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Final concert of the Capital Concert Series at the Empire State Plaza on Wednesday

Highlights include Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen, Balcones Heights Jazz Festival, River City dog shows

Christopher Tshivule, the man who defrauded the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) of over R1.5m was sentenced to eight years imprisonment by the Johannesburg Specialised Commercial Crimes Court on Thursday.

♪ smugglers scramblers dollars gamblers ♪ ♪ big pocket pickers even gamblers ♪ >> when "the message" hit it was, put that down, what did he just say? put the record back. play that again. ♪ don't push me because i'm close to the edge ♪ >> everyone knew the game of changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. ♪ it's not michael jackson ♪ >> when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock 'n' roll music and putting it tid hip-hop and making something brand new out of it. ♪ you can't touch me with a ten-foot pole ♪ >> run-dmc kind of led zeppel...

And blues sales charts. >> as a young kid running around with a local deejay crew, i watched the transition from all the disco music that we used to play at all the block parties, to slowly but surely hip-hop taking over. >> the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and it's a process of using two turntables and a mixer, making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> thing that gave life to music in the '80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the '60s and '70s and brought it to the forefront. ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ blind to the ways of ma...