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• Mi Casa Hit Platinum
  Mi Casa takes home yet another award. It was announced early this week that their self-titled debut studio album on Soul Candi Records has earned RISA Platinum status by selling over 40,000 copies…
• Call For Bands!
  The 16th annual Emerging Sounds Challenge in conjunction with TOMS Sandton and Openroom Productions gets into full swing at Rumours on Saturday, 26 May…
• Umoja In A Music Rights War
  In court papers Umoja argue against the "privatisation of South African music of unknown origins by musicians and publishers that now claim to have originated or own the songs."

Media Update

• News straight from the track on Cars in Action Online
  In the latest Cars in Action Online newsletter the latest news from the WTCC, Paffett won his home DTM for his HWA Mercedes team and the Pro Tour heads to Cape Town where the drivers tackle the Killarney circuit.
• Seejarim's Venus at Home opening at NAF
  Usha Seejarim will be launching her new body of work, Venus at Home, at the annual Grahamstown National Arts Festival on 28 June. A solo touring museum and festival exhibition, Venus at Home is part of the Main 2012 Visual Arts Programme, and is a personal project in which the artist aims to explore the places she finds herself in and the various roles she undertakes.
• Second season of Dr Oz to launch in South Africa on 28 May
  Dr Oz finds himself in the unfamiliar role of patient when The Dr Oz Show returns for its second season on Monday, 28 May. As part of the second season premiere, the Emmy Award-winning host (who turned 51 in June) undergoes a colonoscopy to emphasise the critical role they can play in detecting and preventing colon cancer.