Fifa concert ready to rock May 4, 2010 11:01 AM | By Staff Reporter for TIMES LIVE The final line-up for the Fifa World Cup Kick-Off concert has been announced, and includes local favourites Freshlyground, Hugh Masekela, the Soweto Gospel Choir, the BLK JKS and The Parlotones. Acclaimed African hip-jop artist K’NAAN, who recently recorded […]
Read More »Special Award to Regina at Shell Ultra City Colesberg I tend in my blog posts to focus on Jozi and its surrounds, but this time I am going a little further afield. Packed with a thermos of coffee and the inimitable South African ‘padkos’ (food for the road), I drove down with my son to Port Elizabeth nearly […]
Read More »3 Places to walk and hike in and around Joburg T-J de Klerk of the Wilds Walks writes about a long walk at Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve on Sunday, April 25 from 07:30: Hikers are cordially invited by Johannesburg City Parks and the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve Association to participate in a 20 kilometre walk in the Klipriviersberg […]
Read More »Handel’s Messiah: Nelson Mandela Square On Easter Monday a friend and I went to listen to Handel’s Messiah at the Nelson Mandela Square. The covered seating in the tent was packed and despite threatening skies, there were many braving the possible rain in the open air . Fortunately the weather was kind. Richard Cock and Johannesburg music […]
Read More »SEDIBA: NEW HOMINID SPECIES A team led by Professor Lee Berger, a renowned palaeoanthropologist from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (aka Wits University) has described and named a new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, almost two million years old, which was discovered in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, 40 kilometres out of […]
Read More »EATING OUT : THE CODFATHER Adi – adrian@fiftytwo.co.za compiles a weekly newsletter that focuses on a Joburg event for the week. He’s had some great write-ups. This is newsletter 6 FiftyTwo:6 This week’s pick: Codfather Village Outdoor Event Genre: Social culinary experience What: On the 27 March an all day social do will take place […]
Read More »Philip Tobias : Giant in the field of paleo-anthropology Chris Thurman enagaged in conversation with Prof Philip Tobias world-renowned paleo-anthroplogist at the Boekehuis this Saturday. In addition to his ground breaking work with hominids, Tobias has also been very influential as an anatomist, a geneticist, is an expert on medic-legal ethics and … is a keen lover of cricket! With a […]
Read More »WORLD CUP Base Camps and Group Games Grp Team Base Camps In Gauteng & Rustenburg Area In Johannesburg Group matches in Gauteng & Rustenburg (EP = Ellis Park; SC = Soccer City) Rest of group matches D Australia Klooftzicht, Cradle Rust. Dbn; Nels C Algeria Zimbali Lodge KZN Pta Pol; CT B Argentina High performance […]
Read More »TOURS OF CRADLE OF HUMANKIND From Maropeng’s February 2010 newlsetter On April 10, Maropeng and iHominin will give budding palaeontologists a rare opportunity to explore a 1.5-million-year-old fossil site. Cooper’s Cave, 1.2km from the famous Sterkfontein Caves near Johannesburg, is a relatively newly discovered fossil site, where several species of animals and a number of […]
Read More »UPDATED 12th Jan 2022 For more see more recent blog 4th Ave Parkhurst For many years now 4th Ave Parkhurst has been a desirable restaurant destination with eateries of all types in every block between 14th st and 6th St. It’s a mere 2km away so wonderful for guests staying at Liz at Lancaster […]
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