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Johannesburg, July 1st, 2009
In response to the sad news that Michael Jackson passed away, Nu Metro Cinemas - South Africa’s premium cinema exhibitor - has announced that the next Nu Metro Beat event will feature a Michael Jackson Biography as a tribute.

Nu Metro Beat is a once a month – one night only music event, featuring music concerts and music documentaries in cinemas.Read more

JULY 1, 2009

THE FINAL COUNTDOWN FOR TABLE MOUNTAIN

You have six days left to cast your vote for Table Mountain in the New 7 Wonders of Nature campaign. Currently sitting at number 7 in its category, the majestic icon needs your votes to boost its position before Tuesday July 7, when voting closes.Read more

Electricity

Most modern flats and apartments have an electricity meter where you buy prepaid electricity from various outlets (Pick n Pay, Post office) and top up your electricity box. For a 3 bedroom apartment you can expect to pay R250 a month.

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TV licensing

First-time applicants for a television licence must pay the full annual fee of R225.

Payment options: Read more

Starring: Conor Lovett
Directed by: Judy Hegarty Lovett (the actor’s wife)

A comical tour de force
When I invited a friend along to First Love at the Baxter, she declined with an “Oh God, not Beckett!”

Samuel Beckett, I was reminded, was the mad Irishman who wrote Waiting for Godot, a play in which nothing happens not only once, but twice. Read more

Showcasing 15 SA features and 18 International movies. What a treat! see the line up here: Read more

Things we don't miss: Tube Strikes ... actually the whole
commuting thing is a bit of a pain

Millions of passengers face another difficult commute as the RMT's 48-hour strike over pay and jobs on the London Underground continues.

Bella Italia
Devil’s Peak’s leading local!
27 Derry Street, Vredehoek
021 4610639

This Italian restaurant is the genuine article, with the family in attendance more often than not.

The food is consistently good and prices are reasonable, meaning this is a real local – expect to become a regular.Read more

Say cheese

We threw a party at our house for a cheese yesterday.

This cheese is so much the star of the show that we were sure that we could not just eat it, we had to unveil it and share it with friends.

It came from the Best Little Cheesehouse In Franschhoek, Fromages de France, Huguenot Road

Others in the star-studded cast at
Breakfast With The Cassidy’s:

Leading Lady: Morena Katherine Bubbly. Read more

Everyone has either experienced great passion, or longs to do so. And most people have a yen to turn their passion into print.

That’s what allaboutlove.net promises. The site should appeal to those who have always wanted to write romance – but haven’t known where to begin. Read more

Soccer is not only about the big bucks and the big Kahunas!

Out of Cape Town's Philippi area comes the wonderful story of a team of players who rely on sign language to communicate with each other, on and off the field.

Of the squad of 19 players, 15 are deaf. The team was formed slightly more than a year ago by 23-year-old Loyiso Mdokwe, whose half-brother is deaf. Read more

Table mountain has been nominated with 261 other natural wonders to become the new 7 wonders of the world. Vote before 7 July 2009 on the New7wonders website.

This is organized by the non-profit New7Wonders Foundation, Some 430 nominations from 224 different countries were submitted by some half a million people within the first few months of the campaign. The second phase of the campaign is to vote! Read more

The first official 2010 TVC was launcehed at the Indaba on saturday 9 May and will be flighting globally to over 600 milion viewers on the following channels - CNN, Eurosport, News Corp, Nat Geo and BBC.

The new 2010 Website was also launched - so please go and visit the SAT web site and see the 2010 site on www.southafrica.net

Here is the ad...featuring the vuvuzela!Read more

By Max du Preez
The proverbial glass has been horribly half-empty in South Africa recently. Here, on the day before the fourth proper general elections in our history, are five reasons why we should notice that that very same glass is actually half-full.

Firstly, we are holding an election to choose people to represent us in Parliament.Read more

This independent shop offers everything a book lover could want:

Two floors packed with books and periodicals, friendly and extremely well-informed staff, and a cosy, relaxing lounge area downstairs, where you can chill with coffee or tea and cake.Read more

You have to wonder why Jacob Zuma chose Moet when Barrack Obama's choice was Graham Beck! Although it was perhaps not actually Zuma's choice (since he is a teetotaller). Still, that is what the guests drank at his inauguration. As a champagne-loving South African tax payer I would have been happier if they had gone with Obama's selection