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Catch Khanyi's show on her site

Khanyi Mbau’s been shopping her reality TV show around and, thus far, there’ve been no takers. Being the hustler she is, she’s decided to launch her series on her website, www.khanyimbau.co.za. She’s uploaded some footage and it’s, um, interesting. The first glimpse is into her eviction from her & Mandla’s penthouse. Way too tired to deal with this now. We’ll run a frame-by-frame once I’ve replenished some of this ‘Ooohhh, chile!’ I’ve lost watching this webisode. [UPDATE: Ofcourse, I'm a complete Loser and can't embed properly. Whatevs. Just run check it at the link below]:

Eviction – Part 1 from Ryan Fortune on Vimeo.

Stan.

Remember that (superamazingoneofthelastgreatsongsheeverproduced) Eminem/ Dido collabo, Stan? About the crazy stalker fan? Well:

There’s this character on Twitter who goes by the pseudonym Numba2fan, who is on some other … ! This person is running a game of ‘exposion’, much like that pop culture split second known as Joburg’s Most Notorious Ho’s (remember that?).

Numba2fan has been active on Twitter since 18 November, and only has 43 followers (at this moment), but has already managed to pick some Twitbeef with fashionista and socialite Uyanda Mbuli.

Some of Numba2fan’s greatest hits:

- [In reference to Bonang Matheba] Well shame but @bonang looked pretty last night, Shooo but “THE LEGS”!!! Naw, u need surgery. they are so NOT hott!! #thetruth

- [Refering to Uyanda] Gee, @uyandam ’s RURAL cum FAKE accent shocked us today on VUZU! Advice – Spend more money on English lessons & less on Brands! Blacks!!

- [Model Precious Makgaretsa also gets trashed and Khanyi's name is brought into it] We wonda if @preshmak is still missing Eric! We thot u should know that @therealmissk is after ur ex-fiancee – for obvious reasons – CASH!

- [Precious and Babalwa Mneno] OH! @preshmak, But this ERIC also seems to be back with his ex & ur dear mentor cum friend @barbiliscious! Do u still miss him? Kisses!

- [Bonang and DJ Euphonik] We miss @bonang with those hilarious legs. We wonder if she is missing her secret lover @euphonik??!! LOL!! NOT ANYMORE

- [Miss Mbau] We discovered that @therealmissk offered her pussy to get VIP seats at an award show… HOW CHEAP IS THAT?! N.B -don ever try deny this one!

- [Nonhle Thema and Precious - again] We LV @nonhlethema, nys smile! BUT we hear she also does THOSE trips to NIGERIA, @preshmak knows exactly wat tht means, right SEXY?? *winks*

Now some of these ‘rumours’ aren’t just rumours – they’re pretty much open secrets… But obvi it’s about figuring out which ones are true, which aren’t. I wonder, though, how long it’ll take Numba2fan to go the same way as the Notorious Ho creators – that is, to fade into obscurity…

‘Joelle is a liar’ – Alleged Insider

An alleged insider has come forward, claiming Joelle is a liar.

The plot, she thickens.

So, a very knowledgeable commenter (or so she claims), has come forward to give us some insight into this whole Joelle vs Bongani mess.

According to the commenter, who is called ‘Real Talk’, Miss Joelle Kayembe isn’t quite what she seems. Real Talk says the relationship between Bongani and the supermodel ended a year ago, but Joelle’s keen to get some money out of it.

Here is the crux:

All I can tell you is that Joelle is a liar, made all those things up to destroy the Bongani’s image. She knows very well that Mbindwane values his privacy & personal life , so she knew this would destroy him personally and his image. She is going on about how this is not about money but rather about how she had a life before Mbindwane & is now fighting to get it back. If that was the case she would have left quietly (No crazy demands) gone back to stay at the cottage she rented & asked for her job back at Jenny Button (sales lady) returned the car that he bought her on her birthday (not the Q5 a mini cooper), returned all the designer clothes & shoes ( she didn’t have any before him). She was never abused… People are going on as if this happened last month or something, these two broke up last year…Wanna know why she was quite all this time? They were trying to get back together & things turned sour when she realized Mbindwane was no longer interested.

