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Dan Jawitz
Dan Jawitz (born 1960) is a South African film and television producer. He is the co-founder of Ice Media and he with Mark J Kaplan were both producers on A Lion's Trail which won 27th annual News and documentary Emmy Award. Career Jawitz started in the industry as a publicist on the film Kini and Adams which was selected for Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival (1997) and nominated for a Palme d’Or. In 2000, he launched Ice Media with Joel Phiri in Johannesburg. More than a decade later, Jawitz and Phiri reunited to form Known Associates Entertainment. Previous partnerships include, Fireworx Media which Jawitz established in 2008 with Neil Brandt and Bridget Pickering. He managed thisproduction company as the Managing Director for 10 years, producing shows on South African television, including Keeping Score (Telenovela, SABC2) and Hustle (Drama, ETV). In 2014 he co-produced ''One Humanity'' with Tony Hollingsworth, directed by Mickey Dube, which vividly bring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African People
The population of South Africa is about 58.8 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032. In 2011, Statistics South Africa counted 2.1 million foreigners in total. Reports suggest that is an underestimation. The real figure may be as high as five million, including some three million Zimbabweans. History Population Earlier Censuses, 1904 to 2011 1904 Census South African population figures for the 1904 Census.Smuts I: The Sanguine Years 1870–1919, W.K. Hancock, Cambridge University Press, 1962, pg 219 1960 Census Sources: '' Statesman's Year-Book'' 1967–1968; '' Europa Year Book'' 1969 1904-85 national census numbers Bantustan demographics were removed from South African census data during Apartheid and for this reason official figures on the national population of the country during that period will be inaccurate. 1996 Census Source: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lion's Trail
''A Lion's Trail'' is a 2002 documentary film by François Verster about the rights for the popular song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", a song written and recorded by the South African shepherd and singer of Zulu origin Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds as " Mbube". In the 1950s, the song had been adapted by Pete Seeger of The Weavers as "Wimoweh" and further developed in the 1961 version recorded by popular music group The Tokens, for whom it was re-written extensively by George David Weiss. This version had been retitled "The Lion Sleeps Tonight". The song was also adapted for the screen in The Walt Disney Company 1994 film ''The Lion King''. . The film helped Linda's family to sue legally for revenues from the song. ''A Lion's Trail'' was not the first time Verster had tackled the controversy on the song. In 1999, he had filmed ''The Story of "Mbube"'' for television about the song. That film had won the 1999 National Televi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
