ALEX JABULANI MKHIZE OF MEDIA24 (DAILY SUN AND SUNDAY SUN) by Abraham Kortjaas

ALEX JABULANI MKHIZE was currently working for Daily Sun and Sunday Sun Newspapers in Kzn. In previous years He worked for Sowetan Newspapers, SABC, Ilanga Newspapers.  He was an inspiring Photographer in the  Media most the intertainment industry. This is  the big blow on the Media Industry. We've lost a veteran in Photographer and also in the Media. PHOTO BY ABRAHAM KORTJAAS

MTV BASE AND KLIPDRIFT SMMOTH PREMIUM BRANDY URBAN SESSION. by Abraham Kortjaas

Liquideep on stage performed at MTV Base and Klipdrift Smooth Premium Brandy Urban Session. Photo by Abraham Kortjaas
 

Liquideep on stage performed at MTV Base and Klipdrift Smooth Premium Brandy Urban Session.This was a good performance at Eyadini in Umlazi Township last month the girls should didnt resist to throw bodice at MTV Base Stage. The bodice is on the far back of Zyion.....(The piece will be finished) to be continued......by Abraham Kortjaas

AN EVENT OF DISTINCTION by Abraham Kortjaas



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Best Baritone SASCE- The winner is  KZN Sphamandla Mgwaba. Photo by Abraham Kortjaas

 

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The Best SABC PBS  Radio Programme and Best Dj Award Umhlobo Wenene and the Presenter on far right. Photo by Abraham Kortjaas

 

By ABRAHAM KORTJAAS

The red-carpet gala dinner was glitz and glamour during the National Choral Music Achievements a Durban Exhibition Centre.

About 1000 VIP guest attended the National Choral Music Achievements it was a glitz and glomour.

The winners of the Awards are  Category: Best Community Radio station award Inkonjane Community Radio Station  Presenters Ncebe Marawu and Xolile Njiva and Best SABC PBS Radio Programme and Best DJ award  Umhlobo Wenene Presenter Bulelani Koyo.

The NACMA brand ambassador and well-known SABC 1 choral music show Imizwilili presenter Vee Mthembu accompanied on stage by Camilla Hartman, ex SABC TV presenter. 

The NACMA founder Vusi Mvelase said “To all of you in the choral music industry, from composers, conductors, choristers, orchestras, adjudicators and fans of choral music you all deserve a respect and I salute you for this work.”

NACMA acknowledged and presented the following awards

 Best Choir Large NCF The Winner is Mathews Singers,  Best Choir Standard NCF   The Winner is Sweet Sounds, Best Choir Champ of Champs NCF The is Winner  Gauteng Choristers, Best Conductor Standard NCF  Winner is Mr. T Sibiya, Best Conductor Large NCF The winner is Mr. M Matthews, Best Soprano SASCE The winner is WC Sbongile Mtambo,  Best Tenor SASCE- Winner is KZN Mfanafuthi Mngoma, Best Baritone SASCE- The winner is  KZN Sphamandla Mgwaba, Best Mezzo SASCE the winner is  EC Miss S Piyose, Best Platinum Choir SATICA winner is Mangosuthu Technikon, Best Gold Choir SATICA The winner is  Fort Hare Best Silver Choir SATICA the winner is  Medunsa, Best Conductor SATICA the winner is Tsepo Matlala,  Best Choir DBN - Mr Sakhile Mzobe, Best Pianist (2012 Nominees) the winner is Mr Juan Burgers, Best SABC PBS Choral Radio DJ the winner is Bulelani Koyo- SABC Umhlobo Wenene, Best SABC PBS Choral Radio Programme-WINNER- Umhlobo Wenene- Ikhwayara Ezihamba Phambili, Best Community Radio Station the winner is Inkonjane FM, Best Provincial Department of Arts  Culture the winner is Eastern Cape, Lifetime Achievement Award the winner is Dr Sam Shabalala and Best SABC PBS Radio Programme and Best DJ award  Umhlobo Wenene Presenter Bulelani Koyo.  Best Department of Correctional Service Choir the winner is Westville Choir and the Best Choir Melting Pot winner is  Clermont Choir.

Winners  Category: Best Community Radio station award- Inkonjane Community Radio Station Presenters Ncebe Marawu and Xolile Njiva.

