IF you’ve had it with people getting access to your phone and using up your data – or if you, like me are useless at keeping your apps closed when you aren’t using them – then you might want to check out AppLock. Continue reading
Month: July 2016
Rotary Club hosts Musical Pops in Kloof

Platform Jazz
On Friday, July 29, at St Agnes Auditorium in Kloof, the Rotary Club of Kloof will present the Kloof Musical Pops. Continue reading
Enjoy some ‘Magical Mayhem’ at the Rhumbelow Theatre
The Rhumbelow Theatre in Cunningham Avenue, off Bartle Road, Durban – in association with the South African Magical Society – is hosting Magical Mayhem at 8 pm on Friday, July 29, 8 pm on Saturday, July 30 and 2 pm on Sunday, July 31. Continue reading
Midlands diva, Cat Simoni, to perform at the Rhumbelow Theatre
THE Rhumbelow Theatre’s in Pietermaritzburg and Durban will be hosting The Way We Were!, a fabulous tribute show in which Midlands diva, Cat Simoni, does the songs of Barbra Streisand in her own inimitable show.
The show, which has been written and directed by Paul Spence, will be staged at the Rhumbelow Theatre – Pietermaritzburg at the Allan Wilson Shellhole in Alan Paton Avenue, at 2 pm and 6.30 pm on Sunday, July 31; and at the Rhumbelow Theatre in Cunningham Avenue, Umbilo, Durban at 8 pm on Friday, August 5, 8 pm on Saturday, August 6 and at 2 pm and 6.30 pm on Sunday, August 7. Continue reading
Durban comedy is on fire!

Jem Atkins and Jess Knauf
Durban comedy promoters, Jem Atkins and Jess Knauf (On Fire Comedy), have been nominated for a prestigious award at this year’s 6th Annual Savanna Comics’ Choice Awards.
They’re up against national comedy promoter heavyweights – Cape Town Comedy Club, David Kau (Blacks Only brand), Goliath & Goliath, and Gino Fernandez (Cape Town) – for the highly prized Best Friend of Comedy award. Continue reading
North Dakota oil fields under the spotlight at artSPACE durban

One of Meghan Kirkwood’s images which can be seen at artSPACE durban.
OPENING at artSPACE durban, 3 Millar Road, Durban on Saturday, July 30 at 11 am is Meghan Kirkwood’s exhibition, Fracking the Grid: Views from an Energy Landscape. It will run until August 18. Continue reading
Two new exhibitions at the Loading Bay Gallery in Durban
Durban’s Loading Bay Gallery in Station Drive will be hosting two news hows from July 29 to August 21. Continue reading
Enjoy the best in local music at MiTH in Hilton
MUSIC in the Hills (MiTH) in Hilton will be hosting performances by Duncan Park, Erin Fourie and The Swish Collective at The Knoll Guesthouse and Backpackers in Knoll Drive from 7 pm on Wednesday, July 27. Continue reading
New book offers invaluable advice to theatre practitioners
DURBAN theatre practioners, Emma Durden and Roel Twijnstra, launched their book, Theatre Production in South Africa at Think!Fest, during the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.
SA writer, Lidudumalingani, wins Caine Prize for African writing

4/7/16 – Oxford The Caine Prize For African Writing Winner of the 2016 Caine Prize, Lidudumalingani.
SOUTH African writer, Lidudumalingani, has won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story Memories We Lost, published in Incredible Journey: Stories That Move You (Burnet Media).
He received a prize of £10,000 following a special dinner at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, United Kingdom on July 4. Continue reading