Multi-award winning American alternative rock band The Killers have announced that they will be playing in Cape Town and Johannesburg in December.

Leopard-print in acid pink and orange show African fashion with a twist, flinging curio-like interpretation off the ramp as local designers seek to show their diverse talent and find global appeal.

District 9, a gritty, low-budget space alien movie set in South Africa with a cast of unknowns and directed and co-written by a South African, opened as Hollywood's No. 1 film, grossing more at the box office its first weekend than it cost to make.

 

Three paintings by renowned South African artist JH Pierneef will be auctioned in London on 14 October, Bonhams said on Tuesday.

Eleven-year-old Sobahle Mkhabase lives in a township but is headed for the red carpet as the star of a new South African film scooping festival awards and drawing inevitable comparisons with "Slumdog Millionaire".

The Department of Arts and Culture’s Downtown Music Hub will give SA’s music industry a much needed boost as it sets out to become the first entity in the country to provide opportunities across the entire value chain of the local music sector. 

South African  filmmaker John Barker's latest script, “The Umbrella Men,” has earned him a place in the prestigious  L'Atelier de Cinefondation Programme of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

The true story of four South African photographers who risked their lives to capture the harrowing political violence of the early 90's will be told in a new feature film currently being co-produced by Canadian and South African filmmakers. 

The story of the Bang Bang Club, as photographers Greg Marinovich, Kevin Carter, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva were then known, was first recounted in a semi-autobiographical book written by the surviving Club members, Silva and Marinovich.
 
The movie screenplay has been written by Steven Silver who will also direct the film. Lance Samuels and Adam Friedlander of Johannesburg-based Out Of Africa Entertainment will produce the film in collaboration with Daniel Iron of Foundry Films in Canada.

South African artworks fetched record sales at the Bonham South Africa Art sale in London held earlier this month, with some 280 artworks selling for a total of £1.7m (R24.7million).

Celebrated South African music group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, scooped their third Grammy win on Sunday at the 51st annual Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles, California.

The group took home the Best Traditional World Music Album award for their latest album, ILembe; Honouring Shaka Zulu. 

Ladysmith Black Mambazo has earned a total of 13 Grammy nominations, the most for any South African band.

Pierce Brosnan will add his name to the list of Hollywood stars who have made films in South Africa as he heads to our shores for the shooting of his latest film, Heaven and Earth.

Stoned Cherrie, a top South African fashion label, has received a prestigious opportunity to break into the international fashion scene. This comes after an invitation to showcase its work at New York’s Fashion Week. 

The British band behind 90s hits like Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger is headed to South Africa for the first time ever, as Oasis prepare to headline the 2009 Coca Cola Zero Fest. 

After spending seven weeks in South Africa last year, cast and crew members from popular US television series '24' have put together a photo exhibition inspired by their film shoot in the Cape of Good Hope. 

Production has begun in Cape Town on the film version of Athol Fugard's apartheid era classic, "Master Harold and the Boys." 

 Legendary electro-pop-reggae artist Eddy Grant will embark on his first ever nationwide tour of South Africa this February, with performances in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban and Sun City. 

Construction recently started to turn 200 hectares of land, near pristine wetlands and lush Cape vineyards, into Africa's first state-of-the art studio worthy of Hollywood or Bollywood.

Cape Town Film Studios, initially named Dreamworld, lies 25 kilometres east of its namesake city. It is the country's largest ever investment in its film industry, which employs more than 20,000 people.

The project, estimated at R430 million funded by shareholders and a R30 million investment by the Western Cape government, has been five years in the making.

Broadway in South Africa (BSA) will be bringing Broadway stars to South Africa to empower young talent, the organisation announced last month.

BSA comprises 14 New York City-based professional actors, dancers, singers, directors, musicians and producers from Broadway shows such as The Lion King, Rent, Wicked, and Hairspray. 

South Africa's psychedelic dub-rockers BLK JKS (pronounced Black Jacks) have been signed by Secretly Canadian, an American-based music label, earlier this month.

Flat Stanley are set to hit Europe after signing a multi-territory album licensing deal with German based record label iMusic Records.

Five young South African artists were recognised for their talent and hard work last week as the 2009 Standard Bank Young Artist Award winners were announced. 

The screen adaptation of Nobel Prize winning author J.M Coetzee's Disgrace has won an international film award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

For the third consecutive year, thousands of music lovers will descend upon Cloof Wine Estate in Darling, Western Cape for Rocking The Daisies, South Africa's 'greenest' music festival.

South Africa will play host to the world's most beautiful women this year as the Miss World 2008 pageant comes to the City of Johannesburg. 

South Africa's biggest selling rock band Just Jinjer is set to make inroads in the United States music industry having recently signed with Tennessee-based Curb Records, a rock, country and pop record label. 

The Joburg rockers who won the hearts of South African fans with their 1996 debut album All Comes Round, set sail for the US in 2004 to make it in the world's foremost rock market.