Leleti. 29 years since Sarafina.
And she hasn't received a cent in residuals despite the film being shown hundreds of times on South African television.
Whoopi gets.
BREAKING.
@Trevornoah
to host the 2021 Grammy Awards on 31 January 2021: "Despite the fact that I'm extremely disappointed that the Grammys have refused to have me sing or be nominated for best pop album, I am thrilled to be hosting this auspicious event," he says in a statement.
Imagine one day telling your children: "One day long ago, the president at the time wanted to talk to Mzansi, but then he moved his time so that your gogo, the TV Queen of News, could first read her TV news bulletin one final time on the public broadcaster."
#NoxoloGrootboom
BREAKING.
@Azania_
Mosaka, taking over from Anele Mdoda on
@RealTalkOn3
on
@SABC3
, scores a sit-down scoop for her first episode debut on Monday 18 June as the new host: Her first guest will be
@bonang_m
doing her first-ever interview on Real Talk.
Great work by
@eNCA
(
@DStv
403) anchor
@ThembiMrototo
who interviewed
@SuperSportTV
on
#AshwinWillemse
on-air walkoff.
Listen to the tone, the curt answers, the sense of anger/impatient indignation. Does this make viewers feel more positive or negative about the SuperSport brand?
BREAKING. The former
@eNCA
anchor Chris Maroleng of 'don't touch me on my studio' to be the SABC's permanent new chief operating officer (COO), replacing the famously matricless Hlaudi Motsoeneng. Bessie Tugwana has currently been acting in the role the past few months.
And the Winner of the Week is …
@bonang_m
, as
#IAmBonang
becomes an expressive rallying call for women everywhere, while ratings keeps rising for the second season of
#BeingBonang
on
@1MagicTV
(
@DStv
103) as more viewers tune in.
BREAKING. As she teased last year,
@bonang_m
Matheba is returning to
@Official_SABC1
for a new reality show, The Year of Bonang will start on 1 August at 18:00. The series, partly scripted, will start with her USA visit and give a peek behind-the-scenes of her busy life.
As previously announced,
@Uzalo_SABC1
on
@Official_SABC1
will be broadcasting its special hour-long funeral story on Friday 16 February at 8:30pm in which KwaMashu says farewell to the characters of Manzunza and Smangele.
BREAKING. Supreme Court of Appeal dismiss former SABC COO, Hlaudi Motsoeneng's leave to appeal [with punitive cost order]. uBaba loves him so, but Hlaudi must now personally pay all the legal costs for firing the
#SABC8
journalists. Warrant to be issued to have his assets seized.
Now one of the SABC News editors, the former SABC TV news anchor, Noxolo Grootboom, will return to her on-air role to help out with coverage of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral broadcast on 14 April.
The
#SaveShadowhunters
campaign goes global as fans rally to try and get
@netflix
to pick up and continue to fantasy series for the worldwide audience:
FITTING FAREWELL. With her final SABC Iindaba TV news bulletin on 30 March, Noxolo Grootboom was a massive South African TV ratings hit, drawing over 3.82 million viewers (9.88 AR) with a 33 share. It means 1 out of every 3 TVs that were on, were tuned to her and
@Official_SABC1
.
South African viewers absolute love waking up with
@SakinaKamwendo
&
@LeanneManas
, with
@MorningLiveSABC
surging another 94 683 viewers to 570 202 in October (16.5 share). It's a phenomenal TV rating as
@SABC_2
's 7th most-watched show, outperforming multiple prime time shows.
The River on
@1MagicTV
(
@DStv
103) produced by Tshedza Pictures, in the telenovela section, wins in the categories for Best scriptwriting, Best sound, Best cinematography, Best editing at the Saturday morning technical awards of the
@NFVF
's
#SAFTAs13
.
Special Investigative Unit (SIU) issues summons against former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng for over R21 MILLION he owes the SABC.Includes R11.4 MILLION he was paid as a
@MultiChoice
bonus for
@DStv
channels deal; R10.5 MILLION in damages over irregular appointment & staff firings.
An arrest warrant has been issued by the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court for the disgraced former SABC chairperson Ellen Tshabalala who has disappeared. She's a wanted woman and to be charged for fraud for lying over her fake tertiary qualifications.
"Our"? He doesn't belong to you, sir.
If you claim ownership of a survivor, who is a worker, it means he's your slave. If you inject yourself into a narrative and claim success with "your" survivor, you also need to own the "Our 13 killed workers" and counting.
