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A new initiative, called the Global Diversity Pride Network, has been launched with the aim of ensuring that people of colour and others who have been marginalised and excluded are empowered and included in the global LGBTQ+ community.

Zindzi Mandela, the youngest daughter of South Africa’s first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, has died aged 59, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Monday. Daughter to Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, she was South Africa’s ambassador to Denmark at the time of her death.

«Ambassador Mandela passed away in the early hours of today, 13 July 2020, in a Johannesburg hospital,» Ramaphosa said in a statement.The cause of her death was not immediately revealed.She had been designated to become South Africa's envoy to Liberia after her stint in Copenhagen, which started in 2015.She was born and raised in Soweto and was educated both at home and in neighbouring Swaziland.Zindzi grew up while her father was incarcerated by the apartheid regime for 27 years.Like her

While many Pride events around the world have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Johannesburg Pride still hopes to hold its annual Pride street march at the end of October.

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Def Jam is going international. A little more than a half a year after launching Def Jam South East Asia, Universal Music Group announced Def Jam Africa, a new division based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria, that will focus on "hip-hop, Afrobeats and trap talent in Africa" and report to Universal Music Sub-Saharan Africa & South Africa managing director Sipho Dlamini.

Today, Universal Music Group announced that it is launching Def Jam Africa, a new label division that operates within the continent to represent the best hip-hop, Afrobeats and trap talent in Africa. To start, the label will be based in Johannesburg and Lagos; the entirety of its starting roster comes from either South Africa and Nigeria.

By Jem Aswad

Def Jam is going international. A little more than a half a year after launching Def Jam South East Asia, Universal Music Group today announced Def Jam Africa, a new division based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Lagos, Nigeria, that will focus on "hip-hop, Afrobeats and trap talent in Africa" and report to Universal Music Sub-Saharan Africa & South Africa Managing Director Sipho Dlamini.

South Africa’s largest city Johannesburg has been chosen to host two editions of Mr Gay World – the posponed 2020 and the 2021 events. The double bill event will be held from March 21  to March 28, 2021.

Former Mr Gay World 2019 Janjep Carlos (centre), flanked by Oliver Pusztai (left) and Francisco Alvarado (Pic by Neil Coulson)

people chats to Stephen McGown, who from 2011 until 2017, was held hostage after being kidnapped in Timbuktu in Mali by Al Qaeda. We asked Stephen how his experience of dealing with captivity has helped him cope with the all the uncertainty and difficult emotions the global COVID-19 pandemic has brought on.

Christiaan Otto has been accused of religious homophobia

Our country is home to the Endangered Wildlife Trust, a world respected conservation body we are fortunate to call our own. The EWT, which started out back in 1973, was founded by Clive Walker, along with James Clarke and Neville Anderson, and operated from a house. Originally the three worked together to save the cheetah – already in decline in the 1970s.

JOHANNESBURG — The South African Music Rights Organization, the largest and oldest collecting society in Africa, has hired Mark Rosin, a lawyer and music industry veteran, to tackle a turnaround of the troubled organization.As SAMRO’s CEO, Rosin, 61, faces the stark challenge of reducing costs while boosting revenues in an organization stained by its origins in the apartheid era.

A Johannesburg man has had to face the devastating death of his beloved grandfather from the coronavirus, made worse by not being allowed to be by his side.

Will there finally be justice? The Constitutional Court has confirmed it will hear the decade-long Jon Qwelane homophobic hate speech case next month.

A new report on violence perpetrated against LGBTQI individuals in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Uganda has been published.

Blank Spaces artist, Fake Ano has just dropped his debut project 24 EP. The project is made up of seven tracks, including the Intro, Outro and an Interlude.

Off Boyz member, Fake Ano has just dropped his debut project 24 EP. The project is made up of seven tracks, including the Intro, Outro and an Interlude.

Fans of the hit reality show ‘The Real Housewives Of Johannesburg’ will know that star Christall Kay has been working hard to launch herself as a singer. Now, she’s ready to make her mark on the local music space as she launches her brand-new single ‘Underwater’.

As the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause havoc around the globe, local governments are putting preventative measures into play as the world tries to lessen the number of transmissions and infections. In South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed last night that public gatherings of over 100 people are officially banned and, with that, Bebe Winans has decided to postpone his 2020 tour of South Africa.

This previous week, one of SA’s most-skilled DJs, Black Coffee turned 44-years-old and celebrated this milestone in style at a star-studded Luncheon at a mansion in Johannesburg on Sunday.

Twenty-eight-year-old Charl-Jaquairdo van Helsdingen from Johannesburg was recently named Mr Gay World South Africa.

MambaOnline.com is hosting a free intimate Johannesburg preview screening of Moffie, the new queer film that everyone’s talking about.

Charl-Jaquairdo van Helsdingen (Pic: Facebook)

This year Rocking The Daisies will be celebrating 15 Years and they’ve just announced some of the International headlining acts for this year’s festival.

This year Rocking The Daisies will be celebrating 15 Years and they’ve just announced some of the International headlining acts for this year’s festival.

We love seeing celebrities do good and on Thursday 20 February, Gary Player and numerous other golfers from across Johannesburg gathered at the beautiful Blair Atholl Golf Estate to host a charity golf day to raise funds for Cameron Joubert and Rofhiwa Masitsi.

Gorgeous South African actress, Natasha Thahane, will soon lend her dazzling smile to Garnier campaigns following today’s announcement that the vibrant young star is the fresh new face of Garnier Even & Matte.