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Cape Town, Durban, Jozi… R U Ready… WWE LIVE will return to South Africa in 2020 with events on Wednesday, April 29 at Grand Arena Grandwest in Cape Town; Thursday, April 30 at Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban; and Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 at Ticketpro Dome, Johannesburg. Tickets for WWE LIVE South Africa are available via Computicket. Fans attending WWE LIVE will see their favourite Superstars including Seth Rollins™, Becky Lynch™, Charlotte Flair™, Bobby Lashley™, The O.C.™, Ricochet™,  Aleister Black™ and more*. “We ...

kykNET se Plaasjapie beloof ‘n Groot Oes met Groot Pryse! Kan jy vir  een maand op ‘n plaas oorleef? Skryf in vir kykNET se nuwe realiteitsprogram, Plaasjapie, en bewys dat jy ‘n boer is wat ‘n plan kan maak. Plaasjapie is kykNET se splinternuwe realiteitsreeks wat deelnemers die geleentheid gee om te wys of hulle die deursettingsvermoë het om op ‘n plaas te oorleef. 20 ...

Enter NOW to outwit, outplay and outlast the Survivor SA, Season 8.  Survivor SA fans finally received the news that they have been waiting for since nifty player Rob Bentele nabbed the title of Sole Survivor at the end of season 7’s live finale. M-Net confirmed that Survivor South Africa will return for an eighth season in 2020 and that entries have officially opened. Those who think they ...

Dazzling Ballet Classic returns to the Johannesburg Stage.

Emily Van Camp returns to the Small Screen in awaited 3rd Season.  Entering its third season, The Resident continues to rip back the curtain and reveal the truth of what really happens, both good and bad, in hospitals across the country. This third season of this firm favourite premieres on Fox, on Tuesdays at 20:45 CAT from 21 January 2020. The provocative medical drama follows ...

Welcome to Queendom! Netflix announced that Queen Sono will release exclusively on Netflix worldwide on February 28, 2020. After the assassination of her mother, Queen Sono grows up to become a kick- ass yet unconventional spy devoted to protecting the people of Africa. During a dangerous field assignment, Queen unknowingly uncovers shocking details about her mother’s death, sparking her own truth-finding mission. Queen Sono will be ...

Second Season for Otis streams on Netflix this January. Sex Education will return to Netflix on 17 January 2020 with 8 brand new episodes. Sex Education is about Otis Milburn, a socially awkward high school student who lives with his sex therapist mother, Jean. In season 1 Otis and his friend Maeve Wiley set-up a sex clinic at school to capitalise on his intuitive talent ...

Jenny Han’s Best Selling Novel coming alive on Netflix. A new film with Noah Centineo, which is based on the #1 New York Times best-selling YA romance novel, will commence streaming on Netflix, as of 12 February 2020. It’s a new year and Lara Jean, played by Lana Condor, and Peter, Centineo’s character, are no longer pretending to be a couple. They now are a ...

Our own Theron against Kidman, in this new Jay Roach Real Life Feature. A new film reveals the personal and professional cost often paid by women when publicly going into battle with very powerful men. Bombshell, a film by award-winning director Jay Roach and screenwriter Charles Randolph, tells the explosive story of the women who brought down a powerful media mogul. Based on the real-life ...

New International Feature highlights the harsh realities of addiction. A Million Little Pieces is the adaptation of the notorious 2003 bestseller with the same name by James Frey, which offered a visceral account of the author’s time at a rehabilitation centre in the 1990s. An alcoholic and a drug addict, 23 year-old James has two options: treatment or death. After waking up on a plane ...

Star filled Cast in this David and Goliath Feature by Todd Haynes.  Dark Waters tells the shocking and heroic story of an attorney who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals. Based on The New York Times Magazine article, The ...

Director of Skyfall, brings Epic War Movie to South Africa. The highly-anticipated new film from acclaimed director Sam Mendes, is the suspenseful war-drama 1917 – scheduled for release in South African cinemas on 17 January 2020. Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic, which follows the thrilling tale of two young British soldiers on a single ...

BBC Studios Celebrates 20th Anniversary in SA with Stellar Local Line-Up. To mark the end of a successful 20th anniversary year for its channels business in Africa, BBC Studios revealed a full stellar summer season of programming across BBC Lifestyle, BBC Earth, BBC First, BBC Brit and CBeebies. South Africans can look forward to another local commission with a season 2 of Dinner Dates South ...

Montecasino to host the new Mzansi Production in January. The South African International Ballet Competition, funded by the National Lotteries Commission, is happy to announce the staging of the new production of The Queen Show, a celebration of ballet and dance to the timeless music of Queen. The production will be staged by Mzansi Ballet. This new production will run at the Pieter Toerien Theatre ...

Fun on Stage and Screen at Gold Reef City this December. Gold Reef City, SA’s beloved local entertainment spot with their infamous Theme Park, is bringing the colorful world of Dr Seuss to the Lyric Theatre, to inspire and entertain like never before with Seussical! If that isn’t enough, check out the magical line up of family entertainment at Tsogo Sun’s Gold Reef City.   ...

