Here are the winners of the 22nd South African Music Awards. The ceremony took place at the Durban International Convention Centre last night.

The full list of winners for the 22nd Annual South African Music Awards:

Album of the Year (served hot by Nescafe)
Black Coffee  – Pieces of Me

Duo or Group of the Year
Big Nuz – For the Fans

Female Artist of the Year (Brought to you by Metro FM)
Zonke – Work of Heart

Male Artist of the Year (Brought to you by Umhlobo Wenene FM)
Nathi – Buyelekhaya

Newcomer of the Year (Supported by Apple Music)
Nathi – Buyelekhaya

Best Rock Album        
Desmond & the Tutus – Enjoy Yourself

Best Pop Album  (Brought to you by 5FM)
Tresor – VII

Beste Pop Album (Afrikaans) 
Karlien van Jaarsveld – My Hartjie

Best Adult Contemporary Album   
Judith Sephuma – One Word

Beste Kontemporêre Musiek Album
Elvis Blue – Êrens in die Middel van Nêrens

Best African Adult Album       
Dizu Plaatjies & Friends – Ubuntu – The Common String

Best Alternative Album 
Petite Noir – La Vie Est Belle/Life is Beautiful

Best R&B/Soul/Reggae Album
Nathi – Buyelekhaya

Best Rap Album
Emtee – Avery

Best Kwaito Album (Brought to you by Ukhozi FM)
Big Nuz – For the Fans

Best Dance Album
Black Coffee – Pieces of Me

Best Traditional Faith Music Album  
TYGC Family – The Journey Begins

Best Contemporary Faith Music Album     
Ntokozo Mbambo – Spirit and Life

Best Maskandi Album (Brought to you by Ukhozi FM and KUMISA)
Imithente – Ichakijana

Best Jazz Album (Brought to you by Metro FM)
Marcus Wyatt & the ZAR – One Night in the Sun Jazz Orchestra

Best Classical and/or Instrumental Album
Wouter Kellerman – Love Language

Best Live Audiovisual Recording
Jimmy Dludlu – Live at Emperors Palace   

Best Collaboration
Dbn Nyts ft. Zinhle Ngidi – Shumaya & Trademark

Best Music Video of the Year
Jack Parow & Freshly Ground Army of One

Best Produced Album of the Year
Zahara – Country Girl

Best Engineered Album of the Year
Black Coffee – Pieces of Me

Best Remix of the Year
DJ Sliqe – Do Like I Do Remix

Special Awards
International Achievement Award – Black Coffee
Lifetime Achievement Awards (Brought to you by Telkom)– Nana Coyote (posthumous award), Bhekumuzi Luthuli (posthumous award), Roger Lucey

Best Selling Albums and Music Downloads of the Year
Best Selling Album – Nathi (Buyelekhaya)
Best Selling DVD – Joyous Celebration (Volume 19: Back to the Cross)
Best Selling Overall Music Download – Sfiso Ncwane (Bayede Baba)
Best Selling Music Download (Ring-back Tone) – Sfiso Ncwane (Bayede Baba)
Best Selling Full-track Music Download – Nathi (Nomvula)

Sampra Award

Highest Radio Airplay of the Year – DBN Nyts (Shumaya)

Samro Award

Highest Radio Airplay Composers’ Award – Samkele Maphumulo, Kabelo Masekane, Cebo Ngcobo, Wanda Shabalala and Lwazi Yokwana for Shumaya by Dbn Nyts

Capasso Award

Best Selling Digital Download Composers’ Award – Sfiso Ncwane (Bayede Baba)

Amstel Record of the year

Roll Up by Emtee

Source: Sunday Sun

The Democratic Alliance (DA) would not forget why they were elected and who they served, leader Mmusi Maimane promised on Sunday.

He was speaking during a campaign stop in Gauteng’s Malibongwe Ridge’s Itsoseng informal settlement.

He said the ruling party, which was due to handover houses in the area this month, forgot about the area in between elections, and only remembered them during campaign season.

“Sometimes it’s food parcels, sometimes it’s blankets and sometimes it’s the keys to a few houses,” he said.

Let people down

In his last appearance in Parliament, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said the party did not have to buy votes with food parcels.

Maimane questioned the timing of the delivery of houses in the area.

He called for residents to think carefully before casting their votes in the next election.

