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This year marks the first full live event of the National Arts Festival’s hometown of Makhanda after a two-year hiatus. The art, theatre and music fraternities will come together for the first time since Covid-19 hit our shores in 2020. The festival CEO Monica Newton says hosting an event of this magnitude under the strict Covid-19 regulations has been an “adventure”, however, she and her team are ready to welcome the audiences and artists back to the live stages. “A festival isn’t just about the shows, it’s also the experience of being together in a small town, the road trip to get there and back, meeting new people, exploring and spontaneously discovering new things,” Newton says. “Our audience and artist communities have told us they are hungry for a real-life…
Sir Elton John’s extraordinary life and career will be documented in an upcoming Disney+ documentary. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances and the Years that Made His Legend will feature never-before-seen archival footage and new interviews. It will be released as the 75-year-old music legend wraps the North American leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on November 20. RJ Cutler, who recently helmed the Billie Eilish documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry for Disney, is directing, while the Tiny Dancer hitmaker’s husband, David Furnish, is producing. Cutler said: “What a thrill and an honour it is that David Furnish and I get to create this intimate and unique look at one of the world’s most celebrated…
Christine Quinn claimed Chrishell Stause’s relationship with Jason Oppenheim didn’t work out because her former colleague is a “b****”. The Selling Sunset stars split in December because the real estate agency boss doesn’t want to have children, but the 33-year-old beauty insisted Oppenheim was “madly in love” with the former soap star and blamed her rival for the break-up. Appearing on the Table Manners podcast, Quinn told hosts Jessie and Lennie Ware: “Jason just, he’s very clear that he wants to have like, and I think it’s really implied he just wants to be a bachelor and have fun. “But also he was madly in love with Crishell. He really was.” When asked why she thought they didn’t work out, Quinn, 33, said: “Because she’s a b****”. Quinn blamed Stause’s…
DANISA Baloyi, former president of the Black Business Council (BBC), believes she was subjected to injustice during the five years she faced accusations of swindling the business lobby group. The prosecution against her and three others came to nought on Friday, after defence lawyers succeeded in crushing the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) case on a section 174 application. A section 174 application is brought by the defence on the basis that the NPA presented weaker evidence that fails to establish a prima facie case against an accused. Baloyi and her co-accused, Dominic Ntsele, Hawa Khan and Abubaker Khan, walked free on Friday in the Palm Ridge Commercial Crimes Court. The four were accused of stealing R5.7 million from the coffers of the BBC. The business lobby group received the money…
Suspended after resisting board’s ‘arm-twisting’ attempts to make her sign contract appointing CFO to a permanent position THE state-owned entity, Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA), finds itself in a human resources mess after the suspension of its chief executive, Zukiswa Potye. The Star has learnt from sources inside that the MDDA management that Potye was suspended after she refused to sign a contract for the MDDA’s chief financial officer, Yaseen Asmal. In a letter seen by The Star, Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele demanded a response from MDDA board chairperson Hlengani Mathebula over a “complaint received by the Public Services Commission (PSC) on allegations of the irregular extension of appointment contract of the CFO of the Media Development and Diversity Agency”. In the letter, Gungubele tells Mathebula that…
THE murder of another gender-based violence victim has sparked a public outcry to get #JusticeForHlehle and bring her killer to book. Singwa Namhla Mtwa’s killing has again cast a spotlight on the gender-based violence (GBV) pandemic in South Africa. This comes after she was shot and killed inside her car when she arrived at her Sidwadwa-based home in Mthatha on April 21. The 35-year-old suffered gunshot wounds to her upper body and was declared dead at the scene, Eastern Cape SAPS said. Her heartbroken sister Sanga Nozintathu Mtwa took to social media in a plea to get justice This plea sparked a public outcry as #JusticeForHlehle and #JusticeForNamhla trended on social media. The hashtags prompted other alleged victims of GBV to share their personal stories. “My sister was brutally…
