The South African filmmaking team from Makhulu has won the UN Forum on Forests Short Film award for the Africa region.

In a display of social investment, community spirit and coming together for the good of the country’s children, Vodacom Change the World volunteer, Tammy Dutton has launched a music school in Umlazi, KwaZulu Natal.

South Africa is conducting trials involving unused parts of the television frequency spectrum to provide low-cost broadband internet, according to Tuesday's Business Report.

South Africa’s first single grain whisky, Bain’s Cape Mountain Whisky, has been announced as the World’s Best Grain Whisky at the annual Whisky Magazine’s World Whisky Awards (WWA) held in London last night (21 March 2013).

Fresh from its excellent opening weekend performance at the box office, South African romantic comedy ‘Fanie Fourie's Lobola' has won the Audience Choice Award for Best Comedy at the 19th Annual Sedona International Film Festival, a nine-day festival held in Arizona.

 

After narrowly winning a race against time to get extended refugee status, passports and visas, brothers Harun and Ali Mohammed are flying from Cape Town to Hollywood today for Sunday’s Academy Awards, where their film Asad will compete in the Best Short Film category.

South African artist Riaan van Zyl has donated an artwork to Stop Hunger Now Southern Africa (SHNSA), with the wish that the painting is given to a donor partner who has assisted the organisation in achieving its vision of stopping child hunger.

The largest commercial film produced in South Africa, is currently being filmed in Cape Town.

A submission from a South African screenwriter has won the Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for the first time in its history.

The second season of Brand South Africa's Play Your Part TV series, which showcases ordinary South Africans doing extraordinary things, is proving to be popular with viewers, and was among the top 30 most viewed programmes on terrestrial channels in July.

Johannesburg art activist, Lesley Perkes, has won a place in the TED California finals with her ‘pillow talk’.

On the edge of the inner city in a much-loved area of Troyeville, lies a concrete bed in a park overlooking the main route (Bezuidenhout) into Johannesburg from the east. Passers-by and the occasional visitor may look at it and wonder how it got there. In fact this double bed complete with duvet and headboard - all in concrete and beautifully made and maintained - represents a neighborhood attitude that is catching on fast.

In the jazz world, playing to a packed club venue is a pretty good measure of success. But when economists start talking about a jazz event’s impact on the GDP, it’s another level of achievement entirely.

The 64-member Kearsney College Choir from Botha’s Hill in KwaZulu-Natal, was honoured to be invited as the sole African representative at the ‘Rhythms of One World’ choral festival in New York last weekend (30 June). They performed at the opening concert at the headquarters of the United Nations in honour of the anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter.

The SAMRO Foundation has awarded a total of R1.13-million in music study bursaries for 2012, giving 113 young South Africans a helping hand in fulfilling their dreams.

The popular SABC1 drama InterSEXions was honoured on Monday as a recipient of a 2011 Peabody Award, the world’s oldest and most respected award for electronic media.

In its continued commitment to developing arts and culture in the communities it serves, Caltex the retail brand of Chevron, hosted the 12th Caltex Isicathamiya High School Choir Competition at the Durban Playhouse Opera Theatre recently.

South African Charlie Vundla scooped Best Director and his debut, film noir thriller How 2 Steal 2 Million, was named Best Film at the eight Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA), held last night, 22 April 2012, at The Expo Centre, Eko Hotel & Suite in Lagos, Nigeria.

Young South African Bernard Pieterse has been named the first-ever winner of the Environmental category in the Youth Competition of the prestigious 2012 Sony World Photography Awards, announced today by the World Photography Organisation.

Grammy winner Robin Hogarth, producer of the Soweto Gospel Choir albums, has embarked on an ambitious project which will take eight selected singers from disadvantaged schools to India in October.

The winner of the FNB Art Prize for 2011 was announced at the opening night of the FNB Joburg Art Fair at the Sandton Convention Centre last week. After a stringent nomination and adjudication process, Cedric Nunn was announced as the winner of the inaugural FNB Art Prize.

Spud takes on the world! After a successful release in South Africa in December 2010 which saw it top the summer box office ahead of international blockbusters like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the film adaptation of one of South Africa’s best-loved books has made massive international strides with distribution deals in place to release it in the UK, Ireland, the Middle East, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia.

The Good Pitch, a brainchild of Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation and The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, which brings the makers of social justice films together with leading NGOs, foundations, philanthropists, brands and media, is making its African premiere in Johannesburg on September 13.

SHOUT has won a coveted MTN SAMA 2011 award for the biggest selling downloaded song in SA music for the past year.

South African artist Kahn Morbee of the Parlotones has received two awards and several honourable mentions in the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) 2010, the winners of which were announced last week.

"Forerunners", a UCT Unilever Institute produced film that charts the lives of four young black South African professionals, has received a special jury award at the Cannes International Pan African Film Festival held recently.