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The South African Music Awards are held in The Royal Ballroom, Sun City, South Africa. Lira wins the Best Global Chart DVD award for Live in Concert: A Celebration; Best Rock Album: Afrikans is Jaar by Jan Blohm 7; After Robots by BLK JKS is best Alternative Music Album: English; Best RAndB/Neo Soul album is Something Better by Brian Temba; Best-selling Ringback Tone goes to DJ Cleo for Hands Up.
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Tim Dunn (Owner-Partner-Director, Gearhouse SA) : When we did the staging for the South African Music Awards, the SAMA Awards, it required nine tons of flying daylight screens and the roof didn't have the load-bearing capacity to take that so we had to bring in a very sophisticated ground support system made by Total Fabrications.
However, the stage also had an eighteen metre revolve with a capacity of about fifty tons on it, so the central leg of the ground support for the screens had to go through the exact centre of the revolve. It was a very complex piece of work but, with everybody pulling together, we carried it off.
(Source : Interview with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, on May 9, 2010)
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However, the stage also had an eighteen metre revolve with a capacity of about fifty tons on it, so the central leg of the ground support for the screens had to go through the exact centre of the revolve. It was a very complex piece of work but, with everybody pulling together, we carried it off.
(Source : Interview with Johnny Black for Audience magazine, on May 9, 2010)