One month into his stint as a talk show host, Trevor Noah spoke to his wildly popular competitor Jimmy Kimmel about how he  gave up his life in South Africa, where he was becoming more successful, to come to try his luck in America. “South Africa is small,” Noah said. “And when you’re from a […]

President Jacob Zuma has congratulated South African hip hop artist Cassper Nyovest on being the first local musician to fill the 20,000 seating capacity Dome in Northgate, Johannesburg, without the assistance of any international act. The SA entertainer – who produces, raps and writes – performed to a full capacity Dome arena over the weekend, fulfilling his dream – […]

A statue by Anton van Wouw that was originally won with a 10 cent raffle ticket could fetch half a million rand in a Johannesburg auction next week of major South African artworks. Paintings and sculptures by luminaries such as Maggie Laubser, Jan Hendrik Pierneef, Irma Stern, Ephraim Mojalefa Ngatane, Lucas Sithole and William Kentridge are […]

Following hot – and colourfully – on the heels of Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg, Pretoria is getting amped for its bold and beautiful ‘Color Run’ tomorrow morning. Scenes similar to those on this page – photographed by Helena Sousa at Cape Town’s event on 17 October – will be seen in Centurion tomorrow. The 5km race – which […]

Zapiro’s cartoon says it all. The actions of one minister have possibly taken down one of South Africa’s strongest-performing sectors – tourism. It has been estimated that the visa regulations imposed by Home Minister Malusi Gigaba in October 2014 could cost South Africa at least half a billion dollars a year in lost tourism revenue. The intentions […]

On the one-month anniversary of taking over the ‘Daily Show’ from Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah spent part of yesterday being interviewed by hugely popular talk show host Ellen Degeneres, who spoke to him about his love of roller coasters. Watch a short clip from the ‘Ellen’ show in the video here Degeneres said on the […]

Within a week of Adele launching her comeback single (watch below) – Hello – after a three year break, it rocketed to number one around the world, was heralded as the song of the century,  become the fastest selling single in the UK in 2015, attracted over 114 million views on YouTube (!) and triggered an avalanche of cover […]

It might be a bit late to get to Scotland by the weekend, but this trailer shows you what exactly will be going on at the Africa in Motion Film Festival. And as you can see, some pretty amazing movies are being made in Africa. Get a taste of the festival movies in this hip video https://vimeo.com/140192562 Now […]

A new television series launching in South Africa tonight – ‘Four Weddings’ – looks like it’s going to be really interesting…if the trailer is anything to go by. Watch the reactions below when three of the four brides realise that the fourth, Dinah, is going to have a traditional township wedding…including inviting over 400 people (the entire […]

Maboneng, Joburg’s hot new shopping and eating area, was one of the first to glam up old shipping containers with glass windows and wooden floors to turn them into retail shops, but now Melville has gone one better by creating the 27Boxes mall out of over two dozen of them. Opened in July, the mall is one of the […]

Just in time for the worldwide release of the highly anticipated Danny Boyle movie ‘Steve Jobs’, about the Apple founder, a South African version of the trailer – with a couple of ‘bliksems’ and ‘voetseks’ thrown in – has been uploaded to YouTube. https://youtu.be/H_tnqZ_686w The movie stars Michael Fassbender as the legendary but controversial Jobs, as […]

In one of the funniest SA’s Got Talent moments this season, a Soweto-born and Sandton-raised comedian (therefore, as he says, “technically a coconut”) secured three ‘yes’ votes with the following stand-up routine. Thirty-year-old Mum-Z, who works in advertising and does comedy on the side, didn’t hold back in highlighting the advantages of being a ‘coconut’ […]

The ‘South Africa’s Got Talent’ audience was on its feet Sunday night when DJ Arch Junior, all of three years old, took to a digital music deck and handled the jog wheels and transport controls like a pro. Oratilwe Hlongwane from Alexandra township has reached the semifinals of the show’s national competition. He’s the youngest person to have ever been on the […]

As African authors get more and more publicity and prizes – as well as readers – they are becoming must-haves on bookshelves worldwide. Some are already known as African by their subject matter as well as their names (Nigerians Chigozie Obioma, the youngest ever nominee for a Booker, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie). But here are a couple […]

Charlie Simpson, the British singer who busted up his band Busted, is in the news for rejoining the band, but it’s his collaboration with a group of San Bushmen that has got us tapping our feet to the unforgettable beat. It’s great! The song ‘Walking with the San’ was played last week on the show ‘Singing in […]

In the United States they have been doing it for years, taking a night off to ‘roast’ – basically make fun of (in the harshest possible way) – a famous person. Anyone who has seen Amy Schumer’s infamous roast of Charlie Sheen knows that to be roasted is pretty much to be gutted. In 2012 […]

JOHANNESBURG – A brouhaha seems to be building up again over a satirical artwork depicting President Jacob Zuma’s penis, and the government has already condemned the work. The cartoon by Anton Kannemeyer shows a giant black penis and scrotum hovering above a group of angry black demonstrators carrying a banner that demands, “Respect for the president’s […]

If you missed the Thursday night episode of ‘The Daily Show’, the audience got a lesson in African presidents, thanks to new host Trevor Noah, who was comparing US presidential candidate Donald Trump to Jacob Zuma, Robert Mugabe, Idi Amin and Muammar Gaddafi, among others. With the subheading ‘Orange is the new Black’ – and […]

Just great, so far. Yes, Trevor Noah seems to have taken to hosting the ‘Daily Show’ in the United States almost as if he was to the manor – or should that be the manner? – born. In the weeks leading up to his takeover of the show from Jon Stewart after 16 years, many […]

Following the success earlier this year of ‘The Endless River’  at two major international film festivals, two new South African movies are making their marks on doing likewise. ‘For Love and Broken Bones’, directed by Tebogo Malope, and Sara Blecher’s ‘Ayanda’ – which premiered in South Africa last night – both come short on the heels of Cape Town […]

Following the devastating fires that ravaged the Southern Cape Peninsular in March this year, the flora is blooming and a new book, “The Cape Aflame” has been launched. The book features more than 200 iconic photographs by some of South Africa’s top professional and amateur photographers. “The Cape Aflame” tells the story of the Muizenberg Fire with first-hand accounts […]

The first YouTube video gained fame – or rather, infamy – for the American (possibly a schoolgirl) who thought England was a planet and couldn’t understand why a British person was changing a dollar figure into a weight (pounds). Now comes even more infamy as growing YouTube comedy vlogger Maxim Bady takes her on. In the first […]

Since Trevor Noah has left our shores and is gearing up to take the helm of America’s ‘The Daily Show’ on Monday, here’s a random selection of other South African comedians – the new, the old and the beloved – who are sure to keep us entertained! Some of these comedians will also be performing at an international comedy festival in […]

If you’re overseas and missing your fellow South Africans on Heritage Day, check out this live video feed that’ll transport you to the Heritage Voëlvry Festival in Stellenbosch! The broadcast has been provided by Scatzy, which supplies a Video on Demand service to expats around the world. To view earlier footage, click here. Entertainers have included Gereformeerde […]

The Cape Town-born director of a play written by a Zimbabwean and starring an Oscar-winning Kenyan for a prestigious New York theatre has told a U.S. newspaper that she was adamant about having African actresses in the play and that it was very difficult for her to watch non-Africans play Africans. “We see a lot of depictions […]