She is a cool girl, don’t know what came over her, it could be pressure from friends cause the Joelle I know would never do something like this ( unless she has been pretending to be someone else all this time) and this “ I KILLED YOUR BABY AND YOU ARE GONNA PAY ME FOR IT” attitude is just not her. She needs help & serious help. She is NO conniving bitch but she just isn’t the victim in this case.

Ooooweee. This just gets deeper and deeper.

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WTF Friday Moment

‘Though I have moved on my heart is still with her. But I am very happy where I am. It is hard to get her out of my mind. I made a lot of contribution to what she is today’

- Dingaan Thobela on ex-girlfriend Basetsana Khumalo.

Apparently Dingaan’s releasing a book – titled Rose of Soweto: The Dingaan Thobela Story – next Tuesday. Despite the fact that he split from the beauty queen-turned-business woman 12 years ago, and that they’re both happily married to other people, he spends quite a few pages detailing their relationship.

Thobela and a 16-year-old Basetsana Makgalemele started dating in 1990. She won Miss SA in 1994 and they broke up three years later.
The former World Boxing Association, World Boxing Organisation lightweight and World Boxing Council supermiddle weight champion writes in detail about their relationship.
In his biography by Deon Potgieter, he confirms their vat en sit, which her parents denied ever happened in a magazine interview. He says he felt betrayed by the denial.
What he doesn’t say, though, is that Bassie was only 16 when they started going out in 1990. He was 28.
“I respected her parents even though they were saying I was a liar and that I was insulting the Tswana nation (by saying I stayed with her),” he writes. “I decided to let it go and let it die and that’s what happened. In time it died. We both started new lives and moved on.”

Bassie’s reaction? ‘Asked to comment Khumalo said she was not interested in the book,’ according to the Sowetan report. ‘WTF?’, indeed!

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Talk about dramz!

Supermodel Joelle Kayembe

One of my favourite beautiful people, Joelle Kayembe, has been involved in some drama of note. She’s splitting from the man she says is her husband – Platfields Limited CEO Bongani Mbindwane. She’s asking for maintenance, and he says they weren’t even legally married in the first place. He claims she had an abortion without informing him. She says he assaulted her. Cars were damaged, clothes were bleached. Phew! Bottom line: it’s he says, she says. It’s also their personal business.

One thing that bothers me about all the coverage, though, is some of the comments calling her a ‘gold digger’ (um, isn’t she from a wealthy family to begin with?) and slagging her off for having an abortion (which, in case people don’t remember, is perfectly legal in South Africa), yet no one says: ‘Wait a minute, this guy assaulted her? Not cool’. She also alleges he cheated on her and she caught him with another woman. But we’re experts at blaming women.

But I doubt Joelle’s professional reputation will suffer. She’s one of the country’s hottest properties and she’s a true professional. [Side note: even Kanye West is an admirer]. I wonder how she’s holding up, though.

Read about all the drama here and here.

‘I’ve got a pocket full of dreams… I’m from New York!’

Alicia's album drops this December!

We all know Hova’s the new Sinatra. And now Alicia Keys has recorded her version of their collabo hit, Empire State of Mind. She uses the same hook as the collabo version, but sings her own verses on Empire State of Mind 2 (shoulda called it ‘The Empire Returns’ or something more Star Wars-y).

JHud as Winnie? Aaaaw hells no…

So, it’s been confirmed. Jennifer Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a movie about the iconic South African. [Insert severe side-eye here] Hmmm. I’m real salty about this. JHud was okay in Dreamgirls, but she sucked in Sex and the City (as the wide-eyed, countrified assistant). What makes anyone think she’s competent enough to play Winnie Mandela? SMH. This is just turning me off from even attempting to watch the damn movie… I wonder if she’ll even be able to get the accent right? This whole thing reeks of Oscar-bait. According to Variety:

Jennifer Hudson is set to star in “Winnie,” a drama that casts her as the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson Mandela.

Hudson will play Winnie Mandela in a film that begins production May 30 in the South African locations of Johannesburg, Capt Town, Transkei and Robben Island, where the future president spent 18 of his 27 years in prison.

