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The Wheelchair Is the Best Idea in Leon Schuster’s Netflix Deal
Leon Schuster is 75 years old, his back has been through at least four surgeries, and he just signed a film deal with Netflix. He pitched the idea to the…
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Tirelo Kale’s Lobola Is Done, But Mzansi Is Fighting About the Wrong Thing
On Thursday, 3 September 2026, Mpumelelo "Sbindi" Mseleku finally paid lobola for Tirelo Kale, the mother of his son Singabakho and his partner since around 2021. Tirelo confirmed it herself…
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De Mthuda’s Noise EP Is a Masterclass in Patience the Charts Can’t Measure
De Mthuda released Noise on 7 August, eight tracks and roughly 55 minutes of them, and a month later the project still hasn't muscled its way up the daily SA…
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That Anele Zondo and L-Tido SAMA Kiss Says More About Us Than Them
Two people kissed on a stage at Sun City and half of Mzansi needed a moment to recover. That’s the short version of SAMA32. On 15 August, Anele Zondo and…
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Khethiwe Is Coming Back Broke, and That’s Exactly What Generations Needs
Twelve years after the 2014 exit that gutted the original show, Winnie Ntshaba is slipping back into Khethiwe Buthelezi's heels. SABC1 made it official on 27 August, and the first…
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Generations Needs Khethiwe More Than Khethiwe Needs Generations
Khethiwe Buthelezi walks back into Generations: The Legacy on 4 September, and I don't believe for a second that the timing is sentimental. SABC1 confirmed on 27 August that Winnie…
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Soul City Is Back, but Thirteen Years Is a Long Time to Leave a Movement on Pause
Sunday, 30 August, 19:30 on SABC1. Soul City: Let's Rise is set to land after thirteen years of silence. If you're pushing thirty, you probably remember rushing home to catch…
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Dolly Parton Is Gone, but South Africa Already Knew She Was One of Us
Dolly Parton died on August 25 at age 80, and by the time the news reached Cape Town and Johannesburg, it already felt like we were mourning family. The family…
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NACA 2026 Handed Out R50,000 Prizes While Nominees Covered Their Own Travel
The gowns were beautiful, the performances landed, and for the first time in the awards' history every winner walked away with actual money. But the detail that stayed with me…
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Emtee Is Back in Custody and the Fight Over His Phone Says Everything
There's a tidy version of this story going around: Emtee breached his bail conditions, a magistrate sent him back to jail, and days later his parents surfaced in a viral…
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Black Coffee’s R7m Maserati Win Is Not the Consumer Victory You Think
Black Coffee just took R7 million off Maserati South Africa in a Johannesburg courtroom, and half of Mzansi is already calling it a win for every buyer a dealership has…
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Sindi Dlathu Owns Three of Netflix SA’s Top Five, and That Should Concern Us
Five days. That's all Umthetho needed to hit No. 1 on the official Top 10 for the week of 10 to 16 August, and the chart around it reads like…
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Kabza and HLE Swept SAMA32 and Finally Made the Awards Look Like the Country
The 32nd South African Music Awards pitched up at Sun City Arena this past weekend calling itself a homecoming. By the end of the second night it felt less like…
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Miss South Africa 2026 Top 19 Finalists Show the Crown Is Now the Least Interesting Prize
Minnie Dlamini stepped out in House of Nala on Tuesday night to deliver a list that barely resembles the pageant South Africa grew up watching. The Miss South Africa Organisation…
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Langa Mavuso’s First SAMA Proves South African R&B Is Built by Teams, Not Solo Heroes
Langa Mavuso finally has his name on a SAMA trophy. Best Produced Album at the SAMA32 opening night in Sun City, North West Province, for Therapy: The Other Side. After…
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Tyla’s Bratz Doll Makes History, But South African Fans Can’t Actually Buy It
Tyla now has her own official Bratz Celebrity Collector Doll, and the symbolism is impossible to ignore. She is the first African artist to land the honour, immortalised in plastic…
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SAMA32 Proved the Charts Lie About What South Africa Actually Listens To
The 32nd South African Music Awards rolled into the Sun City Superbowl in the North West on Saturday night, broadcast live on SABC 1 with Cassper Nyovest and Zanele Potelwa…
