South African DJ and social media influencer Cyan Boujee, the 24-year-old whose real name is Honour Zuma, has found herself at the center of a growing financial controversy after her bank accounts were frozen just weeks after she flaunted the purchase of a nearly R10 million mansion in the exclusive Midstream Ridge Estate near Pretoria….
For nearly three decades, the theme music of Top Billing was the soundtrack of aspiration in South Africa. It played in living rooms from Soweto to Sandton, from Cape Town to Durban, as viewers watched glossy segments on luxury homes, celebrity interviews, and the latest in fashion and design. It was a window into a world that…
It started with a screenshot. A Capitec Bank notification, glowing blue on a smartphone screen, showing a transfer of R520. The reference line read: “Ref mylove.” Innocent enough, perhaps even sweet. But for the woman who received it, the R520 was not a gift. It was an insult. A half-measure. A symbol of everything wrong…
The waiter approaches the table with a knowing smile. In his hands is a black platter, steam rising from ten glistening chicken wings coated in a crimson glaze that looks innocent enough — until you get close. The smell hits first: a pungent cloud of habanero, ghost pepper, and something else, something secret, something that…
The turquoise waters and powder-white beaches of Zanzibar have long been a dream destination for honeymooners, adventurers, and, increasingly, social media influencers seeking the perfect backdrop for sponsored content. But for the family and millions of followers of American influencer Ashly Robinson — known online as Ashlee Jenae — the island paradise has become the setting of…
The dusty streets of Turfloop, the fictional Limpopo heartland where SABC1’s long-running educational drama Skeem Saam unfolds, are about to get a new kind of storm. Not the summer thunderstorms that roll across the highveld, but a man in a tailored suit with a smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. On Monday, the show’s…
The Gauteng High Court delivered a sweeping judgment on Thursday morning that will resonate far beyond the polished oak benches of Court 12D. In a ruling that pitted one of South Africa’s most polarizing political figures against one of its most controversial social media personalities, the court found in favor of Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)…
For a fleeting, beautiful moment on the evening of April 6, Wandile Duba was exactly where Kaizer Chiefs fans have been praying to see him: in the opposition’s penalty area, foot connecting perfectly with the ball, net rippling, crowd roaring. His 63rd-minute equalizer against Orbit College wasn’t just a goal. It was a statement. It…
It began, as all great capers do, in the quiet pre-dawn hours of March 28. Somewhere in the rolling countryside of northern Italy, outside a Nestlé factory that smelled perpetually of cocoa and sugar, a truck driver made a fatal error: he left the engine running while he stepped inside for a morning espresso. By…
In a harrowing series of social media posts that have since gone viral, social media personality and businesswoman Karabo Khakhu, better known as Jelly Babie, has laid bare the traumatic details of her 11-month marriage to a traditional healer she says manipulated her out of over R2 million, physically abused her, and left her contemplating…
