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Apple Updates Forthcoming iPhones With Video Portrait Mode

Apple is gearing up to officially present the forthcoming iPhone models next month. Some of the plans include a number of enhancements to the phone’s camera and video capabilities. Most notably, portrait mode will now feature a video-recording mode as well, Bloomberg reports. One of the iPhone’s hallmarks is its ever-evolving camera capabilities, so it...

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Bushfire 2016

Lauded by CNN as one of the “7 African music festivals you really have to see”, and most recently named as BBC’s Top African Festival, MTN Bushfire is Swaziland’s internationally acclaimed music & arts festival that celebrates creative expression whilst promoting social responsibility, stimulating the economy and drawing talent and tourists from across Africa and...

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The People versus The Rainbow Nation – Film by Lebogang Rasethaba

We speak to filmmakers Lebogang Rasethaba and Allison Swank about The People versus The Rainbow Nation, their latest documentary airing on MTV Thursday night. Watch. “To some people, the defining image of contemporary South Africa has changed – it’s no longer of Nobel Prize winners Nelson Mandela or Desmond Tutu; it is of students with...

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‘House of Cards’ season 4 …

Spoilers Alert: Violent war breaks between Frank and Claire in new trailer. The latest trailer of “House of Cards” season 4, courtesy of the Hollywood Reporter, confirms speculations that the season will see a war between Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and his wife Claire (Robin Wright). The trailer also reveals that this conflict will escalate...

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Ta-ku – Songs To Make Up To ….

Relationships are some of the most important events in our worlds. There is this notion, now, that no one needs anyone, even though social media shows us that everyone needs everyone. That, more than any other single effect in someone’s life, we will remember when we were together with the most ardor. As such, and...

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Not yet Uhuru – Tell Me Sweet Something

David Kau posted this on Instagram and he gave us an interesting view on South African film industry. Below is a letter I have sent to the key stakeholders in TELL ME SWEET SOMETHING. The email spells out the current situation we are facing with the Exhibitor that has seen our film cut from 47...

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Pan Africanism …

With so much pain, suffering and hardship witnessed in Africa for so many years it is quite saddening that a continent and great a people as Africans have not found a way to tackle the problems faced by Africa. With so much resources and land, why have we not been able to bring ourselves out...

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Barack Obama Homecoming!

Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States and the first African American president at the White House. He is the first ever seating president to address the African Union. Before he addressed the AU in Addis Ababa, president Obama visited his ancestral and his father’s birth place; Kenya. He went...

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200 Young South Africans – Nkululeko Legend Manqele

With several years in TV and film production and an award-winning short film behind him, Legend Manqele is capitalising on the new approach to visual entertainment. Manqele grew up in Pietermaritzburg and Durban, discovering a love for drama in high school. With little knowledge about the broad spectrum of possible careers in the film and...

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Chronicles Khama III’s Fight Against Cecil Rhodes

I Am Khama is a forthcoming animated feature film loosely based on King Khama III’s 1895 campaign to protect Bechuanaland (now Botswana) from continued plunder by British imperialist Cecil Rhodes. The film chronicles events surrounding the famed Tswana monarch’s tour of Britain, where he lobbied against the proposed annexation of his land by Rhodes’ British...