Tag: South Africa

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

Max Dana wrote: Leon Botha was a great artist. He died from complications of progeria on 5 June 2011. Almost the exact same day last year, I posted about the South African painter and musical performer to express my admiration for his work and for his incredible personality and strength : Leon Botha: when Art is beyond what you see. Here is what I wrote about him: A few days ago, as I was starting to write my new blog post about the 1980s, I visited the ...

Today we suggest you to follow South African band BLK JKS (pronounced Black Jacks) on Twitter @BLKJKS although they don’t tweet so much. But it doesn’t mean they don’t do much, on the contrary. The first time we mentioned BLK JKS on the Sama Gazette was in June 2010 in: 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa: hopes and concerns. But the first time we read about BLK JKS was on Max Dana‘s Blog with Music of Africa: BLK JKS, from South ...

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa, and it is the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation. Billions of Football fans are desperate to watch the FIFA World Cup and we personally know several of them who will not miss a single match. But the 2010 FIFA World Cup goes far beyond the sporting event. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a medical doctor and Master of Public ...