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An era that seemed far and elusive six years ago has finally arrived. On Wednesday 19 June 2024, South Africans and the world over waited in anticipation to witness our rainbow nation’s embrace of the officiation and swearing in of President-elect, His excellency, Cyril Ramaphosa into the country’s seventh administration.

South African composers Xander Kritzinger and Andrew-John Bethke will travel to South America with two male choirs to share their uniquely South African blend...

The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Icelandic tenor Gardar Cortes will perform with the award-winning British trio at a series of concerts that promise to combine opera, classical, musicals and pop harmonies.

Madiba: The African Opera - a dramatic musical retelling of Mandela's life featuring little-known stories from his childhood - will have its world premiere at the State Theatre in Pretoria on Friday. Unathi Mtirara, who conceived the project and wrote the libretto, talks about the vision behind the work.

Madiba: The African Opera - a dramatic musical retelling of Mandela's life featuring little-known stories from his childhood - will have its world premiere at the State Theatre in Pretoria on Friday. Unathi Mtirara, who conceived the project and wrote the libretto, talks about the vision behind the work.

Foreign journalists touring South Africa's centres of innovation excellence were given an inside look at the country's Square Kilometre Array project, an international effort to build the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the world, two-thirds of which are being built right here.

CBI Electric African Cables, with backing from the Department of Trade and Industry, officially launched a R150-million high-voltage cable factory in Vereeniging, Gauteng province on Tuesday.

Self-taught and using patched-up, homemade and reverse engineered instruments, the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste is doing something extraordinary. The only all-black orchestra in the world – and the only orchestra at all in central Africa – it is revelling in the beauty of classical music.

A solar powered mobile clinic has been added to Samsung's interventions in Africa. It will offer health services to the rural poor across the country, with plans for expansion to the north of the country.
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An ambitious project to bring music to the poor of Limpopo, and grow well-rounded children, has borne fruit. The Limpopo Youth Orchestra has recorded its first CD.