South Africa Project (www.southafricaproject.org), the 2010 FIFA World Cup-centric initiative of Ubuntu Now (ubuntunow.org), has launched a “Wall of Supporters” on its website. As the international spotlight on South Africa continues to increase while the biggest single sports event on earth grows closer, the South Africa Project hopes to use the heightened visibility to raise global awareness of the nation’s deep-seated gender equality issues.

In her interview with Lester Holt, R&B singer Alicia Keys visits Agape Orphanage in Durban, South Africa and a health clinic that the organization Keep A Child Alive sponsors. It was after witnessing the impact of HIV and AIDS, firsthand, during a trip to Africa in 2003 that motivated Alicia Keys to action. Together, Leigh Blake and Alicia Keys founded Keep A Child Alive providing free lifesaving medical assistance, resources, and support to families all over Africa and India that cannot afford anti-retroviral medication and related care.

South Africa: 2010 FIFA World Cup soccer organizers confident about safety. I’ll be there. Will you? Are you concerned about safety?

I often wonder had she not broken the world record if people would have been as concerned? I also wonder if they do this testosterone testing all the time on athletes because there’s no doubt in my mind that Caster Semenya is alone. Then of course there’s the issue of race which South African leaders have pointed to from the very beginning claiming that they’re going after her because she doesn’t fit the European standard of beauty.

Rhythm citrus liqueur hosted its launch party while also celebrating the premieres of “Trek to the Holy Land” and “Skin” during HBO’s New York International Latino Film Festival (NYLIFF), now in it’s 10th year. The event was held at High Line Ballroom in New York City on Saturday, August 1, 2009.

Pan African Film and Arts Festival 2009 featured South African film directed by Anthony Fabian called “SKIN” starring Sophie Okonedo about genetic abnormality that caused a woman born of white parents in apartheid South Africa, to look like a black person.