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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Court overturns cardiologist's gagging order of M-Net's Carte Blanche

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by Tania Broughton, GroundUp A  gagging order preventing Carte Blanche on M-Net (DStv 101) from broadcasting a programme about a Durban-base...

Who is watching all these podcasts?

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by Joseph Bernstein, The New York Times The  following are the runtimes of some recent episodes of several of YouTube’s more popular podcast...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

South Africa's Fairy Godmother of Entertainment bids goodbye: Irreplaceable Disney Africa boss Christine Service to exit after 23 years

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by Thinus Ferreira The true ending of an epoch: the absolutely beloved Christine Service, general manager of direct-to-consumer (DTC) and co...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Paramount's BET Africa trying again with illegal mining weekday drama as Black Gold from Black Brain Pictures is set for 18 August with Nomalanga Shozi, Dawn Thandeka King and Sello Maake ka Ncube

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Thinus Ferreira After the disastrous Queendom Paramount's BET Africa division in South Africa is again trying to find and launch a succ...

MultiChoice Kenya hikes prices for DStv Kenya subscribers again by up to 7%

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by Thinus Ferreira MultiChoice Kenya is hiking prices yet again in the East African country for business customers  as well as for for busin...

BBC Studios Africa expands real estate reality series franchise with Listing Coastal South Africa

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by Thinus Ferreira BBC Studios Africa has expanded its Southern Africa Listing real estate franchise with Listing Coastal South Africa whi...

South African court to decide this week whether to grant disgraced Malusi Gigaba's interdict application to try and block ex-wife Norma Mngoma's Showmax tell-all Untied episode

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by Thinus Ferreira The court will this week decide whether it will grant an interdict to the disgraced former South African minister Malusi ...
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