Like last year, there are three South African films at the 2013 BFI London Film Festival. These are moody noir romance ‘Durban Poison’, ‘Felix’, a drama about a Zulu boy who wants to become a jazz musician and ‘Of Good Report’ about a paedophile school teacher, which was banned at its opening in Durban.
South African-born X Factor UK contestant Jeanette Akua wowed the judges with more than just her singing voice, making it through to the bootcamp stage of the talent competition with her rendition of ‘Skinny Love’
Across the UK, ‘Othello’ will hit cinemas for one night only on 26 September as part of the NTLive broadcast. Featuring Rory Kinnear and Adrian Lambert in the role of Othello and his nemesis ensign Iago, the play is as gripping, funny and fraught as any blockbuster you could watch instead.
The big-screen adaptation of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, moved reviewers to tears at its world premiere in Toronto, Canada, this weekend.
Best known for playing tough guys in Hollywood movies, English actor Tom Hardy takes on some real villains in the South African bush… sort of.
The standout performance of Elysium comes from fellow South African Sharlto Copley, in a brilliant turn as the sadistic Agent Kruger
Special double bill at Half Moon Putney and Green Note Camden featuring two of South Africa’s most celebrated musicians
The South African musician described as a “one man guitar orchestra” has recorded a live CD and will be performing in London to promote the album in August.
South African actor Sharlto Copley sets the record straight on the likelihood of a ‘District 9’ sequel and discusses playing the villain in his brand new film ‘Elysium’, currently on screen in UK.
At the end of a three-month European tour, Abundance Mutori, bass player of the Zimbabwean Afro-fusion band that has caught the imagination of UK and international audiences, talks about the band’s origins and their upcoming gigs.
South African director, writer and producer Neill Blomkamp has taken the top spot at the US box office with his new sci-fi film starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley.
Romy Becker caught up with rising South African one-man folk band Jeremy Loops, who played a string of UK dates last week.
Cape Town-based Jeremy Loops, who plays London’s Borderline on Friday 26 July, is a modern day one man folk band.
The line-up for the UK’s third annual Wilderness Festival includes Rodriguez, who rocketed from unknown talent in his homeland and cult musician in just South Africa to global notoriety following the Bafta- and Oscar-winning documentary about his life, Searching for Sugarman. He will be joined by artists such as Noah and the Whale, Tom Odell, Martha Wainwright and Michael Kiwanuka.
We interview the head writer and director of The Africa Channel’s new show ‘Room 9’, set in a post apocalyptic world in which an oddball paranormal and occult unit in the New Azanian Police Department wages a war against supernatural forces and a host of other scary African legends
The eloquent and exotic Aletia Upstairs brings insight and seduction to her solo show about the ultimate femme fatale who paid the ultimate price.
The latest award for South African romantic comedy movie ‘Fanie Fourie’s Lobola’ was the Audience Choice Award at last month’s Seattle International Film Festival.
As Zimbabwe approaches general elections, a newly-released documentary on fearless attorney Beatrice Mtetwa and her defendants shows what happens when rulers place themselves above the law.
With their unique all singing, all dancing performances the quartet completely captivate; by the end audiences are left breathless, often deeply moved.
London-trained, Johannesburg-based singer Nancy G brings her soulful sound to Southbank Centre on Friday 19 July.
Room 9, one of South Africa’s most talked about detective series, has its UK premiere on The Africa Channel on Monday 8 July at 9pm.
The documentary opens with Beatrice Mtetwa saying, “People who do things under the cover of darkness are afraid of light. So, if you come at midnight I’ll be there with my headlights glaring…”
London-based rocker Ryan Koriya will be playing Zambezi Fest in Northampton this weekend. We talk to him about his passion for flying, his new EP and being Zimbabwe’s answer to Seal…
First preview of the adaptation of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography at Cannes Film Festival
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