
Cape Flats Teen Foregoes Matric Ball to Serve Community & Honour Her Hero
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For anyone finishing high school, attending their Matric Ball aka Senior Prom is a highlight that caps a 13 year long school career from Grade R to Grade 12 and almost every school learner looks forward to that day.
A Cape Flats teen from Valhalla Park who attended Elsies River High School had other plans.
Jade le Roux gave up the Glits & Glamour of attending her Matric Ball and instead served 150 needy people with a meal and threw a party to honour her local community hero Charlene Petersen.
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The Good, The Bad & The Incorrigible
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- Written by: Faeez van Doorsen
The pair are about six years old and at any time on the weekend you'll find them playing soccer with some of the other neighborhood kids.
But now the one twin is just one of those kids who steals the heart of everyone he makes contact with, despite running into people's gardens and destroying their gardens or stealing fruit from their trees or 'accidentally' throwing stones on their rooftops. He just has that kind of cherubic, forgivable face. The kind you respond to with, 'just don't do it again' after he's worked his charm on you.

Virtual Meets Reality at The Uncle Cal Xperience Event with Live Outside Broadcast
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Finally, as lockdown levels have been eased, the Virtual World of The Uncle Cal Xperience Meets Reality as Uncle Cal hosts a long-awaited Live Outside Broadcast at the Oude Molen Eco Village in Pinelands on 4 Dec from 2pm to 10pm. As is the custom with most Uncle Cal events, those attending will once again be part of something special to enhance the lives of the less fortunate.
Through Uncle Cal’s partnership with Band Aid SA, attendees will through a Toy Drive tied to this event be helping to bring some much needed Festive Season Joy to the many underprivileged children directly served by NGO’s and Community Organisations that Uncle Cal &Band Aid SA are working with.
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Emile YX? Wins Prestigious American Linguistics Award
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Emile YX? (South African Hip Hop Pioneer & Teacher) wins the 2022 Distinguished Public Service Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics
Emile YX? aka Emile Lester Jansen, South African Hip Hop Elder, Activist & Teacher has been living in the San Francisco, U.S.A. for the past two years and just before returning to South Africa for a month long visit, he won the 2022 Distinguished Public Service Award from the American Association for Applied Linguistics. Last year's winner was The Black Lives Matter Movement. Emile was nominated by Dr Quentin Williams, Director, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research (CMDR) at University of the Western Cape.
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Band Aid for Ameen, The Rappin Donkey
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It is seldom that an entertainer, over a span of decades, continues to capture the imaginations of not only audiences but also that of other entertainers in a diverse variety of fields and still somehow continues to remain relevant while always evolving.
Not only was and is the originator of the Bruin Man Funk continually evolving but by all accounts Ameen Levy still manages to stick to his core identity as an artist, an entertainer and more importantly, as a person.
Sadly Ameen Levy and his family were struck by the devastating tragedy of losing their home in a fire on 22 September 2021. To help them through this difficult period, and help get the Ameen Levy Foundation back up and running, Band Aid along with Uncle Cal and P-Fore Online are hosting a benefit event for the entertainer who has not only worked with, influenced and paved the way for so many of his contemporaries and those young artists who he has given a platform to, but who has also given joy to audiences and fans all over the country.
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