HELP! Missing In Sydney

"Hi Everyone, could all my friends in Australia, New Zealand, Asia and America please share this photo. This is my brother Jonathan and we haven't heard from him for 5 months now. The last time anyone heard from him he was in Sydney. Also anyone that knows someone that is Traveling or lives in these places could they please share too. It would be very much appreciated, thank you :-)"

Kate Ansell


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152040823596277&set=a.10152040826851277.1073741825.670611276&type=1&relevant_count=1
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com

The Barefoot Music Festival And My Latest Track

I'll be performing tomorrow at the SPCA PMB Barefoot Music Festival - try to pull in if you can! There will be some amazing performers and I will be on at 11am xx The aim is to raise fund for our furry friends and make some epic music as well! 

To hear my latest offering on Soundcloud, a golden-oldie romantic 'jazzy' number - click HERE :) 

To see the poster and information for the SPCA PMB Barefoot Music Festival, click HERE

09.00 - 09.30      Di Veness

09.40 - 10.10      Summer du Preez

10.20 - 10.50      Gareth Mare

11.00 - 11.30      Sandy Bigara

11.40 - 12.10      Quinton Tarr

12.20 - 12.50      Byron Love

01.00 - 01.30      Marcelles Raman

01.40 - 02.10      New artist

02.20 - 02.50      Super Llama

03.00 - 03.30      Undivided Roots (or Steve Fataar)

03:30 - onwards  Steve Fataar, FireTree...

Have a safe Saturday night and  a wonderful Sunday everyone! 

South African Doctors To Be Told Where To Work

"President Jacob Zuma has quietly signed into law sections of the National Health Act that can prevent doctors and other health professionals opening private practices where they choose to."

"There are about 70000 dieticians, specialists, GPs, physiotherapists and occupational therapists who would all need certificates to open a new practice in private. The department is not geared for this kind of [action]." As of April 2016, any Health Professional without a 'certificate of need' will face up to 5 years in prison."

http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2014/05/23/docs-to-be-told-where-to-work

So, being the end of May, there are roughly 22 months to go.

70,000 people will need certificates in that time.

That equals 3182 approvals per month.

With 20 working days per month that would be 159.1 certificate approvals per day.

Does anyone think that the Health department can do this? Can they actually do this in time? Or will there be a mass exodus of Health Professionals leaving South Africa?

I foresee chaos. I do believe that young Doctors will leave this country, I also believe that it will deter young learners from following a career in medicine. It affects family practices. There will be bribery and corruption as Doctors with financial backing... will be 'certified' to work from more affluent areas... 

I hope from the bottom of my heart that Government see's the error here and rectifies it by amending this law. I think their sentiment is alright, but this is most definitely not the way forward. 

Fluoride is in the same category as Arsenic, Lead and Mercury

This is HUGE news and no one is talking about it. The Lancet, the world's oldest and most prestigious medical journal, recently published a report classifying Fluoride as a dangerous neurotoxin. The report puts Fluoride in the same category Arsenic, Lead, and Mercury. 

We are literally being mass medicated with a dangerous chemical that disrupts the health of our brains, especially in children. Many of us have suspected this for a long time, but it is insane to see the worlds top medical journal confirming it. 

Don't believe what I have written here. Read the report for yourself and share with everyone you know. 
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laneur/PIIS1474442213702783.pdf?id=baak8dkBlaiXPhJTjuTsu 

CNN has disclosed the same: 
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/14/health/chemicals-children-brains/ 

And Harvard have recently published a study proving that fluoride lowers IQ in children: 
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/ 

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=725062794192709&set=a.488358504529807.114722.488353241197000&type=1&relevant_count=1 

With thanks, via Higher Perspective on Facebook. 

Glenwood Village Music in Durban

I wanted to send out a very BIG thank you to the guys at Glenwood Village Music. 

The day before my show JUST YOURS launched in February, my one and only microphone just stopped working! In a panic I tried to get it fixed but the situation didn't look good!

 

In my hour of need, the amazing team at Glenwood Village Music kindly allowed me the use of a Rode S1 Condenser Microphone 

 

To John Chamier and the team at Glenwood Village Music - Thank you and thank you again. 

 

How to find them!

Shop 101/102,

Glenwood Village Centre,

Cnr Moore & Hunt,

Durban,

Kwazulu-Natal,

Za

 

Website: http://www.bothners.co.za

 

No. (031) 202-7755

 

Fax (031) 202-2878

 

Fluoride Proven to be a Dangerous Neurotoxin via Higher Perspective

Higher Perspective shared the following link and had this to say about it:

This is HUGE news and no one is talking about it. The Lancet, the world's oldest and most prestigious medical journal, recently published a report classifying Fluoride as a dangerous neurotoxin. The report puts Fluoride in the same category Arsenic, Lead, and Mercury.

We are literally being mass medicated with a dangerous chemical that disrupts the health of our brains, especially in children. Many of us have suspected this for a long time, but it is insane to see the worlds top medical journal confirming it.