“What we’re seeing are the actions of a party that knows it has let the people down, and is desperately trying to avoid being punished in the elections,” he said.

Maimane said this was unacceptable. “The people elected to run this city have a duty to take care of you, and they have a duty to stick to their word.”

Source: http://www.news24.com

Tefu Mashamaite of Kaizer Chiefs during the Absa Premiership 2014/15 football match between Kaizer Chiefs and Chippa United at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, South Africa on December 13, 2014 ©Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix

That’s the message club boss Kaizer Motaung has conveyed to coach Steve Komphela.

In a frank assessment of a pedestrian, barren and well-below-expectation season endured by Amakhosi, Motaung didn’t mince his words.

“We lacked soul, we didn’t play our game, especially in the second half of the league.

“It was not in our character the way we played. It was just not Kaizer Chiefs,” Motaung told the Sunday Times.

“The coach [Steve Komphela] knows that, he knows there has to be a change. He has committed to ensuring that things will be different.

“Any other team would have been happy to say we made two finals [MTN8 and Telkom Knockout]. Not here.

“It was a bitterly disappointing season for our supporters, not one to remember in terms of our standard,” he said.

#SteveMustFall

Amakhosi faithful were less enamoured with Komphela’s stewardship in his maiden season.

The #SteveMustFall became all the rage with every below par performance as the league campaign progressed.

“I can’t speak for him, but he tried his best to deal with the club. He came to fill very big shoes [replacing Stuart Baxter, who won four trophies].

“He tried to introduce his own kind of philosophy and change the style of play to make it the way he wanted,” said the Chiefs chairman.

But the team that won two league titles and a Nedbank and MTN8 trophies in Baxter’s three-year tenure capitulated in 2015-16, finishing in fifth place without winning any silverware.

Motaung sounded sympathetic towards Komphela and appeared to be questioning the resolve of the players.

“It must also be taken into cognisance that probably some of the changes he made, he didn’t have the kind of resources in terms of the players to deliver what we wanted.”

Players lost appetite

“I don’t know, some of the players lost appetite, they were not as hungry as before.

“A team with a bite and hunger goes an extra mile. This time, the guys were a bit relaxed.

“The telling blow happened in the second round when we were supposed to be gunning for the league.

“But we didn’t have the strength, so we stumbled, lost momentum and the rest is history.

“One hopes the coach got some lessons along the way. You cannot simply judge him by one season.”

But the winds of change are blowing at the club – in an unprecedented massive spring cleaning, Chiefs showed the door to 20 players on Wednesday.

Team needs cleaning up

“We looked at the past two or three seasons and decided the team needs cleaning and beefing up,” said Motaung.

“The crux of the matter is that when you look at the team, we are lacking and very poor upfront.

“In defence, we conceded goals that were very uncharacteristic for us to concede.

“We gave away too many unnecessary points.

“Hence we embarked on that process to make sure we use the period to reinforce so we can look forward with much more purpose.

“I am sorry we could not deliver any silverware for the supporters. But we will bounce back, that is what our character demands.

“We hope the next season will be different. We have to strengthen the defence and attack, no doubt. Whatever acquisitions we make, the coach will have made a contribution as well.”

Komphela is working round the clock behind the scenes to bolster the squad.

Wooing Mashamaite

The Sunday Times understands that Komphela has met Tefu Mashamaite for talks aimed at bringing the former club captain back to the club to fortify a rearguard

A rock in the Chiefs defence in the 2014-15 season in which he won Premier Soccer League Footballer and Player’s Player of the season, Mashamaite left Chiefs when contract renewal negotiations collapsed.

After a failed trial with Major League Soccer side New York City, Mashamaite landed a contract with BK Hacken in Sweden.

He signed a two-and-a-half-year deal. BK Haken won the Sweden Cup final in May.

Mashamaite, 31, played no part owing to a thigh muscle rupture he suffered in the semifinal.

But Chiefs will not have it easy in their bid to woo Mashamaite.

SuperSport United, now coached by ex-Chiefs coach Baxter, are big admirers of the former Bidvest Wits skipper.

Yesterday, Baxter told the Sunday Times: “I would definitely be interested in Masha were he to become available.

“In principle, I am always interested in Masha. I spoke to him a while ago, checking up on his injury

“A player like Masha has got a good basic education in how to defend intelligently.

