Fashioning Modern Africanism

“Afrikaans people and the adult industry, they go hand in hand.”  “The  koeksister tannies  order the big vibrators.” “In South Africa, there are over 40 000 registered swingers.”  Come again?  These are just three of the revelations in the first-look teaser for the Showmax Original  Sex in Afrikaans  - claims made by the owners of Adult World, Lollipop Lingerie, and a swingers club respectively.  Sex in Afrikaans  premieres on Valentine’s Day, 14 February 2022, only on Showmax.  Launching on Showmax on Valentine’s Day, 14 February 2022,  Sex in Afrikaans  follows clinical psychologist Bradley R Daniels as he helps four Afrikaans couples and two singles to have shameless discussions about their sex lives for the first time publicly - and, in the process, discover that there is so much more fun to be had! Featuring interviews with sex workers, adult shop owners, a unicorn, swingers, dominatrixes, a crossdresser, a dungeon master, people who dress up like babies, and others who prefer fu

Wednesday, 26 th  January 2022   – Organisers of the highly anticipated entertainment and lifestyle gathering today announced the return of the 3 rd   annual Cotton Fest set to take place in March 2022 in Newtown, Johannesburg. Our theme for 2022 is "university and campus" and we have created our very own university of COTTON FEST campus through which the festival will offer a multi-layered university campus experience including a concert, merch, cafeteria, sport area and even lockers for you to store your personal belongings.    With the return of the class of COTTON FEST 2019 and the sophomores from 2020, together with the freshers of 2022, it’s almost time for the graduation of the Class of 2022 at The University of COTTON FEST.    Known for merging both established and upcoming South African talent,  COTTON FEST not only showcases the diversities in music while fusing the gaps within the different local current movements. With best South African artists expected to perfor

Sarah Bullen is an author, storyteller and writing coach with a unique brand of humour and heart. She is a former journalist and magazine editor. Her books include Hey Baby! The Hip New Mom's Guide That's All About You and Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking About & Just Write. In this new installment, Journalist Sarah Bullen and her filmmaker husband Llewellyn seemed like a golden couple, with wildly successful careers. Then Llewellyn realises that what he'd thought were entranced moments were in fact symptoms of a brain tumour. He pursues a shamanic path to fight the cancer and the couple are catapulted into a strange, magical world of ritual and ceremony. Alongside hospitals, surgery and treatments comes another wilder journey of spiritual searching. Then Sarah too falls ill. While in a four-week coma, Sarah travels through near-death and into other realms and worlds. She comes back with a message and a spark to follow which becomes a roadmap to allow her to wr

Season 2 of the Showmax Original  The Real Housewives of Durban  launches on 28 January 2022, with new episodes following every Friday.  Londie London is one of three new wives featured this season: she’s a  musician, actress and jewellery designer who recently returned to Durban with her husband, businessman Hlubi Nkosi, and baby boy,  Uminathi .  We chatted to her to find out more:  Why did you decide to be part of this franchise? Since I've become a wife and a mother, I thought it would be a great idea for the public to see how I’m rebranding myself.  People know me as this sexy singer, but they don't really know my personality and what I'm about outside of the entertainment industry. So when I got the opportunity to be one of the housewives, I thought it was a great way for me to connect with a new audience. When you told your husband and your family that you were joining  The Real Housewives of Durban , what was their reaction? My husband is not a person that likes to

Season 2 of the Showmax Original  The Real Housewives of Durban  launches on 28 January 2022, with new episodes following every Friday.  Showmax has just released a first look at the three new wives featured this season, who will be bringing all the  class, glamour, sass, and drama we’ve come to expect from the franchise. Londie London Londie London’s decision to join  The Real Housewives of Durban  was sparked by her return to Durban and her becoming a wife to businessman Hlubi Nkosi and mom to a ten-month-old baby boy, Uminathi.    “Since I've become a wife, and a mother, I thought it would be a great idea for the public to see how I’m rebranding myself,” says the  musician, actress and jewellery designer . “People know me as this sexy singer and I feel like they don't really know my personality and what I'm about outside of the entertainment industry."   “Londiwe oozes class and confidence,” says Season 2 director Thumeka Hlotshana from Let It Rain Films. “She is re