New collective to campaign for intersex rights in Southern Africa

Helen George, on the rare occasion, loves to share insights into her personal life, and her latest social media post certainly delighted her fans.Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the Call the Midwife star – who is a doting mum to two young daughters – uploaded an intimate selfie with her youngest child, Lark. The actress shared this striking selfie with daughter LarkIn the snapshot, Helen snuggled up to her one-year-old tot who was sporting two tiny pigtails.

Former Love Island stars Chloe Burrows and Millie Court have once again reunited as they jetted off to sunny South Africa ahead of the Love Island final. After landing in Cape Town, the besties, who met on the hit dating show last summer, made good use of their close proximity to the Stellenbosch wine region and went tasting one afternoon, where the pair were joined by TV presenter AJ Odudu, 35.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “We 12,” a movie featuring the entire group of 12 Mirror Canto-pop stars is part of the expanding production slate of Makerville, the talent and production arm of Hong Kong telecoms and TV group PCCW. The development is paralleled by an expansion of the production operations of Viu, PCCW’s multi-territory video streamer which recently confirmed its profitability. Makerville is the talent agency behind Mirror, which was created in 2018 through the “Good Night Show – Kingmaker” talent show on ViuTV, a PCCW terrestrial channel. And it was able to put all the band members on stage Wednesday at a promotional event within the FilMart rights market in Hong Kong.

The grand finale of Winter Love Island 2023 is set to take place this evening and host Maya Jama has been busy getting prepared in South Africa. Maya, 28, will reveal whether Ron Hall and Lana Jenkins, Kai Fagan and Sanam Harrinanan, Tom Clare and Samie Elishi or Tanya Manhenga and Shaq Muhammad are the winning couple of this year's series on Monday 13 January live from Cape Town.

Love Island fans have cheekily suggested a new pair on the show have 'more chemistry than one of the winter series' final couples and have also spotted a potential future islander in the penultimate episode. The current run of the ITV2 dating show will come to an end on Monday night (March 13).

Helen George may be known for her glamourous portrayal of Nurse Trixie Franklin in Call the Midwife, but away from screens, the actress is a doting mum of two young girls.On Sunday, the 38-year-old – who is currently starring in the West End show The King and I – took to her Instagram Stories to share a sweet snap of her daughters, Wren and Lark, enjoying a low-key stroll at their local park.WATCH: Helen George talks about her wedding in the series finale of Call the Midwife "Park runs together [pink hearts emoji]," she gushed alongside the candid image.Helen shares both of her daughters with long-term partner Jack Ashton. The couple started dating in 2016 after meeting on set in South Africa, when Jack used to play Reverend Tom Hereward on the BBC period drama.

“Triangle of Sadness,” paid tribute to the late actress Charlbi Dean ahead of the 2023 award show.Dean died last August at a New York City hospital after getting bacterial sepsis. She was 32.The South African actress starred as the lead character, a spoiled influencer named Yaya, in “Triangle of Sadness,” which is up for awards in three categories tonight.“She was a trouper, a very easygoing, cool person,” Hemmendorff told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview ahead of the ceremony.Reflecting back on making the Ruben Östlund-directed movie, Hemmendorff said that Dean immediately came to his mind when they were casting the film. “So we got a hold of her and asked her, ‘Would you come to Sweden for two days because we are not going to give you a role if you don’t do a real casting with Ruben at our office,'” the producer explained.

Love Island star Lana Jenkins' mum has issued a stern warning to Lana's beau Ron Hall, ahead of meeting him face-to-face in the Love Island villa.The meet-the-parents episode is one of Love Islands most iconic parts, as the Islanders near the final, and their parents, families and friends enter the villa to meet their partners. The Islanders' loved-ones have flown out all the way to South Africa, which is where the winter season is filmed, rather than Majorca, where the show is filmed in summer. Lana's mum Rachel, 50, a script advisor on Hollyoaks, will be seeing her daughter in the flesh for the first time in eight weeks, whilst she will also get the opportunity to meet Ron, 25.

