadbasket of Africa to Basketcase," engaged the students gathered in Davis Court with the politics and economy shaping modern Zimbabwe.

The National Arts Festival has named an unprecedented eight young South Africans winners of the prestigious Standard Bank Young Artist Award, bringing to 125 the total number honoured since Standard Bank began sponsoring the Awards three decades ago.

October sees the nationwide release of Healdtown – Under the Eagle’s Wings, Trevor Webster’s account of Healdtown, the African mission school where many of the black elite who became leaders in the struggle for democracy were educated.

When veteran actor Ian Roberts was first cast in a television oil advert in the late 1980s he had no idea it would run for 18 years and become a South African classic.

Back during South Africa’s “ancien régime”, included in their diplomatic staff, the bigger foreign embassies in this country almost always had political observers and analysts who specialized in either white politics, or black politics.

The National Arts Festival’s 2014 Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance, 30-year-old Nicola Elliott, is inspired by aesthetics, being human and living in South Africa.

A long overdue post on an exhibition that came and went but one that has stayed in my imagination…

Dr Russell Ally has taken the helm at the Development and Alumni Department as Jim McNamara retires after 23 years with UCT.

After a short bout pack backing in South East Asia, several collaborative ventures and a residency in New York, Newtown-based printmaker Bevan de Wet has become one of Johannesburg’s most prolific creatives.

The following is a transcription of a keynote speech made by Memeburn publisher and Creative Spark founder Matthew Buckland at the Youth Entrepreneurs Connect Conference at the Cape Town ICC on 28 September.

Written by Jessica Pitchford, Carte Blanche: The Stories Behind the Stories dips into an era of quality journalism through the eyes of the producers

There are few things as inspiring as pure, unfettered talent in a hard-working, humble artist. Lucy Kruger is one of the few artists on the SA music scene that possesses all of these attributes and it shows in her work.

The creator of the Babatunde fashion brand aims to show the world that the continent is a force to reckon with.

Port Elizabeth -based professional photographer Karl Schoemaker will exhibit images collected on assignments in Africa and South America, at the Athenaeum from 23 August to 5 September 2013.

My dad would always know who to blame for the high phone bill each month by looking at the wall opposite to where our telephone stood.

The main paintings and prints session attracted keen interest at Stephan Welz & Co's Johannesburg decorative and fine arts auction this week.

Methodist minister Dr Brian Jennings, who was renowned for filling up church pews, died yesterday. He was 71. Jennings served in several churches during his lifetime.

Media doyen, Angela Quintal, will take over the reins at the Mail & Guardian, come October. She will take over from Nic Dawes who is headed for New Delhi to edit the Hindustan Times, India’s second biggest daily with a circulation of 1.5 million.

The Mail & Guardian announced the appointment of two new editors this week, as well as additional changes to its organisational structure, in a new phase of its digital-first strategy.

Death has often been depicted in art but perhaps not as exhaustively and imaginatively as the award-winning work of Port Elizabeth-born artist Kathleen Sawyer.

Integrity, honesty and humility were some of the words used by artist John Roome when he opened the new exhibition by fellow artist Jannie van Heerden, who is showing work in Durban at the Park Gallery at the Kwazulu-Natal Society of Arts in Bulwer Road, Glenwood.

Popular radio personality and Idols judge Unathi Msengana, who is launching her live DVD in Port Elizabeth next week, is a modernday African renaissance woman.

Dr Rebecca Hodes presents research on HIV treatment for teenagers to international audience in Malaysia.

So how does a JHB girl who lives in Port Elizabeth regard Grahamstown as "going home?'.

Since Nelson Mandela's hospitalisation, his daughter Makaziwe and grandson Mandla have emerged as the two bulls in the kraal. Who is really in charge?

La Femme treated Port Elizabeth artist Bretten-Anne Moolman to lunch at the Friendly Stranger in Bridge Street

A new start-up from Cape Town has been established to act as matchmaker for groups of friends. But instead of romance, Weaver wants to foster new friendships.

Mandla Mandela has become the veritable JR Ewing of the Mandela family – the protagonist around whom the plot pivots, the villain who turns family fights into epic battles and the anti-hero who everyone loves to hate.

The beautiful Ashley Hayden joined the Jacaranda FM Complimentary Breakfast team on 9 January 2012 – bringing to the show her usual charm and wit, along with a healthy dose of “keep the boys under control and, where necessary, show them how it’s done!”

Wanda Mkutshulwa, the previous head of communications has been appointed as the new managing executive of corporate services at SAN Parks.

A young Pietermaritzburg musician will be performing at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown this weekend, as part of the National Youth Orchestra.

Eusebius McKaiser was in fine form on his first day as a presenter at a new Gauteng radio station.

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