Fashioning Modern Africanism

The hit Showmax Original reality series that won the 2021 SAFTA for Best Soap Structured Reality TV Show. The new season launches first and only on Showmax on 5 July 2022, with new episodes every Tuesday.  Season 3 picks up in April 2022 with #KellyKhumalo trending on Twitte r again, with  the release of a true-crime documentary series about the death of Senzo Meyiwa  and his tr ial about to start. As Kelly says in the trailer, “They hate the fact that I am the one who did not die that day.”  Despite the ongoing conspiracy theories, Kelly’s career has never been better: her SAMA-nominated album  The Voice of Africa  went gold, the AFRIMA-nominated  Empini  became the biggest hit of her career and went quadruple platinum,  Esphambanweni  went double platinum and  Ngathwala Ngaye  went platinum.  Watch the trailer:  Produced by G.O.A.T ( Dineo’s Diary ) and directed by Kuda Jemba, with Graeme Swanepoel as showrunner, Season 3 of  Life With Kelly Khumalo  shows Kelly at her rawest and mos

Season 1 became the fastest Showmax Original to top one million views when it launched in August 2020. The half-hour show, which trended at #1 on Twitter, was hailed as “explosive” by Chrizelda Kekana on Timeslive, while The Star’s Debashine Thangevelo added that it “pulls no punches… one of the best celeb-driven reality shows I’ve watched in a while. The woman at the heart of it is independent, feisty and a tour de force." Life With Kelly Khumalo S1 is up for a South African Film and Television Award for Best Soap Structured Reality TV Show, where its only competition is from two other Showmax Originals: Lebo M - Coming Home and Somizi & Mohale: The Union.  A household name by 21, Kelly is one of South Africa’s biggest music stars, who’s been named Best Female Artist at the South African Music Awards, sold millions of albums, and opened for Grammy winner Missy Elliott, with over two million followers on Instagram alone. Since Season 1, she’s launched her eighth studio album,

Kelly khumalo is one of South Africa’s biggest music stars, who’s been named Best Female Artist at the South African Music Awards, sold  millions of albums,  opened for Grammy winner Missy Elliott, and has over 1.7m followers on Instagram alone.     “The woman that you see in front of you is self-made,” says Kelly Khumalo in the opening sequence of her reality show  Life With Kelly Khumalo , now streaming on Showmax. “I can't say I have a point of reference when it comes to being a good woman. However, I am now ready to embrace the greatness that God has created me for.”   In her Showmax Original, South African audiences will get a front-row seat to Kelly’s life as  a single mother of two who is juggling parenting with the build-up to the release of not just her new album,  The Voice of Africa,  but also her first gin, appropriately titled Controversy. K elly's son, Christian, and her daughter, Thingo, feature in  Life With Kelly Khumalo  alongside their super-star mommy. Thing