Getting to know Mr Gay World South Africa, Charl-Jaquairdo

As festivals and sporting events around the world continue to get pushed out because of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, it’s unsurprising that the South African Music Awards have announced that this year’s ceremony will also be postponed.

Award-winning South African rapper Nasty C has signed an exclusive pact with Def Jam Recordings through a joint venture with Universal Music Africa. He’ll make his official U.S. debut when his new single “There They Go” premieres on Apple Music Beats 1 with Ebro Darden today (March 26 at 4:30 p.m. ET).

Fear, pride and hope. Those are some of the emotions South Africans felt after President Cyril Ramaphosa announcement that the country will undergo a national lockdown.

New couple alert? Nina Dobrev and Shaun White were spotted on a bike ride together in Malibu on Sunday, March 22.

She burst onto the scene as a contestant on the hit reality show The Voice South Africa and since then, Ami Faku has gone on to release hit after hit. Her debut album ‘Imali’ shot to the top of streaming charts around the country and her collaborations with Sun-El Musician have made her into a household name. This week, we get up close and personal with the rising star as she opens up about her new music and why reality shows are still important.

South African producers are demanding an “urgent all-industry response” to the threat posed by coronavirus, with a leading industry body calling for a coordinated plan from broadcasters and government agencies to address the potential economic fallout of the global pandemic on the local film and TV biz.

More LGBTQ+ events have now been postponed because of the growing threat of coronavirus in South Africa.

By Jake Kanter

< 1 min read Mr Gay World 2020 which was planned to kickoff in Knysna, South Africa next month, has been officially postponed due to the spread of coronavirus.

As the growing coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt film and television production across the globe, the South African industry is bracing for the impact of the virus’s spread as the government announced a raft of emergency measures, including a travel ban on foreign nationals from the U.S. and the U.K.

By Jake Kanter

Amazon Studios has pulled the plug on “Love Island France,” which was shooting outside of Cape Town, as the coronavirus pandemic that has disrupted production across the globe spreads to the South African film and TV industry.

Last year, Big Concerts announced that Lighthouse Family will be visiting South Africa for the first time. However, after President Cyril Ramaphosa banned public gatherings of over 100 people because of the spread of coronavirus COVID-19, Big Concerts has confirmed that, unfortunately, the Lighthouse Family concert will be rescheduled.

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause havoc around the globe, local governments are putting preventative measures into play as the world tries to lessen the number of transmissions and infections. In South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed last night that public gatherings of over 100 people are officially banned and, with that, Bebe Winans has decided to postpone his 2020 tour of South Africa.

Africa’s close commercial links with Beijing, combined with our poor health system, put Africa’s 1.3 billion inhabitants on the list of those vulnerable for the coronavirus. Government reports less than a handful of cases have made their way to our continent – one in Egypt, one in Algeria and one in Nigeria.

JOHANNESBERG — In 2011, as music streaming was spreading to more countries, a group of South African musicians and performers petitioned the government to reform the country's copyright laws to offer more protection.Led by famed Kwaito producer Gabi Le Roux and performer Eugene Mthethwa, the artists were concerned that weak copyright protection and rampant piracy were harming music creators, who were already struggling to make a living because of largely ineffective collecting societies.A decade