Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008
Time: 1:00pm - 7:00pm
Location: Thokoza youth centre
Street: Khumalo street

PUPPET MASTERS hip-hop show, featurin the likes of Golden shavel, future history, hoodlum, mad scientist, mathematics, kwesta, rashid, 016 and many more

The Concert with a Conscience

Levi's® Red for Life is all about 'working it out for yourself'. And one of the most important ways to do this is to know your status; an opportunity which the campaign recently offered to student at eight of the top campuses in the country, through their Red for Life/New Start mobile HIV testing clinics. As a part of the campaign, 500 lucky students who tested will get the opportunity to attend the fourth Levi's® Rage for the Revolution concert, being held on Saturday the 8 th of November at a secret location.

The concert with a conscience will feature Tidal Waves, Jozi, Flat Stanley, Malaika, aKING, L'vovo, Ntando, DJ Euphonik and DJ Oskido. To equip them with the knowledge to speak out about the risks, myths and options for staying safe, the artists performing at the concert attended a unique Red for Life SCRITINIZE interactive workshop in partnership with Johns Hopkins Health Education South Africa and Matchboxology. These workshops are an important new component of RAGE, as they have given the artists themselves an honest perspective on the HIV risks and truths so that they can personally be safer, as well as be confident, credible and knowledgeable leaders in the prevention revolution. In addition to this, all artists also committed to being HIV tested to demonstrate their support for the campaign.

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MTV is kick-starting the celebrations with THE ROAD TO MAMA - an out-of-this-world, all-star concert tour visiting the DRC, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria in the run-up to the Awards.

Spotlighting artists nominated in the inaugural MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain on 22 November 2008, the Road to MAMA concerts will boast a lineup of the hottest African and international musicians, with all four concerts fronted by Best Hip Hop nominee and US rap legend, The Game .

Commented Alex Okosi, Senior Vice President & Managing Director, MTV Networks Africa, The MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain is a pan-African ideal that supports talent across the continent and we want to give as many people as possible the opportunity to see the nominees in the flesh, and ultimately to encourage them to vote for their favourite artists.'

The concerts are scheduled to take place in the two weeks prior to the MTV Africa Music Awards with Zain , starting on Tuesday, 11 November at the Halle de la Gombe in Kinshasa, DRC, before hitting Johannesburg's Standard Bank Arena (Thursday 13 November), Bomas of Kenya , Nairobi (Saturday 15 November) and Lagos' Planet One (Tuesday 18 November).

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