“He is top quality by South African standards. Everybody is trying to strengthen.”

Baxter has already brought Reyaad Pieterse, Reneilwe Letsholonyane and Keagan Ritchie to SuperSport from Chiefs, while Sibusiso Khumalo has gone the opposite direction.

Chiefs are also understood to have renewed their interest in Bafana Bafana international Sibusiso Vilakazi.

The latest bid to bring the Bidvest Wits forward to Naturena Village is believed to involve money and two players going to Gavin Hunt’s side.

Motaung would not comment on the players they are chasing.

The number of Chiefs youth development graduates who have been released from their contracts may be a silent admission by the club that its development structures have not delivered the desired quality.

Source: Sunday Times

Cape Town – The Democratic Alliance has called for Lumka Yengeni to be removed from her position as chairperson of the Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Labour.

This after reports that she had been found guilty of breaching labour laws by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration.

The Sunday Times reported that Yengeni’s former domestic worker, Lucia Dlephu, had taken the MP to the CCMA.

Dlephu told the newspaper that Yengeni had not allowed her lunch breaks or leave, and that she had to be on duty 24-hours a day.

DA MP Ian Ollis said this was unacceptable.

Some of the issues raised with the CCMA included:

– Failure to supply a letter of appointment or an employment contract to the domestic worker;

– Failure to give the domestic worker a payslip;

– Not giving her employee leave, and never paying for any leave;

– Her employee was not paid double on public holidays, despite being forced to work on these days.

“This hypocrisy is simply unacceptable and in the interests of the scores of workers and labourers in SA, the DA simply cannot allow her to remain as Chairperson of this Committee or any committee for that matter,” Ollis said.

He said Yengeni, who had been outspoken about worker’s rights in the past, now had a conflict of interest and could not continue to chair the committee.

“As such, she must be removed if we are to meaningfully put the rights of workers at the apex of the Committee’s agenda and restore credibility to the committee itself.”

Source: http://www.news24.com

Cape Town – A paramedic died and several people were injured in a multiple car pile-up in Midrand, Gauteng, on Sunday, Netcare 911 said.

The paramedic was responding to an accident scene when he was struck by another vehicle on the N1 South, near the Allandale Road, around 5:00, said Netcare 911 spokesperson Athlenda Mathe.

Three cars, a tow truck and an ambulance were involved in the pile-up.

The paramedic was found trapped beneath the tow truck and was declared dead on scene, Mathe said.

Cape Town – Applications and nominations for a candidate to replace Public Protector Thuli Madonsela are officially open.

Nominations can be submitted until June 24, the ad hoc committee tasked with finding a new public protector said on Sunday.

Nominations should include a motivation letter, as well as the CV of the prospective candidate. Applications would have to include the same information.

The advert has been published on Parliament’s website, complete with requirements of the job.

Earlier this week, committee members stressed the need for public participation in the process.

Make CVs public

Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema, called for CVs to be made public once submitted.

A list of applications/nominations received would be published in order to allow members of the public to comment on the suitability of candidates, the advert states.

On Wednesday, committee chairperson, Makhosi Khoza, assured MPs the process to replace Madonsela would be transparent and there would be no undercover dealings.

The best candidate would get the job, she stressed at a meeting to outline the committee’s work.

Madonsela’s term ends in October, and Parliament has tasked the ad hoc committee with nominating a replacement by August 31.

Candidates will be shortlisted in July, and interviews held in August after the local government elections on August 3.

For more http://www.news24.com

Picture: (SA Hip Hop artist, AKA)

You thought wrong if you expected the sacredness of Sunday to absolve social media of its ills.

It wouldn’t be a surprise if some of the comments you are about to read were posted dead-smack in church at the peak of the pastor’s sermon.

The 22nd edition of the South African Music Awards (SAMAs) has come and gone with winners and losers. True to Somizi’s remarks during the show, not everybody was a winner, and the loser who took the most jabs is platinum selling rapper, AKA.

Fans alike took to Twitter with the hashtag #AKAwinanga (AKA didn’t win) to make fun of the fact that the SupaMega lost in all two categories he was nominated in – Best Collaboration and Best Remix.

For more http://www.drum.co.za

BY REGINALD KANYANE

Five people were left injured after a collision between a taxi and a light motor vehicle occurred late last night on the R28 between Westonaria and Randfontein.

