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Obren’s MAFS Mzansi Exit Was a Long Time Coming
Obren Motswane just became the first cast member in Married at First Sight Mzansi history to walk out mid-season, and the experts let him go without a fight. The official…
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Jimmy Kimmel’s 2027 Exit Talk Says More About Disney Than About Kimmel
Word broke this week that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will wrap in May 2027 when his contract expires, after 24 years on ABC. ABC denied it within hours, calling the report…
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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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The Emmys Taped Their Best Awards Weekend and Buried It on FXX
The Television Academy spent this summer working to make its own awards smaller. It rebranded the Creative Arts Emmys as Nights 1 and 2 of the 78th Emmy Awards, moved…
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Jim Thornton Got Fired. The Police Never Even Charged Him.
Jim Thornton announced Wheel of Fortune for fifteen years. Sony Pictures Television ended that on September 4 with a brief statement and the phrase "effective immediately," a day after passenger…
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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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Gloria Steinem’s Death Brought Polite Tributes and a Fight She Would Have Enjoyed
The tributes landed within hours. Oprah, Hillary Clinton, Meghan Markle, Nancy Pelosi, each posting a polished paragraph about a trailblazer who changed everything. Then I did what I always do…
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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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Why the Loudest Arena in America Hosted the Quietest Wedding of the Year
The most-watched wedding of 2026 has produced exactly one official image so far: a five-second close-up of a gold ring on a podcast. On Tuesday's New Heights season premiere, Travis…
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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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Jim Thornton Is Suspended and Sony Won’t Say What Happened on Flight 1276
Fifteen years of reading prize copy and puzzle intros, and Jim Thornton's voice vanished from Wheel of Fortune in a single statement. On Monday, Sony Pictures Television confirmed it had…
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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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Howard Stern on HBO Max Is a Highlight Reel, Not a Streaming Coup
The Howard Stern HBO Max deal is confirmed, and the press materials want you to see a radio legend finally conquering television. I see something else. One live show a…
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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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Tim Curry Didn’t Need a Stage to Haunt Three Generations
Tim Curry died on August 25 at his home in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles. He was 80. Within a day the internet had split into exactly the two camps you'd…
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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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Tim Curry Deserved More Than the Rocky Horror Shadow
Tim Curry died on August 25 at his home in Toluca Lake. He was 80. Los Angeles police responded to a death call just after 11 p.m. and found no…
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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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At 80, Dolly Parton Left Us With an Exit She Planned Years Ago
The news didn't break through a tabloid leak or a rushed press release. It arrived the way Dolly Parton wanted it to: a video on her official Instagram, posted by…
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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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Taylor Swift’s Green Dress and Floral Piano Both Point to October 24
Most of the internet spent Monday arguing about a $798 dress. I spent it rewatching six minutes of piano. Both exercises land in the same place, and after pulling the…
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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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Cops Promised Keffe D His Tupac Confession Couldn’t Be Used Against Him. It Is.
On Thursday, jurors in Las Vegas heard a detective tell Duane “Keffe D” Davis on a 2008 recording that nothing he said could be used against him. Minutes later, the…
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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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Harry and Meghan’s Quiet Return to Britain Is Megxit Undone by Stealth
Five years ago, Harry and Meghan asked the late Queen for a half-in, half-out arrangement and were told no such thing existed. This month they're moving back to Britain anyway.…
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The DEA Joined the Hayden Panettiere Case. Everyone Is Reading It Wrong.
When word broke Wednesday that the Drug Enforcement Administration had joined the Hayden Panettiere death investigation, my feeds treated it like a plot twist. It isn't one. I've spent the…
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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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Madonna’s 11 VMA Nominations Prove the Crown Never Left
Eleven nominations. That's not a nostalgia play. That's a siege. When the 2026 MTV VMA shortlist dropped on August 18, Madonna didn't just lead the pack. She dominated it with…
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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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Brian Hickerson Was There When Hayden Panettiere Died. That Is Not a Coincidence.
The Greenville police report confirms what her family feared. Brian Hickerson, the on-and-off boyfriend with a documented history of domestic violence arrests involving Hayden Panettiere, was inside that Judson Mill…
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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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Hayden Panettiere Died at 36 With the Boyfriend Her Family Feared in the Room
She was found on the floor of a Greenville loft apartment with a bag of medication nearby and the on-again boyfriend her own circle had reportedly tried to pry out…
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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…