Category Archives: Local

GAUTENG TO HOST TAXI SUMMIT
10 April 2013

GAUTENG TO HOST TAXI SUMMIT

Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, today announced that his department is to host a taxi consultative summit in May this year to discuss the long-term sustainability of the taxi industry in the province.  Speaking at the opening of the new public transport licensing and registration office at …Read More

10 April 2013

TWENTY FIVE EXAMINERS ARRESTED AT PRIVATE VEHICLE TESTING STATIONS

Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, has reported that twenty five examiners employed at privately-owned vehicles testing stations (VTSs) have been arrested and prosecuted for fraud and corruption since November 2012 to date.  Replying to a question by DA MPL Neil Campbell in the Gauteng Legislature, he said …Read More

10 April 2013

SON OF TOLSTOY FARM OWNER ATTENDING GANDHI WALK

LATE HERMANN KALLENBACH WAS AN ARCHITECT AND THE OWNER OF TOLSTOY FARM, NEAR LENASIA. AFTER BEING INTRODUCED TO GANDHI THEY BECAME CLOSE FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES. HE WAS INFLUENCED BY GANDHI’S PHILISOPHY OF FOLLOWING THE PATH OF SATYAGRAHA (NON-VIOLENCE) AND  DONATED  TOLSTOY FARM TO THE COMMUNITY FOR USE BY SATYAGRAHIS. HE …Read More

EASTWAVE RADIO’S FREEDOM DAY FUNDRAISER CONCERT – 28 APRIL
03 April 2013

EASTWAVE RADIO’S FREEDOM DAY FUNDRAISER CONCERT – 28 APRIL

Fundraising Freedom Day Concert to WOW Qawali, Ghazal and Classical music audiences at Gandhi Hall – 28 April 2013 at 3:00PM Bookings are now open for East Wave Radio 92.2 FM’s, Freedom Day Concert spectacular which is in its second year running In Lenasia. 92.2 FM’s  Freedom Day music features …Read More

03 April 2013

DR PREMILA’S MUCH AWAITED BOOK “A PHARMACY IN THE KITCHEN” FINALLY LAUNCHED

Dr Premila’s much awaited ‘A Pharmacy in the Kitchen’ Finally launched After two painstaking years of researching and writing Dr. Premila’s ‘A Pharmacy in the Kitchen’ is a reality. For the past 2 years, amidst a hectic clinic schedule and a very busy personal life Dr. Premila’s book was launched …Read More

POET & WRITER KISHORE BADAL LAUNCHES HIS 7TH BOOK “KUDRAT KA KARISHMA”
03 April 2013

POET & WRITER KISHORE BADAL LAUNCHES HIS 7TH BOOK “KUDRAT KA KARISHMA”

Kishore Badal – A Profile Kishore Badal was born in Newclare, on the 8th December 1959 but with the enforcing of the Group Areas Act, he’s family like many others were forced to move to Lenasia, a so called “Indian Area”. Here, he lived in Rainbow Valley and attended Park …Read More

GRAMMY AWARD WINNING INDIAN SLIDE GUITARIST FOR SOUTH AFRICA TOUR
03 April 2013

GRAMMY AWARD WINNING INDIAN SLIDE GUITARIST FOR SOUTH AFRICA TOUR

Grammy Award winning Indian slide guitarist for South Africa tour South African audiences will be treated to an evening of Indian Classical and Folk Music when the Grammy Award winner Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt takes to the stage in a two concert tour titled Ragas of the Desert in June. …Read More

AMINA CACHALIA – A TRUE INSPIRATION TO ALL SOUTH AFRICANS a Poem by Kishore Badal
03 April 2013

AMINA CACHALIA – A TRUE INSPIRATION TO ALL SOUTH AFRICANS a Poem by Kishore Badal

Amina Cachalia, a true inspiration to all South Africans   Her entire life dedicated to the Struggle First against the colonial tyrants And then opposing the horror of apartheid Not just her own life and every breath committed But that of her dear husband, an activist too And both their …Read More

