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Zenande Mfenyana as Thumeka. Photo: Mzansi Magic

Saftas celebrate the storytellers shaping South African screens

The 19th South African Film and Television Awards honoured actors, filmmakers and productions driving the country’s screen industry

Breathing space: Mona Monyane plays the lead character Lesego in the film Sabbatical, which explores themes such as the price of success and family pressures

When the hustle breaks you: Karabo Lediga’s quietly radical Sabbatical

A layered, indie-styled character study, the film is a meditation on failure, family and fragile identity

Soup-er: The artist in a scene from the docuseries ‘The Andy Warhol Diaries’. Photo: Netflix

Andy gets more than 15 minutes

A new docuseries examines the life, the work and the loves of the pioneer of the pop art movement

Organisations like Partners Against Piracy, a campaign to protect the livelihoods of content creators by raising awareness about piracy, are gaining traction.(Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Educate people about how piracy robs Africa’s artists, musicians and actors

Organisations like Partners Against Piracy, a campaign to protect the livelihoods of content creators by raising awareness about piracy, are gaining traction

Through the lens: Videographer
Andiswa Mkosi has
sustained archive losses.

Filmmakers speak about their experiences of documenting and archiving people’s lives

In the same league as the ability to document is the capacity to store and maintain the recorded footage

Disjointed: Alfred ‘Paper Boi’ Miles, played by Brian Tyree Henry (left), and Earn, played by Donald Glover, in a scene from ‘Atlanta’

One Show Two Takes: ‘Atlanta’

The season’s finale leaves our two reviewers wanting

What you see is what you get: It is important that television shows such as ‘Isono’ (above) reflect a range of people and socioeconomic backgrounds

OPINION| South African audiences want more authentic and accurate diversity in TV shows and movies

The media has the power to shape perceptions, so television shows and movies can help shape a positive view of people who feel stereotyped

The international streaming service has poured in more than R2-billion into South Africa, creating jobs for about 1 900 people in the past five years. (Getty Images)

Netflix to invest more than R900m in South Africa

International streaming service Netflix will invest R900-million in the South African film and television industry, it announced at the 4th Annual South African Investment…

Veteran journalist Felicia Mabuza-Suttle

Q&A Sessions: Felicia Mabuza-Suttle, standing on the shoulders of heroes

Veteran journalist Felicia Mabuza-Suttle tells us about how she dealt with patriarchy, her passion for youth development and why she is a germaphobe

Screen Grab: Ramaphosa, the pixelated prez

Having taken on the form of a spectral apparition, many of us have stopped watching Cyril Ramaphosa’s speeches

Omar Sy’s charming master thief televises a dreamy revolution in Lupin, Netflix’s latest Euro blockbuster

Screen Grab: Omar Sy weaves a rebel spell in ‘Lupin’

Omar Sy’s charming master thief televises a dreamy revolution in Lupin, Netflix’s latest Euro blockbuster

The documentary ‘Seaspiracy’ is a textbook display of disingenuous interviewing. (Wikipedia)

Screen Grab: Deeply shallow

The documentary ‘Seaspiracy’ is a textbook display of disingenuous interviewing

Meet Katoto, Museveni’s big fan

The TV cartoon character — think Homer Simpson meets Robin Hood — with added propaganda

Karabo and Tau from the soapie Generations.

Axing Days of Our Lives may not decolonise our TVs

A bittersweet moment for many as we celebrate the creation of space for locally produced content, while also mourning the loss of a nostalgic links.

Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

Multichoice fined R40 000 for negligence

Broadcaster Multichoice has received two fines for running inappropriate promos on DSTV.

For many South Africans, most sporting doors have been closed to them for years because of the exorbitant fees they have to fork out to access premium content on pay television. (Gallo)

TV sport will be the death of live support

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Namec president Keith Thabo

Battle of the box divides Namec

The small electronics industry body is accusing two of its heads of being ’empowerment raiders’.

Siyabonga Cwele’s bid to get things moving in the migration to digitally broadcast TV signals was stalled in the Cabinet.

Cabinet turf war causes TV delay

The ANC is losing patience with the turf war that has erupted over digital migration from the old analogue signal when watching television in SA.

Africa’s largest subscription television operator says it is under threat amid the emerging popularity of global platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime

Samsung to open television manufacturing plant in Durban

Samsung Electronics is to open a TV manufacturing plant in the Dube Trade Port near Durban, investing $20-million over the next four years.

Something on the side: TVs and gadgets

Sean Bacher rounds up this month’s most desirable gadgets, including the smart TV by Hisense and a golfing must-have from Garmin.