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Cape Ballet Africa and Global Star Events are proud to present a brand-new production of The Nutcracker in December 2025, bringing this magical ballet to Montecasino’s Teatro in Johannesburg for the festive season. The ballet will see South Africa’s finest classical dancers joined by renowned international guest stars, all collaborating to bring Tchaikovsky’s enchanting score […]
Bringing people together through art, craft and kindness to create connections that matter Prince Albert, 18 March 2025 – The Journey to Jazz (J2J) festival returns to the heart of the Karoo in May, and alongside the stellar musical performances, this year’s Greet & Meet Programme offers festivalgoers a unique and immersive experience of Prince Albert’s rich cultural and natural […]
SA's narrative therapist nominated for Women Changing the World Awards
South Africa’s world-renowned Narrative Therapist and Psychosocial Specialist, Ncazelo Mlilo, has been nominated in the prestigious Women Changing the World Awards.
The awards, according to a statement by psychosocial organisation, Phola, are like the Grammy Awards for recognising women across the world who are doing incredible work, making a positive difference in various industries and areas, including business, sustainability, leadership, health, education, product development, innovation, and technology.
Mlilo, who is based in Johannesburg, has been selected for two categories, the People’s Choice Award for Non-Profit and Social Enterprise, and the Women in Therapy and Counselling Services Award.
This recognition celebrates the groundbreaking work in mental health, her development of Afrocentric, culturally sensitive narrative-based methodologies, and her dedication to empowering communities worldwide.
The awards ceremony will take place during a summit in London, in the United Kingdom on 2-3 April 2025.
Mlilo has over 25 years’ experience in trauma counselling.
She has worked with children, youth, women, families, and communities to address the effects of HIV/AIDS, gender-based violence (GBV), poverty, conflict, and other hardships.
Mlilo co-created the Tree of Life (ToL) Methodology, currently used in over 60 countries including the USA, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Iran, India, Germany, Japan, Sweden, and across Africa.
She has developed other methodologies like COURRAGE, the Narratives in the Suitcase Project, O.U.T.R.R.A.G.E.D. for GBV prevention.
Mlilo trains over 1 000 mental health practitioners worldwide every year, with her work reaching an estimated 100 000 people, annually.
She is also a prominent keynote speaker at international conferences, including the Trust’s Collective Narrative Practices Conference, held in 2024 in Australia, the Narrative Therapy Centre Conference, where she spoke about the Narratives in the Suitcase, held in Australia in 2023, among others.
As a result, her work is the intervention of choice in these global institutions, like the Dulwich Centre Foundation in Australia and NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. – SAnews.gov.za
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The future of theatre and digital storytelling is here. The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT), in collaboration with Soda World and the Dumisani Masilela Theatre (DMT), proudly announces the launch of South Africa’s first-ever Smart Theatre. Supported by the City of Ekurhuleni and the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, this groundbreaking initiative will be […]
Presented by Showtime Management and How Now Brown Cow Productions the Tony Award-Winning, Best Musical DEAR EVAN HANSEN opens at Montecasino’s Teatro, Johannesburg from 15 March for a limited season. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster.co.za This brand-new, reimagined production of Dear Evan Hansen combines talent and innovative technology, with its incredible multi-media set design […]
Production debuts at the Lesedi Theatre in Johannesburg this April “Letters of Reflection” by WGRUV Dance company will take to the stage of the Lesedi at Joburg Theatre over five performances from 9-13 April 2025. The performance highlights seven original works created by Holly and Lex Gruver, as well as highlighting a much-loved piece by […]
Killer hit musical CHICAGO returns to razzle dazzle SA again! It would be criminal to miss it! CHICAGO – The Musical returns! Owing to popular demand, Showtime Management is pleased to announce that CHICAGO is back in 2025 and sexier than ever before! The award-winning Broadway and West End musical will be on stage at […]
Kesivan Naidoo and the Lights will premiere their new work celebrating 30 years of democracy for the first time in South Africa and Tribe reunite for the first time in 25 years! Prince Albert, Karoo, 27 February 2025 – The wait is over. Journey to Jazz 2025 (J2J) today revealed the world-class artists who complete the […]
Cape Town, South Africa – FAME Week Africa 2025 is set to return to the Host City of Cape Town at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) from 1-6 September 2025. Offering a hub of opportunities, networking and news for creatives across the continent, FAME Week converges around the diverse sectors of film, television, […]
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) (www.BAL.NBA.com) today announced the 12 teams and game schedule (https://apo-opa.co/43iFBgS) for the opening leg of the league's milestone fifth season, which will tip off with the Kalahari Conference group phase from Saturday, April 5 – Sunday April 13 at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex in Rabat, Morocco.
The 2025 BAL season, which will feature three regular-season group phases and culminate with the playoffs and finals at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa in June, will feature a record six first-time BAL participants, including the first BAL teams from Cape Verde (Kriol Star Basketball) and Kenya (Nairobi City Thunder), as well as defending champion Petro de Luanda (Angola) and 2022 champion US Monastir (Tunisia). Petro de Luanda and US Monastir are the only teams to have qualified for all five BAL seasons. Below is the complete list of participating teams by conference.