MOVIE REVIEW – JOLLY L.L.B. by Fakir Hassen
03 April 2013

MOVIE REVIEW – JOLLY L.L.B. by Fakir Hassen

Rating: 7/10 Director Subhash Kapoor tries to show what goes on behind the scenes in the justice system in India with unscrupulous lawyers who protect wealthy guilty clients at all costs. One such lawyer who stoops at nothing is Tejinder Rajpal (Boman Irani).  But he finally meets his match in …Read More

DVD REVIEW – DAVID by Fakir Hassen
03 April 2013

DVD REVIEW – DAVID by Fakir Hassen

Rating: 6/10 It takes almost a third of the film before you realise why three completely different characters in completely different environments and circumstances are all called David. Director Bejoy Nambiar uses a most unusual style, crisscrossing constantly between the stories of the three Davids.  In London of 1975, the …Read More

MOVIE REVIEW : THE ATTACKS OF 26/11 by Fakir Hassen
03 April 2013

MOVIE REVIEW : THE ATTACKS OF 26/11 by Fakir Hassen

Rating:8/10 The horror of the terrorist attacks on major institutions in Mumbai on 26 November 2011 by a band of heavily-armed terrorists is chillingly and very realistically recounted by filmmaker Ram Gopal Verma in this docudrama. The events are told through the narrative of the Police Commissioner who was in …Read More

DVD REVIEW : SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER RETURNS by Fakir Hassen
03 April 2013

DVD REVIEW : SAHEB BIWI AUR GANGSTER RETURNS by Fakir Hassen

Rating: 7/10 The intrigue continues as director Tigmanshu Dhulia introduces new twists to the intense relationships between a host of feudal lords and their spouses and children. Saheb is Aditya Pratap Singh (Jimmy Shergill) , who is confined to a wheelchair after losing his legs in the climax of the …Read More

DVD REVIEW – 3G by Fakir Hassen
26 March 2013

DVD REVIEW – 3G by Fakir Hassen

 Rating: 5/10 The first half of 3G holds the viewers’ attention as the tension increases after Sam (Neil Nitin Mukesh) and his girlfriend Sheena (Sonal Chauhan) experience supernatural situations on a mobile phone that they buy second hand while on holiday in Fiji. But after the interval it all goes …Read More

Rand Show 2013 set to be another knock-out
20 March 2013

Rand Show 2013 set to be another knock-out

Easter isn’t only synonymous with the Easter Bunny. If it’s Easter in Gauteng, you know it’s Rand Show time, SA’s biggest and most-entertaining family-friendly expo This Easter long weekend, why not set aside a date from Thursday 28 March to Monday 1 April 2013, for an affordable, great day out …Read More

FAMILIES’ DESPERATE SEARCH FOR MISSING TEENS
17 March 2013

FAMILIES’ DESPERATE SEARCH FOR MISSING TEENS

Article courtesy IOL Website www.iol.co.za By NTOMBI NDHLOVU and KUTLWANO OLIFANT INLSAYvonne Stiglingh, mother of 15-year-old Katyah Stiglingh, is comforted outside Lenasia police station after opening a missing persons case. Her daughter vanished along with a friend. Picture: Matthews Baloyi   Johannesburg – Two Lenasia families are desperately searching for …Read More

DISTURBING THE PEACE 2013 SHOW & SHINE & SOUND-OFF AT LENASIA SOUTH SECONDARY SCHOOL
15 March 2013

DISTURBING THE PEACE 2013 SHOW & SHINE & SOUND-OFF AT LENASIA SOUTH SECONDARY SCHOOL

Lenasia South Secondary will be the venue of the “Disturbing the Peace” on March 24. The show will be feature a show and shine. Various stalls, entertainment and much more will be just part of the line up. A sound off will also take place. Various prizes will be up …Read More

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