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Tyla’s Gold Reef City Takeover Is Built for Cameras, Not Local Fans
Tyla is taking over Gold Reef City today, and if you're inside the park right now, you're not just a fan. You're a prop in a very well-lit marketing exercise.…
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South Africa’s 2026 Creator Awards Nominees Show an Industry Growing Up and Selling Out
The 2026 Content Creator Awards SA nominee list dropped on 11 August and it already feels like a different beast from the DStv-era ceremonies of years past. Samsung Galaxy is…
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Tyla’s SAMA32 Homecoming Is a Victory Lap, But Sun City Isn’t Exactly Around the Corner
By tomorrow night, Tyla's set to collect her second International Achievement Award at the SAMAs. Only Black Coffee's done this before. The Recording Industry of South Africa is calling it…
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Scebi Dlamini Died on a KZN Highway, But the Real Story Is in Msinga
By the time the sun rose over Richards Bay on Sunday morning, Scebi Dlamini was already gone. The Maskandi artist known across KZN and beyond as Inkosi Yamagcokama died at…
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Lamiez Holworthy’s Surgery Proves South African Fans Still Can’t Respect Privacy
By the time management confirmed Lamiez Holworthy was in a Gauteng hospital undergoing emergency surgery this past Sunday, the timeline had already done what it does best. Instead of space…
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Inkosi Yamagcokama’s Death Is a Reckoning KZN Can No Longer Ignore
We woke up on Sunday to the kind of news that no longer shocks us enough, but should. Scebi Dlamini, the man who made the guitar weep under the stage…
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Twenty-Five Thousand Rand Is What a Life Costs in Johannesburg
On Friday, the Johannesburg High Court gave Joaquim Armando Pacula an effective 25 years for walking up to Warrick Stock outside the Carlton Centre and shooting him dead. The sentence…
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French Montana’s December Return to SA Is Really a Test for Afrotrax
French Montana is coming back to South Africa in December, and if you blinked you might have missed the news entirely. The Moroccan-American rapper will headline two back-to-back festivals in…
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Shimza’s ‘Fire Fire’ Won the Long Game After 100 Million Streams
By early August 2026, Shimza's "Fire Fire" is old news by press release standards. The track crossed 100 million Spotify streams back in June, earning the usual screenshot celebration from…
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Tyla Cut Lagos and Proved South African Artists Can’t Escape Politics
Tyla’s team didn't announce anything. They just opened the A*POP World Tour page, deleted the December 22 Lagos date, and moved on. By the time outlets like BBC spotted the…
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South Africa Finally Won at the World Cosplay Summit, So Why Is Everyone Here Talking About Emma Frost?
Last weekend in Nagoya, Team South Africa finally cracked the code. After years of sending national teams to the World Cosplay Summit and leaving empty-handed, cosplayers jessie_jestar and speed.yy took…
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John Legend as Harry Belafonte is Casting That Flatters Hollywood, Not South Africa
When the news broke last week that John Legend had been cast as Harry Belafonte in Bill Condon's apartheid-era drama The Road Home, the headlines wrote themselves. An EGOT winner…
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Gagasi FM Traded Breakfast Chemistry for Workplace Flexibility and KZN Is Divided
Gagasi FM didn't just swap two presenters on July 31. It ran a live on-air experiment in what happens when a provincial station tries to be both a ratings machine…
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Oprah’s Girls Academy Closes After 2027. What Happens Next Is Up to Gauteng.
Oprah Winfrey announced this week that the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in Henley-on-Klip will conclude operations after the 2027 academic year. International headlines are calling it a closure.…
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Tyla’s A*POP Is a Reclamation of Home, Not a Global Pop Bet
Tyla’s second album A*POP landed on July 24 with a quiet confidence that almost dared you to miss it. First-day Spotify streams clocked roughly 4.8 million globally, a noticeable cool-down…
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Cassper Hosting SAMA32 Is Smart Marketing, Not Just a Buried Hatchet
When News24 broke the story on July 24 that Cassper Nyovest and 5FM's Zanele Potelwa would co-host SAMA32 at Sun City's Superbowl, every headline sang the same tune. Ten years…