Don't believe what I have written here. Read the report for yourself and share with everyone you know.
http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/laneur/PIIS1474442213702783.pdf?id=baak8dkBlaiXPhJTjuTsu

CNN has disclosed the same:
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/02/14/health/chemicals-children-brains/

And Harvard have recently published a study proving that fluoride lowers IQ in children:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/fluoride-childrens-health-grandjean-choi/

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=725062794192709&set=a.488358504529807.114722.488353241197000&type=1&relevant_count=1

Via Higher Perspective on Facebook.
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com

LOAD SHEDDING in DURBAN 06 March 2014

BREAKING: load shedding hits Durban, SA
06 March 2014 at 09:21 by ECR Newswatch -

Parts of South Africa are in the dark after emergency load shedding was implemented by Eskom early this morning.

The utility's had to limit power supply after seven days of heavy rain has left its coal stock in Mpumalanga wet.
Industrial customers have been asked to reduce their consumption by 10-percent, although the power giant fears this may not be enough.
Eskom's Andrew Etzinger says they hope the situation would have eased by nextweek.
"We hoping that from next week we will be back to normal, but normal in any event is tight as we have seen over the last couple of months. But certainly in terms of the load shedding implemented today, we would hope that this will come to an end, if not today then maybe tomorrow," he said.
eThekwini Electricity's Roy Wienand meanwhile has confirmed that for Durban, the standby schedule has already been implemented.
"We were told by Eskom quite early this morning that they needed to go into stage three, which is the highest level of load shedding, which for the city of Durban is well over a quarter of our total load.
"We immediately activated the schedule that's on our website. That's only about a quarter of what we need to load shed so at this stage we are having to juggle the schedule itself because it's not enough," he said.
http://www.ecr.co.za/post/breaking-load-shedding-hits-durban-sa/
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com

CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHERS

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
~ John Glenn
*****
When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
~ Desmond Tutu
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America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.
~ David Letterman
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I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire.
God dammit, I'm a billionaire.
~ Howard Hughes
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After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian proverb
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Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years.
~ Betsy Salkind
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The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.
~ Jean Kerr
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I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
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You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
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When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
~ Prince Philip
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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.
~ Emo Philips.
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Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
~ Harrison Ford
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The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree.
~ Spike Milligan
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Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke.
~ Robin Hall
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Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
~ Jean Rostand.
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Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I was just as happy as when I had 48 million.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.
~ WH Auden
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In hotel rooms I worry. I can't be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked.
~ Jonathan Katz
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If life were fair Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead.
~ Johnny Carson
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I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very skeptical.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.
~ Steve Martin
*****
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.
~ Jimmy Durante
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America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric.
~ Doug Hamwell
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The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.
~ George Roberts
*****
If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport.
~ Jonathan Winters
*****
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com

First Mondays Sandy Bigara LIVE at ITSTABOO Durban

VERY excited to announce my next upcoming gig at ItsTaboo!

For information and to reserve your seat go to: SANDY BIGARA LIVE EVENT

ItsTaboo Durban 
MONDAY 3rd MARCH 
Doors open 7pm, show starts 8pm. 
R50pp and bar available - awesome venue, lots of gorgeous couches to just relax and chill out on. 

LIVE music - piano and guitar with vocals by myself www.sandybigara.com - Looking forward to it!!

Directions to ItsTaboo:
226 Matthews Meyiwa. If you go up Argyle/Sandile Thusi from Umgeni rd, go right into Matthews Meyiwa just opposite Mr Price Home store. The venue is on the right about 800m along.

Or even better - From Umgeni rd you go up SILVER Ave (Umgeni river side of Argyle/Sandile Thusi and opposite train tracks) and turn right into Matthews Meyiwa, ItsTaboo is directly below BISHOP RD T-Junction with Matthews, and above 'The Lounge' (The Lounge is on googlemaps)

Sandy Bigara is the owner of The Bigara Talent Factory, and, The Paw Paw Show Company (c) +27 (0) 82 865 0226 (w) +27 31 8278 991.

Sandy Bigara First Mondays LIVE at ItsTaboo

Remember I told you guys that I have some exciting new monthly gigs coming up??

Well here it is! The first gig! I will be here the first Monday of each month :)

ItsTaboo Durban
MONDAY 3rd MARCH
Doors open 7pm, show starts 8pm.
R50pp and bar available - awesome venue, lots of gorgeous couches to just relax and chill out on.

LIVE music - piano and guitar with vocals by myself www.sandybigara.com - Looking forward to it!!

Directions to ItsTaboo:
226 Matthews Meyiwa. If you go up Argyle/Sandile Thusi from Umgeni rd, go right into Matthews Meyiwa just opposite Mr Price Home store. The venue is on the right about 800m along.

Or even better - From Umgeni rd you go up SILVER Ave (Umgeni river side of Argyle/Sandile Thusi and opposite train tracks) and turn right into Matthews Meyiwa, ItsTaboo is directly below BISHOP RD T-Junction with Matthews, and above 'The Lounge' (The Lounge is on googlemaps)

Rehearsing already... got some new classics and some gorgeous classical pieces to sing... Think Andrea Bocelli... :)

See you there!
Regards,

Sandy Bigara
www.sandybigara.com