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Taylor Swift Just Broke the VMA Record, and the Award Itself Is the Story
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Taylor Swift Just Broke the VMA Record, and the Award Itself Is the Story

Yes, Taylor Swift now has more VMAs than anyone in history. That part is settled: three wins on Sunday night, including Video of the Year for "The Fate of Ophelia,"…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 30, 2026
The ‘Chomi’ Backlash Isn’t About the Video, It’s About the Rollout
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The ‘Chomi’ Backlash Isn’t About the Video, It’s About the Rollout

Nadia Nakai and Toss released the Chomi music video on 24 September and by the weekend the timeline had already handed down its verdict. The strange part is that the…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 29, 2026
Jalen Brunson Hosted SNL Like a Point Guard, and His Teammates Bailed Him Out
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Jalen Brunson Hosted SNL Like a Point Guard, and His Teammates Bailed Him Out

Jalen Brunson became the first Knick ever to host Saturday Night Live on Saturday night, and he approached the job exactly the way he plays fourth quarters, refusing to force…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 27, 2026
Blood Legacy Season 2 Proves the Future of SA Television Sounds Like isiZulu
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Blood Legacy Season 2 Proves the Future of SA Television Sounds Like isiZulu

Blood Legacy Season 2 landed on Netflix this past Friday with all twenty episodes dumped at once, and the easy story is the Ndlovu family tearing itself apart over a…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 27, 2026
Owen Ndlovu Is Laid to Rest Today, but His Fight Isn’t Finished
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Owen Ndlovu Is Laid to Rest Today, but His Fight Isn’t Finished

Owen Ndlovu is being buried today at Westpark Cemetery after a funeral service in Lenasia South, nine days after he was found shot dead beside a road in Thokoza. The…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 25, 2026
Scorpion Kings Live Was a Triumph FNB Stadium Wasn’t Ready For
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Scorpion Kings Live Was a Triumph FNB Stadium Wasn’t Ready For

Seventy thousand people singing “Abalele” while a montage of AKA, Riky Rick and other fallen stars filled the big screens. Kabza De Small hammering a grand piano wrapped in flames.…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 23, 2026
Pearl Thusi’s R15m SARS Fight Exposes the Brutal Side of Pay Now, Argue Later
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Pearl Thusi’s R15m SARS Fight Exposes the Brutal Side of Pay Now, Argue Later

Pearl Thusi owes SARS money. She's admitted that much herself. What she disputes is the scale, calling the reported R15 million figure "grossly incorrect and therefore misleading". My problem with…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 21, 2026
Connie Ferguson Returns as Karabo, and Generations Keeps Renting Its Own History
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Connie Ferguson Returns as Karabo, and Generations Keeps Renting Its Own History

Karabo Moroka is coming home, briefly. Connie Ferguson confirmed on Thursday that she's stepping back into Generations: The Legacy for what she calls a very short visit, framing Karabo as…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 19, 2026
Love Is Blind South Africa Found Hosts Who Actually Lived the Experiment
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Love Is Blind South Africa Found Hosts Who Actually Lived the Experiment

Netflix South Africa spent September 8 teasing us with a guessing game, and by the time the reveal landed, half of Mzansi had already called it. Dineo and Solo Langa…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 16, 2026
Alan Ritchson’s Divorce Announcement Was Nine Months in the Making
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Alan Ritchson’s Divorce Announcement Was Nine Months in the Making

The Instagram post went up Saturday and read like a decision made over one difficult weekend. It wasn't. Court records in Williamson County, Tennessee show Alan Ritchson filed for divorce…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 14, 2026
Netflix SA’s 2026 Slate Proves The Polygamist Changed Everything
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Netflix SA’s 2026 Slate Proves The Polygamist Changed Everything

Netflix South Africa turned ten this month, and the anniversary event in Johannesburg came loaded with announcements. Love Is Blind: South Africa. Blood Legacy Season 2 on 25 September. A…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 12, 2026
Dolly Parton’s First Posthumous Song Is Here and It Sounds Exactly Like Her
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Dolly Parton’s First Posthumous Song Is Here and It Sounds Exactly Like Her

Two weeks after Dolly Parton died at 80, we got new music from her. Not a vault-clearing demo, not a label scraping the barrel. "Bound to Ride," a Stanley Brothers…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 12, 2026
Obren’s MAFS Mzansi Exit Was a Long Time Coming
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 9, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel’s 2027 Exit Talk Says More About Disney Than About Kimmel
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 9, 2026
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 7, 2026
The Emmys Taped Their Best Awards Weekend and Buried It on FXX
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 7, 2026
Jim Thornton Got Fired. The Police Never Even Charged Him.
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 5, 2026
Tirelo Kale’s Lobola Is Done, But Mzansi Is Fighting About the Wrong Thing
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 4, 2026
Gloria Steinem’s Death Brought Polite Tributes and a Fight She Would Have Enjoyed
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 4, 2026
De Mthuda’s Noise EP Is a Masterclass in Patience the Charts Can’t Measure
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 3, 2026
Why the Loudest Arena in America Hosted the Quietest Wedding of the Year
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 3, 2026
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 2, 2026
Jim Thornton Is Suspended and Sony Won’t Say What Happened on Flight 1276
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 2, 2026
Khethiwe Is Coming Back Broke, and That’s Exactly What Generations Needs
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa September 1, 2026
Howard Stern on HBO Max Is a Highlight Reel, Not a Streaming Coup
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan September 1, 2026
Generations Needs Khethiwe More Than Khethiwe Needs Generations
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa August 29, 2026
Tim Curry Didn’t Need a Stage to Haunt Three Generations
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan August 29, 2026
Soul City Is Back, but Thirteen Years Is a Long Time to Leave a Movement on Pause
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa August 27, 2026
Tim Curry Deserved More Than the Rocky Horror Shadow
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan August 27, 2026
Dolly Parton Is Gone, but South Africa Already Knew She Was One of Us
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa August 26, 2026
At 80, Dolly Parton Left Us With an Exit She Planned Years Ago
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan August 26, 2026
NACA 2026 Handed Out R50,000 Prizes While Nominees Covered Their Own Travel
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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…
Posted by Kevin Orwa August 25, 2026
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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…
Posted by Martha Ottonan August 25, 2026

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