Our survivor has been successfully extracted from the debris after more than 116 hours. This is nothing short of a miracle - thank you to all the search and rescue teams! 🥺🙏✨
#GeorgeBuildingCollapse
Wow.
@Natasha9Mazzone
of the
@Our_DA
party in
@ParliamentofRSA
. Look closely! She's the one with white hair/blouse who jumps up and rushes to
@MYANC
's Pravin Gordhan first when bullies in pack-mentality approach. Something tells me she's The Friend you wish you had in school.
@DrProudman
South Park is, and has Always been, an equal opportunity offender. They do it to .... uhm ... Absolutely Everyone and every subject imaginable.
#TheBigDebate
that Hlaudi Motsoeneng unilaterally pulled from
@SABC_2
in 2013 and ordered all repeats cancelled; then switched to
@eNCA
(
@DStv
403). Now it's suddenly back on SABC2 from tonight 7pm, with
@RediTlhabi
as the new presenter.
BREAKING. Somizi Mhlongo loses role as
@IdolsSA
judge after allegations of violent physical abuse.
@MNet
says he will still appear in pre-recorded episodes on
@Mzansimagic
(
@DStv
161) til 22 Aug. He exits under a cloud after "a mutual agreement that Somizi take some time off".
New GroundUp reporting: Terry Pheto was given another R1 Million from South Africa's National Lotteries Commission for her Sunguti Projects (of which she's the sole director) to do a youth event ... it never organised.
(It's besides R3 mil she got that bought a Bryanston house.)
Preshalin Naidoo (27), the reckless driver and killer of the former Top Billing presenter Simba Mhere and Kady-Shay O'Bryan in January 2015, has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the Randburg Magistrates Court.
MUST WATCH. Take a look at Jessie Duarte's on-camera meltdown in 2017 with
@cnbcafrica
(
@DStv
410 /
@black_tvsa
512). Watch how the reporter stands her ground and until the end where the stunned journalist turns to the camera after the end of the on-screen verbal altercation.
BREAKING. South Africa's CNN International
@cnni
(
@DStv
401) correspondent
@EleniGiokos
promoted to anchor; moving to
@cnn
's United Arab Emirates office in Dubai. She'll work with
@BeckyCNN
Anderson on Connect the World. Eleni will continue to anchor her show Connecting Africa.
BREAKING. Production staffer dies after plunging to his death while setting for Mandela 100
#GlobalCitizen
Festival 2018 on Sunday at FNB Stadium in Soweto. The as-yet-unidentified rigger working for a production partner died from fatal injuries after falling on the site.
SHOCKER. Word coming in of a new round of retrenchments at
@eNCA
(
@DStv
403)/
@etvNewsSA
in Cape Town. People crying after a meeting this afternoon. At least 48 staffers fired across news and sports.
BREAKING. SABC CEO confirms payment of hundreds of thousands of rands, while viewers were not told its a political commercial, for
@Anele
Mdoda to interview social development minister Bathabile Dlamini for 2 hours on
@SABC3
's entertainment talk show
@RealTalkOn3
.
BREAKING. Phathiswa
@PMagopeni
who was fired in January as former
@SABCNews
boss is set to return to the South African public broadcaster as SABC board member.
A
@SABCNews
TV camera was stolen on Tuesday at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. The woman who stole it was actually caught on the live camera feed while derigging it. She didn't realise that the camera that she was stealing was on and showing her face:
KANTHAN HAS FALLEN. In a MUST WATCH, excoriating editorial show opener,
@eNCA
(
@DStv
403) anchor Thulasizwe Simelane says: "Whatever the circumstances and motives that led to the appointment of a politician that sought to censor our news offering, this must never happen again".
MUST WATCH. A brilliant
@Flo_Letoaba
on SABC News (
@DStv
404). A terrible
@Our_DA
.
Note to anyone going on TV news:If you Fight with the anchor, and if your tone is arrogant & short-tempered, you've LOST the image battle, irrespective of the argument or what you've tried to say.
.
@ANN7tv
(
@DStv
405) staffers reveal the TV channel ran out of toilet paper, teabags and milk this week and company cars had no petrol.
And that was before
@MultiChoiceSA
announced it's canning ANN7 at the end of July.
WATCH. See Bob Mabena in his Only South African TV advert ever. He would only have been an extra but the producers discovered that the main actor appeared in a rival TV commercial, did a recast & chose Bob as the main character.