ER24 spokesperson, Pieter Rossouw said it is believed that the light motor vehicle t-boned the taxi, causing the injuries.

“ER24 responded to the scene and found that the injuries that were sustained ranged from critical to moderate. All the injured were from the light motor vehicle. ER24 treated and transported two patients to Lenmed Hospital for further treatment,” he said.

The remaining patients were treated and transported to Leratong Hospital by other medical services on scene.

The cause of the incident remains unknown, local authorities were on scene for further investigation.

-TDN

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

NORTH West Provincial Government is determined to have super state-owned provincial entities which will drive the economy in the province, says Premier Supra Mahumapelo.

Mahumapelo met with chairpersons and CEOs of State-Owned Enterprises that are based in the province in Brits.

Most State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in South Africa generally tend to experience problems of underperformance and loss of revenue. Some of these entities have routinely been bailed out by government as they struggled to retain acceptable levels of profitability.

However, Mahumapelo believed that rationalising SOEs in the province under North West Development Corporation (NWDC) will change the situation.

He says the move will ensure that these entities are more focused, well-managed and well positioned to drive development and economic growth in the province.

“We have taken a decision to rationalise State-Owned Enterprises in line with the pronouncement by the President and the Minister of Finance.

“We must create jobs, deal with poverty and inequalities in our society and SOEs have a significant role to play in helping us achieve these.

“Hence Exco has taken a decision that SOEs must all reside under NWDC which will become an anchor state owned entity  to drive the economy in the province, said Mahumapelo.

Acting CEO of Mmabana Arts, Culture and Sports Foundation Sipho Nkese said they welcomed the decision with both hands.

“This kind of consolidation is going to assist with regard to collaboration efforts and control. This will strengthen governance and help improve service delivery,” said Nkese.

It is expected that the process to rationalise these entities under NWDC will be completed by December this year.

-TDN

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BY REGINALD KANYANE

North West premier Supra Mahumapelo urged artists to become serious entrepreneurs who can contribute enormously to the economy of the province.

“The business opportunities in the arts and culture sector are huge and we want to request you as our artists to take this more seriously.

“We have taken a decision as the fifth administration to put arts and culture as one of our top priorities in growing our economy but we will not achieve this if our artists are not serious about it.”

Mahumapelo and the newly appointed MEC for Culture Arts and Traditional Affairs MEC, Ontlametse Mochware held a consultation session with artists at Tzvenza farm in Letlhabile outside Brits recently.

The aim of the meeting was to explore ways on how to deal with challenges affecting artists in the province.

More than 70 performing artists attended the consultation session and raised a number of concerns.

One of the artists, Mahlubi Kraai, a professional producer and actor said the department of Culture Arts and Traditional Affairs must employ people who have worked in the creative industry.

“We are really happy about the support that our provincial government is willing to give to us and we are keen to work together with them in taking our province forward.

“My suggestion is that our department must employ senior managers permanently who are professionals in our industry because they will understand exactly the kind of support we need,” he said.

Another artist, Joan Legalamitlwa, visual arts curator appealed to the provincial government for support.

“I want to comment the efforts of our government but I also want to request that my field be given the same treatment and support like other forms of arts in the province,” she said.

Music Producer, Thabiso Tsotetsi also raised a concern about lack of government support from government when local musician request assistance to compete in Africa and Internationally.

“We have a concern as professional artists from this province that we do not get support and the recognition after moving from here to other provinces such as Gauteng.

“We remain the children of this province and we want our government to respond to any form of request for assistance especially if we are nominated to compete in the continent and internationally,” he said.

Other artists raised concerns ranging from lack of financial supports in their various fields and projects, corruption within state owned entities such as Mmabana Arts and Culture, and the collapse of Taung Cultural Calabash.

Artists also commended Mahumapelo for the establishment of the Annual Mahika Mahikeng Cultural Festival.

The Newly appointed MEC for Culture Arts and Traditional Affairs, Ontlametse Mochware made a commitment to continue working closely with artists in the province.

“This gathering was an eye opener for me; I will personally go from one municipality to another to engage with artists with a view to address their concerns.

“I also agree there is potential in our sector and we need to continue with what we have with all our stakeholders to explore all the available opportunities,” she said.

MEC Mochware assured artists that she will move with speed in transforming the arts and culture in the province in order to increase its contribution to the economy of the province.

-TDN

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