Emmanuel Tjiya

Johannesburg

Editor-in-Chief at Sowetan

Editor-in-chief @SowetanMag ✍🏾 | Award-winning culture reporter 📰 | Bestselling author of Dinner at Somizi’s: I Am Not a Chef 📚 | #Sowetan40xNetflix

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Next-gen leading lady: Shalate Sekhabi

1 week ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

TV darling Shalate Sekhabi. Shalate Sekhabi is textbook entertainment royalty with well-established showbiz parents, although she is discreet about her multi-generational showbiz legacy. The 24-year-old starlet is the daughter of Aubrey Sekhabi — playwright, director, and artistic director of the South African State Theatre. Her mother, former actress Nontutuzelo Sekhabi, works for the department of arts & culture.
Luyanda Zuma: The new It-girl

2 weeks ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

Budding actor Luyanda Zuma After modelling the season’s hottest It-girl styles, Luyanda Zuma details a gruelling audition process to make the cut as Liyana, Shaka’s (Lemogang Tsipa) love interest in the much-anticipated second season of historical drama Shaka iLembe. While she can crack a joke about it today, at the time it was no laughing matter. So much so that in the two weeks before her casting she couldn’t eat. The 23-year-old Miss SA finalist endured about seven callback auditions.
Proudly queer, Shaka iLembe's new stars: on the cards of SMag Youth issue

2 weeks ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya |Aart Verrips

Zamani Mbatha front the June Youth issue of SMag. SMag's annual June Youth issue, coinciding with International Pride Month, is unapologetically young, black and queer. On the first of three covers are the new faces of fashion, Ponahalo Mojapelo, Nkuley Masemola and Mordecai Ngubane. The trio is proudly queer, effortlessly cool and undeniably bold. Inside the magazine, they model fluid, nonbinary and genderless styles from up-and-coming local fashion designers.
Editor's letter: Learn how to fall

2 weeks ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

Before you learn how to fly, you first have to learn how to fall. Paul Simon documents that mood and journey in his 1973 song Learn How to Fall. “You got to drift in the breeze before you set your sails,” the US singer belts out. This issue marks my 10-year work anniversary, a period characterised by remarkable storytelling and profound personal growth. Having to crawl before learning to walk has been the biggest lesson.
Final curtain call for Muvhango after 28 years

1 month ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

Trailblazing Tshivenda soapie Muvhango is set to end after 28 years on August 8, SABC confirmed in a statement on Wednesday. The brainchild of Duma ka Ndlovu (Word of Mouth Productions) aired its first episode on SABC2 on April 7 1997. The long-running 9pm daily drama introduced viewers to fan-favourite characters Edward, Catherine, Doobsie, Doris, Chief Azwindini, Thandaza, James, Mulalo and KK.
Presley Chweneyagae was the epitome of God given talent - Phathu Makwarela

1 month ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

The River co-creator Phathutshedzo Makwarela has described late actor Presley Chweneyagae as the “epitome of God given talent”. News of Chweneyagae’s death at the age of 40 broke on Tuesday morning. Makwarela’s Tshedza Pictures produced The River and its spin-off series Cobrizi, where Chweneyagae played fan-favourite character Thuso “Cobra” Mokoena. The role won him a prestigious SA Film and Television Award (Safta) twice. “Presley was one of a generation. He was the epitome of God-given talent.
Tsotsi star Presley Chweneyagae dies at 40

1 month ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

Tsotsi actor Presley Chweneyagae has died at age 40, his manager Nina Morris Lee confirmed in a statement. Chweneyagae played the titular role in the Oscar-winning local film in 2005. He was also known for his award-winning performance as Thuso "Cobra" Mokoena in daily drama The River. “It is with profound sadness that we confirm the untimely passing of one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved actors, Presley Chweneyagae, at the age of 40,” the statement read from his agency.
Jenna Clifford, 65, succumbs to cancer

1 month ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

Renowned local jewellery designer Jenna Clifford has died at 65 after a battle with cancer, her family confirmed in a statement. Her three daughters, Shayna, Chanelle and Summer, confirmed in a joint statement that Clifford died on Tuesday night, surrounded by her family and close friends. “It is with the heaviest of hearts that we share that our beloved mother, Jenna Clifford, has passed away. Earlier this year, mom was diagnosed with cancer at an advanced stage,” the family said in a statement.
Caribbean couture hits G-Star Raw

1 month ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

Rushemy Botter and Lisi Herrebrugh. The morning after fashion’s biggest night, the Met Gala, I jump on a virtual call with Lisi Herrebrugh and Rushemy Botter, the visionaries behind Dutch label Botter. A few days earlier they were named creative directors for G-Star Raw’s premium collections.
Style diary: Denim with balls

1 month ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Emmanuel Tjiya

Dear Ribane perform in separates from G-Star Raw x Walter van Beirendonck. “Naked dressing” might be banned at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival in Italy – sending shock waves through baddies – but fear not, I have found the covetable winter items to not only keep warm, but look stylish too. Welcome to my winter style diary. The first entry is denim, thanks to the G-Star Raw x Walter van Beirendonck collection.