A Celebration of Summer and Festive Attractions at the Venue that’s Got It! Montecasino, SA’s very own Tuscan Village on African soil, is celebrating the summer season, in a true Italian style with festivo spirit! So if you are around the Northern Suburbs of Jozi, even if you are only visiting these parts of the country, check out things to do this December season, at ...

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It’s more than a Festival ….. It’s a Movement! Earlier this year, the Right2Unite Movement announced that the Right2Unite Festival will be held on 21 March 2020 at the Cradle Boutique Hotel in Kromdraai, Johannesburg. Through dialogue and engagement, Right2Uinite aim to make a difference by uniting people into one front, fighting for change that serves the greater good. They believe that we are all ...

Unhitched guys over 25, meet the woman of your dreams on M-Net! If you are looking for that special woman to settle down with, take note that M-Net’s brand new reality dating show; The Single Wives SA, are now inviting guys over the age of twenty-five, from all over South Africa, to put their name forward. If you are one of the successful candidates, you may ...

Andre Schwartz and Coenie de Villiers teamed up in a Production without Borders. Two of South Africa’s most loved entertainers join forces for the very first time to create a truly memorable musical show. The ever-popular Andre Schwartz and Coenie de Villiers have collaborated to bring us the heartfelt Grensloos. Says Coenie: “For years we’ve been threatening to produce something together and whilst we’re still ...

During Christmas, Tradition is synonym to Scrooge, and his Spirits. VR Theatrical is proud to once again present Charles Dickens’ evergreen tale of redemption, A Christmas Carol with Charlie Bouguenon as Scrooge and Amber Burnhams as Everyone Else, in this two-hander adaptation by the amazing Elizma Badenhorst, whose talents are labelled by Stage and Screen as very underrated, deserving of more acclaim. Bah, Humbug! the ...

Third installment of the National Geographic’s Series, will feature the Queen of Soul. National Geographic, with Imagine Television Studios and Fox 21 Television Studios, announced the cast that will be joining previously announced Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin, in the next installment of the Emmy-winning global anthology series Genius: Aretha. Malcolm Barrett, Patrice Covington, Kimberly Hébert Gregory, Rebecca Naomi Jones and Sanai Victoria will star ...

Restaurateur, Chef, Cookery writer, TV Presenter, Novelist and Business Women comes home! Prue Leith has announced that she will be returning to South Africa for two weeks in February 2020. As one of the world’s most well-known restaurateurs and culinary experts, Prue was born in South Africa, and will be visiting the Prue Leith Chefs Academy, and promoting various projects including her cookbooks, novels and ...

Relive Your Favorite Disney Memories Alongside Mickey Mouse in 2020. Grab your Mickey Mouse ears and get ready as Disney On Ice celebrates Mickey and Friends skates into South Africa for the first time. Produced by Feld Entertainment Inc., this production will inspire families to relive their favorite Disney memories and make new ones they will treasure forever. Brought to South Africa by leading local promoter, Showtime ...

The Anticipated Return of the Nutcracker’s Winter Circus comes to Sandton City. The most magical time of the year is upon us and this Festive Season, Sandton City is proud to present the return of a wonderfully whimsical theatrical adventure with The Nutcracker’s Winter Circus.  Bigger, better and back for another spectacular season, this year’s adventure includes creative master puppetry, set to bring a host ...

Marvel Universe LIVE – In South Africa! With thanks to Showtime Management, we have a Family set of tickets to give away, to go see the superheroes live, when Marvel Universe Live comes to Pretoria. Marvel fans, assemble for this live, legendary battle to defend the universe from evil. The Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Spider-Man join forces with Doctor Strange, Master of ...

From Page to Screen, Now get the whole Book! With compliment of Fox Network Group, we are giving away three copies of the book, to enhance your War of the Worlds Experience. The acclaimed series War of the Worlds, premiered on FOX (DSTV 125), and is currently on a full Broadcast-Battle.  This contemporary reimagining of H.G. Wells’ timeless classic is produced by Urban Myth Films ...

Alan Committie returns to Jozi as a Class(y) Clown Popular South African funnyman, Alan Committie, is back at Montecasino after a long hiatus in which he did some seriously dramatic work including playing the title role in Richard III at Maynardville Open air theatre in Cape Town. But now it’s back to Comedy and another installment of examining the foibles and madness of being alive ...

I do believe in Fairies, I do, I do.. Even On Ice, Peter!! With thanks to Pieter Toerien Productions, we are giving away 10 Double tickets to The Imperial Ice Star’s Peter Pan on Ice, to be staged at the Teatro at Montecasino, on Wednesday, 11 December 2019, at 19:30. The world’s premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, returns to South Africa with a ...

Seeking a second chance at finding love? M-Net is adding a South African version of another popular international reality dating show to its slate of top-notch local programming. In The Single Wives SA, six courageous women between the ages of 20 and 50, who have walked down the aisle and then suffered the pain of divorce or widowhood, will learn how to let go of their ...