1. Kalahari Conference
2. Sahara Conference
3. Nile Conference
Each conference will play a 12-game group phase during which each team will face the other three teams in its conference twice. During group phase play, the home team in each country will play on every gameday.
In the season opener, Stade Malien (Mali) will face Rivers Hoopers (Nigeria) at 4:00 p.m. GMT+1. In the second game, home team Fath Union Sport (FUS; Morocco) will take on Al Ittihad (Egypt) at 7:00 p.m. GMT+1. Single-game tickets for the games in Rabat are available online at Guichet.ma (https://apo-opa.co/4bkwuyc) and the following physical locations: Megarama Cinema in Casablanca (https://apo-opa.co/3DeI6Gv), Megarama Cinema in Fes (https://apo-opa.co/4h0Ix54) and the National Theatre in Rabat (https://apo-opa.co/3Xpawoa). Fans who purchase tickets will also have free access to the BAL Fan Zone at the arena.
Tickets for the games in Dakar, Senegal are also on sale now at www.BAL.NBA.com and BAL-TeewTickets.com.
Eight teams from across the three conferences will travel to Pretoria for four seeding games followed by an eight-game, single-elimination playoffs and finals from Friday, June 6 – Saturday, June 14.
Additional information about the 2025 BAL season will be announced in the coming weeks.
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The Basketball Africa League (BAL), a partnership between the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) and NBA Africa, is a professional league featuring 12 club teams from across Africa that will tip off its fifth season in April 2025. Headquartered in Dakar, Senegal, the BAL builds on the foundation of club competitions FIBA Africa has organized across the continent and marks the NBA's first collaboration to operate a league outside North America.
Deputy President Shipokosa Paulus Mashatile has today, Thursday, 20 February 2025, received a courtesy visit by the Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), Mr. REN Hongbin, at the OR Tambo Official Residence in Pretoria, Gauteng Province.
The CCPIT is a key Chinese economic promotion institution that reports directly to the State Council responsible for the facilitation and promotion of trade and investment with foreign countries by supporting Chinese companies (their members) to do business abroad and to engage and support foreign companies that have operations in China.
It has more than 400 000 Chinese business members, the majority of which are from State-owned Companies (SoEs).
This visit to the Deputy President follows the successful 2nd State Visit to China by President Cyril Ramaphosa in September 2024. In particular, it builds on the outcomes of the President's business engagements, including the seminal South Africa – China Presidential Business Forum, the closed roundtable discussion between the President and the Leadership of 20 high-level Chinese investors, and the Presidential Business Programme in Shenzhen that focused on key investors in China's leading technology and innovation hub.
Therefore, the Chairman's visit is mainly focussed on following up on the implementation of the outcomes of the 9th Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit held in Beijing in September 2024, as well as optimising the trade and investment environment for better cooperation between South Africa and China.
Deputy President Mashatile has welcomed China's plan to host the FOCAC Ministerial Coordination Meeting alongside the China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo in June 2025.
Such events, he said, would strengthen Africa-China economic relations and accelerate projects in industrialisation, infrastructure, agricultural modernisation, and green development, aligning with AU Agenda 2063 goals.
“Chairman, our President was encouraged by the number of Chinese companies he interacted with in Beijing and Shenzhen last year, who all expressed a wish to increase their investment exposure in South Africa. We continue to prioritise new investments in targeted sectors and enlarge the beneficiation and manufacturing base in South Africa, especially in the automotive and energy, which will contribute to local job creation, technology, and skills transfer,” said the Deputy President.
Furthermore, the Deputy President took the opportunity presented by the visit to mobilise Chinese businesses to attend the Business20 (B20) meetings of the G20 in South Africa this coming year.
In reciprocating the invite by the Deputy President, the Chairman also invited South Africa to attend the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo (CISCE) that will be hosted by the CCPIT in Beijing in July this year. The CISCE is one of the four national-level trade and investment conferences hosted in China yearly. The 2nd CISCE was held in Beijing in November 2024 and was addressed by the Vice President of China, Mr Han Zheng.
Post the meeting with the Deputy President, the Chairman is expected to meet with the Minister of Trade, Industry, and Competition, Mr Parks Tau.
During this meeting, Deputy President Mashatile was supported by Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ms Moraka and Deputy Minister of Trade Industry and Competition, Mr Godlimpi.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa.
