tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77352740349286924182012-01-30T01:39:34.786+02:00Welcome to the blog space that marks what has been, to date, South Africa’s only national and directly broadcast alternative lifestyle radio show and which was on air for four hours every Wednesday night for almost 5 years. Like the show, this is a space where everyone is a star and deserves the right to twinkle; where everyone is cheerful, trouble-free and at ease! We never separate but rather aim to integrate, to encourage, to ennoble and to embrace. Life is beautiful!BravoBravahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14492659168246536303noreply@blogger.comBlogger481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7735274034928692418.post-38032124073812928272011-11-24T15:58:00.002+02:002011-11-24T16:03:32.109+02:00

The search for the ultimate gay male. A nationwide search for the ultimate gay male culminates in an extravagant gala night to crown South Africa`s representative for Mr Gay World 2012 to be held at the Lyric Theatre, Gold Reef City in Johannesburg on Saturday 26th November.Hosts for the evening are:CATHY SPECIFIC http://www.cathyspecific.co.za/FRANK MALABA http://www.facebook.com/pages/

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An interesting read is Durban business man Trevor Kleinhans' book Secrets Make You Sick. It i sshockingly honest and he brings the message home without ever stooping to moralise. The book is nwo available at CNA, Exclusive Books and at www.kalahari.comThe author writes:"My life has been a journey; I have visited the devil’s den and landed in the enchanted magical garden. This is a story that will

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On behalf of SA GLAAD, we would like to express our gratitude that the government of South Africa has signed the statement issued at the UN Human Rights Council, which was signed by 85 countries, entitled "Ending Acts of Violence and Related Human Rights Violations Based on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity." The news was recieved this morning with a mixture of elation and surprise, as it

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Mr. Gay South Africa (Pty) Ltd. is proud and grateful to announce that Wilco van Eeden and Club Travel Honeydew – previously nominated by TOPCO as one of South Africa’s top performing companies - has again, as they have done in the past, offered to sponsor a gay event in South Africa when it was needed the most: the company will sponsor the travel and accommodation costs of the South African bid

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The South African Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (SA GLAAD) herewith announces the withdrawal of it’s support for COPE as a party for which gay and trans citizens should vote in the 2009 elections. SA GLAAD’s reasons for this withdrawal are as follows:COPE’s choice of Presidential Candidate – The appointment of religious figures in positions of political power and influence as a

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BravoBrava’s Personality of the Week is Senior Manager of the University of Johannesburg’s Arts Academy and, arguably South Africa’s best-known female TV face and voice. Rita van Heever joins show host Mixael de Kock in the 1485 Radio Today studios tonight at 20:00. You can also hear this popular gay radio show on DStv Audio Channel 169.Tune in and hear how Rita studied medicine at the

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Our BravoBrava Personality of the Week is Eusebius McKaiser, strategy consultant, Rhodes Scholar at St Antony’s College and working towards the completion of his Oxford Doctorate.The World Universities Debating Championships described him as one of the world's ten best debaters: A truly extraordinary South African form a mixed race background but who identifies himself as black.We chat about his

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In tonight’s edition of BravoBrava we will be reporting back on Joburg Pride 2008 and the volunteers involved in the staging of this mammoth event on the city’s calendar.Tracey Sandilands, the Administrator of Joburg Pride joins show host, Mixael de Kock, to chat about Pride and Prejudice.Tracey also is a seasoned professional in the areas of marketing, communication, public relations, events

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HEREUNDER: Telkom theft delays GAYSPEAKTRIO ON A TRIP - Pianist Charl de Plessis at Centurion theatre on 19 September, 20.00 - see write-up on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com/“CRAZY DIAMOND – A Tribute to Pink Floyd” set to get rockers grooving at The Victory Theatre! see write-up on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com/Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Diary of events - also see http:

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HEREUNDER:Legends @ Legends - Meet Lidia Theron, Philip Liebenberg and GuillaumeTRIO ON A TRIP - Pianist Charl de Plessis at Centurion theatre on 19 September, 20.00 see write-up on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com/Out in Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival - Diary of events - also see http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com/ for write-ups on moviesBravoBrava's Personality of the Week is the Director

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Like the inheritance of blue, brown or green eyes and red, blond or black hair, being gay is not a choice but a biological reality. Let us then proudly celebrate the colour that gay and lesbian people bring to this world as Joburg Pride ensures you your rightful place in the heart of South Africa’s culturally and biologically diverse rainbow nation.Mixael de KockExecutive Producer and

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Also see the follwoing write-ups:Hereunder and also more fully on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com 15TH OUT IN AFRICA SA GAY & LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL Our Personality of the Week is Hugh Fraser who graduated from Wits University in 1987 with a degree in architecture. Growing up in apartheidsouthafrica, didn’t offer much opportunity for travel, which he yearned. With the opening of the stable door

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BravoBrava is alive and well and living at 1485 Radio Today countrywide on DStv Audio Channel 169. This is the show where everyone is a star and deserves the right to twinkle; where everyone is cheerful, trouble-free and at ease! On this show some are gay, some not so gay and some, not gay at all. This is the radio show where listeners are not separated but where the aim is to integrate, to

