Kloof & Highway SPCA - Sat 3 April – 8am until 3pm 1000 Hills Community Tourism Organisation is supporting the Kloof and Highway SPCA in an event packed morning of Covid compliant Easter family fun on Saturday 3 April. Well known creatives Kevin Ellis and Gareth Graves have put together an interactive programme of entertaining [...]
Umgeni Steam Railway is running again! Inchanga Choo Choo train rides The Umgeni Steam Railway is back on its tracks after a long lockdown rest! It is proudly supported by 1000 Hills Community Tourism Organisation (CTO). Watch autumn roll past your window aboard the Umgeni Steam Railway train which runs the last Sunday of each [...]
1000 Hills Tourism CTO 1000 Hills CTO supports 2021 MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon 18 to 20 March KZN: The Valley of a 1000 Hills Community Tourism Organisation is supporting the 2021 MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon taking place from 18 to 20 March, offering special deals and offers for Dusi participants and supporters. After a year [...]
The Denis Hurley Centre AGM and anniversary commemoration of Archbishop Hurley, 2021 Anivesh Singh awarded Barry Wood Award for Outstanding Service by a Volunteer. Literary Ambassador Anivesh Singh was awarded a Denis Hurley Centre Barry Wood Award for Outstanding Service by a Volunteer and was presented his award at the close of a special edition [...]
Our 12th ‘Love the Arts’ feature is with birthday boy, Pavishen Paideya. Pavi has danced his way into many a dance audience’s heart over the years. He became a professional dancer nine years ago and performs tap, jazz, ballet, contemporary, Spanish, kathak and Bollywood, oh and he choreographs too. Especially over the last year, he [...]
In day 11 of our ‘Love the Arts’ feature, we chat to Musa Hlatshwayo - choreographer & dancer extraordinaire. He has performed in many conventional & non-conventional spaces, he has toured through a few states in America, extensively though the UK & Africa & says he has most enjoyed performing in Africa. He rarely looks [...]
The Denis Hurley Centre AGM and anniversary commemoration of Archbishop Hurley Denis Hurley Centre on YouTube: Sat 13 Feb: recorded AGM viewable from 7am, live interactive session: 11am The Denis Hurley Centre Annual General Meeting, stakeholder report back and commemorative prayers will be taking place on-line this year. The pre-recorded material will be viewable from [...]
Day nine of our ‘Love the Arts’ feature, we go behind the scenes with Lisa Goldstone. She introduces herself by saying, “Hi, my name is Lisa and I like listening to music, writing poetry and random adventures.” She studied Drama and Performance at UKZN Howard College and completed her Honours Degree in 2015. She started [...]
Day six of our ‘Love the Arts’ feature, we catch up with versatile duo Bryan Hiles and Cara Roberts. Masterful Bryan has been dazzling local audiences for two decades since studying drama at Tech. He has worked from coast to coast, including starting 2020 at the Sharjah International Fringe Festival. Energetic Cara has been performing [...]
In day eight of our ‘Love the Arts’ feature, we chat to captivating actress and director Clare Mortimer. What do you love about performing? Nothing and everything. On a daily basis I berate myself for this career path! So much so that for nearly three years I didn’t perform live at all. I am an [...]
In day seven of our ‘Love the Arts’ feature, we meet Amanda Kunene a performer, singer, actor and dancer. She loves every aspect of performing arts. She has been performing rom as young as she can remember, but professionally for 10 years now. She is a BA Music and Drama Performance Studies graduate and a [...]
Day five in our ‘Love the Arts’ feature we meet artist Laurie Glenny. Since graduating as a Fine Artist in 1994, she is never without a paintbrush in her hands, but often with a commercial design or teaching ‘hat’ on. However, after a bout of illness in 2009, she took some time off to focus [...]
Our fourth artist in our ‘Love the Arts’ feature that we had the honour of spending time with is the sonorous trumpet player, Cathy Peacock. Cathy is the founding member of Platform Jazz and is a full time member of the KZN Philharmonic. She started playing when she was nine. Her Dad was teaching her [...]
In today’s ‘Love the Arts’ feature we got to spend time with two contemporary dancers, Zinhle Nzama and Siseko Duba. Both of these powerful, expressive dancers are with the main FLATFOOT Dance Company. Zinhle has been performing with FLATFOOT for seven years now and Siseko joined the Newlands township dance development programme in 2010 and [...]
Day two of our ‘Love the Arts’ feature we meet the fabulous Roland Perold. Roland spent the early part of lockdown collaborating with fellow musical thespians from around South Africa and created a marvellous piece called Stories 2020. The piece came to fruition and was staged at the Seabrookes Theatre in December. He has performed [...]
The first artist that we catch up with in our ‘Love the Arts’ feature is the lovely Mpilo ‘Straw’ Nzimande. Straw, a hugely talented physical actor studied at UKZN PMB and has been a professional actor for eight years. His favourite place that he has performed is The Guild Theatre in East London and he [...]
Building up to the month of love, one can’t help but reminisce back to era where artists could ‘perform freely’. PubMat decided to find out from a few of our favourites, what they love about their craft. So they have teamed up with, the award winning photographer, Val Adamson Photography, who with some time on [...]
Swales Online Academy: Exploring a new way of learning. First term to go ahead as scheduled at new Swales Online Academy. Swales Online Academy, the brand new innovative, contemporary educational platform, is ready to welcome fulltime students for the 2021 academic year, proceeding with first term start-up as planned. Swales Academy is a co-ed institution [...]
The Order of St John in South Africa is transforming the First Aid training sector by introducing a world-first, international gold standard First Aid e-learning course. The innovative 18-hour first aid blended learning course combines the theoretical component of First Aid Level 1; with a classroom-based practical hosted at St John Training Centres across South [...]
1000 Hills Tourism CTO launches new promo video KZN: The Valley of a 1000 Hills Community Tourism Organisation has launched their newest promotional video to once more highlight the memorable experiences that families can enjoy over this festive season and beyond. The video shows that the beautiful hills and valleys can be magnificent to look [...]
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Honouring Edwin Swales This month, we remember those who tragically lost their lives in the line of duty, in armed conflicts around the globe. Armistice Day – or Poppy Day as it is better known - is commemorated around the world on November 11. At DHS, we remember the brave men who fought during the [...]
Swales Online Academy at Durban High School - Exploring a new way of learning Durban High School is collaborating with DigiCampus to launch Swales Online Academy, an innovative, contemporary educational platform, which will be ready to welcome fulltime students for the 2021 academic year. Operating out of Durban’s prestigious DHS campus, Swales Academy will be [...]
#HopeInSight Thursday 8 October 2020 Today is World Sight Day - the most important advocacy and communications day in the eye health calendar to encourage people to be aware of eye care. Understanding that 75% of the world’s vision impairment is avoidable, the focus globally is to encourage people to take an eye test. St [...]
Community re-imagined in a social VR World Inhabit your avatar and attend the 2020 Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers Congress in a virtual world. New dates confirmed: 25 – 30 October 2020 DURBAN: The NEWF2020 Congress (the annual Nature, Environment & Wildlife Filmmakers Congress) will take place in a real-time virtual world from 25 – [...]