“Winnie” will be directed by Darrell J. Roodt, the veteran South African filmmaker whose 2006 film “Yesterday” was Africa’s Best Foreign Film nominee, and who also directed “Cry, The Beloved Country,” and “Sarafina!”

“I was compelled and moved when I read the script,” Hudson said. “Winnie Mandela is a complex and extraordinary woman and I’m honored to be the actress asked to portray her. This is a powerful part of history that should be told.”

I know it’s important to get big names attached to a South African project in order to get funding and exposure, but Winnie is a big deal — she’s an icon and (in the eyes of some) a certified (s)hero. Why not get a real actress and a real South African actress, at that, to pay homage to the woman? I mean, is Terry Pheto too busy or something?

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And this is news, why?

Miss RiRi Fenty previewed her new album, Rated R, in London last night and then, as one does, hit town with her friends and got faded. Like many a normal 21-year-old. She wore a killer dress and hot shoes and accessorised with cellulite-riddled thighs. Like many a normal 21-year-old. Somehow the fact that the fashionista has dimply thighs and got crunk is news. Meh.

Personally, I hate Ri’s so-called music (I am feeling her new sound a teeny bit, so I might have to revise that statement in future), but I think she’s a hella fab chick. She’s got a great stylist (ha!) and rocks her clothes hard. And let’s not forget her extreme composure and maturity in dealing with domestic violence and her interview with Diane Sawyer. And I don’t have to tell you how petty it is to focus on this young woman’s fat cells. I mean, really?

‘If you want me you can catch me on your video phone’

So I’ve been watching this damn thing all day … yet I only think to blog about it before I go to bed. [Total #blogfail]. Any-beyaki, here’s the insane, beautiful, colourful, ubersexual Video Phone remix video, featuring the ever-interesting Lady Gaga.

Now my love for Mrs Hova is well-documented, so ofcourse my take on this is total stanning a bit biased… There’s just so much going on in this video. Tarantino fans (like, um, me) will get the Reservoir Dogs reference; there’s a Betty Page wig and even a little bit of M.I.A Galang flavour (am I the only person who picked that up?). But, overall, this vid is just hella sexy. Enjoy!

‘I want to be … a woman’s best friend & secret weapon’

Designer Thula Sindi

Thula Sindi – designer extraordinaire – recently let African Fashion International into his mental-mind-space…

When designing a collection, my reference/point of departure is always
clothing itself. I design “clothes about clothes”, either tweaking them by manipulating darts and panels or experimenting with fabrics and details. For this season my focus was on colour how to use it in a way that was summery and light but still modern, sophisticated and wearable especially during the day.

My latest collection is a story about a glimpse of a woman who is slightly jaded by life but still manages to be optimistic at the same time. Her taste is impeccable and every inch of her groomed in an effortless way.

The most innovative thing about my last collection are the two charcoal grey cotton knit dresses. They are meticulously draped and hand tacked and took tens of hours to create and finalise, but it resulted in effortless and unexpected beauty. It was like turning matte grey into the proverbial gold.

I understand quality in fashion to be the search for excellence in standards through the entire value chain of the garment – from design/conceptualisation, fabrication, fit and garment assembly all the way to store display, customer service and wear/care.

The next steps that I will be taking to continue my development are to grow my business organically whilst searching for outlets that fit into my business structure and style. There is lots on the go at the moment.

South African fashion design is defined by very different points of view.

I collaborate with no one really. I still have so much to say that there is no need to collaborate so early in the game. People still need to get to know who THULA SINDI is. The closest I get to collaboration is with Mary Reynolds of Tramps productions. We work really closely when it comes to producing my shows and with Martin Myers who knows how to use music to convey the emotion to the audience. They really understand my point of view.

In a tough economic climate my customers think more closely about what they are buying.

The last time I laughed really hard it was because
I explained to my assistant Bonolo that a chicken’s head (a local delicacy in Klerksdorp) is called an AYAS. She looked so appalled that I even knew that. I realised we definitely from different generations.

I want to become known as a woman’s best friend and secret weapon, offering beautiful fashion solutions and bringing real value back to designer clothing.