A single mum with cancer given just months to live is desperate to spend her final days in her native South Africa.

OUT LGBT Well-being and MambaOnline publish a monthly overview of reported LGBTIQ+ rights  violations, including hate speech, in South Africa. We also look at the status of cases making their way through the criminal justice system. Here is our summary for February 2023.

Jimmie Allen’s Artists:Ale Aguirre | Chihuahua, Mexico Ale infuses herself into her music and bilingual lyrics with the mariachi, norteño, banda and other sounds she heard growing up in Mexico. At the age of 16 she taught herself how to play the guitar, and is now on the way to establishing herself as an independent singer-songwriter with a loyal following she’s gained from her popular YouTube channel. Dhruv Visvanath | New Delhi, India Dhruv, a multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer-songwriter and producer, started his musical journey at the age of seven.

Amy Robach and Andrew Shue were married for 12 years and raised five children together.During this time, they had a staggering joint net worth of $100M thanks to their respective careers in the entertainment industry.Andrew and Amy were completely even when it came to finances, with both of them having a net worth of $50M.VIDEO: Amy Robach's rise to fame will leave your mind blownIt is not known how this will change once the couple finalize their divorce, following Amy's affair with former GMA3 co-star T.J. Holmes - who has a net worth of $3M.Andrew's finances have come from his career as an American actor, athlete and entrepreneur.

Love Island returns to out television screens on Wednesday and five new arrivals are set to cause chaos in the villa. But don't worry, because this time it isn't anyone looking to turn heads.

The so-called Grindr Gang has been targeting gay, bisexual and queer men in Gauteng for years

Christopher Vourlias For the millions of people who have sexual characteristics that don’t neatly fit into the typical definitions of male or female, life is a constant struggle against misconceptions, biases and cultural norms that, from the moment of birth, attempt to fit us into the box that defines our sex — and, often, how we’ll be perceived for the rest of our lives. To explore that conflict, veteran Romanian actor Tünde Skovrán — making her directorial debut — traveled to South Africa to follow two intersex people with parallel but divergent lives: Sharon-Rose Khumalo, a beauty queen who suffers an identity crisis after finding out she’s intersex, and Dimakatso Sebidi, a male-presenting intersex activist who is in many ways Khumalo’s polar opposite.

President Ramaphosa awarded President Museveni – dubbed “Africa’s worst homophobe” – the prestigious Order of South Africa this week

Neighbours fans can officially get excited as some more soap favourites will officially be returning to the revived show, set to premiere later this year. Fans of the long-running Aussie soap were left devastated when it was announced in February 2022 that Neighbours was coming to an end after a 37-year run, with a tear-jerking final episode aired on Channel 5 later that year.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Ramsay Street is gearing up to welcome a few more familiar faces. Seven long-time characters are joining Amazon Freevee’s continuation of Australian soap “Neighbours.” The new additions include Annie Jones (as Jane Harris), Rebekah Elmaloglou (as Terese Willis), Georgie Stone (as Mackenzie Hargreaves) and Tim Kano (as Leo Tanaka). All cast members will return as series regulars. Meanwhile, those returning in guest roles are Ian Smith (as Harold Bishop), April Rose Pengilly (as Chloe Brennan) and Melissa Bell (as Lucy Robinson). They will be joined by “Neighbours” stalwarts Stefan Dennis, Alan Fletcher, Ryan Moloney and Jackie Woodburne, who were previously announced.

Love Island fans were left pointing out the same issue as two new bombshell arrivals were teased. The ITV2 dating show continued on Thursday night (February 23) as viewers finally got to see the rest of Movie Night unfold in the South African villa.

The Love Islanders have been left reeling after the drama of Movie Night, which saw the various Islanders' antics in Casa Amor exposed to their partners. But there's about to be some extra shock in the South African villa, as two new bombshells are set to enter, according to reports. The timing of the new Islanders' entrance couldn't be more precarious as the existing couple's relationships lie in a fragile balance after Movie Night.