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Entertainment news: Dineo Ranaka and Ntsiki Mazwai’s Twitter showdown, Taylor Swift calls out Apple

From Taylor Swift’s open letter to Apple Music to celebs covering Nina Simone classics, we round up the weekend’s entertainment news.

  • Arts Desk
3 min read
Jill Scott not only sings
JILL SCOTT

Black out the media’s unbearable whiteness

To change a world in which news of white people overshadows that of black people, seek out media that take "the other" seriously, says Stefanie Jason.

  • Katlego Mkhwanazi
7 min read
Reuben Riffel.
BREAKING BAD

Breaking Bad, Modern Family win big at Emmys

The 66th annual Emmy awards were a mixed bag, with some big names winning top honours and other favourites going home empty-handed.

  • Staff Reporter
4 min read
His career spanned around 42 years and included a variety of acclaimed films.
CELEBRITIES

Robin Williams: Farewell, funny man

Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams passed away on Monday. We pay tribute to his life with five of his best movies.

  • Sthembiso Sithole
2 min read
The comedian’s appeal stretched across generations and genres.
CELEBRITIES

Comic legend Robin Williams dies at 63

Tributes have poured in at the news of legendary comic actor Robin Williams’s death by apparent suicide at his home in California on Monday.

  • Sarah McBride
4 min read
ANTHONY GODBY JOHNSON

Night thoughts

<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Robin Williams’s latest film,<i>The Night Listener</i> makes for engrossing viewing, especially as it gets increasingly noir in flavour, writes Shaun de…

  • Shaun De Waal
3 min read