Kairo Forbes wins Nickelodeon’s Favourite African Kid Influencer category.

Kairo Forbes recently won big at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards scooping the ‘Favourite African Kidfluencer’ category.

 
Kairo is the daughter of none-other-than DJ Zinhle and the late Kiernan Forbes (AKA) was competing with other young South Africans were also competing for the title of “Favourite African Kidfluencer,” including Lethukuthula Bhengu, the winner of the previous year’s prize, and Manna, the sibling musicians of Biko.

Even at the young age of eight, little Kairo is already well-known throughout the world, with a 1.5 million-strong following on kidfluencer.com.

The young star thanked her family and all of the voters, dedicating the award to her father.

“I’m very happy and I appreciate your support. I hope that I inspire other kids to have dreams and that they family that will support their dreams. Thank you, God for all your blessings. This one’s for you Daddy!”

Is DJ Maphorisa trying to get the attention of new Minister of Sport, Arts & Culture by spinning a gusheshe and playing with the idea of a “Porryland” spin fest?

It does seem like Minister Gayton McKenzie’s vow to make spinning an official sport in his capacity has the DJ and producer contemplating whether he should work on putting together a huge spin festival.

 
Mckenzie promised to make car spinning a recognised sport in the country. His reasons are to not only elevate the sport, but to keep young people out of jail.

“There is one promise I made; spinning and stance are not crimes, you will see. I promise that spinning will be recognised. I will make spinning one of the biggest sports in this country. Stance is not a crime. Spinning will enter its rightful space.

We will work hard. I will be one of the best ministers because I have you guys. We will stop gangsterism with sports. I will make sure you are recognised.”

Popular Skeem Saam actor, Thabiso Molokomme, known to millions of fans as Paxton Kgomo, has launched his first major business at the tender age of 23.

Skeem Saam actor Thabiso Molokomme launches his own skincare line
The actor is best known for his role in the educational soapie Skeem Saam and for achieving 20 distinctions at the University of Johannesburg.
Thabiso Molokomme transitioned from the small screen to launching his own skincare brand.

 

 

 

Molokomme recently announced the launch of his skin care product, Bakene Skin Care. The actor is the CEO and founder of the company.

Speaking to Daily Sun recently, Molokomme said that there is a huge gap when it comes to skincare education, especially for men.

“I’ve always been complimented on my skin because I took really great care of it. And as the saying goes, if you’re buying too much of something, rather own it. A young black boy with a skincare brand.

“I’m not here to judge people and their thinking, so I know that there still needs to be a lot of education around skincare and self-care, especially for men. We’re hoping that our company can collaborate with many others to de-stigmatise the idea thatMolokomme has always been an overachiever. In 2022, he announced that he was a cum laude graduate. This was after he obtained 20 distinctions in his Operations Management Diploma at the University of Johannesburg.

state-owned water company
What could possibly go wrong when a state-owned water company comes online in 2025, according to the new Minister. Image: File/Fotor

Following years of worsening water infrastructure, a state-owned water company could come online as early as 2025, reports Business Tech. Although, experts are skeptical about its effectiveness, in light of the poor track record of traditionally corrupt SOEs in South Africa like Eskom and Transnet.

Earlier this year, in March 2024, a bill to form the National Water Resources Infrastructure Agency (NWRIA) was passed in Parliament. The goals thereof are to see sweeping reforms in the sector, attract private investment, enforce accountability for non-performance, and remedy outages and poor water quality.

 
Moreover, the main mandates of the state-owned NWRIA will be to:

Implement water resource management infrastructure.
Manage national water resources.
Generate and collect revenue from the sale of water as its primary source of income.
Raise commercial funding for commercially viable projects.South Africa’s water infrastructure is a relic from the apartheid era. Image: File
According to department reports, there are widespread challenges facing South Africa’s water infrastructure:

46% of drinking water fails microbiological standards.
67.6% of wastewater treatment of sewage is inadequate.
40.8% of water is being lost due to system leaks.
However, as government transitions into its seventh administration and new Minister and former ANC Chief Whip, Pemmy Majodina, takes over control, there is renewed uncertainty over the viability of a state-owned water company. Speaking in parliament for the first time, Majodina said there are currently R135-billion worth of national water resource infrastructure projects on going. These are largely funded by financial markets, banks, pension funds and development finance institutions, based on guarantees from the National Treasury.

Dear beloved readers and Muvhango fans… it pains us to bring you this news and in this sudden, extreme manner.

As you may know, there have been no Muvhango teasers this month, a first in the history of TVSA.

We’ve been requesting them from the SABC but they haven’t been available and we’ve noticed that the show’s Twitter account didn’t Tweet for the whole of June.

Also the cast has been on break for ages – each time we’ve called to enquire about something – and yesterday TVSA member Sulaiman Isaacs posted that the latest season would be ending this week, a short season of only 130 episodes.

 
We’ve been trying to uncover what’s going on, asking both the SABC and the show’s production house Word of Mouth Pictures but there’s been no clarity until tonight, 2 July.

Word of Mouth spokesperson Thanduxolo Jindela tells TVSA that there are no teasers because the show has shut down.

He tells us that the finale episode airs tonight.

Immediately and just like that. It’s heartbreaking for such a thing to happen to a long-running legendary show!

We feel your hurt if it’s going to impact on you.

As we told you earlier this year, the latest season of Generations was touch and go and things were resolved but clearly the behind-the-scenes negotiations for a new season of Muvhango have failed.

We’ll keep you posted when we hear anything further.