#RipBobMabena
. Story here:
PAY FOR PLAY.
@dailymaverick
reports the Social Development department allegedly PAID R500 000 for
@Anele
Mdoda to interview minister Bathabile Dlamini on the SABC's
@RealTalkOn3
talk show on
@SABC3
, and without telling viewers:
ALL KINDS OF WOW. An utterly genius, and surprisingly brilliant move by the SABC to add
@SakinaKamwendo
as TV anchor to the public broadcaster's
@MorningLiveSABC
on
@SABC_2
and SABC News (
@DStv
404). Her addition instantly enhances the morning show's credibility and feel.
They never faked it till they made it. They love what theyre doing & their audience rewards them. The
@MorningLiveSABC
tag-team of
@SakinaKamwendo
&
@LeanneManas
on
@SABC_2
remains a TV ratings hit, with more viewers in an early timeslot than dozens of other shows in prime time.
BREAKING. Production shuts down on
@Uzalo_SABC1
on
@Official_SABC1
, as filming of South Africa's biggest TV show comes to an end over the South African public broadcaster's failure to pay production companies for content.
I'm told that scriptwriter Christian Blomkamp (44) has died. Christian Blomkamp had been the head writer of Generations on SABC1, and wrote for numerous South African series, including Mzansi Magic's Isibaya, M-Net's The Wild, SABC3's Isidingo and etv's Rhythm City.
My winner of the night of the
#15YearsOfE
in Africa celebration is
@NomzamoMbatha
. Beautifully dressed with so much poise, she was The Best and Nicest to media on our other end of the rope line BY FAR. Made time for Every media with The Best, & most eloquent answers.
#LoveELiveE
SABC CENSORSHIP. The SABC's
@SAfmRadio
abruptly cuts brilliant broadcaster
@SakinaKamwendo
's final radio show halfway though and just awkwardly plays music after taking her off air when she reveals she wasn't told what's happening with her and how demoralised SABC staffers are.
After exiting
@eNCA
(
@DStv
403), the widely-respected
@ShahanR
Ramkissoon is joining the South African PR agency,
@EclipsePR
Communications as its chief strategy officer from today.
Person who will be in the news on Sunday for alleged physical violence against his wife, suddenly cites "difficult private family matter" on Saturday night ... then publicly throws his wife under the bus with a "and her longstanding battle with substance abuse".
Quite "private".
.
@Uzalo_SABC1
kills off Leleti Khumalo's MaNzuza and Sihle Ndaba's Smangele characters in a double murder story line with an hour long funeral special episode on
@Official_SABC1
set for 16 February:
And the season 2 winner of
#MaskedSingerSA
on
@SABC3
under the Giraffe mask has been nobody else than Warren Masemola. What a completely deserving winner!
BREAKING. Nigeria's High Court grants interdict preventing MultiChoice Nigeria from implementing its
@DStvNg
subscription fee price hike it introduced from August.Judge Nnamdi Dimgba says the interim injunction restrains MultiChoice Nigeria from going ahead with any fee increase.
BREAKING. Thandeka Gqubule-Mbeki, SABC economics editor, resigns after facing disciplinary hearing over her behaviour during the SABC's retrenchment process: "I resign in protest against the numerous governance, policy breaches and tolerance for outright fraud and corruption".
FYI: Media should be aware that this poll was done by Victory Research, whose founder and managing partner Johan van der Berg, is the
@Our_DA
political party's head of research.
New poll from the Social Research Foundation:
ANC 37%
DA 25%
MK 14%
EFF 11%
IFP 5%
ActionSA 2%
SRF with a pretty consistent view of the electorate: ANC high 30s/low 40s and DA mid 20s. Would be an exceptional result for the DA! Let's see...
BREAKING. Anele Mdoda has decided to end her involvement with
@RealTalkOn3
on
@SABC3
, her last live show will be on 8 June. She's leaving the Cheeky Media produced show mid-season & says 'I feel, for my own growth,it is time to leave the show and to focus on my career ambitions'.
Actor, former YOTV presenter and Umhlobo Wenene radio presenter Akhumzi Jezile, actor Thobani Mseleni, and former Joyous Celebration singer Siyasanga Kobese dead along with 2 other people following a horrific car accident on the N6 near Queenstown:
.
