Showing posts with label Ntsiki Mazwai. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 1, 2019

Moja Love's Ntsiki Mazwai in ugly attack on SABC's Morning Live anchor Leanne 'Manna' as the veteran anchor celebrates her 15th TV anniversary.


The Moja Love (DStv 157) presenter Ntsiki Mazwai launched an ugly and vitriol-filled Twitter-attack on the SABC's veteran Morning Live anchor Leanne Manas on Thursday as Manas celebrated 15 years on-air, with Mazwai that slammed South Africa's most-watched morning show star who she called "Manna", as "completely ignorant" and saying she's "not African".

In a series of shocking outbursts aimed at the highly-respected Leanne Manas who've fronted Morning Live on SABC2 for a decade and a half and stayed on after the unexpected death of her co-host Vuyo Mbuli, the Moja Love's Show Me Love panellist slammed Leanne saying she's "completely ignorant on black culture - this is straight white privilege in action".

"I don't think Leanne Manna is amazing at her job - I think she is just white. And enjoying privilege. She can't even speak indigenous languages. She is not African," wrote Ntsiki, spelling Manas as "Manna".

"Is Leanne the best news host we have?" she continued.

In September 2018 she called Leanne Manas "mediocre".

 Leanne Manas responded, deliberately subverting Mazwai's name as well, saying: "Good morning Ntiski. It's “Manas” and everyone is entitled to an opinion and a place in this country. I respect your views".

 Moja Love on Thursday afternoon in response to a media enquiry told TVwithThinus that "The views expressed by Ntsiki Mazwai are not those of the channel and were expressly made by Ntsiki Mazwai in her personal capacity".

 "Moja Love values, loves and respects all South Africans and we celebrate all the diversity that enriches our country. We do not condone any form of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, religion, gender, race, culture or in any other form."

 "We would like to wish Leanne Manas a happy 15th work anniversary and a wonderful Women’s Month."





On Thursday viewers lept to Manas' defence.






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Saturday, May 25, 2019

Big revamp for second season of Show Me Love starting 3 June on Moja Love; local talk show to broadcast live, add politics, with new location, new studio, new panellists and more daring content.


Show Me Love on Moja Love (DStv 157) is undergoing a revamp for its second season that is set to start on Monday 3 June, with the local talk show that is undergoing several changes including new faces, a new studio and new location, adding some political discussions and topics to the mix, and switching to a live broadcast format or recording episodes as close to the broadcast date as possible.

The Show Me Love hosts around the glass table recently changed, with Unathi Msengana and Abigail Visagie who are both gone without explanation.

They have been replaced by Ntsiki Mazwai as well as the doctor and sexual health expert Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng (Dr T) who have joined Nontobeko Sibisi and KG Moeketsi who remain part of the panel.

"The most important thing as a whole production team was saying 'When do we need to go back to the drawing board? What do we need to fix? And in what way do we fix it in a way that it is still relevant and resonates with our audience?" said Nontobeko Sibisi.

Nontobeko Sibisi spoke at Moja Love's 2019 Content Showcase that was held for the media last week at the World of Yamaha Theatre in Sandton, Johannesburg where the new Show Me Love panellists formed part of the on-stage talent who appeared before the press.

"More importantly, in the second season of Show Me Love we will continue to have a real, authentic conversation," she said.

Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng said about Show Me Love "that we have to remind women about the power that they have and give them the space to own and accept that power".

"If you want to talk about sex - one of the episodes that we were shooting the other day, we were talking about self-pleasuring - giving South African women permission to say it's not only boys with the right to play with themselves. As a woman you can do that".

"I think that that's the beauty of Moja Love as a channel - we're having conversations that other people never had the courage to have, and we're opening it as wide as possible. We're daring, we're courageous but we're also fun."

TVwithThinus asked how the new season of Show Me Love will be different.

KG Moeketsi said "Obviously we're beginning a new season, come 3 June. The intention as we sit here now is to go live. Last year we were filming live-to-tape, but we would be airing about a week into the episodes that we shot."

"We want to stay as current as possible, that's why we want to go live - new location, new studio, new panellists, new everything and more daring content."

"The intention is for us to go live. If we're forced to be recorded - forced by circumstances to pre-record, it will probably be a case of  'record today, the episode airs tomorrow'. We want to get as close as possible - particularly this year - to the issues at hand in South Africa as they happen."

"Especially as far as politics are concerned, we are going to add a bit of that."

"South Africa is just a lovely place, and robust, if you're interested in the politics of the country. And it's exciting that Show Me Love will start going live just a week and a half after South Africa's new president has been inaugurated so we're excited, we're very excited," said KG Moeketsi.


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ALSO READ: The Moja Love 2019 Content showcase sizzle reel.
ALSO READ: With daring, boundary-pushing reality shows, the Moja Love channel on DStv says it's aspiring "to innovate, to change and challenge the South African TV landscape". 
ALSO READ: New Moja Love conflict reality show exposing cheating lovers, Uyajola 9/9, is "not for the faint-hearted" warns presenter Jub Jub. 
ALSO READ: After delays, the reality show, Zodwa Wabantu Uncensored, is starting on Moja Love on Saturday 25 May as the Vosho Queen gives viewers a glimpse of her surreal life with a "16-ish" age restriction. 
ALSO READ: TV CRITIC's NOTEBOOK. So, the Moja Love channel on DStv held a content showcase event and it was basically perfect - with 2 things that were a pleasant surprise and positives for SA's TV biz.
ALSO READ: TV CRITIC's NOTEBOOK. For a channel with 'love' in its name, Moja Love's content is built on a collection of conflict. For how long will its viewers thirst to watch the fight?
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