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Mixael de Kock interviews Fulvio de Stefanis a director of Joburg Pride, the Section 21 Company responsible for Johannesburg’s greatest annual spectacle. Fulvio De Stefanis has a BSC Civil Engineering degree from WITS University. In addition to his role in the construction and property development industry. Fulvio has also been a leading dance event promoter for over a decade. He was a co-founder

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ALSO IN THIS EDITION:Carol Lee Fine Art present STILL LIFEHighlights from the new edition of the gay magazine WRAPPEDSouth African Tattoo to thrill audiencesProgramme of events to December 2008: Music in Sandton Central is now available on http://curtaincallsa.blogspot.com/BravoBrava Resident Astrologer, Anita Noyes-Smith's Zoul Centre newsletter, Soul News, now available from Website: http://

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WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN· Five Double tickets to a performance of South Africa’s international smash-hit musical!Also in this edition:A discussion on HARDlove at the Old Mutual Theatre on the Square in SandtonElzabé Zietsman at Foxwood HouseThe MTN New Contemporaries Awards 2008 and Exhibition at teh University of Johannesburg Art GalleryCarol Lee Fine Art presents group show titled STILLIFEA Fish

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WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN!· 5 give-away CD’s by the new group TRIO· 2 tickets to a performance of A Handful of KeysIn tonight’s show we chat to an academic who is also an entertainer of “notes”. South African virtuoso pianist Charl du Plessis is probably best known as that superb accompanist to entertainer Nathaniel.Trained both in the classics and in jazz, Charl recently launched an

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And, from our previous broadcasts of the DeKocks of Grootvoelsvlei now comes Deon Knbel (who else/) - Die Kaapse Kanon - with the following massive contribution to the evolution of Afrikaans poetry! MaerTita de Coq van Boo-tha's-villeWou graag met haar vriende 'n appeltjie skilMy Titta's tog grooth-asoos elke "stut"-Boothanou hang haar twee uiers net waar dit wilgebore uit nagmerrie droom 14/15

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BravoBrava Personality of the week, internationally acclaimed ballerina Phyllis Spira, recently died at the age of 64 at Kingsbury Hospital in Cape Town. As a tribute, tonight’s broadcast will be devoted to Mixael’s interview with her a year ago.After a foot injury in August last year in London, she underwent a series of operations on both legs.Spira and her husband Philip Boyd, director of the

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BravoBrava has moved to 1485 Radio Today and countrywide on DStv Audio Channel 169.

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In the almost 30 months of BravoBrava being on the air, three of our Personalities of the Week have passed away.Last year veteran actor Patrick Maynard died while on a working visit to London. And, last month, South Africa’s greatest ballerina of her time, Phyllis Spira, passed away after surgery to her feet. Next Tuesday night we will be broadcasting a tribute cut from Mixael's interview with

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BravoBrava is moving to Radio Today 1485 AM countrywide DSTV Audio Channel 169 on 2 April 2008 from 20:00 to 00:00 - streaming on www.1485.org.zaSee our write-ups hereunder for our last three broadcasts on Radio2000:12th March - Johan Engelbrecht, award-winning author19th March - Double Bill: Rocco de Villiers and Anna Davel26th March - The Rt Honourable, Lady Pamela, Baroness of HarlechONE OF

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In our special Bravo Brava double feature tonight, Rocco de Villiers, the famous South African pianist, producer, author and cocktail connoisseur appears as our Personality of the Week. In the course of the evening the listener will be able to share in Rocco’s passions, performances and, also his past.You can listen to his music and hear about his cd's, cocktail books, wine label and merchandise

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Mixael & Kate Bapela of the IECMixael presents BravoBrava's Personality of the Week is Johan Engelbrecht, award-winning author of a controversial novel centred on Afrikaner racism. The 2007 Jan Rabie/ Rapport Prize* was awarded for his debut work titled ‘kaffertjie.’Engelbrecht was commended for his contribution to renewal in Afrikaans literature. Says Dr Andries Visagie from the University of

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Mixael de Kock with Kate Bapela of the Independent Electoral CommissionMixael presentsThis week, South African choreographer, Esther Nasser, will be featured as the Personality of the Week on the mega-popular gay radio show BravoBrava broadcast every Wednesday night from 20:00 to midnight on Radio2000.Nasser first completed a Speech & Drama Diploma at the University of Pretoria before reading

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GRAND MARCH AT RADIO 2000JOHN GREEN MARCHING ONMINELLI TO GUEST IN RADIO CEREALThe Grand March from Verdi’s opera Aida will be heard in its various guises when BravoBrava host, Mixael de Kock, interviews Opera Africa CEO Sandra de Villiers. A new production of John Green’s opera opens in Johannesburg soon and De Villiers is Personality of the Week on this mega-popular radio show tomorrow night,

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....with Kate Bapela of the Independent Electoral CommissionMixael presents Sandra de VilliersCEO, Opera AfricaSandra de Villiers is Chief Executive Officer of Opera Africa, a company recognised for its innovativeness and artistic strength. Supported by a resourceful, experienced and enthusiastic production team, she has produced the Company’s SA State Theatre, Sand du Plessis (Bloemfontein),

