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South Africa’s Academy Award winner Charlize Theron will be the guest presenter assisting FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke during the Final Draw for the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on Friday, 4 December 2009 (19.00 local time/CET+1). (AllAfrica)

Versatile artist Joel Keitumele, best known for his talent search programme Mokaragana on Botswana Television (Btv), has released a comedy DVD namely Joelafik TV. (AllAfrica)

Lately local musicians have been trying their hand at acting and perhaps as the festive season kicks in, Batswana should invest in local talent and one of the products to look out for during this silly season is Kulenyane Studio's E ke ntolo Volume 2. (AllAfrica)

Among the things that make life interesting and worthwhile is entertainment that makes people feel good, relaxed, or engage in temporary escapism. (AllAfrica)

Botswana's music is not developing, the band master commented. The comment carries some credibility because the man is looking at Botswana from outside. (AllAfrica)

The annual Infinite Word Festival has become one of those events that are highlighted in the calendars of lovers of the spoken word. (AllAfrica)

Former Afro Sunshine keyboard player Lekofi Sejeso and group manager Dennis Alexander have reprinted a CD of the defunct band's album, This is Afrika. The reprinted version is already available on the local market. (AllAfrica)

WELL, Mzamo shattered the glass ceiling on Wednesday night! OK, not exactly she punched her fist into a glass door, leaving one helluva cracking road map of her anger. (AllAfrica)

Following a spate of participations respectively at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, the 2009 Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi, the "Tout Ecrans" film festival in Switzerland and the "Apt" festival in France, Raja Amari's "El Dowaha" (Buried Secrets) won the Grand Prix at the 27 th Arte Mare Mediterranean Cultures and Film Festival in Corsica, which was held from November 23 to 28, in the city of Bastia. (AllAfrica)

From December 1 to 18, Tunisia will host the 16th European Film Days (JCE 2009). In addition to the capital , six other cities, Jendouba, Kairouan, Sfax, Mahdia, Gabes and Sousse, will also host the event. (AllAfrica)

When Drake Ssekeba asked Godfrey Binaisa about his 'big head' during a WBS television programme, the former President of Uganda put on his typically captivating smile and replied: "It is beauty, it is all beauty my friend and besides, it contains a lot of wisdom". (AllAfrica)

THE International Images Film Festival, which kicked off in Harare on November 20, this week moves to Bulawayo. (AllAfrica)

Itai Makumbe, Zimbabwe's Big Brother Revolution housemate, was evicted from the TV reality series at the weekend as the show reaches the home stretch. (AllAfrica)

Chief Zvimba has banned the harvesting of wild fruits for sale in his area. (AllAfrica)

WITH less than a week before BBA's finale, the countdown to the announcement of the winner has begun! Eish, my BBA people's, my nerves are shot! Already! (AllAfrica)

Music producer and psalmist, Brandon Hammond is set to release another astounding music album. A Christmas CD featuring twelve time-honoured carols rearranged in completely different versions. (AllAfrica)

Jokes from MCs and Pablo livened up the humid day as Soul 5 took the jingle crown. (AllAfrica)

The heat is on in the Miss Rwanda beauty contest. (AllAfrica)

AFTER serving as National Arts Council of Zimbabwe acting director for a year, Elvas Mari has been confirmed as the substantive director of the council with effect from November 1. He takes over from Titus Chipangura who resigned from the council last year. (AllAfrica)

DESPITE the twist and turns that rhumba music has gone through locally for the past two decades, one group should be credited for standing firm. (AllAfrica)

CHRISTOPHER Mlalazi's recent achievement of getting a special mention at the Noma Awards for his first book Dancing with Life: Tales from the Township has shown the great potential in the talented writer. Noma Awards recognise outstanding books from Africa and select the best four out of hundreds of entries from various publishers on the continent. (AllAfrica)

The 2010 Windhoek International Film Festival will be hosted in September. This new festival date is part of the revamping and restructuring that the Wild Cinema Film Festival Trust (WCFF Trust) has carried out. (AllAfrica)

Young artist, Isabel Katjavivi, has received good reviews on her first solo exhibition, which consists of a number of works paying homage to the nude form. (AllAfrica)

Pencil Portrait Artist, Vaico Haimbenge, has the natural ability to produce images on paper with a pen or pencil. He elegantly creates portraits from photographs and observation. (AllAfrica)

It's official. Both sad and surprising, Namibia's gorgeous, young and leggy beauties Jasmine Rose Goagoses and Magneam Yetheni Kwechi, are back from this year's Face of Africa boot camp and thus also eliminated from the competition. (AllAfrica)

'Tuhafeni' meaning "let's rejoice" is the title of the Losted Son's debut album. (AllAfrica)

Fans who missed the launch of the Ongoronomundu Concert Group's DVD at the end of October have by no means lost out completely. (AllAfrica)

THE BATTLE for dendera music supremacy is likely to heat up following the rise of talented musician, Joe 'Local' Nyamungoma. The new dendera musician is rocking the airwaves with a song titled Madriver, which is popularly known as Christmas Yatosvika. (AllAfrica)

MISS World organisers have snubbed Zimbabwe Tourism Authority's invitation to have the pageant contestants visit Zimbabwe today. The 112 models from across the globe -- including our own Vanessa Sibanda -- are camped in South Africa ahead of the Miss World finals slated for December 12 in Johannesburg. (AllAfrica)

A SEVEN-year sojourn in a foreign land inspired a breathtaking work of art. Legal practitioner Cleopatra Magwaro who returned home from her studies in Australia a few years ago has published a book titled A Season's Assemblage. (AllAfrica)

"This platform will not only provide our youth with the much-needed international exposure, but also serves as a platform for education, learning and networking. (AllAfrica)

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