Big up to Skhumba
For the second year in a row, Skhumba is the most nominated
comedian at the Comics’ Choice Awards.
He has four nominations – in the non-English comic award, flying
solo award, breakthrough award and the Savanna comic of the year.
Celeste Ntuli follows Skhumba with three nominations – which
include the coveted Savanna comic of the year.
The Comics’ Choice Awards will take place at The Lyric Theatre at
Gold Reef City on September 9
This is how Skhumba feels about it. CLIP
Generation’s Actress Chi Mhende, known to Generations The Legacy
fans as Wandile, has landed a big role in one of the most compelling
theatre productions to date, Chasing Chairs at the Market Theatre.
Mhende acting alongside theatre veteran Theo Landey.
The production opens from tomorrow, 14 th July to 6 th August.
On Generations she’s known for portraying a transgendered woman
and it is said in this play we see her in a super femme heterosexual
and completely maternal role.
Here she tells what the play is all about and why she’s so excited to
be part it. Clip
The 38th Durban International Film Festival kicks off today, with a big
lineup that reflects its location and status as South Africa’s longest-
running film fest.
Of the 225 features, short films and docs being screened from July 13
to 23, more than half come from Africa, underscoring the festival’s
vital role as a platform for the local industry.
Seventy-four are South African productions, and another 40 come
from elsewhere on the continent.
The festival opens with the world premiere of “Serpent” a
psychological thriller and feature debut from South African writer-
director Amanda Evans.
The closing-night film is also a world premiere: “Asinamali!”, the big-
screen adaptation of playwright Mbongeni Ngema’s iconic anti-
apartheid musical, directed by Ngema.