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Cape Town Carnival 2017 Cape Town - The Western Cape is in the midst of an unprecedented drought , and this has had a profound effect on all events organised in the city of Cape Town. The even is scheduled to take place on 17 March, and  at present the City has given the go ahead that the event will continue as per normal. According to Cape Town Carnival CEO Jay Douwes, the Cape Town Carnival are "taking the situation very seriously" and are "focusing on ensuring that practical and responsible measures are implemented." The 2018 objective is to have zero water impact on the municipal water grid.  The current water plan for the Cape Town Carnival includes the following : Only chemical toilets will be used. All water for hydration for participants will be sourced from outside municipal water grids. Water sold by vendors will be sourced from outside municipal water grids. No water ballasting of structures will take place - only concrete...

Melinda Bam Women’s Health on Tuesday announced that former Miss SA and TV personality Melinda Bam will be its March cover star. Those attending Women’s Health Fit Night Out  ( read more below ) on 17 February will be the first to see the hot new issue and will also have the chance to meet Melinda. Fans of SABC 3’s Tropika Island of Treasure (#TIOT8) already got a sneak peek behind the scenes of Melinda’s cover shoot, even though they might not have realised it! In the first episode of the season, Melinda can be seen on the set of a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to viewers, she was shooting the Women’s Health Cover. SEE THE COVER HERE: The shoot took place days before Melinda jetted off to the Maldives for the filming of TIOT8, on which she is one of the celebrity contestants. In her Women’s Health cover feature, she shares the hectic, six-days-a-week training regime that she followed to get in peak physical shape for the competition – whi...

PHOTO: Kelly Khumalo Instagram Cape Town - Local singer Kelly Khumalo showed off her toned thighs last night at the launch of the second season of her talk show, Love and Matrimony . The 33-year-old singer and actress wore a beaded corset and hot pants combo to serenade guests at the Dorkay Rooftop in Joburg. The all-white outfit made quite an impression, especially as red balloons dotted the venue. Check out the look here : She was dressed in white from head to shoe, with red toenails as it is the month of love after all. Kelly snapped a picture of herself surrounded by seven, perfectly-toned men showing off their six-packs and captioned it: “Good Lord this night was everything ?? (sic)”

Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters New York - Miss Universe Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters attended the Black Panther inspired presentation, "Welcome to Wakanda" at New York Fashion Week on Monday. The Marvel Studios sponsored presentation featured designs by LaQuan Smith, Chromat, Wale Oyejide of the brand Ikire Jones, Fear of God and others, including the jewelry of Douriean Fletcher in a capsule collection. Among Fletcher's work in the highly anticipated film that opens Friday is a bold amethyst and 18-karat gold plate piece at the top of a costume worn by Angela Bassett's Queen Ramonda. It's featured in one of the movie's posters. Fletcher also hand pounded gold-plate armor pieces for the female warriors of the Dora Milaje. To say there's buzz about the Ryan Coogler-directed film based on the character from the comic series is an understatement. Mania is more like it. Excited fans have said they plan to show up at theaters in Af...

PHOTO: Mapaseka Koetle -Nyokong Johannesburg - A wise man once said beauty may be dangerous but intelligence is lethal. Scandal!’s Mapaseka Koetle-Nyokong is a perfect example of beauty and brains. The Bloemfontein-born actress recently opened Gorge Grab n Go Cafe, a health-food takeaway spot in Johannesburg, and people are loving itce. Mapaseka, who plays Dintle on e.tv soapie, says Gorge is a franchise that sells healthy sandwiches, coffee and smoothies – everything is organic, fresh and free-range. “After giving birth to my daughter I started living a very healthy lifestyle and I would frequent the franchise because that’s where I would buy the best health food – I fell in love with everything from the décor, the look and feel to the amazing sandwiches.” Always wanting to have a business of her own, she and her husband decided to open a Gorge franchise of their own. “The restaurant idea came much later. My hubby is the one who always loved the ...

The Broadcasting Complaints Commisson of South Africa (BCCSA)  has published a judgement that shows SABC1 has been slapped with a R20 000 fine, this after complaints were made of profane language used during the broadcast of Cassper Nyovest’s Fill Up The Dome concert in November. On Friday, the BCCSA stated on its website that the “Material [was] broadcast before the watershed period, [and] considered harmful to children”. “The Tribunal is thus compelled to state that the respondent failed to exercise the necessary precaution prior to the broadcast of #FillUpTheDome concert and thus contravened the provisions of the broadcasting code of conduct.” The watershed period is the period in which it is appropriate to broadcast programming aimed towards mature or adult audiences. According to the South African National Editors’ Forum  this period is between 12:00 and 5:00. However, Fill Up The Dome was aired at 20:00 on 18 November 2017.  On the jud...

Sipho Ngwenya Former YO-TV presenter Sipho “Psyfo” Ngwenya and his girlfriend Aamirah are loved-up in Bali. The producer has shared pictures with his bae, captioning one post with a heartfelt message. “I was playing golf, the most calming thing you can ever do and then you get that feeling, that anxiety, I knew it then something is wrong. April was not nice but now I know why he led me here. I was forced to jump and even though I was scared of the landing I went… now I know!!!” he wrote. Take a look at some pics Sipho has posted: