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Emmanuel Tjiya
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Editor-in-Chief, Sowetan
Johannesburg
Beats
Politics and current affairs
Content
By Emmanuel Tjiya Verified| Sowetan Verified Some of Mzansi’s leading A-listers will get a chance to take aim at politician Helen Zille with unfiltered punchlines in her forthcoming comedy roast. The Roast of Helen Zille will be filmed for Showmax at the 2025 Laugh Africa Comedy Festival, set to stage from May 2 to May 4 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Joburg. “I say it like it is and I get roasted on social media and in the press all the time — so why not put it on the main stage?” Zille said in a statement.
By Emmanuel Tjiya Verified| Sowetan Verified Amapiano star Young Stunna. “My first hundred thousand, I didn’t know what to do with it, I locked myself in my room in disbelief,” Young Stunna chuckles, reflecting on the first few months of his meteoric rise to fame. “I was like, ‘This is my first R100k, what am I going to do about it?’ I went crazy. I made my first million in my first year, it was crazy.”This was three years ago, after he’d been called to the house of amapiano pioneer Kabza De Small.
By Emmanuel Tjiya Verified| Sowetan Verified Some of Mzansi’s leading A-listers will get a chance to take aim at politician Helen Zille with unfiltered punchlines in her forthcoming comedy roast. The Roast of Helen Zille will be filmed for Showmax at the 2025 Laugh Africa Comedy Festival, set to stage from May 2 to May 4 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Joburg. “I say it like it is and I get roasted on social media and in the press all the time — so why not put it on the main stage?” Zille said in a statement.
Company Info
Sowetan
Sowetan is an English-language South African daily newspaper that started in 1981 as a liberation struggle publication and which serves a proudly South African readership who have earned the right to be in the know and on the move.
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
+27 11 484 3612
Founded: 1981