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Mixael PresentsBravoBrava Special Valentine's Day EditionPersonality of the Week:Gavin Hayward. editor of the gay newspaper Exit

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Mixael PresentsBrumilda van Rensburg

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Mixael PresentsChris du Toit

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Mixael PresentsFrancois le Roux - Hah!man

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Mixael PresentsDr Love

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Mixael PresentsBravoBrava's New Year Gala Two

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Mixael PresentsDoyenne of the South African classic art world Bettie Cilliers-Barnard celebrates her 93rd birthday as Personality of the Week on Radio2000's BravoBrava.International Dialing Tel : (+2712) 460 3337E-mail: mailto:artspta@mweb.co.zaBorn in Rustenburg, Transvaal on November 18, 1914. Since 1946 Dr Ciliers-Barnard’s works have been shown in seventy solo exhibitions in South Africa as

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Mixael PresentsBravoBrava's New Year Gala - Programme OneWe chat to a plethora of stars who had appeared on BravoBrava during the previous year!

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Mixael PresentsKrismis@KippiesTonight Sipho "Hotstix" Mabuse is the Bravo Brava Personality of the Week in this Chrstmas Spectacular.

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Mixael PresentsGill Gerard and Keith Smith

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Mixael presentsBravoBrava Personality of the Week, with controversial US Bishop Shelby Spong, who was the important cleric, publicly to question the literal interpretation of Biblical passages and, to point out how damaging these have been to gay and lesbian people over two millenia. Spong, 75, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of

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Mixael presents: STEVE HOFMEYRhttp://www.stevehofmeyr.co.zaBravo Brava's Personality of the Week! bares it all in a frank and open interview.Don't miss this one!In the second half we discuss Male Rape from a legal, medical and social perspective.More info to follow.Contact BravoBrava on:Tel No: +27 71 226 8063Email: mixaeld@gmail.comPO Box 85414, Emmarentia, 2029, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Mixael Presents:Zak Mbhele, scholar of international relations and Board Member of Jo'burg Pride, during the first half of this broadcast, reports back about the great success of the event. This part of our evening will last from 20:00 to 20:30. We then break until 22:30 for the Bafana Bafana versus Italy Soccer Game and will resume with another 1 hour 30 mins of Bravio Brava - until midnight -

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Mixael presentsNodi Murphy from "Out in Africa", manages the South African Gay and Lesbian film festival.Born and bred in Uganda of Irish parents, Nodi went to school at a convent in Vanderbijlpark. After school Nodi went to UCT whereafter she lived in London for 7 years. Nodi came back to South Africa in 1986.Nodi started the Gay and Lesbian Film festival in 1994 at the time when South Africa

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BravoBrava interviews Gauteng MEC for Health, Brian Hhlongwa, on his pans for creating a better and more focussed health infrasructture for the province.Brian Hlongwa was a member of the City of Johannesburg Mayoral Committee responsible for municipal services from 2000 to 2006, when he was appointed as MEC for Health in the Gauteng Provincial Government.Hlongwa holds a diploma in management and

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Mixael PresentsTonite we talk about gay marriages, from beginning to end. We ask the question how frail gay rights really are. A recent article in the Times Magazine investigated the state of gay rights across the world and particularly mentioned South Africa too.Our guest speaker is Johan Troskie, a lawyer with the firm Deneys Reitz in Johannesburg, specialising in tax and commercial law.So, why

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Mixael presentsBravoBrava's Personality of the Week is Karl William Jenkins OBE (born February 17, 1944), British musician and composer. Jenkins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours list for 2005.In July, Karl was awarded both an honorary Doctor Of Music degree by the University of Leicester. He was also awarded the Chancellor's Medal by the

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Mixael presentsBravoBrava celebrates Heritage Day, this coming Monday, 24 September, by interviewing Personality of the Week, David Hart, formal Manager of the National Inventory at the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA/National Monuments Council). David, who has been with SAHRA for fourteen years, was born in Zimbabwe, schooled in Malawi and South Africa and obtained his BA(Hons)

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Tarzan, Lord Greystoke and Lady Jane were gifts from Mixael's Jewish mother, Rose Goldsmith. Jane, is shown on the left and Tarzan on the right. On the other two photographs, His Majesty, The Babbapu is inspecting the vermin that have come along to invade his space.The insistent ringing of his cellphone is what eventually woke Mixael on 14 September exactly as the clock struck Thursday the 13th

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Mixael PresentsBravoBrava's Personality of the WeekTanya Harford, well-known for putting on the Pick n Pay 94.7 Cycle Challenge, among other significant events, is heading up logistics for the JOBURG PRIDE 2007. She is excited by the support given to organisers by the City of Johannesburg and other role players, adding that “this year we can expect to have a truly cohesive event, which lays the

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Mixael presentsBravoBrava’s Personality of the Week has been described by the French newspaper, Le Figaro, as not merely a pianist of genius but undoubtedly one of the great artists of the twenty-first century. On unanimous public request, this great pianist and also composer of repute, and, as he has been called: an unsurpassed audience magnet and charmer, during his second tour of South Africa,

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