Eye-popping costumes, show-stopping performances, mind-bending mystery, and the country’s most famous faces trying to hide their identities while having the time of their lives. That can only be The Masked Singer South Africa – and it’s back with a bang. After two spectacular seasons that had everybody guessing and singing along, this fun-for-the-whole-family, SAFTA award-winning television extravaganza […]
Saso’s Marquee Experience has announced a landmark partnership with MaXhosa Africa, bringing one of Africa’s most celebrated fashion houses into the heart of this year’s Durban July for a first-of-its-kind cultural and luxury collaboration. As the official Culture and Fashion Partner, MaXhosa Africa will present its first-of-its-kind fashion show in Durban and at the Hollywoodbets […]
Rising Afro-soul artist Thando Zide today announces her highly anticipated debut album Ku Ngawe, set for release on 26 June 2026. The announcement is accompanied by the lead-up single Fakazela, a deeply emotive collaboration with award-winning vocalist and songwriter Ami Faku. Fakazela — translating directly to “be my witness” — explores the tender and often unspoken love that […]
Boomtown is turning up the volume for Durban July 2026 with a line-up that celebrates the icons who shaped South African music and the stars defining its future. This year’s stage becomes a meeting point of legacy and next-generation greatness, a cultural playground where music, fashion, lifestyle and unforgettable experiences collide. Leading the charge are […]
Following a breakout period of international growth, South African artist Money Badoo announces her highly anticipated new project, 4PLAY, a bold, genre-defying body of work that further cements her status as one of Africa’s most innovative emerging voices. Developed through international travel and collaboration, 4PLAY reflects a defining moment in Money Badoo’s artistic evolution. The […]
Award-winning filmmaker Tebogo Malope’s highly anticipated historical feature film, Studying Under the Barrel of a Gun, is finally here. This is a powerful cinematic tribute to the courageous student resistance movement that emerged during the June 12th 1986, apartheid military occupation of the University of the North (Turfloop). Inspired by real historical events, the film […]
History seems to be built on love stories curated by a lens and forged by fame. But then there are the quieter and more compelling realities that in 2026 have fundamentally begun to shift the face of modern love. No longer built on the Hollywood-appraised ‘Martha Stewart’ hierarchy of the home, today we see a […]
Netflix, in collaboration with the Gauteng Film Commission and the KwaZulu-Natal Tourism and Film Authority, today named 14 young South Africans who will spend the next year working inside the country’s most prolific film and television production and post-production companies as part of the ScreenCraft Pathways training programme. The streaming entertainment service also announced the programme […]
South African music superstar Zee Nxumalo continues her remarkable rise with yet another defining week in a career that is rapidly becoming one of the most compelling success stories in African music. Fresh off the release of her new EP, Izinja Zam Vol. I, Zee, have unveiled a towering billboard in New York City’s iconic […]
There are moments in music that transcend charts, awards and sold-out venues. Moments that remind us how far a dream can travel. As Black Coffee stepped onto the stage of the historic Arènes de Nîmes in France and prepared for a landmark performance at London’s world-renowned O2 Arena alongside a live orchestra, South Africa paused to […]
