Posts Tagged ‘south africa’

President Zuma tweets about his daughters’ sitcom

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Recently we heard that Jacob Zuma’s daughters (Gugulethu and Nokuthula) had both landed lead roles in a new sitcom called ‘It’s For Life.’

President Zuma was obviously having a proud father moment when he decided to use his official presidential twitter account to tweet an encouragement to watch the programme.

“@SAPresident: “I encourage you all to tune into channel 107 Tonight on dstv at 7pm for a new sitcom ‘it’s for life’ it promises to be great #itsforlife”.”

Durban International Film Festival 2011

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South Africa’s longest-running film festival, the Durban International Film Festival will be running across 12 days at the end of July, presenting over 250 screenings of current films from around the world, with strong focus on South African and African cinema. Screenings take place throughout Durban.  There is also an extensive seminar and workshop programme [...]

South African puppeteers to be honoured at the Tony Awards

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A puppeteering company based in Cape Town, the Handspring Puppet Company, has been named as a Tony award winner. The company created the life-size and lifelike cane-and-plywood horse puppets used for the play ‘War Horse’. Basil Jones, a co-founder of Handspring, spoke to The Associated Press. “It was wonderful to be able to announce it [...]

Cape Town filmmaker shortlisted for movie award

Cape Town filmmaker Ari Kruger has been shortlisted for the Australian Tropfest 2011 Awards which is the worlds largest short film festival. He is the only international candidate to make it to the finals. The total prize is worth $100 000 in cash and prizes. Over 700 entries came in from across Australia and the [...]

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