A group of US choirs are bringing more than music for Mandela Day celebrations to our country. For ten years, US-based cultural organization Classical Movements, has held the annual Ihlombe! Festival in South Africa. This year, the series of concerts and gathering of five choirs of 250 voices from the USA and 23 choirs with 1 200 voices from Southern Africa, will honour Nelson Mandela’s centenary, and will feature new works by celebrated South African
Two outstanding Cape Town business women will travel to Shanghai in China in September this year to receive awards from the International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge. They are Jill Bysshe and Jaqueline Naughton who both run businesses with an annual turnover of more than R20 000 000. They were nominated by the Cape Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Jill Bysshe owns Neo Trading, a company that distributes natural and organic products. She bought the company six