Hit the high note and the high life and head to the Baxter Concert Hall, Thursday, 25 February 2025! Cape Town, 18 February 2025 – Opera UCT announces the launch concert for its third season as a production house, which promises to be an unforgettable evening of music. Happening at the Baxter Concert Hall on Thursday, […]
Two exclusive performances: Johannesburg & Cape Town – March 2025 Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 February 2025 – By popular demand, critically acclaimed alternative soul artist Bongi Mvuyana is taking her powerful new album, Power, on tour with two intimate and highly anticipated performances – at Artistry, Johannesburg on 15 March 2025 and at Youngblood, Cape […]
A game changing collaboration, a global house music icon, and an unforgettable festival experience on 22 February 2025. LIGHTHOUSE Festival and The Cape Town Electronic Music Festival (CTEMF) come together for the first time to deliver a next level day-to-night event at the DHL Stadium concourse in Green Point, Cape Town. LIGHTHOUSE Festival: The team […]
Cape Town audiences are the first to see how this brand-new, reimagined production of DEAR EVAN HANSEN combines talent and innovative technology, with its incredible multi-media set design and a live, nine-piece band supporting the cast at each performance. The musical is celebrated for its emotional depth, cultivated in beloved, memorable songs like “Waving Through […]
The Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) is calling on passionate, talented, and dedicated young South African artists with a specific interest in studying arts at a tertiary or accredited arts institution in South Africa* to apply for a coveted spot on the ACT Nyoloha Scholarship Programme (NSP) for 2025. If you are between the ages […]
ULTRA South Africa has just revealed the full lineup for its 10th anniversary, taking place at The Ostrich in Cape Town on Friday, May 9, 2025, and at the Expo Centre at Nasrec in Johannesburg on Saturday, May 10, 2025. The festival’s milestone celebration is slated to be the most electrifying edition yet with international […]
A groundbreaking fusion of dance, opera, and artificial intelligence (AI) on show at the Baxter Theatre this March by Cape-based Darkroom Contemporary Cape Town, 11 February 2025 – autoplay, Africa’s first AI-generated opera, is set to disrupt traditional performance art with a bold and immersive production that blends choreography, generative soundscapes, and machine learning when […]
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SA hosts global circular economy workshop
Efforts to ensure that South Africa has a clean and healthy environment are under the spotlight at the 7th Global Forum of Cities for Circular Economy (GFCCE) workshop.
The two-day workshop, which is being hosted by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) in Johannesburg -- in collaboration with the Centre for Science and Environment -- is aimed at enhancing South-South cooperation for improving the solid waste management ecosystem in the Global South, and building the capacity of nominated officials from 18 African nations.
The workshop, which concludes on Wednesday, is being attended by delegates from Botswana, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Addressing the opening of the workshop, South Africa's Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Bernice Swarts, highlighted some of the measures government has adopted to bolster the circular economy, focusing on reusing and recycling materials to ensure a sustainable and secure supply of resources.
“South Africa has instituted various policy instruments and initiatives to advance sustainable development pathways, with circular economy principles firmly embedded in these strategies,” Swarts said on Tuesday.
These policy instruments include the National Waste Management Strategy, Extended Producer Responsibility Regulations (EPR) for priority waste streams and other economic instruments that include fees, levies and taxes to incentivise or disincentivise behaviour change.
“Extended Producer Responsibility became necessary to be included in South Africa’s policy mix, given the increased generation of waste. EPR shifts seek to shift the responsibility for products from municipalities and consumers, to producers.
“South Africa is under immense pressure and the host city [of the workshop] - the City of Joburg - together with others - does not have sufficient landfill airspace. It is, therefore, necessary to utilise a policy mix to address resource efficiency. It is also necessary that cities are enabled to monitor resource use,” Swarts said.
The Deputy Minister noted that for meaningful progress to be made across the board, strong partnerships are needed.
"Collaboration between government and the private sector is paramount in realising the goals of the waste management hierarchy and facilitating our transition to a circular economy.
“South Africa remains steadfast in its commitment to strengthening these partnerships and advancing the shared objectives of the GFCCE. This collaboration benefits our governments through reduced spending and creates green opportunities,” she said.
Since its establishment in 2021, the GFCCE has expanded to a community of 22 Member States, with 18 countries from Africa. This platform is dedicated to advancing circular economy principles in alignment with national policies and priorities.
Cities account for 75% of natural resource consumption and 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Swarts said more people will continue to migrate to cities to seek better opportunities and it is necessary that cities become resilient in resource efficiency and reduce their environmental footprint. - SAnews.gov.za
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This year’s Intimate Evening Series, a collaboration between Liberty, Griza Enterprises and leading local promoter Showtime Management – designed to usher in each new year with a symphony of hope – features Soul II Soul in Johannesburg for a celebration of reggae, R&B and neo-soul at Montecasino’s Outdoor Events Area on 01 February, before taking […]
GRAMMY®-winning South African superstar Tyla’s two-city December tour of her home country proved to be the hottest ticket in local music when it went on sale in October, quickly selling out as her enthusiastic fans – Tyla’s Tygas – grabbed their chance to see their idol up close and in person in Cape Town and […]
Cape Town’s iconic Unity On The Square festival is gearing up for a memorable celebration this December as it marks 30 years of democracy in South Africa. The fourth edition of this annual event will take place at Greenmarket Square on Monday 16 December 2024. This year’s festival promises an unforgettable experience, bringing people together […]
In 2023, the Intimate Evening Series, a collaboration between Liberty, Griza Enterprises and leading local promoter Showtime Management – designed to usher in each new year with a symphony of hope – brought the soulful Gregory Porter to South Africa. In 2024, R&B star Lalah Hathaway was the star attraction. And in January 2025, British […]