This August comes loaded with content and we can’t wait for you to watch it! Arnold Vosloo stars in Netflix’s first Afrikaans series Ludik . This explosive 6 part series follows the life of a successful furniture salesman with a secret that is connected to the underworld. “Daan” risks being exposed, losing his family and...
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Something Doesn’t Feel Right
ONE: Something doesn’t feel right. If you are 25 or older you probably feel that there’s something odd about how your life functions and you may or may not be able to put your finger on it. If you are 30 and older you definitely feel that something is seriously wrong, somewhere and it seems...
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The Strong Black Woman Burden …
It has been calling me; it has been calling out to me In many different ways it has been calling me It called and called out when Feminsta Jones wrote: “I want black women to be valued for more than our ability to suffer, endure pain and love black men without reciprocation” It called. And...
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There’s a Place Where Most Creative People Go to at Some Point in Their Lives
When Gorgeous George asked me to write something for studio 83’s first ever issue, I thought “How thrilling”! It’s now exactly midnight and I’m struggling to string the first three sentences together. It’s not so much a struggle of what to write about, but how to write it. Now I’m beginning to imagine how sinister...
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Miss P: My Journey To Sobriety, When Drinking Stops Being Fun.
Just over a year ago, I made the bold and brave decision to stop drinking – forever. The decision was brave because I had built my life around drinking. I had been drinking for 20-plus years and, for a long time, I really enjoyed it. I revelled in going to wine farms when I was...
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Once Upon a time in South Africa, Strange Men Invade Our Home
I want to tell you a story. I want to use YOU to tell this story. Imagine, one night, you and your family were peacefully sleeping in your home. It was a modest, humble abode, but it was your home. You grew up in that home, so did your father and his father before him…...
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Auntie – My Friend (Part 1)
I met Auntie some years ago. Actually, it was more like she forced her introductions onto me. She is a homeless lady. The scenic streets of Cape Town are laced with more homeless people than anywhere i’ve ever seen. Clearly photoshop comes in handy for the brochures. Anyway, that’s not the point of the story....
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What to Expect this October 2020 on Netflix
The Haunting of Bly Manor – Netflix Original Series 10/9/2020 From The Haunting of Hill House creator Mike Flanagan and producer Trevor Macy comes The Haunting Of Bly Manor, the next highly-anticipated chapter of The Haunting anthology series, set in 1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young...
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Cue The Festive Cheer As Netflix Announces An African Original Holiday Special
Hot off the heels of their widely watched film Seriously Single – which had audiences in stitches, Netflix announces that the Ramaphakela siblings will return this Festive Season with their trademark humour on a new 3-episode-series, How To Ruin Christmas: The Wedding. Nothing makes a quintessential South African romantic comedy pop quite like a story...
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What to Expect this September on Netflix 2020
The flowers aren’t the only thing in bloom this September. This month on Netflix we have a bouquet of content coming your way. Ryan Murphy’s highly anticipated Ratched is a suspenseful drama series that tells the origin story of asylum nurse Mildred Ratched. The series stars Sarah Paulson as Mildred Ratched and Cynthia Nixon as...