The guests were entertained by Abanqobi, Ihhashi Elimhlophe, Sinikiwe High School, Clermont Choir, Kholwa Brothers  Old Timers and Clermont Choir

The guests that attended the event were jiving, memorable evening of glitz and glamour of National Choral Music Awards..

INDONI MISS CULTURAL SOUTH AFRICA 2013. by Abraham Kortjaas

INDONI MISS CULTURAL SOUTH AFRICA 2013 WINNER TSHEPISO MADAI. by Abraham Kortjaas



 

INDONI MISS CULTURAL SOUTH AFRICA 2013 WINNER TSHEPISO MADAI scoped R100,00 on the Miss Indoni 2013. There were many excited spectators when 12 Indoni maidens paraded from Pixley Ka-Seme to Durban City Hall.
The young women were wearing colourful attire to reflect thier cultures Sotho, Pedi, Xhosa, Tswana, Swati, Zulu, Khoisan, Pondo, and Ndebele.....to be continued. by Abraham Kortjaas


SOCCEREX AFRICAN FORUM 2013. by Abraham Kortjaas

Carol Tshabalala, Lucas Radebe and John Barnes at the Soccerex African Forum in Durban South Africa. Photo by Abraham Kortjaas.

The Soccerex in Durban, South Africa started on Monday ended on Tuesday its aim is to nurtur the skills, morals and development of the clubs around Africa.

Carol Tshabalala, Soccer legend Lucas Radebe a former Bafana Bafana player and John Barnes a England soccer legend were on the panel discussing the challenges that are entained in the footballs. The soocer need to break the barries of racism. The soocer players need to communicate with the people of those countries after they have signed  by the foreign soccer clubs. Lucas Radebe said " I was playing for Leeds United I never experienced the racism on other countriies, I always inter-act with the people which are the soocer fanatics"
The players should  treat a football as thier career they need to be serious about thier skills speaking with John Barnes he said "There is no racism in football unless the media people are provoking that to the fans of football, I never experience so such ill-treatment from other countires' he said. BY ABRAHAM KORTJAAS



TRAVEL TOURISM INDABA 2013 by Abraham Kortjaas

Travel Tourism Indaba 2013 its very exciting, Mr James Nxumalo the mayor of eThekwini Municapity openened the Ceremony on a high note at Icc. Travel Tourism Indaba 2013 its got a new exciting feature where the bloggers can blog about the event and rise thier views. As a blogger I've I will be giving you the update of the Travel Tourism Indaba 2013. i  will be blogging about the event shortly.  blogged by Abraham kortjaas


Indaba Connector Team Photo by Abraham Kortjaas

THE is the Team that made the Tourism Indaba 2013 to connect delegates, Media and the visitors. If you were not the part of the team.

1 MAY RALLY WORKERS DAY IN SOUTH AFRICA. by Abraham Kortjaas

Deputy Secretary General Jeremy Cronin. Photo by Abraham Kortjaas

Workers' Day (Public Holiday)

This South African public holiday commemorates the working class – the cogs that keep the clock ticking!

Following the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, 1 May was inaugurated as an official national public holiday. Known as International Workers’ Day (also as May Day), the holiday is widely celebrated, with as many as 80 countries honouring the date and what it stands for.

The history of Workers’ Day goes back to the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, where police tried to disperse a large crowd of striking workers (they were protesting for a shorter work day of eight hours). A bomb was thrown at the policemen by an unidentified assailant, and law officers then proceeded to fire live ammunition at a defenceless crowd of unarmed strikers (sound familiar?).

Though, it wasn’t until 1891, after successful annual demonstrations on 1 May around the globe, that Workers’ Day was formally inducted into the official calendars of many countries. Since then, Workers’ Day has been used by the working class across the world, South Africa included, to emphasise the need to establish fair labour practices and employment standards. In our nation, the Communist Party, trade and labour unions were heavily entrenched in the fight against Apartheid. Thus, it was of little surprise that our democratic government chose to commemorate this day and its ideology after the fall of the oppressive regime.

While this public holiday doesn’t quite receive all the fuss it rightly deserves, it serves as a stark reminder to governments of the power of the working class.

NUMSA ralling along Centenary road in Durban on 1 May Rall to Curries Fountain. Photo by Abraham Kortjaas