@bonang_m
Matheba takes the stage as the guest of honour at National Geographic's (
@DStv
181 /
@DStv
220)
#ActivateSA
launch. The programme starts on Sunday 15 September 2019 at 8pm.
Great reporting from SABC News (DStv 404) about
@MYANC
deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte's verbal attack on
@eNCA
reporter
@samkelemaseko
.
Important to note how Jessie Duarte told SABC News to stop recording and to switch their camera off - which the SABC refused to do.
The bitch is back as Michelle Botes reprises her Cherel de Villiers character for a 2-episode appearance on
@SABC3
's
@IsidingoSABC3
for the soap's 21st anniversary in July:
BREAKING.
@MNet
has cancelled
@IdolsSA
after massive ratings drop and viewer fatigue. After a failed revitalisation attempt in 2022 with two new judges, season 19 in 2023 on
@Mzansimagic
(
@DStv
161) will be the final season.
BREAKING. SABC board member, Kgalema Mohuba, has been placed on 'special leave' from his job as publicist for the University of Limpopo pending the investigation into allegation he paid 2 Zimbabweans to write his doctorate and paid for their flight tickets.
MUST WATCH. Coronavirus:
@etv
and
@etvNewsSA
makes South African TV history with the country's first national TV bulletin broadcast from a home on Monday night 18 May 2020 - as
@AnnikaLarsen1
's dogs bark while she anchors from her dining room table in Cape Town:
.
@CityofCT
's mayoral committee safet&security member, Alderman JP Smith, addresses the city's film industry
@FilmCapeTown
, says he wont pronounce MC Abongile Nzelenzele's surname: "I'm not even going to try that surname, dude. It's too many vowels,too awkwardly placed."
#CTFilm21
Coronavirus: BREAKING. - The South African film & TV industry is now allowed to return to work under very specific conditions. On Sunday night The Government Gazette published the new regulations under which productions making use of local casts and crews can now resume filming.
BREAKING. A former SABC radio DJ who only recently left his job arrested with another man for possession of drugs worth R2.6 million at a house in Hastings Street, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town. They will appear in the Cape Town Magistrates Court on Thursday.
I've watched, I've tracked it, I've scrutinised it constantly with a critical eye for over 25 years. Believe me when I say that the SABC's coverage of itself (i.e. SABC News reporting about the SABC) is now the best, most honest, fair and most truthful it's been in 20 years.
Vinette Ebrahim exits
@SABC_2
's
@Real7deLaan
soap and the iconic role of Charmaine Meintjies after 19 years; her character's last on-screen appearance will be on 24 October 2019:
.
@ViacomCBS
International Studios launches VIS Social Impact as new studio division, South African director
@thishiweziqubu
to lead new inclusive writers' room:
FIRST TIME. The SABC will for the first time do soccer commentary for the FIFA World Cup in the !Xun and Khwe dialect. The Khoi and San communities will be able to listen to commentary on XK-FM. The radio station is on 107.9 in the Northern Cape and available as a live stream.
I'm extremely saddened and completely heartbroken to inform that a Champion and Lover of television, a gifted, Friendly and extremely Smart and Remarkable
@DStv
TV executive has died.
Rest in peace, Aletta Alberts,
@MultiChoiceGRP
content boss.
BAD. Awful questioning for television. What is the person interviewed supposed to say after such an inappropriately long question? Why is Steve Harvey as an American entertainer asked advice on a SA economic issue? Why did the reporter keep talking? Who edited the
@eNCA
piece?
About her new semi-scripted reality series
@Official_SABC1
series, A Very Bonang Year starting on 1 Aug 6pm,
@bonang_m
Matheba, at the
#Sabc1WeMove
virtual media launch says "Because 2019 was such a big year, I want everybody to be able to see what the hell I've been up to."
BREAKING / ADVISORY. Neo Momodu appointed as the SABC's new marketing boss. She previously worked at the SABC for 4 years since 2003.
Neo Momodu is taking up the role of SABC spokesperson with immediate effect.
MUST WATCH: Tito Mboweni, South Africa's finance minister,agrees to do a World Economic Forum press conference, then doesn't want to answer journalists' questions from
@CGTNOfficial
and
@dailymaverick
asking about his controversial economic plan: "You should respect your elders".
BREAKING. Censorship rife Zambia deports South African artist Zodwa Wabantu, who is throw out of the country on Saturday morning and banned from performing there, Reuters reports. Zambia says Zodwa's performance 'would undermine national values'.