CORNEL VAN HEERDEN | PHOTOGRAPHER | VIDEOGRAPHER | MULTIMEDIA | CONTENT CREATOR | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
Sipho (Hotstix) Mabuse is a well known South African musician.
At the ripe age of 60 he went back to school to finish his school career and get his matric certificate.
This will encourage a lot of South Africans to finish school as in South Africa there is a problem with poor education.
Emma is a friend of mine, who works as a TV-journalist in Johannesburg. She decided this year that she wanted to do the grueling Ironman Triathlon. She trained very hard and got ready within 5 months. The Ironman consists of 3,8 km swim in the ocean,followed by 180,2 km cycling and a marathon of 42,2 km!
The Ironman is a race that’s hard on the body and it took a lot of commitment in preparing for this race.
Two months later I asked her for a photo-shoot, because she is in tip-top shape and this kind of preparation must be respected.
Well done Em.
Yesterday we went to visit Pippie Kruger (3) where she is busy recovering at a Netcare Rehabilitation Clinic in Auckland Park after she was burnt over 80% of her body.
Dr. Alan Barrett, his wife Erika and two daughters, Kailey (11) en Jennifer (14), came to visit Pippie. Dr. Alan works for Genzyme SA and worked with the doctors in Boston, America when they were cloning Pippie’s skin for the operation.
It was quite an emotional experience.
For the story and video go to:
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/VIDEO-Pippie-maak-maats-20120712
Four robbers targeted Lenasia, South Africa yesterday. Police responded and a firefight broke out. Cops shot one suspect dead. One cop was wounded and taken to hospital. One robbers committed suicide after he was cornered by Police. The Police then began searching house after house and caught one of the suspects where he was hiding in an outside tiolet. He was arrested but the people of Lenasia wanted his blood. So out of the four suspects, only one got away. Good work by Police and local community Crime initiatives.
My pics:
The 3-year-old girl is still recovering after undergoing groundbreaking skin-graft surgery at Johannesburg’s Garden City Hospital last month.
Sheets of skin, cloned from a sample taken from her body, were grown in a laboratory in the US. The skin was then flown to South Africa were doctors successfully attached it.
It was the first time this type of advanced skin graft had been performed in Africa.
Pippie sustained burns to about 80% of her body when a gel lighter exploded at a New Year’s braai.
For the next six months, she would undergo physio, speech, and occupational therapy.
“I am positive she’ll continue to do well. She’s improved a lot since the surgery and even her parents are pleased with her progress,” said Mia.
I photographed a new show at Monte Casino Theatre a week or so back. The show is running and is really good.
Here is more info:
“What good is sitting alone in your room?”
This production of this dark, classy, classic musical won 11 Mercury Durban Theatre Awards when it premiered in August 2011, including Best Production of a Musical, Best Director and Best Designer! Set in Berlin’s seedy Kit Kat Klub, 1931, the show revolves around cabaret performer Sally Bowles, a faded, jaded, good-time girl, (made famous by Liza Minelli in the 1972 movie) and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. Adding to the divinely decadent atmosphere is German musical theatre star Sascha Halbhuber making his South African debut as the sinister, sexy Master of Ceremonies, Emcee. This production is age restricted PG 13.
Here is pictures of the Hot Air Balloon Race held in Parys, South Africa.
A protest by residents of the Zandspruit informal settlement continued at Beyers Naude Drive on Wednesday afternoon, Johannesburg metro police said.
Well-known anthropologist Professor Phillip Tobias will be buried in the Jewish section of the West Park Cemetery in Johannesburg today.
Professor Tobias battled an illness for months before passing away in a hospital in Johannesburg on Thursday at age 86.
He was described as a renowned scientist, a scholar and a unique human being by President Jacob Zuma earlier this week. “Our country remains eternally proud of his work.”
The President said South Africa owed a debt of gratitude to Professor Tobias for his successful efforts to have the remains of Saartjie Bartmann returned to South Africa.
Professor Tobias led negotiations with France on behalf of the South African Government. The remains of Saartjie Bartmann, which were exhibited in Paris as ethnological and sexual curiosities in the 19th century, finally returned home in May 2002.
North West Premier Thandi Modise said the people of her province will always remember the legendary anthropologist for his contribution towards science, humanity and understanding of man’s ancient ancestry.
“We will always treasure our memory of him as an intellectual giant, a revered teacher, prolific publisher and servant of humanity who gave more of himself.
“South Africa and in particular those of the North West Province and Taung will forever remain indebted to Professor Tobias for being instrumental in taking forward the research started by Professor Raymond Dart, who was famous for his discovery of what became known as the Taung Skull in 1924,” said Modise on Sunday.
As a result of his invaluable contribution, the skull is now regarded as belonging to a child of the humanoid Australopithecus Africanus genus, a new species then and a new link in the chain which ends with modern humankind – Homo sapiens.
Tobias had during his illustrious career successfully campaigned for the Sterkfontein Caves to be proclaimed a World Heritage site.
The three-time Nobel Prize nominee Professor Tobias was the recipient of many awards and honours, including honorary degrees from the Universities of Pennsylvania, Cambridge, California, Natal, Cape Town, UNISA, Durban-Westville, Western Ontario, Alta, Guelph, and the Witwatersrand.
He was awarded the Walter Sisulu Special Contribution Award in 2007 during the National Orders Awards presented by former President Thabo Mbeki.
From his early days when he was elected President of the non-racial National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in July 1948, Professor Tobias was a prominent political activist, who campaigned against racism and apartheid. – BuaNews – 10 June 2012
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