Shows can be booked through www.computicket.com or contact the theatre directly.  Great World Cup fare coming up
 
SHOWING AT JOBURG THEATRE www.showbusiness.co.za  Boys in the Photograph 
A passionate musical dealing with the power of soccer to heal rifts and bring a fractured community together. Set in Belfast, Ireland, the game of soccer is recreated on stage with some [...]

Nthambeleni Gabara’s article  www.sa2010.gov.za  5 May 2010   (entire article copied below):

Johannesburg – The City of Johannesburg unveiled a comprehensive transport plan aimed at encouraging local and international soccer fans to use public transport during the upcoming 2010 FIFA World Cup tournament.    The City’s executive mayor, Amos Masondo, said they were on track and ready to host [...]

There are many good quality art exhibitions currently showing, or about to open, in Joburg at the moment. 
Showing at the Johannesburg Art Gallery until 1st  August and not to be missed is William Kentridge’s  I Am Not Me, The Horse Is Not Mine a film installation, made during his preparations for his production of the [...]

All you need to know in new
2010 Fan Guide 
Tuesday, 04 May 2010 From SA GoodNews
With less than 40 days to go until kickoff, the 2010 Fifa World Cup Organising Committee has released a comprehensive, easy-to-read 92-page guide to the tournament, packed with practical information on stadiums, host cities, fan parks and much more.     There’s useful information [...]

Fifa concert ready to rock
May 4, 2010 11:01 AM | By Staff Reporter for TIMES LIVE

The final line-up for the Fifa World Cup Kick-Off concert has been announced, and includes local favourites Freshlyground, Hugh Masekela, the Soweto Gospel Choir, the BLK JKS and The Parlotones.
Acclaimed African hip-jop artist K’NAAN, who recently recorded the uplifting “Wavin’ [...]

From : JT Communication Solutions
German School Bazaar heats the winter chill
05/03/2010 13:35:48
The annual Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg Schulbasar will provide a fun-filled day of entertainment on Saturday 29 May 2010. Since 1893, the Deutsche Schule zu Johannesburg has hosted this event, nurturing it to become a “must see” on the Johannesburg lifestyle calendar. On several [...]

T-J de Klerk of the Wilds Walks writes about a long walk at Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve on Sunday, April 25 from 07:30:
Hikers are cordially invited by Johannesburg City Parks and the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve Association to participate in a 20 kilometre walk in the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve.   The Long Walk, now in its third year, is [...]

On Easter Monday a friend and I went to listen to Handel’s Messiah at the Nelson Mandela Square.  The covered seating in the tent was packed and despite threatening skies, there were many braving the possible rain in the open air . Fortunately the weather was kind. Richard Cock created his usual magic conducting the  Johannesburg Festival Orchestra [...]

The events of the last few weeks in South Africa have spread like a cyber virus through the world’s press. The ill-considered words and immature leadership style of Baby Ju-Ju Malema, the ANC Youth leader, (whom the political cartoonist Zapiro always identifies by a dummy stuck firmly in his mouth), hit the international headlines when [...]

A team led by Professor Lee Berger, a renowned palaeoanthropologist from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (aka Wits University) has described and named a new species of hominid, Australopithecus sediba, almost two million years old, which was discovered in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site, 40 kilometres out of Johannesburg, South Africa.   “Sediba, [...]