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Brand South Africa is offering a set of double tickets to the African Music Concert, which will feature some of the continent's brightest, most popular musicians and bands. The show is in Joburg on 21 November. Enter and stand a chance to win.

Brand South Africa is offering a set of double tickets to the African Music Concert, which will feature some of the continent's brightest, most popular musicians and bands. The show is in Joburg on 21 November. Enter and stand a chance to win.

Johnny Clegg, one of South Africa's most beloved musicians, continues his philanthropic work - this time raising funds for the Treatment Action Campaign's operation towards tuberculosis eradication. A host of fellow musicians will be on stage alongside Clegg.

The Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Icelandic tenor Gardar Cortes will perform with the award-winning British trio at a series of concerts that promise to combine opera, classical, musicals and pop harmonies.

Self-taught and using patched-up, homemade and reverse engineered instruments, the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste is doing something extraordinary. The only all-black orchestra in the world – and the only orchestra at all in central Africa – it is revelling in the beauty of classical music.

Music, art and film will feature in a three-week long festival focusing on South Africa at the famous Carnegie Hall in New York City. It will feature renowned artists like Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, as well as sopranos making their New York debuts.

Joan Brickhill, grande dame of South African theatre, has taken her final bow. After a lifetime in the spotlight, the all-singing, all-dancing, all-razzmatazz actress has gone on to the great stage in the sky. She shall be missed; they just don't make 'em like that anymore.

An array of local artists, including Sipho Mabuse, Simphiwe Dana and Sello Maake ka Ncube, will pay homage to Nelson Mandela through song, dance, drama and storytelling during a free concert at the South African State Theatre in Pretoria on Wednesday night.

African talent was the highlight of the evening at the 2010 Fifa World Cup Kickoff Concert, held on the eve of Africa’s greatest sporting event - and so was the pervading spirit of unity, goodwill and excitement.
• World Cup concert on song

Soweto came to a standstill on 10 June, the eve of the greatest sporting event Africa has ever hosted. The 2010 Fifa World Cup Kickoff Concert, held at Soweto's Orlando stadium, showcased not only the talents of African and international musicians, but also the pervading spirit of unity, goodwill and excitement.