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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.

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

I got tipped off that Greenpeace is planning something at the IDC in Sandton and I went there not knowing what to expect.

Greenpeace started banging drums at one entrance and then moved to the other one. At the other entrance, they chained themselves to the gates and later ‘delivered’ plastic bags full of leaves and with Nuclear-stickers on the bags.


The security there started freaking out and ripping the bags, throwing it at the media and hitting the media with it!


It was quite funny, but if the bags was something hard… It would have been a different case.

Here is a couple photos of me, taking the pics…
Photos by Alon Skuy / Times

Jason “Bad Man” Bedeman (23), a boxer from South Africa was stabbed in the forearm when robbers tried to steal his iPod. He was busy training for a big fight and now, because of the injury, needs to pull out of the fight.

The story in Beeld:
http://www.beeld.com/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/123en-boewe-is-uit-20120510

Daniella and I was on our way to Karkloof Waterfall after we did a Canopy Tour. On our way to the waterfall we saw these logs and I remarked how nice it could be to do a shoot here. At the falls Dani changed from clothes and sneakers to ordinary clothes. When we were passing the logs again, I decided to grab the opportunity and take a couple of pics. Dark clouds were rolling in and the light began to drop, but Dani was an awesome sport 🙂 However, I just had a single flash there with no stands or accessories, so it was only make-shift.

Just for fun.

Pieter-Dirk Uys spoke at Wits on Monday, here is a couple of portraits I shot while he was on stage.

Story:

Johannesburg – An oppressive system similar to apartheid could emerge again if South Africans did not get more involved and held government accountable, activist Pieter-Dirk Uys said on Monday.

“Apartheid will never come back again under the same name but of course it will come back under a different name,” he said at a public lecture at the University of Wits in Johannesburg.

“It will be an acronym and we won’t know what it stands for but we’ll continue to vote for it.”

Uys said apartheid was a “stupid” system. He recalled how he was explaining to a 12-year-old how during apartheid that black people were not allowed to sit on certain benches and the boy thought it was stupid.

“Stupidity kills… It’s so inventive; never underestimate stupidity… Don’t underestimate the ANC Youth League,” Uys said.

He said South Africans should not ignore what suspended ANCYL president Julius Malema said. “We ignore [Malema] at our peril.”

The ANCYL was the future of this country, said Uys.

He urged the youth of South Africa to get more involved within youth structures.

– SAPA