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Liam Karabo Joyce liam.joyce@inl.co.za It’s been 25 years of non-stop music-making for rock band WONDERboom and they have released their latest album to celebrate this milestone. Titled 25, the album celebrates the band’s career, which has seen them win awards, travel the globe, delve into other genres of music beyond rock and release nine albums. The band was formed by Martin Cito Otto, Martin Schofield, Wade L Williams and Jonathan Bell in 1996 when Martin, Wade and Cito, originally in an underground band called The Eight Legged Groove Machine, were approached by former member Danny de Wet, the drummer for the rock band The Electric Petals, and their manager, Patrick Horgan. They formed a funk-rock supergroup called The Electric Petal Groove Machine. Two weeks after the combination of the two…
Bang Showbiz Dr Dre is to hand over $100 million (about R1.5 billion) to Nicole Young after the pair settled their divorce. The music mogul split from his wife in March 2020 after 24 years of marriage, and it has been reported by Rolling Stone that he’s to part with more than one-fifth of his fortune and approximately half of his liquid assets. The publication notes that the 56-year-old hip-hop icon will pay $50m now, and the other half after 12 months. In terms of splitting the assets, Nicole will hold on to a Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, Escalade limousine, Spyder motorcycle, and her jewellery, however, she will have to leave her Malibu abode. As for Dre, he will maintain the rights to his master recordings, Apple stocks, and sales of…
Oluthando Keteyi Media personality Bonang Matheba has had an eventful year. It's been filled with moments she will treasure forever. She’s travelled around South Africa, Africa and made her move to New York City. Travel restrictions may have been a thing but Matheba has managed to clock her travel miles this year. She even managed to make her big move to the Big Apple happen, which has yet to yield results – in the public eye that is. Since she moved, there have been no major announcements about her landing jobs in Hollywood. However, timing is everything, so let’s hold our horses. This year was the one for Matheba to have fun and mingle and make connections. During all this, her career seems to have taken a back seat but…
Daniel Radcliffe’s entire life is connected to the Harry Potter film franchise. The 32-year-old actor starred as Harry in the series, and he admits his whole life is linked to the movies. Daniel – who has reminisced about his experiences in Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts – said: “I’ll always be happy to talk about it. I think people expect me not to want to talk about it. But that’s like somebody never talking about their childhood or teenage years.” He said in a clip from the upcoming TV special: “Every part of my life is connected to Potter and to Leavesden [Studios]. My first kiss is connected to someone here, my first girlfriends were here ... everything I can think of is that related right now. It…
Gontse Riet gontse.riet@inl.co.za A TWENTY-EIGHT-year-old woman has been arrested and detained on a case of child neglect after a 9-month-old victim was transported to a nearby hospital where medical personnel confirmed she had been sexually abused. Police spokesperson Joseph Swartbooi said Saron police attended to a complaint at a local clinic on Tuesday, where the baby had been admitted. Swartbooi said that the 53-year-old man was arrested on a charge of rape and once charged, both suspects are expected to appear in the Ceres Magistrate’s Court. Rural and Farmworkers Development Organisation executive director Billy Claasen said that harsher sentences on these crimes should be imposed. “If needs be, the Department of Social Development should consider removing the child from the mother’s care. We will petition against both the suspects…
Chulumanco Mahamba chulumanco.mahamba@inl.co.za CALLS are growing for President Cyril Ramaphosa to end the curfew before New Year’s Eve, for the economy and to boost national morale. A #NoCurfewOnNewYearsEve petition has gone viral with over 4 000 signatures urging Ramaphosa to drop the midnight to 4am curfew ahead of New Year’s Eve. The petition was initiated by Beerhouse founder Randolf Jorberg and the Hospitality Leadership group, a nationwide interest group for the hospitality industry. “For the last 21 months, we’ve been living with a curfew that has not shown to have any effect on the transmission of the Covid-19 virus that is not known to keep working hours. Instead, it has introduced an element against our very democracy that infringes on our basic rights enshrined in the Constitution. It…
