Yaya Mavundla

  Yaya Mavundla  She is one of SA's most admired women voted by the public.  Becoming's Reality TV Star Yaya Mavundla crowned Sowetan's Woman's Club Trendsetter.  Sowetan Women’s Club and Toi Moi celebrated 40 fabulous years of female strength, resilience and beauty hosted by Bunny Mojaja. The event took place at an intimate setting celebrating SA’s most-admired women who were honoured in three categories; Arts & Culture, Beauty & Fashion and Media & Entertainment. Mavundla was honoured under the Arts & Culture trendsetter which saw her scoop the price with over 80% votes by the public compared to the other nominees.  Looking radiant and fashion forward draped in an Imprint original, Mavundla captured many hearts in the audience with her acceptance speech where she spoke about her upbringing and her journey to becoming her true self.  "To me this is still a culture shock, I grew up in a space where we didn't have television, I didn't know ne...

The Braai Show and Cassper Nyovest join forces to raise money for young cystic fibrosis sufferer The Braai Show – which is airing every Wednesday at 18h00 on SABC 1 until November 10 – has joined forces with host Cassper Nyovest to raise funds for the Save Nompilo campaign.   Nyovest himself has donated R150 000 while The Braai Show executive producer Cake Media has made a R100 000 contribution to the drive and has also created a SMS line where people can donate R10 by sending an SMS to the number 38058. Five lucky people, who contribute via the SMS line, will win a braai with Nyovest.   Earlier this year, the rapper took to social media to urge the public to donate money to an account started in Nompilo Dlamini’s name. She is a 26-year-old nursery school teacher from Swaziland who suffers from cystic fibrosis. Dlamini is hoping to get a lifesaving transplant in India but, unfortunately, she does not have the money to fund the operation. She needs R2-million, not ...

This Heritage Month, explore South Africa's rich stories on Showmax, from Flatland to United Apart SA - Lockdown Remembered Berlin Panorama opening film Flatland; SAFTA Best Soap nominee Arendsvlei; and C ovid -19 lockdown doc United Apart SA FLATLAND | Stream now   Flatland opened the 2019 Berlin Panorama, selling out all its screenings, and has a 91% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes , with Variety calling the South African film “an exhilarating fusion of contemporary western and girls-gone-wild road movie” and praising “the film’s sensational trio of female leads”: Faith Baloyi ( Blood Psalms ), Nicole Fortuin ( Indemnity )  and Izel Bezuidenhout ( Dis Ek, Anna ).     When her disastrous wedding night ends in a murder, Natalie (Fortuin) flees across the desolate Karoo on horseback with her heavily pregnant best friend Poppie (Bezuidenhout). Hot on their trail is Captain Beauty Cuba (Baloyi), a lonely policewoman intent on proving the innocence of her long-l...

Idols SA season 17 is on Mzansi Magic,  DStv Channel 161 on Sundays at 17h00. For more information visit our website:  http://www.idolssa.tv The battle for a spot on Idols SA’s season 17 top 10 continued this week as group two of the top 16 took to the stage, keeping to last week’s theme of tackling the biggest hits of today. And like last week’s group, this week’s contenders certainly proved why they were among the 0.1% of the 15,000 entries that had been received for this year’s competition.   Starting tonight’s performances on a high tempo, Sia tried to impress the judges with the upbeat  ‘In your Eyes’  by The Weeknd. However, the judges were not quite taken by his effort. Randall Abrahams said while the performance had its moments, his performance seemed like it was repeatedly trying to take off, but not quite getting there. Unathi Nkayi, who said although she did not think he would be eliminated, he needed to be dynamic and keep the viewers...