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Nationwide protests have taken place since October 7 despite the disbanding of the controversial Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) police unit.
The demonstrators have been accused of attacking police stations and personnel.
The rallies which are mostly attended by young people have become avenues to vent against corruption and unemployment.
Rights groups say at least 15 people have been killed the demonstrations began in early October.
President of the Berbice Cricket Board (BCB), Hilbert Foster has welcomed the government’s decision to allow the restart of sport events during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic but cautioned that the virus is still very much a serious area of concern.
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Every day feels like a raw wound for Omari Barksdale. His sister, Laneeka Barksdale, died of COVID-19 in late March in Detroit — and since then, so havemore than 228,000 Americans. Many were Black Americans whose communities were disproportionately devastated by the virus. Omari Barksdale, a Black man, watched with alarm as the toll ofthe […]
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THE head of artiste and repertoire (A&R) at Sony ATV Music Publishing South Africa Munyaradzi Chanetsa has urged local musicians to embrace proper ways of monetising their work on the internet in order to realise full financial benefits. BY KENNEDY NYAVAYA In an interview with NewsDay Life & Style on the sidelines of a music empowerment workshop, hosted by Gateway Stream — a subsidiary of Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) on Thursday, Chanetsa urged musicians to use strategies that monetised the demand for their work online. “In this digital age we are, you do not have to rely on the traditional ways of how it used to be with just television and radio, now you can work in the digital space (and) if radio does not want to play your music you can put it online properly through an aggregator so that you earn revenue,” he said. “Rather than just giving someone a song, why not upload it properly and share a link with them so they can stream it. You can still make it work for you, it is just about doing the right thing and doing it properly.” Chanetsa’s sentiments come at a time a number of local artistes have, for long, been struggling to make a living from their craft owing to a wide range of hitches among them lack of royalty payment from radio and television as well as piracy. This has seen a bulk of artistes circulating their own work through different social media platforms for free as a marketing strategy to gain fans and attract bookings for gigs. Several artistes across genres have been in a long-standing battle with the Zimbabwe Music Rights Association (Zimura) for failing to pay royalties or parcelling out paltry amounts when they do, a situation that has left musicians dependent on revenue from live performances. “I am not sure why there is a problem with payment of royalties, but one can register with another CMO (collective management organisation), if you go to South Africa there is Capasso or Samro and you can register there and they can make sure that you get at least some of the royalties due to you, that is an option,” he said. Meanwhile, Gateway Stream unveiled the Music Web and Mobile Application — an interactive music platform built for musicians and users at the event. RTG’s Corporate communications and innovations manager Pride Khumbula said the Gateway Stream Music application would enable musicians to upload their music, set pricing, manage inventories and receive revenue for all purchases “through a revolutionary wallet function”. “The Gateway Stream Music App will give artistes access to consumers and ensure that they can earn revenue from their trade, reducing the risk of losing earnings through piracy, she said. “A unique feature of the application is the socialisation capability where artistes can interact with their fans and share content in the same way as they would on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and WhatsApp. The only difference being that they are able to do all this on the same platform in which their music is streamed.” Follow Kennedy on Twitter @ken_nyavaya
The lack of space in New Zealand’s state-managed quarantine facilities have been causing distress for a South African family who has been separated for more than 10 months from one another.
Document - Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem
In tonight's Sunday movie lineup: Chadwick Boseman in '21 Bridges', Johnny Depp in 'Public Enemies', and Gwyneth Paltrow in 'Contagion'.
THE BBC has faced backlash on social media over new impartiality guidelines sent to BBC...
The post BBC faces backlash against impartiality rules which suggest news staff should not support BLM or trans rights appeared first on Voice Online.
The special COVID-19 top-up of R500 given to caregiver grant recipients has come to an end as of 31 October 2020.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has long called for an end to farm murders in South Africa and now Helen Zille is sounding the alarm
Today is the 307th day of 2020. There are 59 days left in the year.TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT2003: The US Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire installs as its bishop Reverend V Gene Robinson, consecrating the first openly homosexual Anglican bishop and drawing censure from numerous provinces within the worldwide Anglican Communion.OTHER EVENTS
[The Conversation Africa] Researchers regularly review the literature that's generated by others in their field. This is an integral part of day-to-day research: finding relevant research, reading and digesting the main findings, summarising across papers, and making conclusions about the evidence base as a whole.
Centurion saw flooding in areas around the Hennops River, with motorists advised by the City of Tshwane to avoid several roads.
Member of Parliament Juliet Holness has threatened to report residents in St Andrew East Rural who construct homes in contravention of the law and warned that she would be willing to suffer the consequences of losing electoral support. Holness’...
Apart from the song’s omnipresence spanning a cross-section of socio-economic neighbourhoods across South Africa, it has become a viral dance phenomenon, drawing in a diverse global audience.
Things are going from bad to worse for Katlego Maboe, who now has to face a showdown in court with his ex-partner, Monique Muller.
A court has interdicted the release and public access of a 2014 intelligence report into media allegations that some members of the Special Operations Unit within the State Security Agency were allegedly involved in unlawful activities.
Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri's lawyers have said the conduct of their client trumps speculation or innuendo ahead of the much-anticipated bail judgment.
Lambert Brown, the now-veteran trade unionist who was a loud voice in the leftist Workers Party of Jamaica (WPJ), laments that the war between the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) leading up to the October 30, 1980,...
Rev. Al Sharpton urges Black Chicago to take back America Black faith leaders rally behind Kim Foxx in State’s Attorney’s race By Erick Johnson With a week left for the Presidential and local General Elections, civil rights leader Al Sharpton visited Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood on Tuesday, October 27, where he and Black leaders led […]
My family's story, like those of so many other American families, begins with immigration. My mother fled Uganda as a refugee in 1984. She was drawn to America because she saw a nation where she could expand her potential - and as a single mother to my three younger siblings and me, she taught all of us that here we, […]
Here's a quick glance at what the weather forecast holds in store across all the South African provinces. Stay warm or keep cool.
The judge ordered the reinstatement of a factory worker who had been fired for reporting for duty under the influence of dagga.
A top team of detectives have exposed a trail of social media messages that implicate several people who were 'seemingly close' to Senzo Meyiwa.
A man from Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape was chased, assaulted and eventually murdered by a mob who believed he had killed a 6-year-old girl.
Two Supreme Court of Appeal judges have slammed the Limpopo High Court for finding that Advocate Seth Nthai’s depression explained his attempt to solicit a R5 million bribe from Italian businesses – and questioned why Nthai had not faced criminal charges for his conduct.
[allAfrica] As of October 20, the confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries have reached 1,655,980. Reported deaths in Africa have reached 39,931, and recoveries 1,359,742.
